From 08aa4418c30cfc18ccc69a0f0f9cb9e17be6c196 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pierre Schmitz Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 09:28:15 +0200 Subject: Update to MediaWiki 1.21.1 --- HISTORY | 1597 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 1333 insertions(+), 264 deletions(-) (limited to 'HISTORY') diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY index 408ae384..02ba8d89 100644 --- a/HISTORY +++ b/HISTORY @@ -1,10 +1,815 @@ -Change notes from older releases. For current info see RELEASE-NOTES-1.20. +Change notes from older releases. For current info see RELEASE-NOTES-1.21. + +== MediaWiki 1.20 == + +=== PHP 5.3 now required === +Since 1.20, the lowest supported version of PHP is now 5.3.2. Please +upgrade PHP if you have not done so prior to upgrading MediaWiki. + +=== Configuration changes in 1.20 === +* $wgGitRepositoryViewers defines a mapping from Git remote repository to the + Gitweb instance URL used in Special:Version. +* `$wgUsePathInfo = true;` is no longer needed to make $wgArticlePath work on servers + using like nginx, lighttpd, and apache over fastcgi. MediaWiki now always extracts + path info from REQUEST_URI if it's available. +* The user right 'upload_by_url' is no longer given to sysops by default. + This only affects installations which have $wgAllowCopyUploads set to true. +* Removed f-prot support from $wgAntivirusSetup. +* New variable $wgDBerrorLogTZ to provide dates in the error log in a + different timezone than the wiki timezone set by $wgLocaltimezone. +* New variables $wgDBssl and $wgDBcompress to enable SSL and compression for database + connections, if either are available for the selected DB type. +* $wgUseCombinedLoginLink now defaults to false, making MediaWiki output separate + login and create account links by default. + +=== New features in 1.20 === +* Added TitleIsAlwaysKnown hook which gets called when determining if a page exists. +* Added NamespaceIsMovable hook which gets called when determining if pages in a + certain namespace can be moved. +* Added SpecialPageBeforeExecute hook which gets called before SpecialPage::execute. +* Added SpecialPageAfterExecute hook which gets called after SpecialPage::execute. +* Added ORMTable, ORMRow and ORMResult classes for additional abstraction of + database interaction. +* Added CacheHelper and associated SpecialCachedPage and CachedAction helper classes. +* (bug 32341) Add upload by URL domain limitation. +* &useskin=default will now always display the default skin. Useful for users with a + preference for the non-default skin to look at something using the default skin. +* (bug 27619) Remove preference option to display broken links as link? +* (bug 34896) jQuery JSON plugin upgraded to v2.3 (2011-09-17). +* (bug 34302) Add CSS classes to email fields in user preferences. +* Introduced $wgDebugDBTransactions to trace transaction status (currently PostgreSQL only). +* (bug 23795) Add parser itself to ParserMakeImageParams hook. +* Introduce a cryptographic random number generator source api for use when + generating various tokens. +* (bug 30963) Option on Special:Prefixindex and Special:Allpages to not show redirects. +* (bug 18062) New message when edit or create the local page of a shared file. +* (bug 22870) Separate interface message when creating a page. +* (bug 17615) nosummary option should be reassigned on preview/captcha. +* (bug 34355) Add a variable and parser function for the namespace number. +* (bug 35649) Special:Version now shows hashes of extensions checked out from git. +* (bug 35728) Git revisions are now linked on Special:Version. +* "Show Changes" on default messages shows now diff against default message text +* (bug 23006) create #speciale parser function. +* generateSitemap can now optionally skip redirect pages. +* (bug 27757) New API command just for retrieving tokens (not page-based). +* Added GitViewers hook for extensions using external git repositories to have a web-based + repository viewer linked to from Special:Version. +* Memcached debug logs can now be sent to their own file logs by setting + $wgDebugLogFile['memcached'] to some filepath. +* (bug 35685) api.php URL and other entry point URLs are now listed on + Special:Version +* Edit notices can now be translated. +* jQuery upgraded to 1.8.2. +* jQuery UI upgraded to 1.8.23. +* QUnit upgraded from v1.2.0 to v1.10.0. +* (bug 37604) jquery.cookie upgraded to 2011 version. +* (bug 22887) Add warning and tracking category for preprocessor errors +* (bug 31704) Allow selection of associated namespace on the watchlist +* (bug 5445) Now remove autoblocks when a user is unblocked. +* Added $wgLogExceptionBacktrace, on by default, to allow logging of exception + backtraces. +* Added device detection for determining device capabilities. +* QUnit.newMwEnvironment now supports passing a custom setup and/or teardown function. + Arguments signature has changed. First arguments is now an options object of which + 'config' can be a property. Previously 'config' itself was the first and only argument. +* New getCreator and getOldestRevision methods added to WikiPage class +* (bug 4220) the XML dump format schema now have unique identity constraints + for page and revision identifiers. Patch by Elvis Stansvik. +* cleanupSpam.php now can delete spam pages if --delete was specified instead of blanking + them. +* Added new hook ChangePasswordForm to allow adding of additional fields in Special:ChangePassword +* Added new function getDomain to AuthPlugin for getting a user's domain +* (bug 23427) New magic word {{PAGEID}} which gives the current page ID. + Will be null on previewing a page being created. +* (bug 37627) UserNotLoggedIn() exception to show a generic error page whenever + a user is not logged in. +* Watched status in changes lists are no longer indicated by + tags with class "mw-watched". Instead, each line now has a class + "mw-changeslist-line-watched" or "mw-changeslist-line-not-watched", and the + title itself is surrounded by tags with class "mw-title". +* Added ContribsPager::reallyDoQuery hook allowing extensions to data to MyContribs +* Added new hook ParserAfterParse to allow extensions to affect parsed output + after the parse is complete but before block level processing, link holder + replacement, and so on. +* (bug 34678) Added InternalParseBeforeSanitize hook which gets called during Parser's + internalParse method just before the parser removes unwanted/dangerous HTML tags. +* Added new hook AfterFinalPageOutput to allow modifications to buffered page output before sent + to the client. +* (bug 36783) Implement jQuery Promise interface in mediawiki.api module. +* Make dates in sortable tables sort according to the page content language + instead of the site content language +* (bug 37926) Deleterevision will no longer allow users to delete log entries, + the new deletelogentry permission is required for this. +* (bug 14237) Allow PAGESINCATEGORY to distinguish between 'all', 'pages', 'files' + and 'subcats' +* (bug 38362) Make Special:Listuser includeable on wiki pages. +* Added support in jquery.localize for placeholder attributes. +* (bug 38151) Implemented mw.user.getRights for getting and caching the current + user's user rights. +* Session storage can now configured independently of general object cache + storage, by using $wgSessionCacheType. $wgSessionsInMemcached has been + renamed to $wgSessionsInObjectCache, with the old name retained for backwards + compatibility. When this feature is enabled, the expiry time can now be + configured with $wgObjectCacheSessionExpiry. +* Added a Redis client for object caching. +* Implemented mw.user.getGroups for getting and caching user groups. +* (bug 37830) Added $wgRequirePasswordforEmailChange to control whether password + confirmation is required for changing an email address or not. +* HTMLForm mutators can now be chained (they return $this) +* A new message, "api-error-filetype-banned-type", is available for formatting + API upload errors due to the file extension blacklist. +* New hook 'ParserTestGlobals' allows to set globals before running parser tests. +* Allow importing pages as subpage. +* Add lang and hreflang attributes to language links on Login page. +* (bug 22749) Create Special:MostInterwikis. +* Show change tags when transclude Special:Recentchanges(linked) or Special:Newpages. +* (bug 23226) Add |class= parameter to image links in order to add class(es) to HTML img tag. +* (bug 39431) SVG animated status is now shown in long description. +* (bug 39376) jquery.form upgraded to 3.14. +* SVG files will now show the actual width in the SVG's specified units + in the metadata box. +* Added ResourceLoader module "jquery.jStorage" (v0.3.0, http://jStorage.info/). +* (bug 39273) Added AJAX support for "Show changes" (diff) in LivePreview. +* Added ResourceLoader module "jquery.badge". +* mw.util.$content now points to the overall content area in the skin rather than just + page text content area. If you need the old behavior please use $( '#mw-content-text'). +* jsMessage has been replaced with a floating bubble notification system complete + with auto-hide, multi-message support, and message replacement tags. +* jquery.messageBox which appears to be unused by both core and extensions has + been removed. +* (bug 34939) Made link parsing insensitive ([HttP://]). +* (bug 40072) Add CSS classes to items in output of ChangesList pages. +* Added $wgCopyUploadProxy global to define which proxy to use for copy + uploads. +* (bug 40448) mediawiki.legacy.mwsuggest has been replaced with a new module, + mediawiki.searchSuggest, based on SimpleSeach from Extension:Vector. + +=== Known issues in 1.20.0 === +These are issues that we're targeting to be fixed in a later release +in the 1.20 series. Issues may be added or removed from this list as +we see fit. For now, it is comprised of those bugs on the 1.20.0 +milestone in Bugzilla. + +* (bug 35894): Reports of secret key generation "hanging" on windows + This is probably a bug that has been fixed in PHP. If you run + into this, try upgrading your PHP. +* (bug 38334): PHP Notice: Undefined index: href in /www/w/skins/Vector.php on line 416 + We think this is a problem in some extension. If you see this, + try disabling your extensions and check out the logging patch on + this bug. Or try this patch: + +* (bug 39268): [Regression] Toolbar inserts in main textarea only (instead of the focussed textarea) + This should only be an issue if you are using the ProofreadPage + extension. +* (bug 40641): Clicking "others" in Special:Version asks to download a file + If you encounter this, you can tell your webserver to serve the + CREDITS file with text/plain MIME type to fix it. + +=== Bug fixes in 1.20 === +* (bug 40939): [Regression] InfoAction: Call to a member function getUserText() on a non-object +* (bug 40780): searchsuggest-containing line ("containing...") doesn't include the entered text +* (bug 37714): [Regression] Incomplete log entries +* (bug 27202): API: Add timestamp sort to list=allimages +* (bug 30245) Use the correct way to construct a log page title. +* (bug 34237) Regenerate an empty user_token and save to the database + when we try to set the user's cookies for login. +* (bug 32210) New edit emails for watched pages always provide a link to the + edit which triggered the mail. +* (bug 12021) Added user talk link on Special:Listusers. +* (bug 34445) section edit and TOC hide/show links are excluded from selection and + copy/paste on supporting browsers. +* (bug 34428) Fixed incorrect hash mismatch errors in the DiffHistoryBlob + history compression method. +* (bug 34702) Localised parentheses are now used in more special pages. +* (bug 34723) When editing a script page on a RTL wiki the textbox should be LTR. +* (bug 34762) Calling close() on a DatabaseBase object now clears the connection. +* (bug 34863) Show deletion log extract on non-existent file pages if applicable. +* (bug 28019) Let ?preloadtitle=foo be passed on to target of + Special:MyPage and Special:MyTalk. +* (bug 34929) Show the correct diff when a section edit is rejected by the spam + filter. +* (bug 15816) Add a switch for SETting the search_path (Postgres). +* (bug 34521) Returning to the previous page after logging in loses any array- + valued parameters in the query string. +* (bug 34735) Updated compressOld.php documentation to mention the different + usages of -s and -n parameters depending on compression type. +* (bug 13896) Rendering of devanagari numbers in automatic '#' number lists. +* (bug 33689) Upgrade to 1.19 on Postgres fails due to incomplete query when. + trying to defer foreign key for externallinks. +* (bug 32748) Printer friendly version of article decode Unicode chars as a + pretty IRI in footer. +* Removed white border around thumbnails in galleries. +* (bug 31236) "Next" and "Previous" buttons are shown incorrectly in + an RTL environment. +* (bug 35749) Updated maintenance/checkSyntax.php to use Git instead of + Subversion when invoked with the --modified option. +* (bug 35069) On history pages, the " . . " separator after the number of + characters changed in a revision is now suppressed if no text would follow. +* (bug 18704) Add a unique CSS class or ID to the tagfilter table row at RecentChanges +* (bug 33564) transwiki import sometimes result in invalid title. +* (bug 35572) Blocks appear to succeed even if query fails due to wrong DB structure +* (bug 31757) Add a word-separator between help-messages in HTMLForm +* (bug 30410) Removed deprecated $wgFilterCallback and the 'filtered' API error. +* (bug 32604) Some messages needs escaping of wikitext inside username. +* (bug 36537) Rename wfArrayToCGI to wfArrayToCgi for consistency with wfCgiToArray. +* (bug 25946) The message on the top of Special:RecentChanges is now displayed. + in user language instead of content language. +* (bug 35264) Wrong type used for in export.xsd +* (bug 24985) Use $wgTmpDirectory as the default temp directory so that people + who don't have access to /tmp can specify an alternative. +* (bug 27283) SqlBagOStuff breaks PostgreSQL transactions. +* (bug 35727) mw.Api ajax() should put token parameter last. +* (bug 37708) mw.Uri.clone() should make a deep copy. +* (bug 38024) ResourceLoader should not create empty stylesheets for modules + that don't have stylesheets. +* (bug 36812) Special:ActiveUsers "Hide bots" should hide users from any group + having the "bot" user right, instead of just the default "bot" user group. +* (bug 35082) mw.util.addPortletLink incorrectly adds link to mutiple
    tags. +* (bug 36991) jquery.tablesorter should extract date sort format from date + string instead of global config. Dates like "April 1 2012" and "1 April 2012" + now sort correctly regardless of the content language's DefaultDateFormat. +* (bug 31895) mw.loader mode now correct when triggered from a $.fn.ready + handler that is bound before mediawiki.js's handler (e.g. browser-userscripts + like greasemonkey). +* (bug 38152) jquery.tablesorter: Use .data() instead of .attr(), so that live + values are used instead of just the fixed values from when the tablesorter + was initialized. +* (bug 38093) Gender of changed user groups missing in Special:Log/rights +* (bug 35893) Special:Block needs to load mediawiki.special.block.js. +* (bug 37331) ResourceLoader modules sometimes execute twice in Firefox +* (bug 31644) GlobalUsage, CentralAuth and AbuseLog extensions should not use + insecure links to foreign wikis in the WikiMap. +* (bug 36073) Avoid duplicate element IDs on File pages. +* (bug 25095) Special:Categories should also include the first relevant item + when "from" is filled. +* (bug 35526) jquery.tablesorter now uses a stable sort. +* (bug 38953) --memory-limit switch not working for runJobs.php. +* (bug 33037) Make subpage of Special:newfiles control how many files + are returned, like in previous versions. +* (bug 36524) "Show" options on Special:RecentChanges and Special:RecentChangesLinked + are now remembered between successive clicks. +* (bug 26069) Page title is no longer "Error" for all error pages. +* (bug 39297) Show warning if thumbnail of animated image will not be animated. +* (bug 38249) Parser will throw an exception instead of outputting gibberish if + PCRE is compiled without support for unicode properties. +* (bug 30390) Suggested file name on Special:Upload should not contain + illegal characters. +* EXIF below sea level GPS altitude data is now shown correctly. +* (bug 39284) jquery.tablesorter should not consider "."" or "?"" to be a currency. +* (bug 39273) "Show changes" should not be incorrectly displayed in the Live Preview state. +* Made body-content lang attribute honor the variant language when it is set. +* (bug 36761) "Mark pages as visited" now submits previously established filter options. +* (bug 39635) PostgreSQL LOCK IN SHARE MODE option is a syntax error. +* (bug 36329) Accesskey tooltips for Firefox 14 on Mac should use "ctrl-option-" prefix. +* (bug 32552) Drop unused database field cat_hidden from table category. +* (bug 24502) Do not allow multiple language links to the same language. +* (bug 40214) Category pages no longer use deprecated "width" HTML attribute. +* (bug 39941) Add missing stylesheets to the installer pages +* In HTML5 mode, allow new input element types values (such as color, range..) +* (bug 36151) mw.Title: Don't limit extension in title parsing. +* (bug 38158) jquery.byteLimit sometimes causes an unexpected 0 maxLength being enforced. +* (bug 38163) jquery.byteLimit incorrectly limits input when using methods other than + basic per-char typing. +* (bug 34495) patrol log now credit the user patrolling (instead of patrolled + user). +* (bug 31676) ResourceLoader should work around IE stylesheet limit. +* (bug 40498) ResourceLoader should not output an empty "@media print { }" block. +* (bug 40500) ResourceLoader should not ignore media-type for urls in debug mode. +* (bug 40660) ResourceLoaderWikiModule should not convert " " to a space + for pages from the MediaWiki-namespace. +* (bug 40329) (bug 40632) Removed CleanupPresentationalAttributes feature. + +=== API changes in 1.20 === +* (bug 34316) Add ability to retrieve maximum upload size from MediaWiki API. +* (bug 34313) MediaWiki API intro message about "HTML format" should mention + the format parameter. +* (bug 32384) Allow descending order for list=watchlistraw. +* (bug 31883) Limit of bkusers of list=blocks and titles of action=query is + not documented in API help. +* (bug 32492) API now allows editing using pageid. +* (bug 32497) API now allows changing of protection level using pageid. +* (bug 32498) API now allows comparing pages using pageids. +* (bug 30975) API import of pages with invalid characters in this wiki leads to Fatal Error. +* (bug 30488) API now allows listing of backlinks/embeddedin/imageusage per pageid. +* (bug 34927) Output media_type for list=filearchive. +* (bug 28814) add properties to output of action=parse. +* (bug 33224) add variants of content language to meta=siteinfo. +* (bug 32643) action=purge with forcelinkupdate no longer crashes when ratelimit is reached. +* The paraminfo module now also contains result properties for most modules. +* (bug 32348) Allow descending order for list=alllinks. +* (bug 31777) Upload unknown error ``fileexists-forbidden''. +* (bug 32382) Allow descending order for list=iwbacklinks. +* (bug 32381) Allow descending order for list=backlinks, list=embeddedin and list=imageusage. +* (bug 32383) Allow descending order for list=langbacklinks. +* API meta=siteinfo can now return the list of known variable IDs. +* (bug 35980) list=deletedrevs now honors drdir correctly in "all" mode (mode #3). +* (bug 29290) API avoids mangling fields in continuation parameters +* (bug 36987) API avoids mangling fields in continuation parameters +* (bug 30836) siteinfo prop=specialpagealiases will no longer return nonexistent special pages +* (bug 38190) Add "required" flag to some token params for hint in api docs. +* (bug 27567) Add file repo support to prop=duplicatefiles. +* (bug 27610) Add archivename for non-latest image version to list=filearchive +* (bug 38231) Add xml parse tree to action=parse. +* Watchlist notification timestamp may be queried by page and may be updated via the API. +* (bug 38904) prop=revisions&rvstart=... no longer blows up when continuing. +* (bug 39032) ApiQuery generates help in constructor. +* (bug 11142) Improve file extension blacklist error reporting in API upload. +* (bug 39665) List of query generators is now not built using reflection, instead it is + defined in code. +* (bug 35993) Deprecated gettoken parameter - support will be removed in 1.22. + +=== Languages updated in 1.20 === + +MediaWiki supports over 350 languages. Many localisations are updated +regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as +changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports. + +* Emilian (egl) added. +* Tornedalen Finnish (fit) added. +* Mizo (lus) added. +* Santali (sat) added. +* (bug 34192) Namespace gender aliases for Albanian languages (sq & aln). +* (bug 35541) Namespace gender aliases for Croatian (hr). +* (bug 36012) Space in $separatorTransformTable should be non-breaking in + Portuguese, Esperanto and Udmurt. +* Turoyo (tru) added. +* Cyrillic-Latin language converter added for Uzbek (uz). + +=== Other changes in 1.20 === +* The user_token field is now left empty until a user attempts to login and + cookies need to be set. It is also now possible to reset every user's + user_token simply by clearing the values in the user_token column. +* Removed ./tests/qunit/index.html from core. It wasn't actively maintained and + has been made obsolete when [[Special:JavaScriptTest/qunit]] was introduced, + which actually uses ResourceLoader, LocalSettings and the Skin. +* Removed $wgDBtransactions global. This was only checked in one class + and only applies to MyISAM or similar DBs. Those should only be used + for archived sites anyway. We can't get edit conflicts on such sites, + so the WikiPage code wasn't useful there either. +* Deprecated mw.user.name in favour of mw.user.getName. +* Deprecated mw.user.anonymous in favour of mw.user.isAnon. +* Deprecated DatabaseBase functions newFromParams(), newFromType(), set(), + quote_ident(), and escapeLike() were removed. +* Use of __DIR__ instead of dirname( __FILE__ ). +* OutputPage::wrapWikiMsg() no longer supports the 'options' parameter. It was + not used and complicated migration to Message class. +* Live preview functionality has been improved and moved into the + 'mediawiki.action.edit.preview' module. The old 'mediawiki.legacy.preview' module + has been removed. +* (bug 40448) Removed mediawiki.legacy.mwsuggest module, and removed the + following that has become obsolete: + - globals $wgEnableMWSuggest and $wgMWSuggestTemplate. + - mw.config.values wgMWSuggestTemplate and wgSearchNamespaces. + - method SearchEngine::getMWSuggestTemplate(). + +== MediaWiki 1.19 == + +== MediaWiki 1.19.2 == + +This is a security release of the MediaWiki 1.19 branch + +=== Changes since 1.19.1 === +* (bug 39700) File: link to non-existing file can inject html +* (bug 39823) Hidden block text leaking to admins +* (bug 39184) LDAP password leakage +* (bug 39180) Disallow framing of api results +* (bug 37587) Enforce language codes to be html safe +* (bug 39824) Check global blocks on account creation + +== MediaWiki 1.19 == + +MediaWiki 1.19 is a large release that contains many new features and bug +fixes. This is a summary of the major changes of interest to users. +You can consult the RELEASE-NOTES-1.19 file for the full list of changes in +this version. + +Our thanks go to everyone who helped to improve MediaWiki by testing the beta +release and submitting bug reports. + +=== Changes since 1.19.1 === +* (bug 38406) Properly quote table names in DatabaseBase::tableName() +* (bug 38249) Parser will throw an exception instead of outputting gibberish if + PCRE is compiled without support for unicode properties. + +=== Changes since 1.19.0 === +* (bug 36568) Fixed "Illegal string offset 'LIMIT'" warnings in updater +* (bug 36938) Correctly escape uselang attribute to prevent xss +* Expanded Blacklist for SVG Files + +=== Changes since 1.19 beta 2 === +* Special:Watchlist no longer sets links to feed when the user is anonymous. +* (bug 35961) Hash comparison should always be strict. +* Fix broken email confirmation expiration caused by MWCryptRand changes. +* (bug 35671) PHP Notice: Undefined index: gettoken in includes/api/ApiMain.php + on line 598. +* (bug 36042) 'show' causes a fatal in blocks API. + +=== Changes since 1.19 beta 1 === +* (bug 35014) Including a special page no longer sets the page's title to the + included page +* (bug 35019) Edit summaries are no longer transformed in notification e-mails +* (bug 35152) Help message for e-mail is shown again in user preferences +* (bug 34887) $3 and $4 parameters are now substituted correctly in message + "movepage-moved" +* (bug 34841) Edit links are no longer displayed when display old page versions +* (bug 34889) User name should be normalized on Special:Contributions +* (bug 35051) If heading has a trailing space after == then its name is not + preloaded into edit summary on section edit +* (bug 31417) New ID mw-content-text around the actual page text, without categories, + contentSub, ... The same div often also contains the class mw-content-ltr/rtl. +* (bug 35303) Proxy and DNS blacklist blocking works again +* (bug 22555) Remove or skip strip markers from tag hooks like <nowiki> in + core parser functions which operate on strings, such as padleft. +* (bug 18295) Don't expose strip markers when a tag appears inside a link + inside a heading. +* (bug 34212) ApiBlock/ApiUnblock allow action to take place without a token + parameter present. +* (bug 34907) Fixed exposure of tokens through load.php that could have facilitated + CSRF attacks. +* (bug 35317) CSRF in Special:Upload. + +=== Configuration changes in 1.19 === +* Removed SkinTemplateSetupPageCss hook; use BeforePageDisplay instead. +* (bug 27132) movefile right granted by default to registered users. +* Default cookie lifetime ($wgCookieExpiration) is increased to 180 days. +* (bug 31204) Removed old user.user_options. +* $wgMaxImageArea now applies to jpeg files if they are not scaled with + ImageMagick. +* Introduced $wgQueryPageDefaultLimit (defaults to 50) for the number of + items to show by default on query pages (special pages such as Whatlinkshere). +* (bug 32470) Increase the length of ug_group. +* (bug 32239) Removed $wgEnableTooltipsAndAccesskeys. +* Removed $wgVectorShowVariantName. +* Removed $wgExtensionAliasesFiles. Use $wgExtensionMessagesFiles. +* Removed $wgResourceLoaderInlinePrivateModules , now always enabled. + +=== New features in 1.19 === +* (bug 19838) Add ability to get all interwiki prefixes also if the interwiki + cache is used. +* $wgDnsBlacklistUrls now accepts an array with url and key as the + elements to work with DNSBLs that require keys, such as + Project Honeypot. +* (bug 30022) Add support for custom loadScript sources to ResourceLoader. +* (bug 19052) Unicode space separator characters (Zs) now terminates external + links and images links. +* (bug 30160) Add public method to mw.loader to get module names from registry. +* (bug 15558) Parameters to special pages included in wikitext can now be passed + as with templates. +* Installer now issues a warning if mod_security is present. +* (bug 29455) Add support for a filter callback function in jQuery byteLimit + plugin. +* Added two new GetLocalURL hooks to better serve extensions working on a + limited type of titles. +* Added a --no-updates flag to importDump.php that skips updating the links + tables. +* Most presentational html attributes like valign are now converted to inline + css style rules. These attributes were removed from html5 and so we clean + them up when $wgHtml5 is enabled. This can be disabled using + $wgCleanupPresentationalAttributes. +* Magic words (time and number-formatting ones, plus DIRECTIONMARK, but not + NAMESPACE) now depend on the page content language instead of the site + language. In theory this sets the right magic words in system messages, + although they are not used there. +* (bug 30451) Add page_props to RefreshLinks::deleteLinksFromNonexistent. +* (bug 30450) Clear page_props table on page deletion. +* Hook added to check for exempt from account creation throttle. +* (bug 30344) Add configuration variable for setting custom priorities when + generating sitemaps. +* (bug 96170) Add array support for space-separated list attributes (like + 'class') in the Html helper class. +* (bug 26470) Add checkered background image on hover on files pages. +* (bug 30774) mediawiki.html: Add support for numbers and booleans in the + attribute values and element contents. +* Conversion script between Tifinagh and Latin for the Tachelhit language. +* (bug 16755) Add options 'noreplace' and 'noerror' to {{DEFAULTSORT:...}} + to stop it from replace an already existing default sort, and suppress error. +* (bug 18578) Rewrote revision delete related messages to allow better + localisation. +* (bug 30364) LanguageConverter now depends on the page content language + instead of the wiki content language. +* Jump links will now be usable in CSS-capable browsers instead of only + in outdated text browsers. +* New common*.css files usable by skins instead of having to copy piles + of generic styles from MonoBook or Vector's css. +* Some deprecated presentational html attributes will now be automatically + converted to css. +* (bug 31297) Add support for namespaces in Special:RecentChanges subpage filter + syntax. +* The default user signature now contains a talk link in addition to the user link. +* (bug 25306) Add link of old page title to MediaWiki:Delete_and_move_reason. +* Added hook BitmapHandlerCheckImageArea. +* (bug 30062) Add $wgDBprefix option to cli installer. +* getUserPermissionsErrors and getUserPermissionsErrorsExpensive hooks are now + also called when checking for 'read' permission. +* Introduce $wgEnableSearchContributorsByIP which controls whether searching + for an IP address redirects to the contributions list for that IP. +* (bug 8859) Database::update should take array of tables too. +* (bug 19698) Add "Inverse namespaces" option to Special:Contributions. +* (bug 24037) Add byte length of revision to Special:Contributions. +* (bug 1672) Added $wgDisableUploadScriptChecks to allow uploading of files + containing HTML or JS. DISABLING THESE CHECKS IS VERY DANGEROUS. +* New path mappings can be added using the WebRequestPathInfoRouter hook + and adding paths to the PathRouter. +* (bug 32666) Special:ActiveUsers now allows a subpage to be used as value for the + "target" query parameter (eg. Special:ActiveUsers/Username). +* New JavaScript variable wgPageContentLanguage. +* Added new debugging toolbar, enabled with $wgDebugToolbar. +* Differences in the history page now uses slightly better colors for people + perceiving colors differently. +* (bug 32879) Upgrade jQuery to 1.7.1. +* jQuery UI upgraded to 1.8.17. +* Extensions can use the 'Language::getMessagesFileName' hook to define new + languages using messages files outside of core. +* (bug 32512) Add 'Associated namespace' checkbox to Special:Contributions. +* Added $wgSend404Code, true by default, which can be set to false to send a + 200 status code instead of 404 for nonexistent articles. +* (bug 33447) Link to the broken image tracking category from Special:Wantedfiles. +* (bug 27724) Add timestamp to job queue. +* (bug 30339) Implement SpecialPage for running javascript tests. Disabled by default, due to + tests potentially being harmful, not to be run on a production wiki. + Enable by setting $wgEnableJavaScriptTest to true. +* Extensions can use the RequestContextCreateSkin hook to override what skin is + loaded in some contexts. +* (bug 33456) Show $wgQueryCacheLimit on cached query pages. +* (bug 10574) Add an option to allow all pages to be exported by Special:Export. +* mediawiki.js Message object constructor is now publicly available as mw.Message. +* (bug 29309) Allow CSS class per tooltip (tipsy). +* (bug 33565) Add accesskey/tooltip to submit buttons on Special:EditWatchlist. +* (bug 17959) Inline rendering/thumbnailing for Gimp XCF images. +* (bug 27775) Namespace has it's own XML tag in the XML dump file. +* (bug 30513) Redirect tag is now resolved in XML dump file. +* sha1 xml tag added to XML dump file. +* (bug 33646) Badtitle error page now emits a 400 HTTP status. +* Special:MovePage now has a dropdown menu for namespaces. +* (bug 34420) Special:Version now shows git HEAD sha1 when available. +* (bug 33952) Refactor mw.toolbar to allow dynamic additions at any time. + +=== Bug fixes in 1.19 === +* $wgUploadNavigationUrl should be used for file redlinks if. + $wgUploadMissingFileUrl is not set. The first was used for this + until the second was introduced in 1.17. +* BREAKING CHANGE: Style rules for wikitable are now more specific and prevent + inheritance to nested tables which caused various issues (bug 30485 and bug + 33434). If your wiki has overriden rules for ".wikitable", please revise them and + adjust where neccecary. For comparison, use the "table.wikitable" section in + skins/common/shared.css as base. +* $wgUploadNavigationUrl is now used for file redlinks if + $wgUploadMissingFileUrl is not set. The former was used for this until the + second was introduced in 1.17. +* (bug 27894) Move 'editondblclick' event listener down from body to + div#bodyContent. +* (bug 30172) The check for posix_isatty() in maintenance scripts did not detect + when the function exists but is disabled. Introduced + Maintenance::posix_isatty(). +* (bug 30264) Changed installer-generated LocalSettings.php to use + require_once() instead require() for included extensions. +* Do not convert text in the user interface language to another script. +* (bug 26283) Previewing user JS/CSS pages didn't load other user JS/CSS pages. +* (bug 26486) ResourceLoader modules with paths to nonexistent files cause PHP + warnings/notices to be thrown. +* (bug 30335) Fix for HTMLForms using GET that were breaking when non-friendly + URLs are used. +* (bug 28649) Preventing half truncated multi-byte unicode characters when + truncating log comments. +* Show --batch-size option in help of maintenance scripts that support it. +* (bug 4381) Magic quotes cleaning was not comprehensive, key strings were not + unescaped. +* (bug 23057) Importers no longer can 'edit' or 'create' a fully-protected page by + importing a new revision into it. +* Allow moving the associated talk pages of subpages even if the base page + has no subpage. +* Per page edit-notices now work in namespaces without subpages enabled. +* (bug 31081) $wgEnotifUseJobQ is no longer unconditionally enqueueing jobs. +* (bug 30202) File names are now restricted on upload to 240 bytes, because of + restrictions on some of the database fields. +* Timezones are now recognised in user preferences when offset is different + due to DST. +* (bug 31692) "summary" parameter now also works when undoing revisions. +* (bug 18823) "move succeeded" text displayed bluelinks even when redirect was + suppressed. +* (bug 19186) Special:UserLogin's title on Special:SpecialPages now says + "create account" when the user cannot create an account. +* (bug 31818) 'usercreated' message now supports GENDER. +* (bug 32022) Our phpunit.php script can now be executed from another directory. +* (bug 26020) Setting $wgEmailConfirmToEdit to true no longer removes diffs. + from recent changes feeds. +* (bug 30232) add current time to message wlnote on Special:Watchlist. +* (bug 29110) $wgFeedDiffCutoff did not affect new pages. +* (bug 32168) Add wfRemoveDotSegments for use in wfExpandUrl. +* (bug 32358) Do not display "No higher resolution available" for dimensionless + files (like audio files). +* (bug 32168) Add wfAssembleUrl for use in wfExpandUrl. +* (bug 32168) fixed - wfExpandUrl expands dot segments now. +* (bug 31535) Upload comments now truncated properly, and don't have brackets. +* (bug 32086) Special:PermanentLink now show an error message when no subpage + was specified. +* (bug 30368) Special:Newpages now shows the new page name for moved pages. +* (bug 1697) The way to search blocked usernames in block log should be clearer. +* (bug 29747) eAccelerator shared memory caching has been removed since it is + now disabled by default and is buggy. APC, XCache and WinCache are not affected. +* Installer now refuses to install if php was not compiled with Ctype support. +* (bug 29475) Remove "trackback" feature entirely from core. +* (bug 32665) Special:BlockList prefills the username in the input field if + using the Special:BlockList/username URL. +* (bug 27721) Make JavaScript variables wgSeparatorTransformTable and + wgDigitTransformTable depend on page content language so the sort script + sorts correctly more often. +* (bug 32230) Expose wgRedirectedFrom in JavaScript. +* (bug 31212) History tab not collapsed when the screen is narrow. +* (bug 15521) Use new section summary when the action of adding a new section + also happens to create the page. +* (bug 32960) Remove EmailAuthenticationTimestamp from database when a + email address is removed. +* (bug 32414) Empty page get a empty bytes attribute in Export/Dump. +* (bug 33101) Viewing a User or User talk of username resembling IP ending + with .xxx causes Internal error. +* Warning about undefined index in certain situations when $wgLogRestrictions + causes the first log type requested to be removed but not the others. +* Use separate message ('prefixindex-namespace') for title of + Special:PrefixIndex rather then re-using Special:AllPages's allinnamespace. +* (bug 33156) Special:Block now allows you to confirm you want to block yourself + when using non-normalized username. +* (bug 33246) News icon shown for news:// URLs but not for news: URLs. +* (bug 33305) Make mw.util.addCSS resistant to IE's @font-face bug by setting + cssText after DOM insertion. +* (bug 30711) When adding a new section to a page with section=new, the text is + now always added to the current version of the page. +* (bug 31719) Fix uploads of SVGs exported by Adobe Illustrator by expanding + XML entities correctly. +* (bug 30914) Embeddable ResourceLoader modules (user.options, user.tokens) + should be loaded in for proper dependency resolution. +* (bug 32702) Removed method Skin::makeGlobalVariablesScript() has been readded + for backward compatibility. +* (bug 31469) Make sure tracking category messages expand variables like + {{NAMESPACE}} relative to correct title. +* (bug 33454) ISO-8601 week-based year number (format character 'o') is now + calculated correctly with respect to timezone. +* (bug 32219) InstantCommons now fetches content from Wikimedia Commons using + HTTPS when the local wiki is served over HTTPS. +* (bug 33525) clearTagHooks doesn't clear function hooks. +* (bug 33523) Function tag hooks don't appear on Special:Version. +* Files with IPTC blocks we can't read no longer prevent extraction of exif + or other metadata. +* (bug 33587) Remove action "historysubmit" from history pages. +* (bug 25800) mw.config wgAction should contain the actually performed action instead + of whatever the query value contains. +* (bug 4438) Add CSS hook for current WikiPage action. +* (bug 33703) Common border-bottom color for should inherit default (text) color. +* (bug 33819) Display file sizes in appropriate units. +* (bug 32948) {{REVISIONID}} and related variables are no longer blank after doing + a null edit. +* (bug 33880) $wgUsersNotifiedOnAllChanges should not send e-mail to user who made + the edit. +* (bug 33902) Decoding %2B with mw.Uri.decode results in ' ' instead of +. +* (bug 33762) QueryPage-based special pages no longer misses *-summary message. +* Other sizes links are no longer generated for wikis without a 404 thumbnail handler. +* (bug 29454) Enforce byteLimit for page title input on Special:MovePage. +* (bug 34114) CSSMin::remap() doesn't respect its $embed parameter. +* Special:Contributions/newbies now shows the contributions for the user "newbies". + New user contributions are obtained using the form or using ?contribs=newbie in URL. +* It is now possible to delete images that have no corresponding description pages. +* (bug 33165) GlobalFunctions.php line 1312: Call to a member function + getText() on a non-object. +* (bug 31676) Group dynamically inserted CSS into a single