From 9db190c7e736ec8d063187d4241b59feaf7dc2d1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pierre Schmitz Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 11:28:20 +0200 Subject: update to MediaWiki 1.17.0 --- HISTORY | 1036 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 1001 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-) (limited to 'HISTORY') diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY index 05ad1b29..2cc94aad 100644 --- a/HISTORY +++ b/HISTORY @@ -1,43 +1,1009 @@ Change notes from older releases. For current info see RELEASE-NOTES. -== MediaWiki 1.15 == - -=== Changes since 1.15.1 === - -* The installer now includes a check for a data corruption issue with certain - versions of libxml2 2.7 and PHP earlier than 5.2.9, and also for a PHP bug - present in the official release of PHP 5.3.1. -* (bug 20239) MediaWiki:Imagemaxsize does not contain anymore a
tag which - was displayed to the user -* (bug 21150) SQLite no longer raise an error when deleting files -* (bug 20880) Fixed updater failure on SQLite backend +== MediaWiki 1.16 == + +== Changes since 1.16.4 == + +* (bug 28534) Fixed XSS vulnerability for IE 6 clients. This is the third + attempt at fixing bug 28235. +* (bug 28639) Fixed potential privilege escalation when $wgBlockDisablesLogin + is enabled. + +== Changes since 1.16.3 == + +* (bug 28507) The change we made in 1.16.3 to fix bug 28235 (XSS for IE 6 + clients) was not actually sufficient to fix that bug. This release contains + a second attempt, hopefully we have fixed it this time. + +== Changes since 1.16.2 == + +* (bug 28449) Fixed permissions checks in Special:Import which allowed users + without the 'import' permission to import pages from the configured import + sources. +* (bug 28235) Fixed XSS affecting IE 6 and earlier clients only, due to those + browsers looking for a file extension in the query string of the URL, and + ignoring the Content-Type header if one is found. +* (bug 28450) Fixed a CSS validation issue involving escaped comments, which + led to XSS for Internet Explorer clients and privacy loss for other clients. + +== Changes since 1.16.1 == + +* (bug 26642) Fixed incorrect translated namespace due to a regression in the + language converter. +* The interface translations were updated. +* (bug 27093, CVE-2011-0047): Fixed CSS injection vulnerability. +* (bug 27094) Fixed server-side arbitrary script inclusion vulnerability. + Affects Windows servers only. A malicious file with extension ".php" must + exist on the server for the exploit to be effective. + +== Changes since 1.16.0 == + +* (bug 24981) Allow extensions to access SpecialUpload variables again +* (bug 24724) list=allusers was out by 1 (shows total users - 1) +* (bug 24166) Fixed API error when using rvprop=tags +* For wikis using French as a content language, Special:Téléchargement works + again as an alias for Special:Upload. +* (bug 25167) Correctly load JS fixes for IE6 (fixing a regression in 1.16.0) +* (bug 25248) Fixed paraminfo errors in certain API modules. +* The installer now has improved handling for situations where safe_mode is + active or exec() and similar functions are disabled. +* (bug 19593) Specifying --server in now works for all maintenance scripts. +* Fixed $wgLicenseTerms register globals. +* (bug 26561) Fixed clickjacking vulnerabilities by introducing support for + X-Frame-Options. The header value can be configured using $wgBreakFrames and + $wgEditPageFrameOptions. + +== Changes since 1.16 beta 3 == + +* (bug 23769) Disabled HTML 5 client-side form validation. Was introduced in + 1.16 beta 1, but is currently poorly supported by browsers. +* (bug 23175) Re-added window.ta variable for backwards compatibility. +* (bug 23264) Fixed breakage of various command line scripts due to extra line + endings being inserted by Maintenance::output(). +* Fixed HTTP client functionality with safe_mode=On. +* Fixed parser tests broken in 1.16 beta 3. +* For Oracle DB backend: fixed parser tests and table prefix feature. +* (bug 23767) Fixed PHP warning when REQUEST_URI is blank (IIS issue). +* Fixed plural function for Northern Sami (se) +* (bug 23597) Fixed conflicts between ID attributes in the Vector skin and + parser-generated heading IDs. Renamed head, panel, head-base and page-base. +* Disabled $wgHitcounterUpdateFreq>1 feature on SQLite, does not work yet. +* (bug 23465) Don't ignore the predefined destination filename on + Special:Upload after following a red link to a file. +* In SQLite full-text search feature: fixed "move page" feature, was non- + functional. +* (bug 24565) Fixed Cache-Control headers sent from API modules, to protect + user privacy in the case where an attacker can access the wiki through the + same HTTP proxy as a logged-in user. +* Fixed an XSS vulnerability in profileinfo.php for installations with + $wgEnableProfileInfo = true (false by default) +* Fixed a case where an X-Vary-Options header was sent despite $wgUseXVO being + false. Fixed a minor header parsing issue when $wgUseXVO = true. +* Fixed a register_globals arbitrary inclusion vulnerability in + MediaWikiParserTest.php, introduced in 1.16 beta 1. + +== Changes since 1.16 beta 2 == + +* Fixed bugs in the [[Special:Userlogin]] and [[Special:Emailuser]] handling of + invalid usernames. +* Fixed sorting in [[Special:Allmessages]] +* (bug 23113) Fixed title in the show/hide links on diff pages +* (bug 23117) Fixed API rollback, was returning "badtoken" for valid requests +* (bug 23127) Re-added missing $1 parameter to the uploadtext message +* Fixed a bug in the Vector skin where personal tools display behind the logo +* (bug 23139) Fixed a bug in edit conflict resolution, where both textboxes + showed the same text. +* (bug 23115, bug 23124) Fixed various problems with and <h1> elements + in page views and previews when the language converter is enabled. +* (bug 23148) Fixed a local path disclosure vulnerability in ImageMagick image + scaling, which was introduced in 1.16 beta 1. +* Improved error checking on installer. +* (bug 22970) Fixed a JavaScript error in the upload destination conflict + check. +* (bug 23167) Check the watch checkbox by default if the watchcreations + preference is set. +* (bug 23171) Improve IE6 version check to avoid false positives. +* (bug 23176) Fixed upload warning override feature "upload new version", + broken in 1.16 beta 1. +* Fixed regression in unwatch links sent out in notification emails. When the + mailing job was deferred via the job queue, the title was incorrect. +* (bug 23534) Fixed SQL query error in API list=allusers. +* Fixed a bug in uploads for non-JavaScript clients. An empty string was used + as the default destination filename, instead of the source filename as + expected. +* (bug 23371) Fixed CSRF vulnerability in "e-mail me my password", "create + account" and "create by e-mail" features of [[Special:Userlogin]] +* (bug 23687) Fixed XSS vulnerability affecting IE clients only, due to a CSS + validation issue. +* Fixed a DoS vulnerability in ImageMagick image scaling. ImageMagick + expanded wildcard characters "?" and "*" in image filenames, potentially + causing large numbers of images to be scaled in response to a single request. + The fix for this involves breaking the scaling of such image filenames until + ImageMagick 6.6.1-5 or later is deployed, see bug 23361 for more details. +* (bug 23608) Fixed invalid HTML in diff pages. + +=== Changes since 1.16 beta 1 === + +* Fixed errors in maintenance/patchSql.php +* (bug 19627) Fix regression from r57867 where HTMLForm would output + <element classes="foo bar"> rather than <element class="foo bar"> +* Fixed broken "-r" option to maintenance/lag.php +* (bug 23076) Fixed login CSRF vulnerability. Logins now require a token to + be submitted along with the user name and password. + +=== Configuration changes in 1.16 === + +* (bug 18222) $wgMinimalPasswordLength default is now 1 +* $wgSessionHandler can be used to configure session.save_handler +* $wgLocalFileRepo/$wgForeignFileRepos now have a 'fileMode' parameter to + be used when uploading/moving files +* (bug 18761) $wgHiddenPrefs is a new array for specifying preferences not + to be shown to users +* $wgAllowRealName and $wgAllowUserSkin were deprecated in favor of + $wgHiddenPrefs[] = 'realname', but the former are still retained + for backwards-compatibility +* (bug 9257) $wgRCMaxAge now defaults to three months +* $wgDevelopmentWarnings can be set to true to show warnings about deprecated + functions and other potential errors when developing. +* Subpages are now enabled in the MediaWiki namespace by default. This is + mainly a cosmetic change, and does not in any way affect the MessageCache, + which was already effectively treating the namespace as if it had subpages. +* Oracle: maintenance/ora/user.sql script for creating DB user on oracle with + appropriate privileges. Creating this user with web-install page requires + oci8.privileged_connect set to On in php.ini. +* Removed UserrightsChangeableGroups hook introduced in 1.14 +* Added $wgCacheDirectory, to replace $wgFileCacheDirectory, + $wgLocalMessageCache, and any other local caches which need a place to put + files. +* $wgFileCacheDirectory is no longer set to anything by default, and so either + needs to be set explicitly, or $wgCacheDirectory needs to be set instead. +* $wgLocalMessageCache has been removed. Instead, set $wgUseLocalMessageCache + to true +* Removed $wgEnableSerializedMessages and $wgCheckSerialized. Similar + functionality is now available via $wgLocalisationCacheConf. +* $wgMessageCache->addMessages() is deprecated. Messages added via this + interface will not appear in Special:AllMessages. +* $wgRegisterInternalExternals can be used to record external links pointing + to same server +* (bug 19907) $wgCrossSiteAJAXdomains and $wgCrossSiteAJAXdomainExceptions added + to control which external domains may access the API via cross-site AJAX. +* $wgMaintenanceScripts for extensions to add their scripts to the default list +* $wgMemoryLimit has been added, default value '50M' +* $wgExtraRandompageSQL is deprecated, the SpecialRandomGetRandomTitle hook + should be used instead +* (bug 20489) $wgIllegalFileChars added to override the default list of illegal + characters in file names. +* (bug 19646) $wgImgAuthDetails added to display reason access to uploaded file + was denied to users(img_auth only) +* (bug 19646) $wgImgAuthPublicTest added to test to see if img_auth set up + correctly (img_auth only) +* $wgUploadMaintenance added to disable file deletions and restorations during + maintenance +* $wgCapitalLinkOverrides added to configure per-namespace capitalization +* (bug 21172) $wgSorbsUrl can now be an array with multiple DNSBL and renamed + to $wgDnsBlacklistUrls (backward compatibility kept) +* $wgEnableHtmlDiff has been removed +* (bug 3340) $wgBlockCIDRLimit added (default: 16) to configure the low end of + CIDR ranges for blocking +* $wgUseInstantCommons added for quick and easy enabling of Commons as a remote + file repository +* $wgDBAhandler added to choose a DBA handler when using CACHE_DBA +* $wgPreviewOnOpenNamespaces for extensions that create namespaces that behave + similarly to the category namespace. +* $wgEnableSorbs renamed to $wgDnsBlacklistUrls ($wgEnableSorbs kept for + backward compatibility) +* $wgUploadNavigationUrl now also affects images inline images that do not + exist. In that case the URL will get (?|&)wpDestFile=<filename> appended to + it as appropriate. +* If $wgLocaltimezone is null, use the server's timezone as the default for + signatures. This was always the behaviour documented in DefaultSettings.php + but has not been the actual behaviour for some time: instead, UTC was used + by default. +* Added $wgExtensionAssetsPath, to decouple assets serving from $wgScriptPath. + If not specified it will default to $wgScriptPath/extensions +* Added $wgCountTotalSearchHits to make search UI display total number of hits + with some search engines. +* Added $wgAdvertisedFeedTypes to decide what feed types (RSS, Atom, both, or + neither) MediaWiki advertises. Default is array( 'atom' ), so RSS is no + longer advertised by default (but it still works). +* Added $wgMemCachedTimeout, controls how long to wait for data from the + memcached servers. +* New configuration variables $wgDebugTimestamps and $wgDebugPrintHttpHeaders + for controlling debug output. +* New $wgBlockDisablesLogin when set to true disallows blocked users from + logging in. +* (bug 8790) Metadata edition ($wgUseMetadataEdit) has been moved to a separate + extension "MetadataEdit". + +=== New features in 1.16 === + +* Add CSS defintion of the 'wikitable' class to shared.css +* (bug 17163) Added MediaWiki:Talkpageheader which will be displayed when + viewing talk pages +* Superfluous border="0" removed from images +* Added new hook 'MessageCacheReplace' into MessageCache.php. For instance + to allow extensions to update caches in similar way as MediaWiki invalidates + a cached MonoBook sidebar +* Special:AllPages: Move hardcoded styles from code to CSS +* (bug 18529) New hook: SoftwareInfo for adding information about the software + to Special:Version +* Added $wgExtPGAlteredFields to allow extensions to easily alter the data + type of columns when using the Postgres backend. +* (bug 16950) Show move log when viewing/creating a deleted page +* (bug 18242) Show the Subversion revision number per extensions in + Special:Version +* (bug 18420) Missing file revisions are handled gracefully now +* (bug 9219) Auth plugins can control editing RealName/Email/Nick preferences +* (bug 18466) Add note or warning when overruling a move (semi-)protection +* (bug 18342) insertTags works in edit summary box +* (bug 18411) The upload form also checks post_max_size +* Watchlist now has a specialized <div> tag that contains a unique class for + each page +* Added Minguo calendar support for the Taiwan Chinese language +* Database: unionQueries function to be used for UNION sql construction, so + it can be overloaded on DB abstraction level for DB specific functionality +* (bug 18849) Implement Japanese and North Korean calendars +* (bug 5755) Introduce {{CURRENTMONTH1}} and {{LOCALMONTH1}} to display the + month number without the leading zero +* (bug 13456) categoriespagetext supports PLURAL +* (bug 18860) Blocks of IPs affecting registered users can now block email +* (bug 17093) Date and time are separate parameters in Special:BlockList +* (bug 11484) Added ISO speed rating to default collapsed EXIF metadata view +* (bug 14866) Messages 'recentchangeslinked-toolbox' and + 'recentchangeslinked-toolbox' were added to allow more fine grained + customisation of the user interface +* DISPLAYTITLE now accepts a limited amount of wiki markup (the single-quote + items) +* Special:Search now could search terms in all variant-forms. ONLY apply on + wikis enabled LanguageConverter. +* Add autopromote condition APCOND_BLOCKED to autopromote blocked users to + various user groups. +* Add $wgRevokePermissions as a means of restricting a group's rights. The + syntax is identical to $wgGroupPermissions, but users in these groups will + have these rights stripped from them. +* Added a PHP port of CDB (constant database), for improved local caching when + the DBA extension is not available. +* Introduced a new system for localisation caching. The system is based around + fast fetches of individual messages, minimising memory overhead and startup + time in the typical case. The database backend will be used by default, but + set $wgCacheDirectory to get a faster CDB-based implementation. +* Expanded the number of variables which can be set in the extension messages + files. +* Added a feature to allow per-article process pool size control for the parsing + task, to limit resource usage when the cache for a heavily-viewed article is + invalidated. Requires an external daemon. +* (bug 19576) Moved the id attribues from the anchors accompanying section + headers to the <span class="mw-headline"> elements within the section headers, + removing the redundant anchor elements. +* Parser::setFunctionTagHook now can be used to add a new tag which is parsed at + preprocesor level. +* Added $wgShowArchiveThumbnails, allowing sysadmins to disable thumbnail + display for old versions of images. +* In watchlists and Special:RecentChanges, the difference in page size now + appears in dark green if bytes were added and dark red if bytes were removed. +* Added FSRepo configuration properties thumbUrl and thumbDir, to allow the + thumbnails to be stored in a separate location to the source images. +* If config/ directory is not executable, the command to make it executable + now asks the user to cd to the correct directory +* Add experimental new external authentication framework, ExternalAuth +* (bug 18768) Remove AdminSettings requirements. Maintenance environment + will still load it if it exists, but it's not required for anything +* (bug 19900) The "listgrouprights-key" message is now wrapped in a div with + class "mw-listgrouprights-key" +* (bug 471) Allow RSS feeds for watchlist, using an opt-in security token +* (bug 10812) Interwiki links can have names and descriptions, fetched from + message 'interwiki-desc-PREFIX', not really used anywhere yet though +* (bug 9691) Add type (signup or login) parameter to + AuthPlugin::ModifyUITemplate() +* (bug 14454) "Member of group(s)" in Special:Preferences causes language + difficulties +* (bug 16697) Unicode combining characters are difficult to edit in some + browsers +* Parser test supports uploading results to remote CodeReview instance +* (bug 20013) Added CSS class "mw-version-ext-version" is wrapped on the + extension version in Special:Version +* (bug 20014) Added CSS class "mw-listgrouprights-right-name" is wrapped on the + right name in Special:ListGroupRights +* (bug 12920) New CoreParserFunction {{nse:...}} as an url-friendly equivalent + to {{ns:...}} +* (bug 16322) Allow maintenance scripts to accept DB user/pass over input or + params +* (bug 18566) Maintenance script to un/protect pages +* (bug 671) The HTML <abbr> tag is now permitted. +* RecentChanges now has a legend to explain what the Nmb! flags mean, and the + flags have tooltips. +* (bug 15209) New hook BeforeInitialize called after everything has been setup + but before Mediawiki::performRequestForTitle() +* wgMainPageTitle variable now available to JavaScript code to identify the main + page link, so it doesn't have to be extracted from the link URLs. +* (bug 16836) Display preview of signature in user preferences and describe its + use +* The default output format is now HTML 5 instead of XHTML 1.0 Transitional. + This can be disabled by setting $wgHtml5 = false;. Specific features enabled + if HTML 5 is used: +** Some extra inputs will be autofocused, in supporting browsers. +** The summary attribute has been removed from tables of contents. summary is + obsolete in HTML 5 and wasn't useful here anyway. +** Unnecessary type="" attribute removed for CSS and JS. +** If $wgWellFormedXml is set to false, some bytes will be shaved off of HTML + output by omitting some things like quotation marks where HTML 5 allows. +** (bug 16921) maxlength enabled for page move comments +* The description message in $wgExtensionCredits can be an array with parameters +* New hook SpecialRandomGetRandomTitle allows extensions to modify the selection + criteria used by Special:Random and subclasses, or substitute a custom result, + deprecating the $wgExtraRandompageSQL config variable +* (bug 20318) Distinct CSS classes for ISBN/RFC/PMID special links added +* (bug 20404) Custom fields in the user creation form template can now have + detail labels in prefsectiontip divs. +* MakeSysop and MakeBot are now aliases for Special:UserRights +* IndexPager->mLimitsShown can now be an associative array of limit => text-to- + display-in-limit-form. +* (bug 18880) LogEventsList::showLogExtract() can now take a string-by-reference + and add its HTML to it, rather than having to go straight to $wgOut. +* Added $wgShowDBErrorBacktrace, to allow users to easily gather backtraces for + database connection and query errors. +* Show change block / unblock link on Special:Contributions if user is blocked +* Display note on Special:Contributions if the user is blocked, and provide an + excerpt from the block log. +* (bug 19646) New hook: ImgAuthBeforeStream for tests and functionality before + file is streamed to user, but only when using img_auth +* Note on non-existing user and user talk pages if user does not exist +* New hook ShowMissingArticle so extensions can modify the output for + non-existent pages. +* Admins could disable some variants using $wgDisabledVariants now. ONLY apply + on wikis enabled LanguageConverter. +* (bug 16310) Credits page now lists IP addresses rather than saying the number + of anonymous users that edited the page +* New permission 'sendemail' added. Default right for all registered users. Can + for example be used to prevent new accounts from sending spam. +* (bug 16979) Tracking categories for __INDEX__ and __NOINDEX__ +* Two new hooks, ConfirmEmailComplete and InvalidateEmailComplete, which are + called after a user's email has been successfully confirmed or invalidated. +* (bug 19741) Moved the XCF files out of the main MediaWiki distribution, for + a smaller subversion checkout. +* (bug 13750) First letter capitalization can now be a per-namespace setting +* (bug 21073) "User does not exist" message no longer displayed on sub-sub-pages + of existing users +* (bug 21095) Tracking categories produced by the parser (expensive parser + function limit exceeded, __NOINDEX__ tracking, etc) can now be disabled by + setting the system message ([[MediaWiki:expensive-parserfunction-category]] + etc) to "-". +* Added maintenance script sqlite.php for SQLite-specific maintenance tasks. +* Rewrote Special:Upload to allow easier extension. +* Upload errors that can be solved by changing the filename now do not require + reuploading. +* Added $wgRateLimitsExcludedIPs, to allow specific IPs to be whitelisted from + rate limits. +* (bug 21222) When $wgUseTeX is not enabled, <math> is no longer registered with + the parser so extensions are free to implement their own <math> tag +* (bug 21047) Wrap 'cannotdelete' into a div with the generic 'error' class and + an own 'mw-error-cannotdelete' class +* New hook AbortNewAccountAuto, called before account creation from AuthPlugin- + or ExtUser-driven requests. +* (bug 3480) The warning saying that the page has a history when deleting it now + contains the number of revisions in the history +* $wgStylePath and $wgLogo are now set in the default LocalSettings.php file. +* (bug 20186) Allow filtering history for revision deletion. +* New hook OtherBlockLogLink, called in Special:IPBlockList and Special:Block + to show links to block logs of other blocking extensions, i.e. GlobalBlocking +* Added search capabilities to SQLite backend +* rebuildtextindex.php maintenance script now supports databases other than + MySQL * upgrade1_5.php now requires to be run --update option to prevent confusion -* Fixed a CSS validation issue which allowed external images to be included - into wikis where that is disallowed by configuration. -* Fixed a data leakage vulnerability for private wikis using img_auth.php or - similar image access authentication schemes. Check user permissions before - streaming out scaled images from thumb.php. - -=== Changes since 1.15.0 === +* (bug 17662) Customizable default preload/editintro for new sections in the + respective addsection-preload and addsection-editintro messages +* Added maintenance script checkSyntax.php that checks for PHP syntax errors + and common coding mistakes +* Updated Unicode normalization tables +* (bug 21604) Spellcheck attribute for editsummary +* New wgCategories JavaScript global variable for userscripts. +* (bug 20717) Added checkboxes to hide users with bot and/or sysop group + membership in SpecialActiveusers +* Allow \pagecolor and \definecolor in texvc +* $wgTexvcBackgroundColor contains background color for texvc call +* (bug 21574) Redirects can now have "303 See Other" HTTP status +* EditPage refactored to allow extensions to derive new edit modes much easier. +* (bug 21826) Subsections of Special:Version now also have anchors +* (bug 19791) Add URL of file source as comment to thumbs (for ImageMagick) +* (bug 21946) Sorted wikitables do not properly handle minus signs +* (bug 18885) Red links for media files do not support shared repositories +* Added $wgFixArabicUnicode, to convert deprecated presentation forms in + Arabic text to their modern equivalents, and $wgFixMalayalamUnicode, to + convert ZWJ-based chillu sequences in Malayalam text to their Unicode 5.1 + equivalents. +* (bug 22051) Returing false in SpecialContributionsBeforeMainOutput hook now + stops normal output +* Send new password e-mail in users preference language +* LanguageConverter now support nested using of manual convert syntax like + "-{-{}-}-" +* Upload license preview now uses the API instead of action=ajax +* (bug 7346) Add <guid> to RSS to avoid duplicates +* (bug 19996) Added new hooks for Special:Search, which allow to further + restrict/expand it. +* (bug 21936) When a revision has been patrolled, there's now a link back to the + article +* (bug 22315) SpecialRecentChangesQuery hook now pass $query_options and checks + the return value +* Separate unit test suites under t/ and tests/ were merged and moved to + maintenance/tests/. +* importImages.php maintenance script can now use the original uploader and +comment from another wiki. +* Support for Turck MMCache was removed +* (bug 14592) Warn users when they try to move their user page that their + account will not be renamed +* Show block log on non-existing user (talk) pages of currently blocked users + +=== Bug fixes in 1.16 === + +* (bug 18031) Make namespace selector on Special:Export remember the previous + selection +* The svn-version version numbers on Special:Version have been removed +* (bug 17374) Special:Export no longer exports two copies of the same page +* (bug 18190) Proper parsing in MediaWiki:Sharedupload message +* (bug 17617) HTML cleanup for ImagePage +* (bug 17964) namespaceDupes.php no longer fails on an empty interwiki table +* Improved error handling for image moving +* (bug 17974) On Special:SpecialPages, restricted special pages are now marked + with <strong> tags, helps with text-based browsers +* (bug 18259) Special:DeletedContributions now also uses + MediaWiki:Sp-contributions-logs for the link to Special:Log +* Don't add empty title="" attributes to links to anchors on the current page +* (bug 18291) rebuildrecentchanges.php failed to add deletion log entries +* (bug 18304) rebuildrecentchanges.php got size changes wrong +* (bug 18170) Fixed a PHP warning in Parser::preSaveTransform() in PHP 5.3 +* (bug 18289) Database connection error page now returns correct HTML +* "successbox", "errorbox" and related CSS classes are now available in all + skins +* (bug 18316) Removed superfluous name="fulltext" from Special:Search +* (bug 18331) MediaWiki:Undelete-revision can now have wikitext +* The "noautoblock" flag is no longer displayed in the block log when blocking + an IP address +* (bug 18009) $wgHooks and $wgExtensionFunctions now support closures +* (bug 17948) Maintenance scripts now exit(0) or exit(1) as appropriate +* (bug 18377) Time in Enhanced ChangesList lacking localisation +* (bug 12998) Allow <sup>, <sub>, etc. in DISPLAYTITLE +* (bug 1553) Lowercase navigation headings in German +* (bug 7830) Pending transactions failed to commit on loginToUse() error +* (bug 11613) session.save_handler being over-ridden +* (bug 11381) session.save_handler being set twice (causes error) +* (bug 17835) ForeignAPIRepo throwing error on first page load for file +* (bug 18115) ForeignAPIRepo cache isn't working +* Fixed a bug caused by LanguageConverter.php, which brings an abnormal '}-' + after some parsed math syntax. +* (bug 18441) rebuildrecentchanges.inc no longer ignores $wgLogRestrictions +* (bug 18317) Bolded selections in 1 | 3 | etc days on RecentChanges now use + <strong> instead of hardcoded styles +* (bug 18449) Fixed items number per column on category pages when the total is + divisible by 3 +* (bug 18121) maintenance/deleteArchivedRevisions.php no longer deletes + revisions when --delete is not passed +* (bug 13172) GPS coordinates in image Exif data are now actually displayed +* Overhaul of preferences system, includes the following bug fixes: +** (bug 5363) Changes to default preferences now impact registered users. +** (bug 14806) Hook to enable putting preferences in existing tabs. +** (bug 17191) Registration date now listed on preferences page. +** The user_properties table (now used for storing preferences) has been added + to $wgSharedTables. +** Note that this change will break some extensions which have not been adapted + for it. +* (bug 17020) Adding fallback encodings for Traditional and Simplified Chinese + languages while the the text is typed as URLs. +* (bug 17614) Prev / Next links are not shown if all results are shown +* (bug 18207) Strange spacing before [[irc:...]] links +* Removed float from the user login form in RTL interface - caused display + problems in FF2 +* (bug 15008) Redirect images are now subject to Bad image list rules +* (bug 6802) profileinfo.php now also work on other database servers than MySQL +* (bug 16925) Diffs no longer fail when $wgExternalDiffEngine is set to + 'wikidiff' or 'wikidiff2' but extension is not installed +* (bug 18326) Chmod errors in file repos have been hidden +* (bug 18718) Comma after a } create a error in IE +* (bug 18716) Removed redundant class in Modern skin CSS for category links and + tweaked spacing. +* (bug 18656) Use proper directory separators in wfMkdirParents() +* (bug 18549) Make Special:Blockip respect $wgEnableUserEmail and + $wgSysopEmailBans +* (bug 16912) Tooltips on images with link= disappear +* (bug 18389) Localise numbers in EXIF data +* (bug 18522) Wrap MediaWiki:Protect-cascadeon in a div for identification +* (bug 18438) Tweak HTML for preview bar for consistency and accessibility +* (bug 18432) Updated documentation for dumpBackup.php +* Fix array logic in Sanitizer::removeHTMLtags so that it doesn't strip good + tags that were redundantly defined. +* (bug 14118) SpecialPage::getTitleFor does not return a localised name +* (bug 18698) Renaming non entry point maintenance scripts from .inc.php to + .inc +* Deprecated methods Title::getInterwikiLink, Title::userCanCreate(), + Title::userCanEdit() and Title::userCanMove() have been removed +* Only show upload links on file description if $wgEnableUploads = true + and user can upload +* Don't say "You need to log in to upload/move", because it's possible that + uploading/moving is disabled for registered users as well (e.g. only sysops) +* (bug 18943) Handle invalid titles gracefully at Special:Mostlinked +* (bug 8873) Enable variant conversion in text on 'alt' and 'title' attributes +* (bug 10837) Introducing the StubUserVariant class to determine the variant + variable instead of using this to overrules the user language preference. +* (bug 19014) If user had deletedhistory right, but not undeleted right, then + show "view" instead of "view/restore" on logs. +* (bug 19017) TOC level calculation error in an odd case +* (bug 18999) CSS update for RTL interwiki links +* (bug 18925) history.js removes class names of list elements on initialization +* Multiple whitespace in TOC anchors is now stripped, for consistency with the + link from the edit comment +* (bug 19112) Preferences now respects $wgUseExternalEditor +* (bug 18173) MediaWiki now fails when unable to determine a client IP +* (bug 19170) Special:Version should follow the content language direction +* (bug 19160) maintenance/purgeOldText.inc is now compatible with PostgreSQL +* Fixed performance regression in "bad image list" feature +* Show user preference 'Use live preview' if $wgLivePreview is enabled only +* (bug 17014) Blocked users can no longer use Special:UserRights unless they + can add/remove *all* groups (have 'userrights' permission). +* (bug 19294) Always show Sp-contributions-footer(-anon) +* Attempts to restrict reading of pages while anonymous viewing is allowed + via extensions not using the userCan hook and via $wgRevokePermissions now + work. +* (bug 8445) Multiple-character search terms are now handled properly for + Chinese +* (bug 19450) Use formatNum for "Number of edits" in Special:Preferences +* (bug 11242) Check for MySQL storage engines during installation now checks + whether the engines are actually available +* (bug 19390) Omit the "printable version" link on the printable version +* (bug 18394) img_auth.php now respects userCan +* (bug 19509) Uploading to a file named '0' previously treated it as null input + and attempted to upload with the source name. Now warns about not having an + extension (since 0.ext is perfectly valid) +* (bug 19468) Enotif preferences are now only displayed when they are turned on +* (bug 19442) Show/hide options on watchlist only work once +* (bug 19602) PubMed Magic links now use updated NIH url +* (bug 19637) externallinks have links to self +* Don't load Opera 9.5 RTL fixes for Opera 9.6 +* Remove five-year-old KHTMLFixes.css, which is unlikely to be relevant anymore + and was causing problems. +* Removed repetition of URIs in the title attributes of external links. +* (bug 19693) User name is now escaped in "Contributions for ..." link on + Special:BlockIP +* (bug 19571) Override buildConcat for SQLite. +* Log in and log out links no longer return to page view when clicked from + history view, edit page, or something similar +* (bug 19513) RTL fixes for new Search UI +* (bug 16497) Special:Allmessages is paginated +* (bug 18708) CSS plainlinks class now available to all skins +* (bug 19590) Database error messages no longer have "MySQL" hardcoded as the + database type +* (bug 19759) successbox on Special:Preferences now correctly aligned on + standard, nostalgia and cologneblue skin +* (bug 19814) interwiki links from file links ([[File:Foo.jpg|link=de:Test]]) + are no longer recorded in the pagelinks table +* (bug 19784) date option "ISO 8601" produced illegal id +* (bug 19761) Removed autogenerated <meta keywords> tag with link data. + Keyword set was not useful, and is ignored by modern search engines anway. +* (bug 19827) Special:SpecialPages title is "Upload file +* (bug 19355) Added .xhtml, .xht to upload file extension blacklist +* (bug 19287) Workaround for lag on history page in Firefox 3.5 +* (bug 19564) Updated docs/hooks.txt +* (bug 18751) Fix for buggage in profiling setup for some extensions on PHP 5.1 +* (bug 17139) ts_resortTable inconsistent trimming makes date sorting fragile +* (bug 19445) Change oldimage table to use ON UPDATE CASCADE for FK to image + table. +* (bug 14080) Short notation links to subpages didn't work in edit summaries +* (bug 17374) Special:Export no longer exports multiple copies of pages +* (bug 19818) Edits to user CSS/JS subpages can now be marked as patrolled by + users who can't edit them +* (bug 19839) Comments in log items are no more double escaped +* (bug 18161) Fix inconsistent separators in watchlist link toolbars with + "enhanced recent changes" +* (bug 16877) Moving a page over a redirect no longer leaves an orphan entry in + the recentchanges table +* (bug 16009) Limit selection forms based on Pager now links to the correct page + when using long urls +* The display of the language list on the preferences is more comply with the + BCP 47 standards. +* (bug 19849) Custom X-Vary-Options header now disabled unless $wgUseXVO is set +* (bug 19301) Duplicates entries in $wgAddGroups, $wgRemoveGroups, + $wgGroupsAddToSelf and $wgGroupsRemoveFromSelf are no more displayed on + Special:ListGroupRights +* (bug 18799) Special:Userlogin now handles correctly the returnto parameter + to not link back to Special:Userlogout when user's language isn't the same as + content's language +* (bug 19479) Show proper error message when unable to connect to PostgreSQL + database with username/password in MediaWiki's setup +* (bugs 18407, 18409) Special:Upload is now listed on Special:Specialpages only + if uploads are enabled and the user can access it +* (bug 17988) Spaces before [[Category:]] links are no longer ignored +* (bug 19957) All known-failing tests now marked disabled; added --run-disabled + option to parser test suite to run disabled tests if desired. +* (bug 16311) Make recent change flags (n/m/b) <abbr>s instead of <span>s +* (bug 15680) Split the edit tip message of user CSS/JS subpage into + "usercssyoucanpreview" and "userjsyoucanpreview" respectively. +* (bug 12110) Split the rights for editing users' CSS/JS subpage from + "editusercssjs" into "editusercss" and edituserjs" respectively. +* (bug 19394) RecentChanges feed URLs for log items with no revisions + (eg Newuser, Userrights) are no longer broken +* (bug 17395) Remote file descriptions use user language ($wgLang), not wiki + language ($wgContLang) +* (bug 11867) Lock error on redirect table when running orphans.php +* (bug 18930) initStats.php now refreshes active users count +* (bug 18699) Using the nosummary URL option no longer triggers the "You have + not provided a summary" warning for those who activated it in their + preferences +* (bug 18855) commandLine.inc and Maintenance.php are now properly included + using the full path +* (bug 18497) Fixed broken style sheets in Opera fullscreen mode +* (bug 16084) Default memory limit has be increased to 50M, see $wgMemoryLimit +* (bug 17864/19519) Added proper input normalization in Special:UserRights +* (bug 20086) Add Hook to add extra statistics at the end of Special:Statistics +* (bug 19289) importDump.php can now handle bzip2 and 7zip +* (bug 20131) Fixed a PHP notice for users having the "rollback" right on + Special:RecentChangesLinked +* Do not transform EXIF fields with pure text to avoid results like + foo,bar@example,com +* (bug 20176) Fix login/logout links in skin CologneBlue +* (bug 20203) "Powered by Mediawiki" now has height/width on image tag +* (bug 20273) Fix broken output when no pages are found in the content + namespaces +* (bug 20265) Make AncientPages and UnusedFiles work on SQLite +* Fixed XSS vulnerability for Internet Explorer clients (only pre-release + versions of MediaWiki were affected). +* (bug 14817) Moving a page to a subpage of itself moves it twice +* (bug 20289) $wgMaximumMovedPages should only count pages actually moved +* (bug 15248) Non-breaking spaces and certain other Unicode space characters + are now normalized to ordinary spaces in titles; if your wiki has existing + titles with such characters, run cleanupTitles.php and/or cleanupImages.php +* (bug 11143) Links containing invalid UTF-8 percent-code sequences are now + cleanly disabled instead of breaking parsing entirely on PHP 5.2. +* (bug 20296) Fixed an PHP warning in Language::getMagic() in PHP 5.3 +* (bug 20358) Unprotect tab was missing accesskey; now same as protect tab. +* (bug 20317) Cleaned up default main page link accesskey settings +* (bug 20362) Special:Statistics now produces valid HTML when view counters are + enabled +* (bug 19857) maintenance/deleteRevision.php on last revision no longer breaks + target page +* (bug 20365) Page name with with c/g/h/j/s/u + x are now correctly handled in + Special:MovePage with Esperanto as content language +* (bug 20364) Fixed regression in GIF metadata loading +* (bug 20299) MediaWiki:Move-subpages and MediaWiki:Move-talk-subpages can now + use wikitext +* (bug 15475) DatabaseBase::setFlag(), DatabaseBase::clearFlag() and + DatabaseBase::getFlag() now have documentation +* (bug 19966) MediaWiki:License-header is now used for the licensing header in + the file description page instead of MediaWiki:License +* (bug 20380) Links to history/deleted edits at the top of + Special:RevisionDelete are no more displayed when when doing log suppression +* (bug 8143) Localised parser function names are now correctly case insensitive + if they contain non-ASCII characters +* (bug 19055) maintenance/rebuildrecentchanges.php now purges + Special:Recentchanges's RSS and Atom feed cache +* The installer will now try to bypass PHP's max_execution_time +* (bug 20260) SQLite no longer tries to automatically create the database at + execution time, this now happens only at install time; if it is not available + at script execution, it now throws an exception +* Fixed EditFilterMerged hook so the hookError parameter serves a purpose + (analogous to EditFilter hook) +* (bug 2257) Tag extensions can expand template parameters provided to the tag, + by using a new parameter added to the recursiveTagParse function +* (bug 14900) __INDEX__ and __NOINDEX__ no longer override site config set in + $wgArticleRobotPolicies. +* (bug 20466) Hidden categories are no more displayed when printing +* (bug 20446) When changing user rights with User@remotewiki and remotewiki is + the local wiki, the user is now treated as the local user +* (bug 20494) OutputPage::getArticleBodyOnly() no longer requires an useless + argument +* (bug 20136) Protection form JavaScript now synchronizes the expiry boxes on + any change, in addition to onkeyup. +* Don't link to "edit this page" on MediaWiki:Noarticletext if user is not + allowed to create page. Done via new message + MediaWiki:Noarticletext-nopermission +* Improved compatibility between the Vector skin and addPortletLink() from + wikibits.js: empty portlets are now present but hidden, adding an element to a + portlet unhides it +* (bug 19531) addPortletLink() now wraps inserted labels in a <span> element to + be compatible with the CSS for the Vector skin +* (bug 20578) Wrong localized image metadata - duplicated string? +* (bug 20556) Stub threshold's "other" <input> in Special:Preferences now has a + correct type="text" parameter +* (bug 482) Don't include TOC in the printable version if it has been hidden +* Adjust the time according to the user configuration on Special:Revisiondelete +* (bug 20624) Installation no longer allows "qqq" as the chosen language +* (bug 20634) The installer-created database user will now have all rights on + the database so that upgrades will go more smoothly. +* (bug 18180) Special:Export ignores limit, dir, offset parameters +* User::getBlockedStatus() works for all kinds of user objects and doesn't + assume the user object is equal to the current-user object ($wgUser) +* (bug 20517) Cancel link from edit page now returns to the old version when + editing an old version +* (bug 16902) Installer no longer shows warnings when exec() has been disabled + by disable_functions +* (bug 20726) Title::getLatestRevID's documentation now says that the function + returns false if the page doesn't exist +* (bug 20751) ForeignApiRepo now urldecodes filenames when saving to local cache +* (bug 20730) Fix to Special:Version ViewVC link for branch checkouts +* (bug 20353) wfShellExec() was adding extra quotes on Windows Vista, causing + command line scripts to fail +* (bug 20702) Parser functions can now be used correctly in + MediaWiki:Missing-article +* (bug 14117) "redirected from" is now also shown on foreign file redirects +* (bug 17747) Only display thumbnail column in file history if the image can + be rendered. +* (bug 3421) Live preview no longer breaks user CSS/JS previews +* (bug 11264) The file logo on a file description page for documents (PDF, ...) + now links to the file rather than the file description page +* Password fields built with HTMLForm now still have the type="password" + attribute if $wgHtml5=false. +* (bug 20836) Preload now works for MediaWiki namespace +* (bug 20885) Search box no longer suggests unavailable special pages +* (bug 20948) "Create this page" on Special:Search is no longer displayed when + searching for special pages +* (bug 20524) Hideuser: Show nice error when trying to block hidden user without + hideuser right +* (bug 21026) Fixed file redirects on shared repos on non-English client wikis +* (bug 21030) Fixed schema choices from being overwritten by defining unique + field names per driver. +* (bug 21115) wgCanonicalSpecialPageName javascript variable is now always + false on non-special pages +* (bug 21113) "Other statistics" header on Special:Statistics is no more + displayed when there isn't any entry in it +* (bug 21114) Special:Contributions no longer shows diff links for new + revisions +* (bug 21116) MediaWiki:Templatesused, MediaWiki:Templatesusedpreview and + MediaWiki:Templatesusedsection now support plural +* (bug 21079) There is no more line wrapping between label and field in + Special:Log +* (bug 20256) Fixed SQL errors on Special:Recentchanges and + Special:Recentchangeslinked on SQLite backend +* (bug 20880) Fixed updater failure on SQLite backend +* (bug 21182) Fixed invalid HTML in Special:Listgrouprights +* (bug 20242) Installer no longer promts for user credentials for SQLite + databases +* (bug 20911) Installer failed to create a SQLite database +* (bug 20847) Deprecated deprecated akeytt() removed in wikibits.js leaving + dummy +* (bug 21161) Changing $wgCacheEpoch now always invalidates file cache +* (bug 20268) Fixed row count estimation on SQLite backend +* (bug 20275) Fixed LIKE queries on SQLite backend +* (bug 21234) Moving subpages of titles containing \\ now works properly +* (bug 21006) maintenance/updateArticleCount.php now works again on PostgreSQL +* (bug 19319) Add activeusers-intro message at top of SpecialActiveUsers page +* (bug 21255) Fixed hostname construction for DNSBL checking +* (bug 18019) Users are now warned when moving a file to a name in use on a + shared repository and only users with the 'reupload-shared' permission can + complete the move. +* (bug 18909) Add missing Postgres INSERT SELECT wrapper +* User::isValidPassword now only returns boolean results, + User::getPasswordValidity can be used to get an error message string +* The error message shown in Special:ChangePassword now parses wiki markup +* (bug 19859) Removed experimental HTMLDiff feature +* Removed section edit links in edit conflict form +* Allow SpecialActiveusers to work on non-MySQL databases +* (bug 6579) Fixed protecting images from uploading only +* (bug 18609) Search index was empty for some pages +* (bug 13453) rebuildrecentchanges maintenance script works on PG again +* (bug 16583) Reduce false positives when checking for PHP (on upload, etc.) +* (bug 20112) Bitrotted tests in the t/ directory were failing. +* (bug 21470) MediaWiki:Sp-contributions-explain is now wrapped in a <p> with + id "mw-sp-contributions-explain" +* (bug 19159) Fixed \overleftrightarrow in texvc +* (bug 19391) Fix caching for Recent ChangesFeed. +* (bug 21455) Fixed "Watch this page" checkbox appearing on some special pages + even to non-logged in users +* (bug 21551) Rewrote the Squid purge HTTP client to provide a more robust and + general implementation of HTTP, allowing it to purge non-Squid caches such as + Varnish. +* Fixed corruption of long UDP debug log messages by using socket_sendto() + instead of fsockopen() with fwrite(). +* (bug 16884) Fixed feed links in sidebar not complying with URL parameters + of the displayed page +* (bug 21403) memcached class renamed to MWMemecached to avoid conflict with + PHP's memcached extension +* (bug 21650) Both calls to SkinTemplateTabs hook are now compatible +* (bug 21672) Add missing Accept-Language to both Vary and XVO headers +* (bug 21679) "Edit block reasons" link at the bottom of Special:Blockip is now + only displayed to the users that have "editinterface" right +* (bug 21740) Attempting to protect a page that doesn't exist (salting) returns + "unknown error" +* (bug 18762) both redirects and links get fixed one after another if + redirects-only switch is not present +* (bug 20159) thumbnails rerendered if older that $wgThumbnailEpoch +* Fixed a bug which in some situations causes the job queue to grow forever, + due to an infinite loop of job requeues. +* (bug 21523) File that can have multiple pages (djvu, pdf, ...) no longer have + the page selector when they have only one page +* (bug 21559) "logempty" message is now wrapped in a div with class + "mw-warning-logempty" when used in log extract +* (bug 20549) Parser tests were broken on SQLite backend +* (bug 21776) Interwiki urls like http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/cs: should give + a redirect instead of a baderror. +* (bug 21803) Special:MyContributions now keeps the query string parameters +* Redirecting special pages now keep query string paramters set to "0" (e.g. + for namespace) +* (bug 20765) Special:ListGroupRights no longer misses addables and removables + groups if there are duplicate entries +* (bug 21814) Message shown when rolling back an edit with a deleted username + now shows '(username deleted)' instead of broken user tool links +* (bug 21536) Fixed JavaScript error on Special:Search caused by an incorrect ID +* (bug 21535) RecentChanges RSS feed now always recognises the namespace filter, + previously it sometimes didn't due to caching. +* (bug 20388) ProfilerSimpleText no longer outputs comment on action=raw +* refreshLinks.php now purges orphaned redirect table rows +* (bug 2971) Swap links of hist & diff location on Special:Contributions for + consistency with RC/WL +* (bug 21986) Special page names were are now capitalized by content language +* If two log type have the same description, they're now both displayed in the + type selector on Special:Log +* (bug 20115) Special:Userlogin title says "Log in / create account" even if the + user can't create an account +* (bug 2658) Don't attempt to set the TZ environment variable. +* (bug 9794) User rights log entries for foreign user now links to the foreign + user's page if possible +* (bug 14717) Don't load nonexistent CSS fix files for non-Monobook skins +* (bug 22034) Use wfClientAcceptsGzip() in wfGzipHandler instead of + reimplementing it. +* (bug 19226) First line renders differently on many UI messages. +* (bug 21303) Comments are no longer stripped from MediaWiki:Common.js and + skin-specific JS pages +* (bug 5061) Use the more precise thumbcaption thumbimage and thumbinner classes + for image divs. +* (bug 22096) IE50Fixes.css and IE55Fixes.css have been dropped from the Monobook + and Chick skins +* Fixed bug involving unclosed "-{" markup in the language converter +* (bug 21870) No longer include Google logo from an external server on wiki error. +* (bug 22181) Do not truncate if the ellipsis actually make the string longer +* (bug 16039) Text disappearing after a bad image +* (bug 18784) Internal links like [[File:Foo|caption]] should read 'caption', + not 'File:Foo' when Foo is not an image +* (bug 21518) Special:UserRights no longer displays the user name box for users + that can only change their rights +* (bug 21593) Special:UserRights now lists automatic groups membership +* (bug 22364) Setting $wgUseExternalEditor to false no longer hides the reupload + link from file pages +* Fix bug introduced in MediaWiki 1.12: The author field in + $wgExtensionCredits is no longer sorted with sort() but rather used + as it appears in extensions as was the case before r30117 where it + was unintentionally sorted along with other fields. +* (bug 19334) Textarea no longer jumps when editing longer articles in IE8 +* Truncate summary of page moves in revision comment field to avoid broken + multibyte characters +* (bug 22540) ForeignApiRepos no longer try to store thumbnails that don't exist +* (bug 22551) Special:Resetpass now has a "Cancel" button that sends the user to + the page set in the &returnto parameter. +* (bug 19194) Search box in Modern skin doesn't focus with Safari/Chrome +* (bug 17790) Users instantly logged off on HughesNet +* (bug 21549) Make foreign key constraints DEFERRABLE INITIALLY DEFERRED + when using Postgres as the database backend. + +== API changes in 1.16 == + +* Added uiprop=changeablegroups to meta=userinfo +* Added usprop=gender to list=users +* (bug 18311) action=purge now works for images too +* Add parentid to prop=revisions output +* (bug 17832) action=delete returns 'unknownerror' instead of 'permissiondenied' + when the user is blocked +* (bug 18546) Added timestamp of new revision to action=edit output +* (bug 18554) Also list hidden revisions in list=usercontribs for privileged + users +* (bug 13049) "API must be accessed from the primary script entry point" error +* (bug 16422) Don't display help for format=jsonfm unless specifically requested +* Added PHP and database version to meta=siteinfo output +* (bug 18533) Add readonly message to meta=siteinfo output +* (bug 18518) Add clprop=hidden to prop=categories +* (bug 18710) Fixed internal error with empty parameter in action=paraminfo +* (bug 18709) Missing descriptions for some parameters in action=paraminfo + output +* (bug 18731) Show correct SVN links for extension modules in api.php?version +* (bug 18730) Add version information to action=paraminfo output +* (bug 18743) Add ucprop=size to list=usercontribs +* (bug 18749) Add generator flag to action=paraminfo output +* Make action=block respect $wgEnableUserEmail and $wgSysopEmailBans +* Made deleting file description pages without files possible +* (bug 18773) Add content flag to siprop=namespaces output +* (bug 18785) Add siprop=languages to meta=siteinfo +* (bug 14200) Added user and excludeuser parameters to list=watchlist and + list=recentchanges +* Added index, fromtitle and byteoffset fields to action=parse&prop=sections + output +* (bug 19313) action=rollback returns wrong revid on master/slave setups +* (bug 19323) action=parse doesn't return section tree on pages with Cite + warnings +* (bug 18720) Add anchor field to action=parse&prop=sections output +* (bug 19423) The initial file description page used caption in user lang + rather than UI lang +* (bug 17809) Add number of users in user groups to meta=siteinfo +* (bug 18533) Add readonly reason to readonly exception +* (bug 19528) Added XSLT parameter to API queries in format=xml +* (bug 19040) Fix prependtext and appendtext in combination with section + parameter in action=edit +* (bug 19090) Added watchlist parameter, deprecated watch and unwatch + parameter in action=edit +* Added fields to list=search output: size, wordcount, timestamp, snippet +* Where supported by backend, list=search adds a 'searchinfo' element with + optional info: 'totalhits' count and 'suggestion' alternate query term +* (bug 19907) $wgCrossSiteAJAXdomains added to allow specified (or all) + external domains to access api.php via AJAX, if the browser supports the + Access-Control-Allow-Origin HTTP header +* (bug 19999) Made metadata and properties of search results optional. Added + srprop and srinfo. +* (bug 20700) Add amprop=default to meta=allmessages to list default value for + customized messages +* Don't parse magic words in meta=allmessages, output messages unparsed +* (bug 21105) list=usercontribs can now list contribs for User:0 +* (bug 21085) list=deletedrevs no longer returns only one revision when + drcontinue param is passed +* (bug 21106) Deprecated parameters now tagged in action=paraminfo +* (bug 19004) Added support for tags +* (bug 21083) list=allusers no longer returns current timestamp for users + without registration date +* (bug 20967) action=edit allows creation of invalid titles +* (bug 19523) Add inprop=watched to prop=info +* (bug 21589) API: Separate summary and initial page text for uploads +* (bug 21817) list=usercontribs returns empty result for empty ucuser +* (bug 21441) meta=userinfo&uiprop=options no longer returns default options + for logged-in users under certain circumstances +* (bug 21945) Add chomp control in YAML +* Expand the thumburl to an absolute url to make it consistent with url and + descriptionurl +* (bug 20233) ApiLogin::execute() doesn't handle LoginForm :: RESET_PASS +* (bug 22061) API: add prop=headitems to action=parse +* (bug 22240) API: include time in siteinfo +* (bug 22241) Quick edit is still using the deprecated watch parameter (API: Setting default for watch/unwatch wrongly set) +* (bug 22245) blfilterredirect=nonredirects in blredirect mode wrongly filtering +* (bug 22248) Output extension URLs in meta=siteinfo&siprop=extensions +* Support key-params arrays in 'descriptionmsg' in meta=siteinfo&siprop=extensions +* (bug 21922) YAML output should quote asterisk when used as key +* (bug 22297) safesubst: to allow substitution without breaking transclusion +* (bug 18758) API read of watchlist's wl_notificationtimestamp +* (bug 20809) Expose EditFormPreloadText via the API +* (bug 18427) Comment (edit summary) parser option for API +* (bug 18608) API should provide list of CSS styles to apply to rendered output +* (bug 18771) List possible errors in action=paraminfo + +=== Languages updated in 1.16 === -* Fixed fatal errors for unusual file repository configurations, such as - ForeignAPIRepo. -* Fixed the "change password" link on Special:Preferences to have the correct - returnto parameter. -* (bug 19693) Fixed cross-site scripting vulnerability in Special:Block +MediaWiki supports over 300 languages. Many localisations are updated +regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as +changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports. + +* Capiznon (cps) (new) +* North Frisian (frr) (new) +* Kirmanjki (kiu) (new) +* Komi-Permyak (koi) (new) +* Karachay-Balkar (krc) (new) +* Hill Mari (mrj) (new) +* Prussian (prg) (new) +* Romagnol (rgn) (new) +* Lower Silesian (sli) (new) +* Picard (pcd) (new) +* Uyghur (Arabic script) (ug-arab) (new) +* Upper Franconian (vmf) (new) +* Votic (vot) (new) +* Eastern Yiddish (ydd) (removed) +* Iriga Bicolano (bto) (removed) +* Ladin (lld) (removed) +* Laz (lzz) (removed) +* Palembang (plm) (removed) +* Megleno-Romanian (Greek script) (ruq-grek) (removed) +* Tamazight (tzm) (removed) +* Laz (lzz) (new) -=== Changes since 1.15.0rc1 === +* (bug 18474) Sorani (ckb - Central Kurdish) (renamed from ku-arab) +* Add PLURAL function for Scots Gaelic (gd) +* Add Estonian letters äöõšüž to linktrail (et) +* (bug 18776) Native name of Burmese language (my) +* (bug 18806) Use correct unicode characters in spelling of native Chuvash + (Чӑвашла) +* (bug 18864) Updated autonym for Zhuang language +* (bug 18308) Updated date formatting in Occitan (oc) +* (bug 19080) Added ăâîşţșțĂÂÎŞŢȘȚ to Romanion (ro) linktrail +* (bug 19286) Correct commafying function in Polish (pl) +* (bug 19441) Updated date formatting for Lithuanian +* (bug 19630) Added ÄäÇçĞğŇňÖöŞşÜüÝýŽž to Turkmen (tk) linktrail +* (bug 19949) New linktrail for Greek (el) +* (bug 19809) Korean (North Korea) (ko-kp) (new) +* (bug 19968) Fixed "Project talk" namespace name for Maltese (mt) +* (bug 21168) Added áâãàéêçíóôõúü to Portuguese (pt) linktrail +* (bug 21596) Change interwiki link for Kurdish (ku) +* (bug 23767) PHP warning/error when REQUEST_URI returns blank (IIS issue). -* Removed category redirect feature, implementation was incomplete. -* (bug 18846) Remove update_password_format(), unnecessary, destroys all - passwords if a wiki with $wgPasswordSalt=false is upgraded with the web - installer. -* (bug 19127) Documentation warning for PostgreSQL users who run update.php: - use the same user in AdminSettings.php as in LocalSettings.php. -* Fixed possible web invocation of some maintenance scripts, due to the use of - include() instead of require(). A full exploit would require a very strange - web server configuration. -* Localisation updates. +== MediaWiki 1.15 == === Configuration changes in 1.15 === @@ -380,7 +1346,7 @@ Change notes from older releases. For current info see RELEASE-NOTES. MediaWiki supports over 300 languages. Many localisations are updated regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as -changes to languages because of MediaZilla reports. +changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports. * Austrian German (de-at) (new) * Swiss Standard German (de-ch) (new) -- cgit v1.2.2