Change notes from older releases. For current info see RELEASE-NOTES. = MediaWiki release notes = Security reminder: MediaWiki does not require PHP's register_globals setting since version 1.2.0. If you have it on, turn it *off* if you can. == Changes since 1.7 == * Introduced AjaxResponse object, superceding AjaxCachePolicy * Changes to sajax_do_call: optionally accept an element to fill instead of a callback function; take the target function or element as a third parameter; pass the full XMLHttpRequest object to the handler function, instead of just the resultText value; use HTTP response codes to report errors. * (bug 6562) Removed unmaintained ParserXml.php for now * History paging overlap bug fixed * (bug 6586) Regression in "unblocked" subtitle * Don't put empty-page message into view-source when page text is blank * (bug 6587) Remove redundant "allnonarticles" message * Block improvements: Allow blocks on anonymous users only. Optionally allow or disallow account creation from blocked IP addresses. Prevent duplicate blocks. Fixed the problem of expiry and unblocking erroneously affecting multiple blocks. Fixed confusing lack of error message when a blocked user attempts to create an account. Fixed inefficiency of Special:Ipblocklist in the presence of large numbers of blocks; added indexes and implemented an indexed pager. * (bug 6448) Allow filtering of Special:Newpages according to username * (bug 6618) Improve permissions/error detection in Special:Lockdb * Quick hack for extension testing: parser test doesn't create new message cache object. * (bug 6299) Maintain parser's revision ID across recursive calls to fix {{REVISIONID}} when Cite extension is used * (bug 6622) Removed deprecated function Image::newFromTitle * (bug 6627) Fix regression in Special:Ipblocklist with table prefix * Removed forced dereferencements (new() returns a reference in PHP5) * Note about $wgUploadSizeWarning using byte * (bug 6592) Add most viewed pages summary to Special:Statistics * Pre-strip characters ignored in IDNs from URLs so they can't be used to break the blacklists for regular URLs * Fix regression in blocking of user accounts * (bug 6635) Fix regression searching for range blocks on Ipblocklist * Fix regression searching Ipblocklist with ugly URLs * (bug 6639) Use a consistent default for upload directories * Preserve entered reason when reporting unconfirmed lock on Special:Lockdb * (bug 6642) Don't offer to unlock the database when it isn't locked * cleanupTitles.php changed from --dry-run option to --fix, so default behavior is now a non-invasive check as with namespaceDupes.php * (bug 6660) Fix behaviour of EditPage::blockedPage() when the article does not exist; now doesn't show the source box if the user hasn't provided it (blocked mid-edit) and the page doesn't exist * Improve default value of "blockedtext" * (bug 6680) Added localisation for Dutch bookstore list (nl) * Renamed maintainace script redundanttrans.php to unusedMessages.php - clearer usage * Fix regression which allowed some blocked users to create additional accounts * (bug 6657) Fix Hungarian linktrail * (bug 6751) Fix preview of blanked section with edit on first preview option * (bug 5456) Separate MediaWiki:Search into messages for both noun and verb, introduced 'MediaWiki:Searchbutton' * Made lines from initialiseMessages() appear as list items during installation * Moved the bulk of the localisation data from the Language*.php files to the Messages*.php files. Deleted most of the Languages*.php files. * Introduced "stub global" framework to provide deferred initialisation of core modules. * Removed placeholder values for $wgTitle and $wgArticle, these variables will now be null during the initialisation process, until they are set by index.php or another entry point. * Added DBA cache type, for BDB-style caches. * Removed custom date format functions, replacing them with a format string in the style of PHP's date(). Used string identifiers instead of integer identifiers, in both the language files and user preferences. Migration should be transparent in most cases. * Simplified the initialisation API for LoadBalancer objects. * Removed the broken altencoding feature. * Moved default user options and toggles from Language to User. Language objects are still able to define default preference overrides and extra user toggles, via a slightly different interface. * Don't include the date option in the parser cache rendering hash unless $wgUseDynamicDates is enabled. * Merged LanguageUtf8 with Language. Removed LanguageUtf8.php. * Removed inclusion of language files from the bottom of Language.php. This is now consistently done from Language::factory(). * Add the name of the executing maintenance script to the debug log. Start the profiler during maintenance scripts. * Added "serialized" directory, for storing precompiled data in serialized form. * Fix regression in auto-set NS_PROJECT_TALK namespace * Fix regression in ordering of namespaces * (bug 6806, 6030) Added several global JS variables for article path, user name, page title, etc. * hooks registered with addOnloadHook are now called at the one of the html body by all skins. * Split ajax aided search from core ajax framework. Use wgUseAjax to enable the framework and wgAjaxSearch to enable the suggest feature for the search box. * Added experimental installer for extensions. See maintenance/installExtension.php * Added Tajic (tg) language file. * (bug 6903) Added Cantonese localisation (zh-yue) * Fix regression in Korean and Japanese date formatting (day of week) * (bug 6919) Add English alias magic words for Tatar (tt) language file. * (bug 6753) Fixed broken Kazakh linktrail (kk) * (bug 6700) Added Kazakh language variants to Names.php * (bug 6827) some i18n specific maintenance scripts fails after merge of localisation-work branch * Throwed an exception for the deprecated functions OutputPage::sysopRequired and OutputPage::developerRequired - use OutputPage::permissionRequired instead. * Removed the deprecated functions User::isSysop, User::isBureaucrat and User::isDeveloper - use User::isAllowed instead. * (bug 769) OutputPage::permissionRequired() should suggest groups with the needed permission * (bug 6971) Fix regression in Special:Export history view * Revamped Special:Imagelist * (bug 7000) updated MessagesPl.php * (bug 6946) Fix unexpected behavior change with GET hits to Special:Export * (bug 1866) Improve navigation on Special:Listusers; user now a starting point as with Special:Allpages, rather than a pure limit. * Clean up tab order on Special:Blockip * (bug 5969) Clean up tab order on Special:Userlogin forms * (bug 3512) namespaceDupes now handles spaces and initial caps properly * (bug 7037) Fix regression in login tab order * (bug 7031) Report missing email on 'email password' instead of false success * (bug 7010) Don't send email notifications for watched talk pages when user has selected to receive only updates for their own talk page * Added {{CURRENTHOUR}} * Added [[:Image:Foo.png]] style links to the pagelinks table * Avoid duplicate revision imports with Special:Import * (bug 7054) Validate email address before sending email confirmation message * (bug 7061) Format title on "from (page)" links on Special:Allpages * (bug 7044) Introduce "padleft" and "padright" colon functions * Pass page title as parameters to "linkshere" and "nolinkshere" and update default message text * Allows to upload from publicy accessible URL. Set $wgAllowCopyUploads = true ; in LocalSettings.php Limited to $wgMaxUploadSize (default:100MB); URL upload is limited to sysops by default, and displayed as a second line if appropriate * (bug 832) Return to user page after emailing a user * (bug 366) Add local-system-timezone equivalents for date/time variables * (bug 7109) Fix Atom feed version number in header links * (bug 7075) List registered parser function hooks on Special:Version * (bug 7059) Introduce "anchorencode" colon function * Include SVN revision number in {{CURRENTVERSION}} output, where applicable * Fix bug in wfRunHooks which caused corruption of objects in the hook list * (bug 4979) Use simplified email addresses when running on Windows * (bug 4434) Show block log fragment on Special:Blockip * [[MediaWiki:Disambiguationspage]] may optionally contain wiki links to any number of disambiguation templates. * [[Special:Disambiguations]] now shows pages in NS:0 that link to any pages that embed any of the templates listed at [[MediaWiki:Disambiguationspage]]. * Fix formatting of titles on Special:Undelete * (bug 7026) Fix action=raw&templates=expand * (bug 6976) Add namespace and direction classes to classic skins * (bug 7144) Don't "return to main" from OutputPage::loginToUse() if the the user can't read the main page in the first place * (bug 7188) Fix minor borkage in HTMLForm * (bug 6675) Replaced message 'watchthis' with new message 'watchthisupload in Special:Upload * Add a quickie script dumpSisterSites.php for generating a page list in the format for WSR-1 SisterSites support * (bug 7223) Monobook.js is used for site content, should not be localized * Set default disabled values for DjVu render options * Added Xml::option() for generating