disabled.
=== New features in 1.21 ===
-* (bug 38110) Schema changes (adding or dropping tables, indicies and
+* (bug 38110) Schema changes (adding or dropping tables, indices and
fields) can be now be done separately from from other changes that
update.php makes. This is useful in environments that use database
permissions to restrict schema changes but allow the DB user that
MediaWiki normally runs as to perform other changes that update.php
- makes. Schema changes can be run seperately. See the file UPGRADE
+ makes. Schema changes can be run separately. See the file UPGRADE
for more information.
* (bug 34876) jquery.makeCollapsible has been improved in performance.
* Added ContentHandler facility to allow extensions to support other content
in MW 1.20 (saving preferences using Special:Preferences cleared any
additional fields) and which has been disabled in 1.20.1 as a part of
a security fix (bug 42202).
+* Added option to specify "others" as author in extension credits using
+ "..." as author name.
* Added the ability to limit the wall clock time used by shell processes,
as well as the CPU time. Configurable with $wgMaxShellWallClockTime.
* Allow memory of shell subprocesses to be limited using Linux cgroups
* (bug 5346) Categories that are redirects will be displayed italic in
the category links section at the bottom of a page.
* (bug 43915) New maintenance script deleteEqualMessages.php.
-* New collation uppercase-sv, which is like uppercase, but adapted
- to Swedish sort order.
+* You can now create checkbox option matrices through the HTMLCheckMatrix
+ subclass in HTMLForm.
* WikiText now permits the use of WAI-ARIA's role="presentation" inside of
html elements and tables. This allows presentational markup, especially
tables. To be marked up as such.
on some external cluster instead of the primary cluster for a given wiki.
* (bug 20281) test the parsing of inline URLs.
* Added Special:PagesWithProp, which lists pages using a particular page property.
+* Implemented language-specific collations for category sorting for 67 languages
+ based in latin, greek and cyrillic alphabets. This allows one to *finally* get
+ articles to be correctly sorted on category pages. They are named
+ 'uca-<langcode>', where <langcode> is one of: af, ast, az, be, bg, br, bs, ca,
+ co, cs, cy, da, de, dsb, el, en, eo, es, et, eu, fi, fo, fr, fur, fy, ga, gd,
+ gl, hr, hsb, hu, is, it, kk, kl, ku, ky, la, lb, lt, lv, mk, mo, mt, nl, no,
+ oc, pl, pt, rm, ro, ru, rup, sco, sk, sl, smn, sq, sr, sv, tk, tl, tr, tt, uk,
+ uz, vi.
+* Added 'CategoryAfterPageAdded' and 'CategoryAfterPageRemoved' hooks.
+* (bug 33186) Add image rotation api "imagerotate"
=== Bug fixes in 1.21 ===
* (bug 40353) SpecialDoubleRedirect should support interwiki redirects.
"password mismatch" error.
* (bug 44599) On Special:Version, HEADs for submodule checkouts (e.g. for
extensions) performed using Git 1.7.8+ should now appear.
+* (bug 42184) $wgUploadSizeWarning missing second variable
+* (bug 40326) Check if files exist with a different extension during uploading
+* (bug 34798) Updated CSS for Atom/RSS recent changes feeds to match on-wiki diffs.
=== API changes in 1.21 ===
* prop=revisions can now report the contentmodel and contentformat.
* (bug 43849) ApiQueryImageInfo no longer throws exceptions with ForeignDBRepo
redirects.
* On error, any warnings generated before that error will be shown in the result.
-* action=help suports generalized submodules (modules=query+value), querymodules obsolete
+* action=help supports generalized submodules (modules=query+value), querymodules obsolete
* ApiQueryImageInfo continuation is more reliable. The only major change is
that the imagerepository property will no longer be set on page objects not
processed in the current query (i.e. non-images or those skipped due to
* ApiQueryImageInfo will now limit the number of calls to File::transform made
in any one query. If there are too many, iicontinue will be returned.
* action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=general will now return the regexes used for
- link trails and link prefices. Added for Parsoid support.
+ link trails and link prefixes. Added for Parsoid support.
* Added an API query module list=pageswithprop, which lists pages using a
particular page property.
* Added an API query module list=pagepropnames, which lists all page prop names
currently in use on the wiki.
+* (bug 44921) ApiMain::execute() will now return after the CORS check for an
+ HTTP OPTIONS request.
+* (bug 44923) action=upload works correctly if the entire file is uploaded in
+ the first chunk.
+* Added 'continue=' parameter to streamline client iteration over complex query results
+* (bug 44909) API parameters may now be marked as type "upload", which is now
+ used for action=upload's 'file' and 'chunk' parameters. This type will raise
+ an error during parameter validation if the parameter is given but not
+ recognized as an uploaded file.
+* (bug 44244) prop=info may now return the number of people watching each page.
+* (bug 33304) list=allpages will no longer return duplicate entries when
+ querying protection.
+* (bug 33304) list=allpages will now find really old indefinite protections.
=== API internal changes in 1.21 ===
* For debugging only, a new global $wgDebugAPI removes many API restrictions when true.
* ApiQueryGeneratorBase::setGeneratorMode() now requires a pageset param.
* $wgAPIGeneratorModules is now obsolete and will be ignored.
* Added flags ApiResult::OVERRIDE and ADD_ON_TOP to setElement() and addValue()
+* Internal API calls will now include <warnings> in case of unused parameters
=== Languages updated in 1.21 ===
were using it, you have to either copy it to your extension, or install the
Vector extension (and possibly disable its features using config settings if
you don't want them).
+* Experimental IBM DB2 support was removed due to lack of interest and maintainership
+* BREAKING CHANGE: Filenames of maintenance scripts were standardized into
+ lowerCamelCase format, and made more explicit:
+ - clear_stats.php -> clearCacheStats.php
+ - clear_interwiki_cache.php -> clearInterwikiCache.php
+ - initStats.php -> initSiteStats.php
+ - proxy_check.php -> proxyCheck.php
+ - stats.php -> showCacheStats.php
+ - showStats.php -> showSiteStats.php.
+ Class names were renamed accordingly:
+ - clear_stats -> ClearCacheStats
+ - InitStats -> InitSiteStats
+ - CacheStats -> ShowCacheStats
+ - ShowStats -> ShowSiteStats.
+* BREAKING CHANGE: (bug 38244) Removed the mediawiki.api.titleblacklist module
+ and moved it to the TitleBlacklist extension.
== Compatibility ==
MediaWiki 1.21 requires PHP 5.3.2 or later.
MySQL is the recommended DBMS. PostgreSQL or SQLite can also be used, but
-support for them is somewhat less mature. There is experimental support for IBM
-DB2 and Oracle.
+support for them is somewhat less mature. There is experimental support for
+Oracle.
The supported versions are: