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.
=== New features in 1.19 ===
* (bug 19838) Possibility to get all interwiki prefixes if the interwiki
* 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.
-* (experimental) $wgRealNameInInterface can be enabled to display a user's
- real name in some parts of the interface instead of a username.
* (bug 30062) Add $wgDBprefix option to cli installer.
* getUserPermissionsErrors and getUserPermissionsErrorsExpensive hooks are now
also called when checking for 'read' permission.
* Added new debugging toolbar, enabled with $wgDebugToolbar
* Differences in the history page now uses slightly better colors for people
perceiving colors differently. Colors comes from the French Wikipedia.
+* (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) Include 'associated namespace' checkbox on 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 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.
-* (bug 25355) Parser generates edit section links for special pages.
* (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
due to DST.
* (bug 31692) "summary" parameter now also work when undoing revisions.
* (bug 18823) "move succeeded" text displayed bluelinks even when redirect was
- suppressed.
-* (bug 31921) Magic words REVISIONDAY, REVISIONMONTH and REVISIONYEAR now give
- current values on preview.
+ 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 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 32450) Scripts pages in MediaWiki: namespace parse [[Category:#]] links.
* (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 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 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
+ 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
+ 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
+ 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 <head> 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 30485 and bug 33434) Style rules for wikitable are now more specific and
+ prevent inheritance to nested tables which caused various issues.
+* (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 <abbr> 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
=== API changes in 1.19 ===
+* Made action=edit less likely to return "unknownerror", by returning the actual error
+ message (which may have come from a hook call or similar)
* (bug 19838) siprop=interwikimap can now use the interwiki cache.
* (bug 29748) Add API search prefix support.
* (bug 29684) Set forgotten parameter types in ApiQueryIWLinks.
to Captcha extension(s).
* Added 'APIGetDescription' hook.
* (bug 32688) Paraminfo for parameter "generator" of the query module shows too
- many types
+ many types.
+* (bug 32415) Empty page get no size attribute in API output.
+* (bug 31759) Undefined property notice in querypages API.
+* (bug 32495) API should allow purge by pageids.
+* (bug 33147) API examples should explain what they do.
+* (bug 33482) Api incorrectly calls ApiBase::parseMultiValue if allowed
+ values is given as an array.
+* (bug 32948) {{REVISIONID}} and related variables are no longer blank after
+ calling action=purge&forcelinkupdate.
=== Languages updated in 1.19 ===
changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
* Canadian English (en-ca) (new).
+* Norwegian (bokmål) (nb) (renamed from no).
* Uighur (Latin) (ug-latn) was incorrectly marked as right-to-left language.
* (bug 30217) Make pt-br a fallback of pt.
* (bug 31193) Set fallback language of Assamese from Bengali to English.
* (bug 28643) Serbian variant conversion improvements (Nikola Smolenski).
* (bug 29405, bug 30809) Lower diacritics are invisible in titles in Indic
languages Assamese, Bengali, Hindi, Malyalam and Odiya.
+* (bug 32826) Titles in indic languages are partially cut.
+* (bug 33367) Gendered namespaces for Czech.
+* (bug 33014) Language::formatSize()/formatBitrate() should be able to deal
+ with larger numbers (tera-yotta).
=== Other changes in 1.19 ===
+* BREAKING CHANGE: Legacy global array 'ta' and global function 'akeytt' have
+ been removed from wikibits.js
* jquery.mwPrototypes module was renamed to jquery.mwExtension.
* The maintenance script populateSha1.php was renamed to the more concise
- populateImageSha1.php
+ populateImageSha1.php.
* The Client-IP header is no longer checked for when trying to resolve a client's
real IP address.
* (bug 22096) Although IE5.x and below was already unsupported officially, stylesheets
'chick' and 'monobook').
* The constructor for CategoryView has changed, the second parameter is now a
Context source and is required.
+* The Title::escape{Local,Full,Canonical}URL methods are deprecated, please use
+ proper html building methods to escape the normal get{...}URL methods instead.
+* The $variant arguments in the Title::get{Local,Full,Link,Canonical}URL methods
+ have been replaced with a secondary query argument.
+* The $variant argument in the hooks for the Title::get{Local,Full,Link,Canonical}URL
+ methods have been removed, the variant is now part of the $query argument.
+* Removed Title::isValidCssJsSubpage(), deprecated since 1.17 in favor of
+ using Title::isCssJsSubpage() or checking Title::isWrongCaseCssJsPage().
+* Support for the deprecated hook MagicWordMagicWords was removed.
+* The Xml::namespaceSelector method has been deprecated, please use
+ Html::namespaceSelector instead (note that the parameters have changed also).
+* (bug 33746) Preload popular ResourceLoader modules (mediawiki.util) as stop-gap
+ for scripts missing dependencies.
+ New configuration variable $wgPreloadJavaScriptMwUtil has been introduced for this
+ (set to false by default for new installations). Set to true if your wiki has a large
+ amount of user/site scripts that are lacking dependency information. In the short to
+ medium term these user/site scripts should be fixed by adding the used modules to the
+ dependencies in the module registry and/or wrapping them in a callback to mw.loader.using.
== Compatibility ==
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 Microsoft SQL Server.
+DB2 and Oracle.
The supported versions are:
* MySQL 5.0.2 or later
* PostgreSQL 8.3 or later
-* SQLite 3
+* SQLite 3.3.7 or later
* Oracle 9.0.1 or later
== Upgrading ==
1.19 has several database changes since 1.18, and will not work without schema
updates.
+As of 1.19 several JavaScript interfaces that were deprecated or superseeded in
+MediaWiki 1.17, MediaWiki 1.16 or even earlier have been removed. They are
+listed at the top of the "Other changes" list as a "BREAKING CHANGE".
+
If upgrading from before 1.11, and you are using a wiki as a commons
repository, make sure that it is updated as well. Otherwise, errors may arise
due to database schema changes.
MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation License (except
for pages that explicitly state that their contents are in the public domain):
- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation
+ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation
== Mailing list ==
A mailing list is available for MediaWiki user support and discussion:
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
+ https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
A low-traffic announcements-only list is also available:
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
+ https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
It's highly recommended that you sign up for one of these lists if you're
going to run a public MediaWiki, so you can be notified of security fixes.