MediaWiki 1.20 is an alpha-quality branch and is not recommended for use in
production.
+=== PHP 5.3 now required ==
+Since 1.20, the lowest supported version of MediaWiki is now 5.3.2. Please
+upgrade PHP if you have not done so prior to upgrading MediaWiki.
+
=== Configuration changes in 1.20 ===
* `$wgUsePathInfo = true;` is no longer needed to make $wgArticlePath work on servers
using like nginx, lighttpd, and apache over fastcgi. MediaWiki now always extracts
$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.
+* (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.
=== Bug fixes in 1.20 ===
* (bug 30245) Use the correct way to construct a log page title.
* (bug 31236) "Next" and "Previous" buttons are shown incorrectly in
an RTL environment.
* (bug 35680) jQuery upgraded to 1.7.2.
-* (bug 35681) jQuery UI upgraded to 1.8.18.
+* jQuery UI upgraded to 1.8.19.
* (bug 35705) QUnit upgraded from 1.2.0 to 1.5.0
* (bug 35749) Updated maintenance/checkSyntax.php to use Git instead of
Subversion when invoked with the --modified option.
* (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.
=== API changes in 1.20 ===
* (bug 34316) Add ability to retrieve maximum upload size from MediaWiki API.
* (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
=== Languages updated in 1.20 ===
== Compatibility ==
-MediaWiki 1.20 requires PHP 5.2.3. PHP 4 is no longer supported.
+MediaWiki 1.20 requires PHP 5.3.2. PHP 4 is no longer supported.
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