From d691c00da3cafcd0926c441edc172631c5a3bfcb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Siebrand Mazeland Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 09:43:19 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] RELEASE-NOTES TLC: * break lines at or before 80 characters. * punctuation for every entry. * all caps for API and SVG. * move an entry to language updates. --- RELEASE-NOTES | 381 +++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------- 1 file changed, 192 insertions(+), 189 deletions(-) diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES index 2a032cb163..a06fcba7bd 100644 --- a/RELEASE-NOTES +++ b/RELEASE-NOTES @@ -24,10 +24,10 @@ PHP if you have not done so prior to upgrading MediaWiki. === Configuration changes in 1.18 === * The WantedPages::getSQL hook has been removed and replaced with - WantedPages::getQueryInfo . This may break older extensions. + WantedPages::getQueryInfo. This may break older extensions. * $wgUseCombinedLoginLink controls whether to output a combined login / create account link in the personal bar, or to output separate login - and create account links + and create account links. * Skin names are no longer created based on a ucfirst version of the key in $wgValidSkinNames but now the value. This means for $wgValidSkinNames["monobook"] = "MonoBook"; the skin loader will no longer try @@ -40,41 +40,44 @@ PHP if you have not done so prior to upgrading MediaWiki. by the page, but $wgAllowUserJs is set to false. * Pure "Skin" class based custom skins are no longer supported, all custom skins should be put together using SkinTemplate and BaseTemplate or QuickTemplate. -* The transliteration for passwords in case they were migrated from an old Latin-1 - install (previous to MediaWiki 1.5) is now only done for wikis with +* The transliteration for passwords in case they were migrated from an old + Latin-1 install (previous to MediaWiki 1.5) is now only done for wikis with $wgLegacyEncoding set. -* (bug 27508) Add $wgSVGMetadataCutoff to limit the maximum amount of an svg we +* (bug 27508) Add $wgSVGMetadataCutoff to limit the maximum amount of an SVG we look at when finding metadata to prevent excessive resource usage. * $wgSysopUserBans and $wgSysopRangeBans (deprecated in 1.17) are now removed. - Use $wgBlockCIDRLimit = array( 'IPv4' => 43, 'IPv6' => 128 ) to achieve the same - functionality as $wgSysopRangeBans; you can use the BlockIp hook to replicate - $wgSysopUserBans functionality. + Use $wgBlockCIDRLimit = array( 'IPv4' => 43, 'IPv6' => 128 ) to achieve the + same functionality as $wgSysopRangeBans; you can use the BlockIp hook to + replicate $wgSysopUserBans functionality. * The options on the block form have been standardised such that checking a box - makes the block 'more serious'; so while "check to prevent account creation" and - "check to enable autoblock" remain the same, "check to allow user-talk edit" is - reversed to "check to *disable* user-talk edit", and "check to block anon-only" - becomes "check to block logged-in users too". The default settings remain the same. -* Most of the field names on the Special:Block form have been changed, which will - probably break screen-scraping bots. + makes the block 'more serious'; so while "check to prevent account creation" + and "check to enable autoblock" remain the same, "check to allow user-talk + edit" is reversed to "check to *disable* user-talk edit", and "check to block + anon-only" becomes "check to block logged-in users too". The default settings + remain the same. +* Most of the field names on the Special:Block form have been changed, which + will probably break screen-scraping bots. * (bug 26866) The 'trackback' right is no longer granted to sysops by default. - $wgUseTrackbacks is already false by default -* (bug 17009) the hiddenStructure CSS class, a highly hackish way of at least *appearing* - to hide article elements, has been removed. Use the ParserFunctions extension to - actually remove unwanted elements from the output. + $wgUseTrackbacks is already false by default. +* (bug 17009) the hiddenStructure CSS class, a highly hackish way of at least + *appearing* to hide article elements, has been removed. Use the + ParserFunctions extension to actually remove unwanted elements from the + output. * (bug 14202) $wgUseTeX has been superseded by the Math extension. To re-enable math conversion after upgrading, obtain the Math extension from SVN or from http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Math and add to LocalSettings.php: require_once "$IP/extensions/Math/Math.php"; -* $wgProfiler is now a configuration array, see StartProfiler.sample for details -* $wgProfiling has been removed -* The spyc library is now no longer included in phase3 +* $wgProfiler is now a configuration array, see StartProfiler.sample for + details. +* $wgProfiling has been removed. +* The spyc library is now no longer included in phase3. === New features in 1.18 === * (bug 8130) Query pages should limit to content namespaces, not just main - namespace + namespace. * Search suggestions (other than in the Vector skin) will now use the HTML5 datalist feature where supported, currently only Firefox 4. -* Special:Contribs now redirects to Special:Contributions +* Special:Contribs now redirects to Special:Contributions. * (bug 6672) Images are now autorotated according to their EXIF orientation. This only affects thumbnails; the source remains unrotated. * (bug 25708) Update case mappings and normalization to Unicode 6.0.0 @@ -85,42 +88,42 @@ PHP if you have not done so prior to upgrading MediaWiki. * Alternative to $wgHooks implemented, using the new Hooks class. * Add width parameter to Special:Filepath to allow getting the file path of a thumbnail. -* (bug 26870) Add size to {{filepath:}} -* Upload warnings now show a thumbnail of the uploaded file +* (bug 26870) Add size to {{filepath:}}. +* Upload warnings now show a thumbnail of the uploaded file. * Introduced the edittools-upload message, which will be inserted under the - upload form instead of edittools if available + upload form instead of edittools if available. * (bug 26285) Extensions will be automatically generated on upload if the user specified a filename without extension. * (bug 26851) Special:UserRights now allows to prefill the reason field * New maintenance script to fix double redirects - (maintenance/fixDoubleRedirects.php) -* (bug 23315) New body classes to allow easier styling of special pages -* (bug 27159) Make email confirmation code expiration time configurable + (maintenance/fixDoubleRedirects.php). +* (bug 23315) New body classes to allow easier styling of special pages. +* (bug 27159) Make email confirmation code expiration time configurable. * CSS/JS for each user group is imported from MediaWiki:Sysop.js, MediaWiki:Autoconfirmed.css, etc. * (bug 24230) Uploads of ZIP types, such as MS Office or OpenOffice can now be safely enabled. A ZIP file reader was added which can scan a ZIP file for potentially dangerous Java applets. This allows applets to be blocked specifically, rather than all ZIP files being blocked. -* (bug 2429) Allow selection of associated namespace in recent changes -* (bug 26217) File size is now checked before uploading in HTML5 browsers +* (bug 2429) Allow selection of associated namespace in recent changes. +* (bug 26217) File size is now checked before uploading in HTML5 browsers. * CSS stylesheet MediaWiki:Noscript.css is now loaded for users with JavaScript - disabled (enclosed in the head in a