Change notes from older releases. For current info see RELEASE-NOTES.
+== MediaWiki 1.16 ==
+
+=== Configuration changes in 1.16 ===
+
+* (bug 18222) $wgMinimalPasswordLength default is now 1
+* $wgSessionHandler can be used to configure session.save_handler
+* $wgLocalFileRepo/$wgForeignFileRepos now have a 'fileMode' parameter to
+ be used when uploading/moving files
+* (bug 18761) $wgHiddenPrefs is a new array for specifying preferences not
+ to be shown to users
+* $wgAllowRealName and $wgAllowUserSkin were deprecated in favor of
+ $wgHiddenPrefs[] = 'realname', but the former are still retained
+ for backwards-compatibility
+* (bug 9257) $wgRCMaxAge now defaults to three months
+* $wgDevelopmentWarnings can be set to true to show warnings about deprecated
+ functions and other potential errors when developing.
+* Subpages are now enabled in the MediaWiki namespace by default. This is
+ mainly a cosmetic change, and does not in any way affect the MessageCache,
+ which was already effectively treating the namespace as if it had subpages.
+* (bug 10837) $wgVariant is a user variant selected in the user's preferences
+ if the $wgContLang does not have variant, then the $wgLang is used instead.
+* Oracle: maintenance/ora/user.sql script for creating DB user on oracle with
+ appropriate privileges. Creating this user with web-install page requires
+ oci8.privileged_connect set to On in php.ini.
+* Removed UserrightsChangeableGroups hook introduced in 1.14
+* Added $wgCacheDirectory, to replace $wgFileCacheDirectory,
+ $wgLocalMessageCache, and any other local caches which need a place to put
+ files.
+* $wgFileCacheDirectory is no longer set to anything by default, and so either
+ needs to be set explicitly, or $wgCacheDirectory needs to be set instead.
+* $wgLocalMessageCache has been removed. Instead, set $wgUseLocalMessageCache
+ to true
+* Removed $wgEnableSerializedMessages and $wgCheckSerialized. Similar
+ functionality is now available via $wgLocalisationCacheConf.
+* $wgMessageCache->addMessages() is deprecated. Messages added via this
+ interface will not appear in Special:AllMessages.
+* $wgRegisterInternalExternals can be used to record external links pointing
+ to same server
+* (bug 19907) $wgCrossSiteAJAXdomains and $wgCrossSiteAJAXdomainExceptions added
+ to control which external domains may access the API via cross-site AJAX.
+* $wgMaintenanceScripts for extensions to add their scripts to the default list
+* $wgMemoryLimit has been added, default value '50M'
+* $wgExtraRandompageSQL is deprecated, the SpecialRandomGetRandomTitle hook
+ should be used instead
+* (bug 20489) $wgIllegalFileChars added to override the default list of illegal
+ characters in file names.
+* (bug 19646) $wgImgAuthDetails added to display reason access to uploaded file
+ was denied to users(img_auth only)
+* (bug 19646) $wgImgAuthPublicTest added to test to see if img_auth set up
+ correctly (img_auth only)
+* $wgUploadMaintenance added to disable file deletions and restorations during
+ maintenance
+* $wgCapitalLinkOverrides added to configure per-namespace capitalization
+* (bug 21172) $wgSorbsUrl can now be an array with multiple DNSBL and renamed
+ to $wgDnsBlacklistUrls (backward compatibility kept)
+* $wgEnableHtmlDiff has been removed
+* (bug 3340) $wgBlockCIDRLimit added (default: 16) to configure the low end of
+ CIDR ranges for blocking
+* $wgUseInstantCommons added for quick and easy enabling of Commons as a remote
+ file repository
+* $wgDBAhandler added to choose a DBA handler when using CACHE_DBA
+* $wgPreviewOnOpenNamespaces for extensions that create namespaces that behave
+ similarly to the category namespace.
+* $wgEnableSorbs renamed to $wgDnsBlacklistUrls ($wgEnableSorbs kept for
+ backward compatibility)
+* $wgUploadNavigationUrl now also affects images inline images that do not
+ exist. In that case the URL will get (?|&)wpDestFile=<filename> appended to
+ it as appropriate.
+* If $wgLocaltimezone is null, use the server's timezone as the default for
+ signatures. This was always the behaviour documented in DefaultSettings.php
+ but has not been the actual behaviour for some time: instead, UTC was used
+ by default.
+* Added $wgExtensionAssetsPath, to decouple assets serving from $wgScriptPath.
+ If not specified it will default to $wgScriptPath/extensions
+* Added $wgCountTotalSearchHits to make search UI display total number of hits
+ with some search engines.
+* Added $wgAdvertisedFeedTypes to decide what feed types (RSS, Atom, both, or
+ neither) MediaWiki advertises. Default is array( 'atom' ), so RSS is no
+ longer advertised by default (but it still works).
+* Added $wgMemCachedTimeout, controls how long to wait for data from the
+ memcached servers.
+* New configuration variables $wgDebugTimestamps and $wgDebugPrintHttpHeaders
+ for controlling debug output.
+* New $wgBlockDisablesLogin when set to true disallows blocked users from
+ logging in.
+* (bug 8790) Metadata edition ($wgUseMetadataEdit) has been moved to a separate
+ extension "MetadataEdit".
+
+=== New features in 1.16 ===
+
+* Add CSS defintion of the 'wikitable' class to shared.css
+* (bug 17163) Added MediaWiki:Talkpageheader which will be displayed when
+ viewing talk pages
+* Superfluous border="0" removed from images
+* Added new hook 'MessageCacheReplace' into MessageCache.php. For instance
+ to allow extensions to update caches in similar way as MediaWiki invalidates
+ a cached MonoBook sidebar
+* Special:AllPages: Move hardcoded styles from code to CSS
+* (bug 18529) New hook: SoftwareInfo for adding information about the software
+ to Special:Version
+* Added $wgExtPGAlteredFields to allow extensions to easily alter the data
+ type of columns when using the Postgres backend.
+* (bug 16950) Show move log when viewing/creating a deleted page
+* (bug 18242) Show the Subversion revision number per extensions in
+ Special:Version
+* (bug 18420) Missing file revisions are handled gracefully now
+* (bug 9219) Auth plugins can control editing RealName/Email/Nick preferences
+* (bug 18466) Add note or warning when overruling a move (semi-)protection
+* (bug 18342) insertTags works in edit summary box
+* (bug 18411) The upload form also checks post_max_size
+* Watchlist now has a specialized <div> tag that contains a unique class for
+ each page
+* Added Minguo calendar support for the Taiwan Chinese language
+* Database: unionQueries function to be used for UNION sql construction, so
+ it can be overloaded on DB abstraction level for DB specific functionality
+* (bug 18849) Implement Japanese and North Korean calendars
+* (bug 5755) Introduce {{CURRENTMONTH1}} and {{LOCALMONTH1}} to display the
+ month number without the leading zero
+* (bug 13456) categoriespagetext supports PLURAL
+* (bug 18860) Blocks of IPs affecting registered users can now block email
+* (bug 17093) Date and time are separate parameters in Special:BlockList
+* (bug 11484) Added ISO speed rating to default collapsed EXIF metadata view
+* (bug 14866) Messages 'recentchangeslinked-toolbox' and
+ 'recentchangeslinked-toolbox' were added to allow more fine grained
+ customisation of the user interface
+* DISPLAYTITLE now accepts a limited amount of wiki markup (the single-quote
+ items)
+* Special:Search now could search terms in all variant-forms. ONLY apply on
+ wikis enabled LanguageConverter.
+* Add autopromote condition APCOND_BLOCKED to autopromote blocked users to
+ various user groups.
+* Add $wgRevokePermissions as a means of restricting a group's rights. The
+ syntax is identical to $wgGroupPermissions, but users in these groups will
+ have these rights stripped from them.
+* Added a PHP port of CDB (constant database), for improved local caching when
+ the DBA extension is not available.
+* Introduced a new system for localisation caching. The system is based around
+ fast fetches of individual messages, minimising memory overhead and startup
+ time in the typical case. The database backend will be used by default, but
+ set $wgCacheDirectory to get a faster CDB-based implementation.
+* Expanded the number of variables which can be set in the extension messages
+ files.
+* Added a feature to allow per-article process pool size control for the parsing
+ task, to limit resource usage when the cache for a heavily-viewed article is
+ invalidated. Requires an external daemon.
+* (bug 19576) Moved the id attribues from the anchors accompanying section
+ headers to the <span class="mw-headline"> elements within the section headers,
+ removing the redundant anchor elements.
+* Parser::setFunctionTagHook now can be used to add a new tag which is parsed at
+ preprocesor level.
+* Added $wgShowArchiveThumbnails, allowing sysadmins to disable thumbnail
+ display for old versions of images.
+* In watchlists and Special:RecentChanges, the difference in page size now
+ appears in dark green if bytes were added and dark red if bytes were removed.
+* Added FSRepo configuration properties thumbUrl and thumbDir, to allow the
+ thumbnails to be stored in a separate location to the source images.
+* If config/ directory is not executable, the command to make it executable
+ now asks the user to cd to the correct directory
+* Add experimental new external authentication framework, ExternalAuth
+* (bug 18768) Remove AdminSettings requirements. Maintenance environment
+ will still load it if it exists, but it's not required for anything
+* (bug 19900) The "listgrouprights-key" message is now wrapped in a div with
+ class "mw-listgrouprights-key"
+* (bug 471) Allow RSS feeds for watchlist, using an opt-in security token
+* (bug 10812) Interwiki links can have names and descriptions, fetched from
+ message 'interwiki-desc-PREFIX', not really used anywhere yet though
+* (bug 9691) Add type (signup or login) parameter to
+ AuthPlugin::ModifyUITemplate()
+* (bug 14454) "Member of group(s)" in Special:Preferences causes language
+ difficulties
+* (bug 16697) Unicode combining characters are difficult to edit in some
+ browsers
+* Parser test supports uploading results to remote CodeReview instance
+* (bug 20013) Added CSS class "mw-version-ext-version" is wrapped on the
+ extension version in Special:Version
+* (bug 20014) Added CSS class "mw-listgrouprights-right-name" is wrapped on the
+ right name in Special:ListGroupRights
+* (bug 12920) New CoreParserFunction {{nse:...}} as an url-friendly equivalent
+ to {{ns:...}}
+* (bug 16322) Allow maintenance scripts to accept DB user/pass over input or
+ params
+* (bug 18566) Maintenance script to un/protect pages
+* (bug 671) The HTML <abbr> tag is now permitted.
+* RecentChanges now has a legend to explain what the Nmb! flags mean, and the
+ flags have tooltips.
+* (bug 15209) New hook BeforeInitialize called after everything has been setup
+ but before Mediawiki::performRequestForTitle()
+* wgMainPageTitle variable now available to JavaScript code to identify the main
+ page link, so it doesn't have to be extracted from the link URLs.
+* (bug 16836) Display preview of signature in user preferences and describe its
+ use
+* The default output format is now HTML 5 instead of XHTML 1.0 Transitional.
+ This can be disabled by setting $wgHtml5 = false;. Specific features enabled
+ if HTML 5 is used:
+** New HTML 5 input attributes allow JavaScript-free input validation in some
+ cutting-edge browsers. E.g., some inputs will be autofocused, users will
+ not be allowed to submit forms with certain types of invalid values (like
+ numbers outside the permitted ranges), etc.
+** The summary attribute has been removed from tables of contents. summary is
+ obsolete in HTML 5 and wasn't useful here anyway.
+** Unnecessary type="" attribute removed for CSS and JS.
+** If $wgWellFormedXml is set to false, some bytes will be shaved off of HTML
+ output by omitting some things like quotation marks where HTML 5 allows.
+** (bug 16921) maxlength enabled for page move comments
+* The description message in $wgExtensionCredits can be an array with parameters
+* New hook SpecialRandomGetRandomTitle allows extensions to modify the selection
+ criteria used by Special:Random and subclasses, or substitute a custom result,
+ deprecating the $wgExtraRandompageSQL config variable
+* (bug 20318) Distinct CSS classes for ISBN/RFC/PMID special links added
+* (bug 20404) Custom fields in the user creation form template can now have
+ detail labels in prefsectiontip divs.
+* MakeSysop and MakeBot are now aliases for Special:UserRights
+* IndexPager->mLimitsShown can now be an associative array of limit => text-to-
+ display-in-limit-form.
+* (bug 18880) LogEventsList::showLogExtract() can now take a string-by-reference
+ and add its HTML to it, rather than having to go straight to $wgOut.
+* Added $wgShowDBErrorBacktrace, to allow users to easily gather backtraces for
+ database connection and query errors.
+* Show change block / unblock link on Special:Contributions if user is blocked
+* Display note on Special:Contributions if the user is blocked, and provide an
+ excerpt from the block log.
+* (bug 19646) New hook: ImgAuthBeforeStream for tests and functionality before
+ file is streamed to user, but only when using img_auth
+* Note on non-existing user and user talk pages if user does not exist
+* New hook ShowMissingArticle so extensions can modify the output for
+ non-existent pages.
+* Added $wgUseAJAXCategories allow enabling AJAX based categories system.
+ This works on all namespaces. Enabled namespaces can be reduces using
+ $wgAJAXCategoriesNamespaces.
+* Admins could disable some variants using $wgDisabledVariants now. ONLY apply
+ on wikis enabled LanguageConverter.
+* (bug 16310) Credits page now lists IP addresses rather than saying the number
+ of anonymous users that edited the page
+* New permission 'sendemail' added. Default right for all registered users. Can
+ for example be used to prevent new accounts from sending spam.
+* (bug 16979) Tracking categories for __INDEX__ and __NOINDEX__
+* Two new hooks, ConfirmEmailComplete and InvalidateEmailComplete, which are
+ called after a user's email has been successfully confirmed or invalidated.
+* (bug 19741) Moved the XCF files out of the main MediaWiki distribution, for
+ a smaller subversion checkout.
+* (bug 13750) First letter capitalization can now be a per-namespace setting
+* (bug 21073) "User does not exist" message no longer displayed on sub-sub-pages
+ of existing users
+* (bug 21095) Tracking categories produced by the parser (expensive parser
+ function limit exceeded, __NOINDEX__ tracking, etc) can now be disabled by
+ setting the system message ([[MediaWiki:expensive-parserfunction-category]]
+ etc) to "-".
+* Added maintenance script sqlite.php for SQLite-specific maintenance tasks.
+* Rewrote Special:Upload to allow easier extension.
+* Upload errors that can be solved by changing the filename now do not require
+ reuploading.
+* Added $wgRateLimitsExcludedIPs, to allow specific IPs to be whitelisted from
+ rate limits.
+* (bug 21222) When $wgUseTeX is not enabled, <math> is no longer registered with
+ the parser so extensions are free to implement their own <math> tag
+* (bug 21047) Wrap 'cannotdelete' into a div with the generic 'error' class and
+ an own 'mw-error-cannotdelete' class
+* New hook AbortNewAccountAuto, called before account creation from AuthPlugin-
+ or ExtUser-driven requests.
+* (bug 3480) The warning saying that the page has a history when deleting it now
+ contains the number of revisions in the history
+* $wgStylePath and $wgLogo are now set in the default LocalSettings.php file.
+* (bug 20186) Allow filtering history for revision deletion.
+* New hook OtherBlockLogLink, called in Special:IPBlockList and Special:Block
+ to show links to block logs of other blocking extensions, i.e. GlobalBlocking
+* Added search capabilities to SQLite backend
+* rebuildtextindex.php maintenance script now supports databases other than
+ MySQL
+* upgrade1_5.php now requires to be run --update option to prevent confusion
+* (bug 17662) Customizable default preload/editintro for new sections in the
+ respective addsection-preload and addsection-editintro messages
+* Added maintenance script syntaxChecker.php that checks for PHP syntax errors
+ and common coding mistakes
+* Updated Unicode normalization tables
+* (bug 21604) Spellcheck attribute for editsummary
+* New wgCategories JavaScript global variable for userscripts.
+* (bug 20717) Added checkboxes to hide users with bot and/or sysop group
+ membership in SpecialActiveusers
+* Allow \pagecolor and \definecolor in texvc
+* $wgTexvcBackgroundColor contains background color for texvc call
+* (bug 21574) Redirects can now have "303 See Other" HTTP status
+* EditPage refactored to allow extensions to derive new edit modes much easier.
+* (bug 21826) Subsections of Special:Version now also have anchors
+* (bug 19791) Add URL of file source as comment to thumbs (for ImageMagick)
+* (bug 21946) Sorted wikitables do not properly handle minus signs
+* (bug 18885) Red links for media files do not support shared repositories
+* Added $wgFixArabicUnicode, to convert deprecated presentation forms in
+ Arabic text to their modern equivalents, and $wgFixMalayalamUnicode, to
+ convert ZWJ-based chillu sequences in Malayalam text to their Unicode 5.1
+ equivalents.
+* (bug 22051) Returing false in SpecialContributionsBeforeMainOutput hook now
+ stops normal output
+* Send new password e-mail in users preference language
+* LanguageConverter now support nested using of manual convert syntax like
+ "-{-{}-}-"
+* Upload license preview now uses the API instead of action=ajax
+* (bug 7346) Add <guid> to RSS to avoid duplicates
+* (bug 19996) Added new hooks for Special:Search, which allow to further
+ restrict/expand it.
+* (bug 21936) When a revision has been patrolled, there's now a link back to the
+ article
+* (bug 22315) SpecialRecentChangesQuery hook now pass $query_options and checks
+ the return value
+* Separate unit test suites under t/ and tests/ were merged and moved to
+ maintenance/tests/.
+* importImages.php maintenance script can now use the original uploader and
+comment from another wiki.
+* Support for Turck MMCache was removed
+* (bug 14592) Warn users when they try to move their user page that their
+ account will not be renamed
+* Show block log on non-existing user (talk) pages of currently blocked users
+
+=== Bug fixes in 1.16 ===
+
+* (bug 18031) Make namespace selector on Special:Export remember the previous
+ selection
+* The svn-version version numbers on Special:Version have been removed
+* (bug 17374) Special:Export no longer exports two copies of the same page
+* (bug 18190) Proper parsing in MediaWiki:Sharedupload message
+* (bug 17617) HTML cleanup for ImagePage
+* (bug 17964) namespaceDupes.php no longer fails on an empty interwiki table
+* Improved error handling for image moving
+* (bug 17974) On Special:SpecialPages, restricted special pages are now marked
+ with <strong> tags, helps with text-based browsers
+* (bug 18259) Special:DeletedContributions now also uses
+ MediaWiki:Sp-contributions-logs for the link to Special:Log
+* Don't add empty title="" attributes to links to anchors on the current page
+* (bug 18291) rebuildrecentchanges.php failed to add deletion log entries
+* (bug 18304) rebuildrecentchanges.php got size changes wrong
+* (bug 18170) Fixed a PHP warning in Parser::preSaveTransform() in PHP 5.3
+* (bug 18289) Database connection error page now returns correct HTML
+* "successbox", "errorbox" and related CSS classes are now available in all
+ skins
+* (bug 18316) Removed superfluous name="fulltext" from Special:Search
+* (bug 18331) MediaWiki:Undelete-revision can now have wikitext
+* The "noautoblock" flag is no longer displayed in the block log when blocking
+ an IP address
+* (bug 18009) $wgHooks and $wgExtensionFunctions now support closures
+* (bug 17948) Maintenance scripts now exit(0) or exit(1) as appropriate
+* (bug 18377) Time in Enhanced ChangesList lacking localisation
+* (bug 12998) Allow <sup>, <sub>, etc. in DISPLAYTITLE
+* (bug 1553) Lowercase navigation headings in German
+* (bug 7830) Pending transactions failed to commit on loginToUse() error
+* (bug 11613) session.save_handler being over-ridden
+* (bug 11381) session.save_handler being set twice (causes error)
+* (bug 17835) ForeignAPIRepo throwing error on first page load for file
+* (bug 18115) ForeignAPIRepo cache isn't working
+* Fixed a bug caused by LanguageConverter.php, which brings an abnormal '}-'
+ after some parsed math syntax.
+* (bug 18441) rebuildrecentchanges.inc no longer ignores $wgLogRestrictions
+* (bug 18317) Bolded selections in 1 | 3 | etc days on RecentChanges now use
+ <strong> instead of hardcoded styles
+* (bug 18449) Fixed items number per column on category pages when the total is
+ divisible by 3
+* (bug 18121) maintenance/deleteArchivedRevisions.php no longer deletes
+ revisions when --delete is not passed
+* (bug 13172) GPS coordinates in image Exif data are now actually displayed
+* Overhaul of preferences system, includes the following bug fixes:
+** (bug 5363) Changes to default preferences now impact registered users.
+** (bug 14806) Hook to enable putting preferences in existing tabs.
+** (bug 17191) Registration date now listed on preferences page.
+** The user_properties table (now used for storing preferences) has been added
+ to $wgSharedTables.
+** Note that this change will break some extensions which have not been adapted
+ for it.
+* (bug 17020) Adding fallback encodings for Traditional and Simplified Chinese
+ languages while the the text is typed as URLs.
+* (bug 17614) Prev / Next links are not shown if all results are shown
+* (bug 18207) Strange spacing before [[irc:...]] links
+* Removed float from the user login form in RTL interface - caused display
+ problems in FF2
+* (bug 15008) Redirect images are now subject to Bad image list rules
+* (bug 6802) profileinfo.php now also work on other database servers than MySQL
+* (bug 16925) Diffs no longer fail when $wgExternalDiffEngine is set to
+ 'wikidiff' or 'wikidiff2' but extension is not installed
+* (bug 18326) Chmod errors in file repos have been hidden
+* (bug 18718) Comma after a } create a error in IE
+* (bug 18716) Removed redundant class in Modern skin CSS for category links and
+ tweaked spacing.
+* (bug 18656) Use proper directory separators in wfMkdirParents()
+* (bug 18549) Make Special:Blockip respect $wgEnableUserEmail and
+ $wgSysopEmailBans
+* (bug 16912) Tooltips on images with link= disappear
+* (bug 18389) Localise numbers in EXIF data
+* (bug 18522) Wrap MediaWiki:Protect-cascadeon in a div for identification
+* (bug 18438) Tweak HTML for preview bar for consistency and accessibility
+* (bug 18432) Updated documentation for dumpBackup.php
+* Fix array logic in Sanitizer::removeHTMLtags so that it doesn't strip good
+ tags that were redundantly defined.
+* (bug 14118) SpecialPage::getTitleFor does not return a localised name
+* (bug 18698) Renaming non entry point maintenance scripts from .inc.php to
+ .inc
+* Deprecated methods Title::getInterwikiLink, Title::userCanCreate(),
+ Title::userCanEdit() and Title::userCanMove() have been removed
+* Only show upload links on file description if $wgEnableUploads = true
+ and user can upload
+* Don't say "You need to log in to upload/move", because it's possible that
+ uploading/moving is disabled for registered users as well (e.g. only sysops)
+* (bug 18943) Handle invalid titles gracefully at Special:Mostlinked
+* (bug 8873) Enable variant conversion in text on 'alt' and 'title' attributes
+* (bug 10837) Introducing the StubUserVariant class to determine the variant
+ variable instead of using this to overrules the user language preference.
+* (bug 19014) If user had deletedhistory right, but not undeleted right, then
+ show "view" instead of "view/restore" on logs.
+* (bug 19017) TOC level calculation error in an odd case
+* (bug 18999) CSS update for RTL interwiki links
+* (bug 18925) history.js removes class names of list elements on initialization
+* Multiple whitespace in TOC anchors is now stripped, for consistency with the
+ link from the edit comment
+* (bug 19112) Preferences now respects $wgUseExternalEditor
+* (bug 18173) MediaWiki now fails when unable to determine a client IP
+* (bug 19170) Special:Version should follow the content language direction
+* (bug 19160) maintenance/purgeOldText.inc is now compatible with PostgreSQL
+* Fixed performance regression in "bad image list" feature
+* Show user preference 'Use live preview' if $wgLivePreview is enabled only
+* (bug 17014) Blocked users can no longer use Special:UserRights unless they
+ can add/remove *all* groups (have 'userrights' permission).
+* (bug 19294) Always show Sp-contributions-footer(-anon)
+* Attempts to restrict reading of pages while anonymous viewing is allowed
+ via extensions not using the userCan hook and via $wgRevokePermissions now
+ work.
+* (bug 8445) Multiple-character search terms are now handled properly for
+ Chinese
+* (bug 19450) Use formatNum for "Number of edits" in Special:Preferences
+* (bug 11242) Check for MySQL storage engines during installation now checks
+ whether the engines are actually available
+* (bug 19390) Omit the "printable version" link on the printable version
+* (bug 18394) img_auth.php now respects userCan
+* (bug 19509) Uploading to a file named '0' previously treated it as null input
+ and attempted to upload with the source name. Now warns about not having an
+ extension (since 0.ext is perfectly valid)
+* (bug 19468) Enotif preferences are now only displayed when they are turned on
+* (bug 19442) Show/hide options on watchlist only work once
+* (bug 19602) PubMed Magic links now use updated NIH url
+* (bug 19637) externallinks have links to self
+* Don't load Opera 9.5 RTL fixes for Opera 9.6
+* Remove five-year-old KHTMLFixes.css, which is unlikely to be relevant anymore
+ and was causing problems.
+* Removed repetition of URIs in the title attributes of external links.
+* (bug 19693) User name is now escaped in "Contributions for ..." link on
+ Special:BlockIP
+* (bug 19571) Override buildConcat for SQLite.
+* Log in and log out links no longer return to page view when clicked from
+ history view, edit page, or something similar
+* (bug 19513) RTL fixes for new Search UI
+* (bug 16497) Special:Allmessages is paginated
+* (bug 18708) CSS plainlinks class now available to all skins
+* (bug 19590) Database error messages no longer have "MySQL" hardcoded as the
+ database type
+* (bug 19759) successbox on Special:Preferences now correctly aligned on
+ standard, nostalgia and cologneblue skin
+* (bug 19814) interwiki links from file links ([[File:Foo.jpg|link=de:Test]])
+ are no longer recorded in the pagelinks table
+* (bug 19784) date option "ISO 8601" produced illegal id
+* (bug 19761) Removed autogenerated <meta keywords> tag with link data.
+ Keyword set was not useful, and is ignored by modern search engines anway.
+* (bug 19827) Special:SpecialPages title is "Upload file
+* (bug 19355) Added .xhtml, .xht to upload file extension blacklist
+* (bug 19287) Workaround for lag on history page in Firefox 3.5
+* (bug 19564) Updated docs/hooks.txt
+* (bug 18751) Fix for buggage in profiling setup for some extensions on PHP 5.1
+* (bug 17139) ts_resortTable inconsistent trimming makes date sorting fragile
+* (bug 19445) Change oldimage table to use ON UPDATE CASCADE for FK to image
+ table.
+* (bug 14080) Short notation links to subpages didn't work in edit summaries
+* (bug 17374) Special:Export no longer exports multiple copies of pages
+* (bug 19818) Edits to user CSS/JS subpages can now be marked as patrolled by
+ users who can't edit them
+* (bug 19839) Comments in log items are no more double escaped
+* (bug 18161) Fix inconsistent separators in watchlist link toolbars with
+ "enhanced recent changes"
+* (bug 16877) Moving a page over a redirect no longer leaves an orphan entry in
+ the recentchanges table
+* (bug 16009) Limit selection forms based on Pager now links to the correct page
+ when using long urls
+* The display of the language list on the preferences is more comply with the
+ BCP 47 standards.
+* (bug 19849) Custom X-Vary-Options header now disabled unless $wgUseXVO is set
+* (bug 19301) Duplicates entries in $wgAddGroups, $wgRemoveGroups,
+ $wgGroupsAddToSelf and $wgGroupsRemoveFromSelf are no more displayed on
+ Special:ListGroupRights
+* (bug 18799) Special:Userlogin now handles correctly the returnto parameter
+ to not link back to Special:Userlogout when user's language isn't the same as
+ content's language
+* (bug 19479) Show proper error message when unable to connect to PostgreSQL
+ database with username/password in MediaWiki's setup
+* (bugs 18407, 18409) Special:Upload is now listed on Special:Specialpages only
+ if uploads are enabled and the user can access it
+* (bug 17988) Spaces before [[Category:]] links are no longer ignored
+* (bug 19957) All known-failing tests now marked disabled; added --run-disabled
+ option to parser test suite to run disabled tests if desired.
+* (bug 16311) Make recent change flags (n/m/b) <abbr>s instead of <span>s
+* (bug 15680) Split the edit tip message of user CSS/JS subpage into
+ "usercssyoucanpreview" and "userjsyoucanpreview" respectively.
+* (bug 12110) Split the rights for editing users' CSS/JS subpage from
+ "editusercssjs" into "editusercss" and edituserjs" respectively.
+* (bug 19394) RecentChanges feed URLs for log items with no revisions
+ (eg Newuser, Userrights) are no longer broken
+* (bug 17395) Remote file descriptions use user language ($wgLang), not wiki
+ language ($wgContLang)
+* (bug 11867) Lock error on redirect table when running orphans.php
+* (bug 18930) initStats.php now refreshes active users count
+* (bug 18699) Using the nosummary URL option no longer triggers the "You have
+ not provided a summary" warning for those who activated it in their
+ preferences
+* (bug 18855) commandLine.inc and Maintenance.php are now properly included
+ using the full path
+* (bug 18497) Fixed broken style sheets in Opera fullscreen mode
+* (bug 16084) Default memory limit has be increased to 50M, see $wgMemoryLimit
+* (bug 17864/19519) Added proper input normalization in Special:UserRights
+* (bug 20086) Add Hook to add extra statistics at the end of Special:Statistics
+* (bug 19289) importDump.php can now handle bzip2 and 7zip
+* (bug 20131) Fixed a PHP notice for users having the "rollback" right on
+ Special:RecentChangesLinked
+* Do not transform EXIF fields with pure text to avoid results like
+ foo,bar@example,com
+* (bug 20176) Fix login/logout links in skin CologneBlue
+* (bug 20203) "Powered by Mediawiki" now has height/width on image tag
+* (bug 20273) Fix broken output when no pages are found in the content
+ namespaces
+* (bug 20265) Make AncientPages and UnusedFiles work on SQLite
+* Fixed XSS vulnerability for Internet Explorer clients (only pre-release
+ versions of MediaWiki were affected).
+* (bug 14817) Moving a page to a subpage of itself moves it twice
+* (bug 20289) $wgMaximumMovedPages should only count pages actually moved
+* (bug 15248) Non-breaking spaces and certain other Unicode space characters
+ are now normalized to ordinary spaces in titles; if your wiki has existing
+ titles with such characters, run cleanupTitles.php and/or cleanupImages.php
+* (bug 11143) Links containing invalid UTF-8 percent-code sequences are now
+ cleanly disabled instead of breaking parsing entirely on PHP 5.2.
+* (bug 20296) Fixed an PHP warning in Language::getMagic() in PHP 5.3
+* (bug 20358) Unprotect tab was missing accesskey; now same as protect tab.
+* (bug 20317) Cleaned up default main page link accesskey settings
+* (bug 20362) Special:Statistics now produces valid HTML when view counters are
+ enabled
+* (bug 19857) maintenance/deleteRevision.php on last revision no longer breaks
+ target page
+* (bug 20365) Page name with with c/g/h/j/s/u + x are now correctly handled in
+ Special:MovePage with Esperanto as content language
+* (bug 20364) Fixed regression in GIF metadata loading
+* (bug 20299) MediaWiki:Move-subpages and MediaWiki:Move-talk-subpages can now
+ use wikitext
+* (bug 15475) DatabaseBase::setFlag(), DatabaseBase::clearFlag() and
+ DatabaseBase::getFlag() now have documentation
+* (bug 19966) MediaWiki:License-header is now used for the licensing header in
+ the file description page instead of MediaWiki:License
+* (bug 20380) Links to history/deleted edits at the top of
+ Special:RevisionDelete are no more displayed when when doing log suppression
+* (bug 8143) Localised parser function names are now correctly case insensitive
+ if they contain non-ASCII characters
+* (bug 19055) maintenance/rebuildrecentchanges.php now purges
+ Special:Recentchanges's RSS and Atom feed cache
+* The installer will now try to bypass PHP's max_execution_time
+* (bug 20260) SQLite no longer tries to automatically create the database at
+ execution time, this now happens only at install time; if it is not available
+ at script execution, it now throws an exception
+* Fixed EditFilterMerged hook so the hookError parameter serves a purpose
+ (analogous to EditFilter hook)
+* (bug 2257) Tag extensions can expand template parameters provided to the tag,
+ by using a new parameter added to the recursiveTagParse function
+* (bug 14900) __INDEX__ and __NOINDEX__ no longer override site config set in
+ $wgArticleRobotPolicies.
+* (bug 20466) Hidden categories are no more displayed when printing
+* (bug 20446) When changing user rights with User@remotewiki and remotewiki is
+ the local wiki, the user is now treated as the local user
+* (bug 20494) OutputPage::getArticleBodyOnly() no longer requires an useless
+ argument
+* (bug 20136) Protection form JavaScript now synchronizes the expiry boxes on
+ any change, in addition to onkeyup.
+* Don't link to "edit this page" on MediaWiki:Noarticletext if user is not
+ allowed to create page. Done via new message
+ MediaWiki:Noarticletext-nopermission
+* Improved compatibility between the Vector skin and addPortletLink() from
+ wikibits.js: empty portlets are now present but hidden, adding an element to a
+ portlet unhides it
+* (bug 19531) addPortletLink() now wraps inserted labels in a <span> element to
+ be compatible with the CSS for the Vector skin
+* (bug 20578) Wrong localized image metadata - duplicated string?
+* (bug 20556) Stub threshold's "other" <input> in Special:Preferences now has a
+ correct type="text" parameter
+* (bug 482) Don't include TOC in the printable version if it has been hidden
+* Adjust the time according to the user configuration on Special:Revisiondelete
+* (bug 20624) Installation no longer allows "qqq" as the chosen language
+* (bug 20634) The installer-created database user will now have all rights on
+ the database so that upgrades will go more smoothly.
+* (bug 18180) Special:Export ignores limit, dir, offset parameters
+* User::getBlockedStatus() works for all kinds of user objects and doesn't
+ assume the user object is equal to the current-user object ($wgUser)
+* (bug 20517) Cancel link from edit page now returns to the old version when
+ editing an old version
+* (bug 16902) Installer no longer shows warnings when exec() has been disabled
+ by disable_functions
+* (bug 20726) Title::getLatestRevID's documentation now says that the function
+ returns false if the page doesn't exist
+* (bug 20751) ForeignApiRepo now urldecodes filenames when saving to local cache
+* (bug 20730) Fix to Special:Version ViewVC link for branch checkouts
+* (bug 20353) wfShellExec() was adding extra quotes on Windows Vista, causing
+ command line scripts to fail
+* (bug 20702) Parser functions can now be used correctly in
+ MediaWiki:Missing-article
+* (bug 14117) "redirected from" is now also shown on foreign file redirects
+* (bug 17747) Only display thumbnail column in file history if the image can
+ be rendered.
+* (bug 3421) Live preview no longer breaks user CSS/JS previews
+* (bug 11264) The file logo on a file description page for documents (PDF, ...)
+ now links to the file rather than the file description page
+* Password fields built with HTMLForm now still have the type="password"
+ attribute if $wgHtml5=false.
+* (bug 20836) Preload now works for MediaWiki namespace
+* (bug 20885) Search box no longer suggests unavailable special pages
+* (bug 20948) "Create this page" on Special:Search is no longer displayed when
+ searching for special pages
+* (bug 20524) Hideuser: Show nice error when trying to block hidden user without
+ hideuser right
+* (bug 21026) Fixed file redirects on shared repos on non-English client wikis
+* (bug 21030) Fixed schema choices from being overwritten by defining unique
+ field names per driver.
+* (bug 21115) wgCanonicalSpecialPageName javascript variable is now always
+ false on non-special pages
+* (bug 21113) "Other statistics" header on Special:Statistics is no more
+ displayed when there isn't any entry in it
+* (bug 21114) Special:Contributions no longer shows diff links for new
+ revisions
+* (bug 21116) MediaWiki:Templatesused, MediaWiki:Templatesusedpreview and
+ MediaWiki:Templatesusedsection now support plural
+* (bug 21079) There is no more line wrapping between label and field in
+ Special:Log
+* (bug 20256) Fixed SQL errors on Special:Recentchanges and
+ Special:Recentchangeslinked on SQLite backend
+* (bug 20880) Fixed updater failure on SQLite backend
+* (bug 21182) Fixed invalid HTML in Special:Listgrouprights
+* (bug 20242) Installer no longer promts for user credentials for SQLite
+ databases
+* (bug 20911) Installer failed to create a SQLite database
+* (bug 20847) Deprecated deprecated akeytt() removed in wikibits.js leaving
+ dummy
+* (bug 21161) Changing $wgCacheEpoch now always invalidates file cache
+* (bug 20268) Fixed row count estimation on SQLite backend
+* (bug 20275) Fixed LIKE queries on SQLite backend
+* (bug 21234) Moving subpages of titles containing \\ now works properly
+* (bug 21006) maintenance/updateArticleCount.php now works again on PostgreSQL
+* (bug 19319) Add activeusers-intro message at top of SpecialActiveUsers page
+* (bug 21255) Fixed hostname construction for DNSBL checking
+* (bug 18019) Users are now warned when moving a file to a name in use on a
+ shared repository and only users with the 'reupload-shared' permission can
+ complete the move.
+* (bug 18909) Add missing Postgres INSERT SELECT wrapper
+* User::isValidPassword now only returns boolean results,
+ User::getPasswordValidity can be used to get an error message string
+* The error message shown in Special:ChangePassword now parses wiki markup
+* (bug 19859) Removed experimental HTMLDiff feature
+* Removed section edit links in edit conflict form
+* Allow SpecialActiveusers to work on non-MySQL databases
+* (bug 6579) Fixed protecting images from uploading only
+* (bug 18609) Search index was empty for some pages
+* (bug 13453) rebuildrecentchanges maintenance script works on PG again
+* (bug 16583) Reduce false positives when checking for PHP (on upload, etc.)
+* (bug 20112) Bitrotted tests in the t/ directory were failing.
+* (bug 21470) MediaWiki:Sp-contributions-explain is now wrapped in a <p> with
+ id "mw-sp-contributions-explain"
+* (bug 19159) Fixed \overleftrightarrow in texvc
+* (bug 19391) Fix caching for Recent ChangesFeed.
+* (bug 21455) Fixed "Watch this page" checkbox appearing on some special pages
+ even to non-logged in users
+* (bug 21551) Rewrote the Squid purge HTTP client to provide a more robust and
+ general implementation of HTTP, allowing it to purge non-Squid caches such as
+ Varnish.
+* Fixed corruption of long UDP debug log messages by using socket_sendto()
+ instead of fsockopen() with fwrite().
+* (bug 16884) Fixed feed links in sidebar not complying with URL parameters
+ of the displayed page
+* (bug 21403) memcached class renamed to MWMemecached to avoid conflict with
+ PHP's memcached extension
+* (bug 21650) Both calls to SkinTemplateTabs hook are now compatible
+* (bug 21672) Add missing Accept-Language to both Vary and XVO headers
+* (bug 21679) "Edit block reasons" link at the bottom of Special:Blockip is now
+ only displayed to the users that have "editinterface" right
+* (bug 21740) Attempting to protect a page that doesn't exist (salting) returns
+ "unknown error"
+* (bug 18762) both redirects and links get fixed one after another if
+ redirects-only switch is not present
+* (bug 20159) thumbnails rerendered if older that $wgThumbnailEpoch
+* Fixed a bug which in some situations causes the job queue to grow forever,
+ due to an infinite loop of job requeues.
+* (bug 21523) File that can have multiple pages (djvu, pdf, ...) no longer have
+ the page selector when they have only one page
+* (bug 21559) "logempty" message is now wrapped in a div with class
+ "mw-warning-logempty" when used in log extract
+* (bug 20549) Parser tests were broken on SQLite backend
+* (bug 21776) Interwiki urls like http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/cs: should give
+ a redirect instead of a baderror.
+* (bug 21803) Special:MyContributions now keeps the query string parameters
+* Redirecting special pages now keep query string paramters set to "0" (e.g.
+ for namespace)
+* (bug 20765) Special:ListGroupRights no longer misses addables and removables
+ groups if there are duplicate entries
+* (bug 21814) Message shown when rolling back an edit with a deleted username
+ now shows '(username deleted)' instead of broken user tool links
+* (bug 21536) Fixed JavaScript error on Special:Search caused by an incorrect ID
+* (bug 21535) RecentChanges RSS feed now always recognises the namespace filter,
+ previously it sometimes didn't due to caching.
+* (bug 20388) ProfilerSimpleText no longer outputs comment on action=raw
+* refreshLinks.php now purges orphaned redirect table rows
+* (bug 2971) Swap links of hist & diff location on Special:Contributions for
+ consistency with RC/WL
+* (bug 21986) Special page names were are now capitalized by content language
+* If two log type have the same description, they're now both displayed in the
+ type selector on Special:Log
+* (bug 20115) Special:Userlogin title says "Log in / create account" even if the
+ user can't create an account
+* (bug 2658) Don't attempt to set the TZ environment variable.
+* (bug 9794) User rights log entries for foreign user now links to the foreign
+ user's page if possible
+* (bug 14717) Don't load nonexistent CSS fix files for non-Monobook skins
+* (bug 22034) Use wfClientAcceptsGzip() in wfGzipHandler instead of
+ reimplementing it.
+* (bug 19226) First line renders differently on many UI messages.
+* (bug 21303) Comments are no longer stripped from MediaWiki:Common.js and
+ skin-specific JS pages
+* (bug 5061) Use the more precise thumbcaption thumbimage and thumbinner classes
+ for image divs.
+* (bug 22096) IE50Fixes.css and IE55Fixes.css have been dropped from the Monobook
+ and Chick skins
+* Fixed bug involving unclosed "-{" markup in the language converter
+* (bug 21870) No longer include Google logo from an external server on wiki error.
+* (bug 22181) Do not truncate if the ellipsis actually make the string longer
+* (bug 16039) Text disappearing after a bad image
+* (bug 18784) Internal links like [[File:Foo|caption]] should read 'caption',
+ not 'File:Foo' when Foo is not an image
+* (bug 21518) Special:UserRights no longer displays the user name box for users
+ that can only change their rights
+* (bug 21593) Special:UserRights now lists automatic groups membership
+* (bug 22364) Setting $wgUseExternalEditor to false no longer hides the reupload
+ link from file pages
+* Fix bug introduced in MediaWiki 1.12: The author field in
+ $wgExtensionCredits is no longer sorted with sort() but rather used
+ as it appears in extensions as was the case before r30117 where it
+ was unintentionally sorted along with other fields.
+* (bug 19334) Textarea no longer jumps when editing longer articles in IE8
+* Truncate summary of page moves in revision comment field to avoid broken
+ multibyte characters
+* (bug 22540) ForeignApiRepos no longer try to store thumbnails that don't exist
+* (bug 22551) Special:Resetpass now has a "Cancel" button that sends the user to
+ the page set in the &returnto parameter.
+* (bug 19194) Search box in Modern skin doesn't focus with Safari/Chrome
+
+== API changes in 1.16 ==
+
+* Added uiprop=changeablegroups to meta=userinfo
+* Added usprop=gender to list=users
+* (bug 18311) action=purge now works for images too
+* Add parentid to prop=revisions output
+* (bug 17832) action=delete returns 'unknownerror' instead of 'permissiondenied'
+ when the user is blocked
+* (bug 18546) Added timestamp of new revision to action=edit output
+* (bug 18554) Also list hidden revisions in list=usercontribs for privileged
+ users
+* (bug 13049) "API must be accessed from the primary script entry point" error
+* (bug 16422) Don't display help for format=jsonfm unless specifically requested
+* Added PHP and database version to meta=siteinfo output
+* (bug 18533) Add readonly message to meta=siteinfo output
+* (bug 18518) Add clprop=hidden to prop=categories
+* (bug 18710) Fixed internal error with empty parameter in action=paraminfo
+* (bug 18709) Missing descriptions for some parameters in action=paraminfo
+ output
+* (bug 18731) Show correct SVN links for extension modules in api.php?version
+* (bug 18730) Add version information to action=paraminfo output
+* (bug 18743) Add ucprop=size to list=usercontribs
+* (bug 18749) Add generator flag to action=paraminfo output
+* Make action=block respect $wgEnableUserEmail and $wgSysopEmailBans
+* Made deleting file description pages without files possible
+* (bug 18773) Add content flag to siprop=namespaces output
+* (bug 18785) Add siprop=languages to meta=siteinfo
+* (bug 14200) Added user and excludeuser parameters to list=watchlist and
+ list=recentchanges
+* Added index, fromtitle and byteoffset fields to action=parse&prop=sections
+ output
+* (bug 19313) action=rollback returns wrong revid on master/slave setups
+* (bug 19323) action=parse doesn't return section tree on pages with Cite
+ warnings
+* (bug 18720) Add anchor field to action=parse&prop=sections output
+* (bug 19423) The initial file description page used caption in user lang
+ rather than UI lang
+* (bug 17809) Add number of users in user groups to meta=siteinfo
+* (bug 18533) Add readonly reason to readonly exception
+* (bug 19528) Added XSLT parameter to API queries in format=xml
+* (bug 19040) Fix prependtext and appendtext in combination with section
+ parameter in action=edit
+* (bug 19090) Added watchlist parameter, deprecated watch and unwatch
+ parameter in action=edit
+* Added fields to list=search output: size, wordcount, timestamp, snippet
+* Where supported by backend, list=search adds a 'searchinfo' element with
+ optional info: 'totalhits' count and 'suggestion' alternate query term
+* (bug 19907) $wgCrossSiteAJAXdomains added to allow specified (or all)
+ external domains to access api.php via AJAX, if the browser supports the
+ Access-Control-Allow-Origin HTTP header
+* (bug 19999) Made metadata and properties of search results optional. Added
+ srprop and srinfo.
+* (bug 20700) Add amprop=default to meta=allmessages to list default value for
+ customized messages
+* Don't parse magic words in meta=allmessages, output messages unparsed
+* (bug 21105) list=usercontribs can now list contribs for User:0
+* (bug 21085) list=deletedrevs no longer returns only one revision when
+ drcontinue param is passed
+* (bug 21106) Deprecated parameters now tagged in action=paraminfo
+* (bug 19004) Added support for tags
+* (bug 21083) list=allusers no longer returns current timestamp for users
+ without registration date
+* (bug 20967) action=edit allows creation of invalid titles
+* (bug 19523) Add inprop=watched to prop=info
+* (bug 21589) API: Separate summary and initial page text for uploads
+* (bug 21817) list=usercontribs returns empty result for empty ucuser
+* (bug 21441) meta=userinfo&uiprop=options no longer returns default options
+ for logged-in users under certain circumstances
+* (bug 21945) Add chomp control in YAML
+* Expand the thumburl to an absolute url to make it consistent with url and
+ descriptionurl
+* (bug 20233) ApiLogin::execute() doesn't handle LoginForm :: RESET_PASS
+* (bug 22061) API: add prop=headitems to action=parse
+* (bug 22240) API: include time in siteinfo
+* (bug 22241) Quick edit is still using the deprecated watch parameter (API: Setting default for watch/unwatch wrongly set)
+* (bug 22245) blfilterredirect=nonredirects in blredirect mode wrongly filtering
+* (bug 22248) Output extension URLs in meta=siteinfo&siprop=extensions
+* Support key-params arrays in 'descriptionmsg' in meta=siteinfo&siprop=extensions
+* (bug 21922) YAML output should quote asterisk when used as key
+* (bug 22297) safesubst: to allow substitution without breaking transclusion
+* (bug 18758) API read of watchlist's wl_notificationtimestamp
+* (bug 20809) Expose EditFormPreloadText via the API
+* (bug 18427) Comment (edit summary) parser option for API
+* (bug 18608) API should provide list of CSS styles to apply to rendered output
+* (bug 18771) List possible errors in action=paraminfo
+
+=== Languages updated in 1.16 ===
+
+MediaWiki supports over 300 languages. Many localisations are updated
+regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
+changes to languages because of MediaZilla reports.
+
+* Capiznon (cps) (new)
+* North Frisian (frr) (new)
+* Kirmanjki (kiu) (new)
+* Komi-Permyak (koi) (new)
+* Karachay-Balkar (krc) (new)
+* Hill Mari (mrj) (new)
+* Prussian (prg) (new)
+* Romagnol (rgn) (new)
+* Lower Silesian (sli) (new)
+* Picard (pcd) (new)
+* Uyghur (Arabic script) (ug-arab) (new)
+* Upper Franconian (vmf) (new)
+* Votic (vot) (new)
+* Eastern Yiddish (ydd) (removed)
+* Iriga Bicolano (bto) (removed)
+* Ladin (lld) (removed)
+* Laz (lzz) (removed)
+* Palembang (plm) (removed)
+* Megleno-Romanian (Greek script) (ruq-grek) (removed)
+* Tamazight (tzm) (removed)
+* Laz (lzz) (new)
+
+* (bug 18474) Sorani (ckb - Central Kurdish) (renamed from ku-arab)
+* Add PLURAL function for Scots Gaelic (gd)
+* Add Estonian letters äöõšüž to linktrail (et)
+* (bug 18776) Native name of Burmese language (my)
+* (bug 18806) Use correct unicode characters in spelling of native Chuvash
+ (Чӑвашла)
+* (bug 18864) Updated autonym for Zhuang language
+* (bug 18308) Updated date formatting in Occitan (oc)
+* (bug 19080) Added ăâîşţșțĂÂÎŞŢȘȚ to Romanion (ro) linktrail
+* (bug 19286) Correct commafying function in Polish (pl)
+* (bug 19441) Updated date formatting for Lithuanian
+* (bug 19630) Added ÄäÇçĞğŇňÖöŞşÜüÝýŽž to Turkmen (tk) linktrail
+* (bug 19949) New linktrail for Greek (el)
+* (bug 19809) Korean (North Korea) (ko-kp) (new)
+* (bug 19968) Fixed "Project talk" namespace name for Maltese (mt)
+* (bug 21168) Added áâãàéêçíóôõúü to Portuguese (pt) linktrail
+* (bug 21596) Change interwiki link for Kurdish (ku)
+
== MediaWiki 1.15 ==
=== Configuration changes in 1.15 ===
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.
-== MediaWiki 1.16 ==
+== MediaWiki 1.17 ==
THIS IS NOT A RELEASE YET
Those wishing to use the latest code instead of a branch release can obtain
it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN
-=== Configuration changes in 1.16 ===
-
-* (bug 18222) $wgMinimalPasswordLength default is now 1
-* $wgSessionHandler can be used to configure session.save_handler
-* $wgLocalFileRepo/$wgForeignFileRepos now have a 'fileMode' parameter to
- be used when uploading/moving files
-* (bug 18761) $wgHiddenPrefs is a new array for specifying preferences not
- to be shown to users
-* $wgAllowRealName and $wgAllowUserSkin were deprecated in favor of
- $wgHiddenPrefs[] = 'realname', but the former are still retained
- for backwards-compatibility
-* (bug 9257) $wgRCMaxAge now defaults to three months
-* $wgDevelopmentWarnings can be set to true to show warnings about deprecated
- functions and other potential errors when developing.
-* Subpages are now enabled in the MediaWiki namespace by default. This is
- mainly a cosmetic change, and does not in any way affect the MessageCache,
- which was already effectively treating the namespace as if it had subpages.
-* (bug 10837) $wgVariant is a user variant selected in the user's preferences
- if the $wgContLang does not have variant, then the $wgLang is used instead.
-* Oracle: maintenance/ora/user.sql script for creating DB user on oracle with
- appropriate privileges. Creating this user with web-install page requires
- oci8.privileged_connect set to On in php.ini.
-* Removed UserrightsChangeableGroups hook introduced in 1.14
-* Added $wgCacheDirectory, to replace $wgFileCacheDirectory,
- $wgLocalMessageCache, and any other local caches which need a place to put
- files.
-* $wgFileCacheDirectory is no longer set to anything by default, and so either
- needs to be set explicitly, or $wgCacheDirectory needs to be set instead.
-* $wgLocalMessageCache has been removed. Instead, set $wgUseLocalMessageCache
- to true
-* Removed $wgEnableSerializedMessages and $wgCheckSerialized. Similar
- functionality is now available via $wgLocalisationCacheConf.
-* $wgMessageCache->addMessages() is deprecated. Messages added via this
- interface will not appear in Special:AllMessages.
-* $wgRegisterInternalExternals can be used to record external links pointing
- to same server
-* (bug 19907) $wgCrossSiteAJAXdomains and $wgCrossSiteAJAXdomainExceptions added
- to control which external domains may access the API via cross-site AJAX.
-* $wgMaintenanceScripts for extensions to add their scripts to the default list
-* $wgMemoryLimit has been added, default value '50M'
-* $wgExtraRandompageSQL is deprecated, the SpecialRandomGetRandomTitle hook
- should be used instead
-* (bug 20489) $wgIllegalFileChars added to override the default list of illegal
- characters in file names.
-* (bug 19646) $wgImgAuthDetails added to display reason access to uploaded file
- was denied to users(img_auth only)
-* (bug 19646) $wgImgAuthPublicTest added to test to see if img_auth set up
- correctly (img_auth only)
-* $wgUploadMaintenance added to disable file deletions and restorations during
- maintenance
-* $wgCapitalLinkOverrides added to configure per-namespace capitalization
-* (bug 21172) $wgSorbsUrl can now be an array with multiple DNSBL and renamed
- to $wgDnsBlacklistUrls (backward compatibility kept)
-* $wgEnableHtmlDiff has been removed
-* (bug 3340) $wgBlockCIDRLimit added (default: 16) to configure the low end of
- CIDR ranges for blocking
-* $wgUseInstantCommons added for quick and easy enabling of Commons as a remote
- file repository
-* $wgDBAhandler added to choose a DBA handler when using CACHE_DBA
-* $wgPreviewOnOpenNamespaces for extensions that create namespaces that behave
- similarly to the category namespace.
-* $wgEnableSorbs renamed to $wgDnsBlacklistUrls ($wgEnableSorbs kept for
- backward compatibility)
-* $wgUploadNavigationUrl now also affects images inline images that do not
- exist. In that case the URL will get (?|&)wpDestFile=<filename> appended to
- it as appropriate.
-* If $wgLocaltimezone is null, use the server's timezone as the default for
- signatures. This was always the behaviour documented in DefaultSettings.php
- but has not been the actual behaviour for some time: instead, UTC was used
- by default.
-* Added $wgExtensionAssetsPath, to decouple assets serving from $wgScriptPath.
- If not specified it will default to $wgScriptPath/extensions
-* Added $wgCountTotalSearchHits to make search UI display total number of hits
- with some search engines.
-* Added $wgAdvertisedFeedTypes to decide what feed types (RSS, Atom, both, or
- neither) MediaWiki advertises. Default is array( 'atom' ), so RSS is no
- longer advertised by default (but it still works).
-* Added $wgMemCachedTimeout, controls how long to wait for data from the
- memcached servers.
-* New configuration variables $wgDebugTimestamps and $wgDebugPrintHttpHeaders
- for controlling debug output.
-* New $wgBlockDisablesLogin when set to true disallows blocked users from
- logging in.
-* (bug 8790) Metadata edition ($wgUseMetadataEdit) has been moved to a separate
- extension "MetadataEdit".
-
-=== New features in 1.16 ===
-
-* Add CSS defintion of the 'wikitable' class to shared.css
-* (bug 17163) Added MediaWiki:Talkpageheader which will be displayed when
- viewing talk pages
-* Superfluous border="0" removed from images
-* Added new hook 'MessageCacheReplace' into MessageCache.php. For instance
- to allow extensions to update caches in similar way as MediaWiki invalidates
- a cached MonoBook sidebar
-* Special:AllPages: Move hardcoded styles from code to CSS
-* (bug 18529) New hook: SoftwareInfo for adding information about the software
- to Special:Version
-* Added $wgExtPGAlteredFields to allow extensions to easily alter the data
- type of columns when using the Postgres backend.
-* (bug 16950) Show move log when viewing/creating a deleted page
-* (bug 18242) Show the Subversion revision number per extensions in
- Special:Version
-* (bug 18420) Missing file revisions are handled gracefully now
-* (bug 9219) Auth plugins can control editing RealName/Email/Nick preferences
-* (bug 18466) Add note or warning when overruling a move (semi-)protection
-* (bug 18342) insertTags works in edit summary box
-* (bug 18411) The upload form also checks post_max_size
-* Watchlist now has a specialized <div> tag that contains a unique class for
- each page
-* Added Minguo calendar support for the Taiwan Chinese language
-* Database: unionQueries function to be used for UNION sql construction, so
- it can be overloaded on DB abstraction level for DB specific functionality
-* (bug 18849) Implement Japanese and North Korean calendars
-* (bug 5755) Introduce {{CURRENTMONTH1}} and {{LOCALMONTH1}} to display the
- month number without the leading zero
-* (bug 13456) categoriespagetext supports PLURAL
-* (bug 18860) Blocks of IPs affecting registered users can now block email
-* (bug 17093) Date and time are separate parameters in Special:BlockList
-* (bug 11484) Added ISO speed rating to default collapsed EXIF metadata view
-* (bug 14866) Messages 'recentchangeslinked-toolbox' and
- 'recentchangeslinked-toolbox' were added to allow more fine grained
- customisation of the user interface
-* DISPLAYTITLE now accepts a limited amount of wiki markup (the single-quote
- items)
-* Special:Search now could search terms in all variant-forms. ONLY apply on
- wikis enabled LanguageConverter.
-* Add autopromote condition APCOND_BLOCKED to autopromote blocked users to
- various user groups.
-* Add $wgRevokePermissions as a means of restricting a group's rights. The
- syntax is identical to $wgGroupPermissions, but users in these groups will
- have these rights stripped from them.
-* Added a PHP port of CDB (constant database), for improved local caching when
- the DBA extension is not available.
-* Introduced a new system for localisation caching. The system is based around
- fast fetches of individual messages, minimising memory overhead and startup
- time in the typical case. The database backend will be used by default, but
- set $wgCacheDirectory to get a faster CDB-based implementation.
-* Expanded the number of variables which can be set in the extension messages
- files.
-* Added a feature to allow per-article process pool size control for the parsing
- task, to limit resource usage when the cache for a heavily-viewed article is
- invalidated. Requires an external daemon.
-* (bug 19576) Moved the id attribues from the anchors accompanying section
- headers to the <span class="mw-headline"> elements within the section headers,
- removing the redundant anchor elements.
-* Parser::setFunctionTagHook now can be used to add a new tag which is parsed at
- preprocesor level.
-* Added $wgShowArchiveThumbnails, allowing sysadmins to disable thumbnail
- display for old versions of images.
-* In watchlists and Special:RecentChanges, the difference in page size now
- appears in dark green if bytes were added and dark red if bytes were removed.
-* Added FSRepo configuration properties thumbUrl and thumbDir, to allow the
- thumbnails to be stored in a separate location to the source images.
-* If config/ directory is not executable, the command to make it executable
- now asks the user to cd to the correct directory
-* Add experimental new external authentication framework, ExternalAuth
-* (bug 18768) Remove AdminSettings requirements. Maintenance environment
- will still load it if it exists, but it's not required for anything
-* (bug 19900) The "listgrouprights-key" message is now wrapped in a div with
- class "mw-listgrouprights-key"
-* (bug 471) Allow RSS feeds for watchlist, using an opt-in security token
-* (bug 10812) Interwiki links can have names and descriptions, fetched from
- message 'interwiki-desc-PREFIX', not really used anywhere yet though
-* (bug 9691) Add type (signup or login) parameter to
- AuthPlugin::ModifyUITemplate()
-* (bug 14454) "Member of group(s)" in Special:Preferences causes language
- difficulties
-* (bug 16697) Unicode combining characters are difficult to edit in some
- browsers
-* Parser test supports uploading results to remote CodeReview instance
-* (bug 20013) Added CSS class "mw-version-ext-version" is wrapped on the
- extension version in Special:Version
-* (bug 20014) Added CSS class "mw-listgrouprights-right-name" is wrapped on the
- right name in Special:ListGroupRights
-* (bug 12920) New CoreParserFunction {{nse:...}} as an url-friendly equivalent
- to {{ns:...}}
-* (bug 16322) Allow maintenance scripts to accept DB user/pass over input or
- params
-* (bug 18566) Maintenance script to un/protect pages
-* (bug 671) The HTML <abbr> tag is now permitted.
-* RecentChanges now has a legend to explain what the Nmb! flags mean, and the
- flags have tooltips.
-* (bug 15209) New hook BeforeInitialize called after everything has been setup
- but before Mediawiki::performRequestForTitle()
-* wgMainPageTitle variable now available to JavaScript code to identify the main
- page link, so it doesn't have to be extracted from the link URLs.
-* (bug 16836) Display preview of signature in user preferences and describe its
- use
-* The default output format is now HTML 5 instead of XHTML 1.0 Transitional.
- This can be disabled by setting $wgHtml5 = false;. Specific features enabled
- if HTML 5 is used:
-** New HTML 5 input attributes allow JavaScript-free input validation in some
- cutting-edge browsers. E.g., some inputs will be autofocused, users will
- not be allowed to submit forms with certain types of invalid values (like
- numbers outside the permitted ranges), etc.
-** The summary attribute has been removed from tables of contents. summary is
- obsolete in HTML 5 and wasn't useful here anyway.
-** Unnecessary type="" attribute removed for CSS and JS.
-** If $wgWellFormedXml is set to false, some bytes will be shaved off of HTML
- output by omitting some things like quotation marks where HTML 5 allows.
-** (bug 16921) maxlength enabled for page move comments
-* The description message in $wgExtensionCredits can be an array with parameters
-* New hook SpecialRandomGetRandomTitle allows extensions to modify the selection
- criteria used by Special:Random and subclasses, or substitute a custom result,
- deprecating the $wgExtraRandompageSQL config variable
-* (bug 20318) Distinct CSS classes for ISBN/RFC/PMID special links added
-* (bug 20404) Custom fields in the user creation form template can now have
- detail labels in prefsectiontip divs.
-* MakeSysop and MakeBot are now aliases for Special:UserRights
-* IndexPager->mLimitsShown can now be an associative array of limit => text-to-
- display-in-limit-form.
-* (bug 18880) LogEventsList::showLogExtract() can now take a string-by-reference
- and add its HTML to it, rather than having to go straight to $wgOut.
-* Added $wgShowDBErrorBacktrace, to allow users to easily gather backtraces for
- database connection and query errors.
-* Show change block / unblock link on Special:Contributions if user is blocked
-* Display note on Special:Contributions if the user is blocked, and provide an
- excerpt from the block log.
-* (bug 19646) New hook: ImgAuthBeforeStream for tests and functionality before
- file is streamed to user, but only when using img_auth
-* Note on non-existing user and user talk pages if user does not exist
-* New hook ShowMissingArticle so extensions can modify the output for
- non-existent pages.
-* Added $wgUseAJAXCategories allow enabling AJAX based categories system.
- This works on all namespaces. Enabled namespaces can be reduces using
- $wgAJAXCategoriesNamespaces.
-* Admins could disable some variants using $wgDisabledVariants now. ONLY apply
- on wikis enabled LanguageConverter.
-* (bug 16310) Credits page now lists IP addresses rather than saying the number
- of anonymous users that edited the page
-* New permission 'sendemail' added. Default right for all registered users. Can
- for example be used to prevent new accounts from sending spam.
-* (bug 16979) Tracking categories for __INDEX__ and __NOINDEX__
-* Two new hooks, ConfirmEmailComplete and InvalidateEmailComplete, which are
- called after a user's email has been successfully confirmed or invalidated.
-* (bug 19741) Moved the XCF files out of the main MediaWiki distribution, for
- a smaller subversion checkout.
-* (bug 13750) First letter capitalization can now be a per-namespace setting
-* (bug 21073) "User does not exist" message no longer displayed on sub-sub-pages
- of existing users
-* (bug 21095) Tracking categories produced by the parser (expensive parser
- function limit exceeded, __NOINDEX__ tracking, etc) can now be disabled by
- setting the system message ([[MediaWiki:expensive-parserfunction-category]]
- etc) to "-".
-* Added maintenance script sqlite.php for SQLite-specific maintenance tasks.
-* Rewrote Special:Upload to allow easier extension.
-* Upload errors that can be solved by changing the filename now do not require
- reuploading.
-* Added $wgRateLimitsExcludedIPs, to allow specific IPs to be whitelisted from
- rate limits.
-* (bug 21222) When $wgUseTeX is not enabled, <math> is no longer registered with
- the parser so extensions are free to implement their own <math> tag
-* (bug 21047) Wrap 'cannotdelete' into a div with the generic 'error' class and
- an own 'mw-error-cannotdelete' class
-* New hook AbortNewAccountAuto, called before account creation from AuthPlugin-
- or ExtUser-driven requests.
-* (bug 3480) The warning saying that the page has a history when deleting it now
- contains the number of revisions in the history
-* $wgStylePath and $wgLogo are now set in the default LocalSettings.php file.
-* (bug 20186) Allow filtering history for revision deletion.
-* New hook OtherBlockLogLink, called in Special:IPBlockList and Special:Block
- to show links to block logs of other blocking extensions, i.e. GlobalBlocking
-* Added search capabilities to SQLite backend
-* rebuildtextindex.php maintenance script now supports databases other than
- MySQL
-* upgrade1_5.php now requires to be run --update option to prevent confusion
-* (bug 17662) Customizable default preload/editintro for new sections in the
- respective addsection-preload and addsection-editintro messages
-* Added maintenance script syntaxChecker.php that checks for PHP syntax errors
- and common coding mistakes
-* Updated Unicode normalization tables
-* (bug 21604) Spellcheck attribute for editsummary
-* New wgCategories JavaScript global variable for userscripts.
-* (bug 20717) Added checkboxes to hide users with bot and/or sysop group
- membership in SpecialActiveusers
-* Allow \pagecolor and \definecolor in texvc
-* $wgTexvcBackgroundColor contains background color for texvc call
-* (bug 21574) Redirects can now have "303 See Other" HTTP status
-* EditPage refactored to allow extensions to derive new edit modes much easier.
-* (bug 21826) Subsections of Special:Version now also have anchors
-* (bug 19791) Add URL of file source as comment to thumbs (for ImageMagick)
-* (bug 21946) Sorted wikitables do not properly handle minus signs
-* (bug 18885) Red links for media files do not support shared repositories
-* Added $wgFixArabicUnicode, to convert deprecated presentation forms in
- Arabic text to their modern equivalents, and $wgFixMalayalamUnicode, to
- convert ZWJ-based chillu sequences in Malayalam text to their Unicode 5.1
- equivalents.
-* (bug 22051) Returing false in SpecialContributionsBeforeMainOutput hook now
- stops normal output
-* Send new password e-mail in users preference language
-* LanguageConverter now support nested using of manual convert syntax like
- "-{-{}-}-"
-* Upload license preview now uses the API instead of action=ajax
-* (bug 7346) Add <guid> to RSS to avoid duplicates
-* (bug 19996) Added new hooks for Special:Search, which allow to further
- restrict/expand it.
-* (bug 21936) When a revision has been patrolled, there's now a link back to the
- article
-* (bug 22315) SpecialRecentChangesQuery hook now pass $query_options and checks
- the return value
-* Separate unit test suites under t/ and tests/ were merged and moved to
- maintenance/tests/.
-* importImages.php maintenance script can now use the original uploader and
-comment from another wiki.
-* Support for Turck MMCache was removed
-* (bug 14592) Warn users when they try to move their user page that their
- account will not be renamed
-* Show block log on non-existing user (talk) pages of currently blocked users
-
-=== Bug fixes in 1.16 ===
-
-* (bug 18031) Make namespace selector on Special:Export remember the previous
- selection
-* The svn-version version numbers on Special:Version have been removed
-* (bug 17374) Special:Export no longer exports two copies of the same page
-* (bug 18190) Proper parsing in MediaWiki:Sharedupload message
-* (bug 17617) HTML cleanup for ImagePage
-* (bug 17964) namespaceDupes.php no longer fails on an empty interwiki table
-* Improved error handling for image moving
-* (bug 17974) On Special:SpecialPages, restricted special pages are now marked
- with <strong> tags, helps with text-based browsers
-* (bug 18259) Special:DeletedContributions now also uses
- MediaWiki:Sp-contributions-logs for the link to Special:Log
-* Don't add empty title="" attributes to links to anchors on the current page
-* (bug 18291) rebuildrecentchanges.php failed to add deletion log entries
-* (bug 18304) rebuildrecentchanges.php got size changes wrong
-* (bug 18170) Fixed a PHP warning in Parser::preSaveTransform() in PHP 5.3
-* (bug 18289) Database connection error page now returns correct HTML
-* "successbox", "errorbox" and related CSS classes are now available in all
- skins
-* (bug 18316) Removed superfluous name="fulltext" from Special:Search
-* (bug 18331) MediaWiki:Undelete-revision can now have wikitext
-* The "noautoblock" flag is no longer displayed in the block log when blocking
- an IP address
-* (bug 18009) $wgHooks and $wgExtensionFunctions now support closures
-* (bug 17948) Maintenance scripts now exit(0) or exit(1) as appropriate
-* (bug 18377) Time in Enhanced ChangesList lacking localisation
-* (bug 12998) Allow <sup>, <sub>, etc. in DISPLAYTITLE
-* (bug 1553) Lowercase navigation headings in German
-* (bug 7830) Pending transactions failed to commit on loginToUse() error
-* (bug 11613) session.save_handler being over-ridden
-* (bug 11381) session.save_handler being set twice (causes error)
-* (bug 17835) ForeignAPIRepo throwing error on first page load for file
-* (bug 18115) ForeignAPIRepo cache isn't working
-* Fixed a bug caused by LanguageConverter.php, which brings an abnormal '}-'
- after some parsed math syntax.
-* (bug 18441) rebuildrecentchanges.inc no longer ignores $wgLogRestrictions
-* (bug 18317) Bolded selections in 1 | 3 | etc days on RecentChanges now use
- <strong> instead of hardcoded styles
-* (bug 18449) Fixed items number per column on category pages when the total is
- divisible by 3
-* (bug 18121) maintenance/deleteArchivedRevisions.php no longer deletes
- revisions when --delete is not passed
-* (bug 13172) GPS coordinates in image Exif data are now actually displayed
-* Overhaul of preferences system, includes the following bug fixes:
-** (bug 5363) Changes to default preferences now impact registered users.
-** (bug 14806) Hook to enable putting preferences in existing tabs.
-** (bug 17191) Registration date now listed on preferences page.
-** The user_properties table (now used for storing preferences) has been added
- to $wgSharedTables.
-** Note that this change will break some extensions which have not been adapted
- for it.
-* (bug 17020) Adding fallback encodings for Traditional and Simplified Chinese
- languages while the the text is typed as URLs.
-* (bug 17614) Prev / Next links are not shown if all results are shown
-* (bug 18207) Strange spacing before [[irc:...]] links
-* Removed float from the user login form in RTL interface - caused display
- problems in FF2
-* (bug 15008) Redirect images are now subject to Bad image list rules
-* (bug 6802) profileinfo.php now also work on other database servers than MySQL
-* (bug 16925) Diffs no longer fail when $wgExternalDiffEngine is set to
- 'wikidiff' or 'wikidiff2' but extension is not installed
-* (bug 18326) Chmod errors in file repos have been hidden
-* (bug 18718) Comma after a } create a error in IE
-* (bug 18716) Removed redundant class in Modern skin CSS for category links and
- tweaked spacing.
-* (bug 18656) Use proper directory separators in wfMkdirParents()
-* (bug 18549) Make Special:Blockip respect $wgEnableUserEmail and
- $wgSysopEmailBans
-* (bug 16912) Tooltips on images with link= disappear
-* (bug 18389) Localise numbers in EXIF data
-* (bug 18522) Wrap MediaWiki:Protect-cascadeon in a div for identification
-* (bug 18438) Tweak HTML for preview bar for consistency and accessibility
-* (bug 18432) Updated documentation for dumpBackup.php
-* Fix array logic in Sanitizer::removeHTMLtags so that it doesn't strip good
- tags that were redundantly defined.
-* (bug 14118) SpecialPage::getTitleFor does not return a localised name
-* (bug 18698) Renaming non entry point maintenance scripts from .inc.php to
- .inc
-* Deprecated methods Title::getInterwikiLink, Title::userCanCreate(),
- Title::userCanEdit() and Title::userCanMove() have been removed
-* Only show upload links on file description if $wgEnableUploads = true
- and user can upload
-* Don't say "You need to log in to upload/move", because it's possible that
- uploading/moving is disabled for registered users as well (e.g. only sysops)
-* (bug 18943) Handle invalid titles gracefully at Special:Mostlinked
-* (bug 8873) Enable variant conversion in text on 'alt' and 'title' attributes
-* (bug 10837) Introducing the StubUserVariant class to determine the variant
- variable instead of using this to overrules the user language preference.
-* (bug 19014) If user had deletedhistory right, but not undeleted right, then
- show "view" instead of "view/restore" on logs.
-* (bug 19017) TOC level calculation error in an odd case
-* (bug 18999) CSS update for RTL interwiki links
-* (bug 18925) history.js removes class names of list elements on initialization
-* Multiple whitespace in TOC anchors is now stripped, for consistency with the
- link from the edit comment
-* (bug 19112) Preferences now respects $wgUseExternalEditor
-* (bug 18173) MediaWiki now fails when unable to determine a client IP
-* (bug 19170) Special:Version should follow the content language direction
-* (bug 19160) maintenance/purgeOldText.inc is now compatible with PostgreSQL
-* Fixed performance regression in "bad image list" feature
-* Show user preference 'Use live preview' if $wgLivePreview is enabled only
-* (bug 17014) Blocked users can no longer use Special:UserRights unless they
- can add/remove *all* groups (have 'userrights' permission).
-* (bug 19294) Always show Sp-contributions-footer(-anon)
-* Attempts to restrict reading of pages while anonymous viewing is allowed
- via extensions not using the userCan hook and via $wgRevokePermissions now
- work.
-* (bug 8445) Multiple-character search terms are now handled properly for
- Chinese
-* (bug 19450) Use formatNum for "Number of edits" in Special:Preferences
-* (bug 11242) Check for MySQL storage engines during installation now checks
- whether the engines are actually available
-* (bug 19390) Omit the "printable version" link on the printable version
-* (bug 18394) img_auth.php now respects userCan
-* (bug 19509) Uploading to a file named '0' previously treated it as null input
- and attempted to upload with the source name. Now warns about not having an
- extension (since 0.ext is perfectly valid)
-* (bug 19468) Enotif preferences are now only displayed when they are turned on
-* (bug 19442) Show/hide options on watchlist only work once
-* (bug 19602) PubMed Magic links now use updated NIH url
-* (bug 19637) externallinks have links to self
-* Don't load Opera 9.5 RTL fixes for Opera 9.6
-* Remove five-year-old KHTMLFixes.css, which is unlikely to be relevant anymore
- and was causing problems.
-* Removed repetition of URIs in the title attributes of external links.
-* (bug 19693) User name is now escaped in "Contributions for ..." link on
- Special:BlockIP
-* (bug 19571) Override buildConcat for SQLite.
-* Log in and log out links no longer return to page view when clicked from
- history view, edit page, or something similar
-* (bug 19513) RTL fixes for new Search UI
-* (bug 16497) Special:Allmessages is paginated
-* (bug 18708) CSS plainlinks class now available to all skins
-* (bug 19590) Database error messages no longer have "MySQL" hardcoded as the
- database type
-* (bug 19759) successbox on Special:Preferences now correctly aligned on
- standard, nostalgia and cologneblue skin
-* (bug 19814) interwiki links from file links ([[File:Foo.jpg|link=de:Test]])
- are no longer recorded in the pagelinks table
-* (bug 19784) date option "ISO 8601" produced illegal id
-* (bug 19761) Removed autogenerated <meta keywords> tag with link data.
- Keyword set was not useful, and is ignored by modern search engines anway.
-* (bug 19827) Special:SpecialPages title is "Upload file
-* (bug 19355) Added .xhtml, .xht to upload file extension blacklist
-* (bug 19287) Workaround for lag on history page in Firefox 3.5
-* (bug 19564) Updated docs/hooks.txt
-* (bug 18751) Fix for buggage in profiling setup for some extensions on PHP 5.1
-* (bug 17139) ts_resortTable inconsistent trimming makes date sorting fragile
-* (bug 19445) Change oldimage table to use ON UPDATE CASCADE for FK to image
- table.
-* (bug 14080) Short notation links to subpages didn't work in edit summaries
-* (bug 17374) Special:Export no longer exports multiple copies of pages
-* (bug 19818) Edits to user CSS/JS subpages can now be marked as patrolled by
- users who can't edit them
-* (bug 19839) Comments in log items are no more double escaped
-* (bug 18161) Fix inconsistent separators in watchlist link toolbars with
- "enhanced recent changes"
-* (bug 16877) Moving a page over a redirect no longer leaves an orphan entry in
- the recentchanges table
-* (bug 16009) Limit selection forms based on Pager now links to the correct page
- when using long urls
-* The display of the language list on the preferences is more comply with the
- BCP 47 standards.
-* (bug 19849) Custom X-Vary-Options header now disabled unless $wgUseXVO is set
-* (bug 19301) Duplicates entries in $wgAddGroups, $wgRemoveGroups,
- $wgGroupsAddToSelf and $wgGroupsRemoveFromSelf are no more displayed on
- Special:ListGroupRights
-* (bug 18799) Special:Userlogin now handles correctly the returnto parameter
- to not link back to Special:Userlogout when user's language isn't the same as
- content's language
-* (bug 19479) Show proper error message when unable to connect to PostgreSQL
- database with username/password in MediaWiki's setup
-* (bugs 18407, 18409) Special:Upload is now listed on Special:Specialpages only
- if uploads are enabled and the user can access it
-* (bug 17988) Spaces before [[Category:]] links are no longer ignored
-* (bug 19957) All known-failing tests now marked disabled; added --run-disabled
- option to parser test suite to run disabled tests if desired.
-* (bug 16311) Make recent change flags (n/m/b) <abbr>s instead of <span>s
-* (bug 15680) Split the edit tip message of user CSS/JS subpage into
- "usercssyoucanpreview" and "userjsyoucanpreview" respectively.
-* (bug 12110) Split the rights for editing users' CSS/JS subpage from
- "editusercssjs" into "editusercss" and edituserjs" respectively.
-* (bug 19394) RecentChanges feed URLs for log items with no revisions
- (eg Newuser, Userrights) are no longer broken
-* (bug 17395) Remote file descriptions use user language ($wgLang), not wiki
- language ($wgContLang)
-* (bug 11867) Lock error on redirect table when running orphans.php
-* (bug 18930) initStats.php now refreshes active users count
-* (bug 18699) Using the nosummary URL option no longer triggers the "You have
- not provided a summary" warning for those who activated it in their
- preferences
-* (bug 18855) commandLine.inc and Maintenance.php are now properly included
- using the full path
-* (bug 18497) Fixed broken style sheets in Opera fullscreen mode
-* (bug 16084) Default memory limit has be increased to 50M, see $wgMemoryLimit
-* (bug 17864/19519) Added proper input normalization in Special:UserRights
-* (bug 20086) Add Hook to add extra statistics at the end of Special:Statistics
-* (bug 19289) importDump.php can now handle bzip2 and 7zip
-* (bug 20131) Fixed a PHP notice for users having the "rollback" right on
- Special:RecentChangesLinked
-* Do not transform EXIF fields with pure text to avoid results like
- foo,bar@example,com
-* (bug 20176) Fix login/logout links in skin CologneBlue
-* (bug 20203) "Powered by Mediawiki" now has height/width on image tag
-* (bug 20273) Fix broken output when no pages are found in the content
- namespaces
-* (bug 20265) Make AncientPages and UnusedFiles work on SQLite
-* Fixed XSS vulnerability for Internet Explorer clients (only pre-release
- versions of MediaWiki were affected).
-* (bug 14817) Moving a page to a subpage of itself moves it twice
-* (bug 20289) $wgMaximumMovedPages should only count pages actually moved
-* (bug 15248) Non-breaking spaces and certain other Unicode space characters
- are now normalized to ordinary spaces in titles; if your wiki has existing
- titles with such characters, run cleanupTitles.php and/or cleanupImages.php
-* (bug 11143) Links containing invalid UTF-8 percent-code sequences are now
- cleanly disabled instead of breaking parsing entirely on PHP 5.2.
-* (bug 20296) Fixed an PHP warning in Language::getMagic() in PHP 5.3
-* (bug 20358) Unprotect tab was missing accesskey; now same as protect tab.
-* (bug 20317) Cleaned up default main page link accesskey settings
-* (bug 20362) Special:Statistics now produces valid HTML when view counters are
- enabled
-* (bug 19857) maintenance/deleteRevision.php on last revision no longer breaks
- target page
-* (bug 20365) Page name with with c/g/h/j/s/u + x are now correctly handled in
- Special:MovePage with Esperanto as content language
-* (bug 20364) Fixed regression in GIF metadata loading
-* (bug 20299) MediaWiki:Move-subpages and MediaWiki:Move-talk-subpages can now
- use wikitext
-* (bug 15475) DatabaseBase::setFlag(), DatabaseBase::clearFlag() and
- DatabaseBase::getFlag() now have documentation
-* (bug 19966) MediaWiki:License-header is now used for the licensing header in
- the file description page instead of MediaWiki:License
-* (bug 20380) Links to history/deleted edits at the top of
- Special:RevisionDelete are no more displayed when when doing log suppression
-* (bug 8143) Localised parser function names are now correctly case insensitive
- if they contain non-ASCII characters
-* (bug 19055) maintenance/rebuildrecentchanges.php now purges
- Special:Recentchanges's RSS and Atom feed cache
-* The installer will now try to bypass PHP's max_execution_time
-* (bug 20260) SQLite no longer tries to automatically create the database at
- execution time, this now happens only at install time; if it is not available
- at script execution, it now throws an exception
-* Fixed EditFilterMerged hook so the hookError parameter serves a purpose
- (analogous to EditFilter hook)
-* (bug 2257) Tag extensions can expand template parameters provided to the tag,
- by using a new parameter added to the recursiveTagParse function
-* (bug 14900) __INDEX__ and __NOINDEX__ no longer override site config set in
- $wgArticleRobotPolicies.
-* (bug 20466) Hidden categories are no more displayed when printing
-* (bug 20446) When changing user rights with User@remotewiki and remotewiki is
- the local wiki, the user is now treated as the local user
-* (bug 20494) OutputPage::getArticleBodyOnly() no longer requires an useless
- argument
-* (bug 20136) Protection form JavaScript now synchronizes the expiry boxes on
- any change, in addition to onkeyup.
-* Don't link to "edit this page" on MediaWiki:Noarticletext if user is not
- allowed to create page. Done via new message
- MediaWiki:Noarticletext-nopermission
-* Improved compatibility between the Vector skin and addPortletLink() from
- wikibits.js: empty portlets are now present but hidden, adding an element to a
- portlet unhides it
-* (bug 19531) addPortletLink() now wraps inserted labels in a <span> element to
- be compatible with the CSS for the Vector skin
-* (bug 20578) Wrong localized image metadata - duplicated string?
-* (bug 20556) Stub threshold's "other" <input> in Special:Preferences now has a
- correct type="text" parameter
-* (bug 482) Don't include TOC in the printable version if it has been hidden
-* Adjust the time according to the user configuration on Special:Revisiondelete
-* (bug 20624) Installation no longer allows "qqq" as the chosen language
-* (bug 20634) The installer-created database user will now have all rights on
- the database so that upgrades will go more smoothly.
-* (bug 18180) Special:Export ignores limit, dir, offset parameters
-* User::getBlockedStatus() works for all kinds of user objects and doesn't
- assume the user object is equal to the current-user object ($wgUser)
-* (bug 20517) Cancel link from edit page now returns to the old version when
- editing an old version
-* (bug 16902) Installer no longer shows warnings when exec() has been disabled
- by disable_functions
-* (bug 20726) Title::getLatestRevID's documentation now says that the function
- returns false if the page doesn't exist
-* (bug 20751) ForeignApiRepo now urldecodes filenames when saving to local cache
-* (bug 20730) Fix to Special:Version ViewVC link for branch checkouts
-* (bug 20353) wfShellExec() was adding extra quotes on Windows Vista, causing
- command line scripts to fail
-* (bug 20702) Parser functions can now be used correctly in
- MediaWiki:Missing-article
-* (bug 14117) "redirected from" is now also shown on foreign file redirects
-* (bug 17747) Only display thumbnail column in file history if the image can
- be rendered.
-* (bug 3421) Live preview no longer breaks user CSS/JS previews
-* (bug 11264) The file logo on a file description page for documents (PDF, ...)
- now links to the file rather than the file description page
-* Password fields built with HTMLForm now still have the type="password"
- attribute if $wgHtml5=false.
-* (bug 20836) Preload now works for MediaWiki namespace
-* (bug 20885) Search box no longer suggests unavailable special pages
-* (bug 20948) "Create this page" on Special:Search is no longer displayed when
- searching for special pages
-* (bug 20524) Hideuser: Show nice error when trying to block hidden user without
- hideuser right
-* (bug 21026) Fixed file redirects on shared repos on non-English client wikis
-* (bug 21030) Fixed schema choices from being overwritten by defining unique
- field names per driver.
-* (bug 21115) wgCanonicalSpecialPageName javascript variable is now always
- false on non-special pages
-* (bug 21113) "Other statistics" header on Special:Statistics is no more
- displayed when there isn't any entry in it
-* (bug 21114) Special:Contributions no longer shows diff links for new
- revisions
-* (bug 21116) MediaWiki:Templatesused, MediaWiki:Templatesusedpreview and
- MediaWiki:Templatesusedsection now support plural
-* (bug 21079) There is no more line wrapping between label and field in
- Special:Log
-* (bug 20256) Fixed SQL errors on Special:Recentchanges and
- Special:Recentchangeslinked on SQLite backend
-* (bug 20880) Fixed updater failure on SQLite backend
-* (bug 21182) Fixed invalid HTML in Special:Listgrouprights
-* (bug 20242) Installer no longer promts for user credentials for SQLite
- databases
-* (bug 20911) Installer failed to create a SQLite database
-* (bug 20847) Deprecated deprecated akeytt() removed in wikibits.js leaving
- dummy
-* (bug 21161) Changing $wgCacheEpoch now always invalidates file cache
-* (bug 20268) Fixed row count estimation on SQLite backend
-* (bug 20275) Fixed LIKE queries on SQLite backend
-* (bug 21234) Moving subpages of titles containing \\ now works properly
-* (bug 21006) maintenance/updateArticleCount.php now works again on PostgreSQL
-* (bug 19319) Add activeusers-intro message at top of SpecialActiveUsers page
-* (bug 21255) Fixed hostname construction for DNSBL checking
-* (bug 18019) Users are now warned when moving a file to a name in use on a
- shared repository and only users with the 'reupload-shared' permission can
- complete the move.
-* (bug 18909) Add missing Postgres INSERT SELECT wrapper
-* User::isValidPassword now only returns boolean results,
- User::getPasswordValidity can be used to get an error message string
-* The error message shown in Special:ChangePassword now parses wiki markup
-* (bug 19859) Removed experimental HTMLDiff feature
-* Removed section edit links in edit conflict form
-* Allow SpecialActiveusers to work on non-MySQL databases
-* (bug 6579) Fixed protecting images from uploading only
-* (bug 18609) Search index was empty for some pages
-* (bug 13453) rebuildrecentchanges maintenance script works on PG again
-* (bug 16583) Reduce false positives when checking for PHP (on upload, etc.)
-* (bug 20112) Bitrotted tests in the t/ directory were failing.
-* (bug 21470) MediaWiki:Sp-contributions-explain is now wrapped in a <p> with
- id "mw-sp-contributions-explain"
-* (bug 19159) Fixed \overleftrightarrow in texvc
-* (bug 19391) Fix caching for Recent ChangesFeed.
-* (bug 21455) Fixed "Watch this page" checkbox appearing on some special pages
- even to non-logged in users
-* (bug 21551) Rewrote the Squid purge HTTP client to provide a more robust and
- general implementation of HTTP, allowing it to purge non-Squid caches such as
- Varnish.
-* Fixed corruption of long UDP debug log messages by using socket_sendto()
- instead of fsockopen() with fwrite().
-* (bug 16884) Fixed feed links in sidebar not complying with URL parameters
- of the displayed page
-* (bug 21403) memcached class renamed to MWMemecached to avoid conflict with
- PHP's memcached extension
-* (bug 21650) Both calls to SkinTemplateTabs hook are now compatible
-* (bug 21672) Add missing Accept-Language to both Vary and XVO headers
-* (bug 21679) "Edit block reasons" link at the bottom of Special:Blockip is now
- only displayed to the users that have "editinterface" right
-* (bug 21740) Attempting to protect a page that doesn't exist (salting) returns
- "unknown error"
-* (bug 18762) both redirects and links get fixed one after another if
- redirects-only switch is not present
-* (bug 20159) thumbnails rerendered if older that $wgThumbnailEpoch
-* Fixed a bug which in some situations causes the job queue to grow forever,
- due to an infinite loop of job requeues.
-* (bug 21523) File that can have multiple pages (djvu, pdf, ...) no longer have
- the page selector when they have only one page
-* (bug 21559) "logempty" message is now wrapped in a div with class
- "mw-warning-logempty" when used in log extract
-* (bug 20549) Parser tests were broken on SQLite backend
-* (bug 21776) Interwiki urls like http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/cs: should give
- a redirect instead of a baderror.
-* (bug 21803) Special:MyContributions now keeps the query string parameters
-* Redirecting special pages now keep query string paramters set to "0" (e.g.
- for namespace)
-* (bug 20765) Special:ListGroupRights no longer misses addables and removables
- groups if there are duplicate entries
-* (bug 21814) Message shown when rolling back an edit with a deleted username
- now shows '(username deleted)' instead of broken user tool links
-* (bug 21536) Fixed JavaScript error on Special:Search caused by an incorrect ID
-* (bug 21535) RecentChanges RSS feed now always recognises the namespace filter,
- previously it sometimes didn't due to caching.
-* (bug 20388) ProfilerSimpleText no longer outputs comment on action=raw
-* refreshLinks.php now purges orphaned redirect table rows
-* (bug 2971) Swap links of hist & diff location on Special:Contributions for
- consistency with RC/WL
-* (bug 21986) Special page names were are now capitalized by content language
-* If two log type have the same description, they're now both displayed in the
- type selector on Special:Log
-* (bug 20115) Special:Userlogin title says "Log in / create account" even if the
- user can't create an account
-* (bug 2658) Don't attempt to set the TZ environment variable.
-* (bug 9794) User rights log entries for foreign user now links to the foreign
- user's page if possible
-* (bug 14717) Don't load nonexistent CSS fix files for non-Monobook skins
-* (bug 22034) Use wfClientAcceptsGzip() in wfGzipHandler instead of
- reimplementing it.
-* (bug 19226) First line renders differently on many UI messages.
-* (bug 21303) Comments are no longer stripped from MediaWiki:Common.js and
- skin-specific JS pages
-* (bug 5061) Use the more precise thumbcaption thumbimage and thumbinner classes
- for image divs.
-* (bug 22096) IE50Fixes.css and IE55Fixes.css have been dropped from the Monobook
- and Chick skins
-* Fixed bug involving unclosed "-{" markup in the language converter
-* (bug 21870) No longer include Google logo from an external server on wiki error.
-* (bug 22181) Do not truncate if the ellipsis actually make the string longer
-* (bug 16039) Text disappearing after a bad image
-* (bug 18784) Internal links like [[File:Foo|caption]] should read 'caption',
- not 'File:Foo' when Foo is not an image
-* (bug 21518) Special:UserRights no longer displays the user name box for users
- that can only change their rights
-* (bug 21593) Special:UserRights now lists automatic groups membership
-* (bug 22364) Setting $wgUseExternalEditor to false no longer hides the reupload
- link from file pages
-* Fix bug introduced in MediaWiki 1.12: The author field in
- $wgExtensionCredits is no longer sorted with sort() but rather used
- as it appears in extensions as was the case before r30117 where it
- was unintentionally sorted along with other fields.
-* (bug 19334) Textarea no longer jumps when editing longer articles in IE8
-* Truncate summary of page moves in revision comment field to avoid broken
- multibyte characters
-* (bug 22540) ForeignApiRepos no longer try to store thumbnails that don't exist
-* (bug 22551) Special:Resetpass now has a "Cancel" button that sends the user to
- the page set in the &returnto parameter.
-* (bug 19194) Search box in Modern skin doesn't focus with Safari/Chrome
-
-== API changes in 1.16 ==
-
-* Added uiprop=changeablegroups to meta=userinfo
-* Added usprop=gender to list=users
-* (bug 18311) action=purge now works for images too
-* Add parentid to prop=revisions output
-* (bug 17832) action=delete returns 'unknownerror' instead of 'permissiondenied'
- when the user is blocked
-* (bug 18546) Added timestamp of new revision to action=edit output
-* (bug 18554) Also list hidden revisions in list=usercontribs for privileged
- users
-* (bug 13049) "API must be accessed from the primary script entry point" error
-* (bug 16422) Don't display help for format=jsonfm unless specifically requested
-* Added PHP and database version to meta=siteinfo output
-* (bug 18533) Add readonly message to meta=siteinfo output
-* (bug 18518) Add clprop=hidden to prop=categories
-* (bug 18710) Fixed internal error with empty parameter in action=paraminfo
-* (bug 18709) Missing descriptions for some parameters in action=paraminfo
- output
-* (bug 18731) Show correct SVN links for extension modules in api.php?version
-* (bug 18730) Add version information to action=paraminfo output
-* (bug 18743) Add ucprop=size to list=usercontribs
-* (bug 18749) Add generator flag to action=paraminfo output
-* Make action=block respect $wgEnableUserEmail and $wgSysopEmailBans
-* Made deleting file description pages without files possible
-* (bug 18773) Add content flag to siprop=namespaces output
-* (bug 18785) Add siprop=languages to meta=siteinfo
-* (bug 14200) Added user and excludeuser parameters to list=watchlist and
- list=recentchanges
-* Added index, fromtitle and byteoffset fields to action=parse&prop=sections
- output
-* (bug 19313) action=rollback returns wrong revid on master/slave setups
-* (bug 19323) action=parse doesn't return section tree on pages with Cite
- warnings
-* (bug 18720) Add anchor field to action=parse&prop=sections output
-* (bug 19423) The initial file description page used caption in user lang
- rather than UI lang
-* (bug 17809) Add number of users in user groups to meta=siteinfo
-* (bug 18533) Add readonly reason to readonly exception
-* (bug 19528) Added XSLT parameter to API queries in format=xml
-* (bug 19040) Fix prependtext and appendtext in combination with section
- parameter in action=edit
-* (bug 19090) Added watchlist parameter, deprecated watch and unwatch
- parameter in action=edit
-* Added fields to list=search output: size, wordcount, timestamp, snippet
-* Where supported by backend, list=search adds a 'searchinfo' element with
- optional info: 'totalhits' count and 'suggestion' alternate query term
-* (bug 19907) $wgCrossSiteAJAXdomains added to allow specified (or all)
- external domains to access api.php via AJAX, if the browser supports the
- Access-Control-Allow-Origin HTTP header
-* (bug 19999) Made metadata and properties of search results optional. Added
- srprop and srinfo.
-* (bug 20700) Add amprop=default to meta=allmessages to list default value for
- customized messages
-* Don't parse magic words in meta=allmessages, output messages unparsed
-* (bug 21105) list=usercontribs can now list contribs for User:0
-* (bug 21085) list=deletedrevs no longer returns only one revision when
- drcontinue param is passed
-* (bug 21106) Deprecated parameters now tagged in action=paraminfo
-* (bug 19004) Added support for tags
-* (bug 21083) list=allusers no longer returns current timestamp for users
- without registration date
-* (bug 20967) action=edit allows creation of invalid titles
-* (bug 19523) Add inprop=watched to prop=info
-* (bug 21589) API: Separate summary and initial page text for uploads
-* (bug 21817) list=usercontribs returns empty result for empty ucuser
-* (bug 21441) meta=userinfo&uiprop=options no longer returns default options
- for logged-in users under certain circumstances
-* (bug 21945) Add chomp control in YAML
-* Expand the thumburl to an absolute url to make it consistent with url and
- descriptionurl
-* (bug 20233) ApiLogin::execute() doesn't handle LoginForm :: RESET_PASS
-* (bug 22061) API: add prop=headitems to action=parse
-* (bug 22240) API: include time in siteinfo
-* (bug 22241) Quick edit is still using the deprecated watch parameter (API: Setting default for watch/unwatch wrongly set)
-* (bug 22245) blfilterredirect=nonredirects in blredirect mode wrongly filtering
-* (bug 22248) Output extension URLs in meta=siteinfo&siprop=extensions
-* Support key-params arrays in 'descriptionmsg' in meta=siteinfo&siprop=extensions
-* (bug 21922) YAML output should quote asterisk when used as key
-* (bug 22297) safesubst: to allow substitution without breaking transclusion
-* (bug 18758) API read of watchlist's wl_notificationtimestamp
-* (bug 20809) Expose EditFormPreloadText via the API
-* (bug 18427) Comment (edit summary) parser option for API
-* (bug 18608) API should provide list of CSS styles to apply to rendered output
-* (bug 18771) List possible errors in action=paraminfo
-
-=== Languages updated in 1.16 ===
-
-MediaWiki supports over 300 languages. Many localisations are updated
-regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
-changes to languages because of MediaZilla reports.
-
-* Capiznon (cps) (new)
-* North Frisian (frr) (new)
-* Kirmanjki (kiu) (new)
-* Komi-Permyak (koi) (new)
-* Karachay-Balkar (krc) (new)
-* Hill Mari (mrj) (new)
-* Prussian (prg) (new)
-* Romagnol (rgn) (new)
-* Lower Silesian (sli) (new)
-* Picard (pcd) (new)
-* Uyghur (Arabic script) (ug-arab) (new)
-* Upper Franconian (vmf) (new)
-* Votic (vot) (new)
-* Eastern Yiddish (ydd) (removed)
-* Iriga Bicolano (bto) (removed)
-* Ladin (lld) (removed)
-* Laz (lzz) (removed)
-* Palembang (plm) (removed)
-* Megleno-Romanian (Greek script) (ruq-grek) (removed)
-* Tamazight (tzm) (removed)
-* Laz (lzz) (new)
-
-* (bug 18474) Sorani (ckb - Central Kurdish) (renamed from ku-arab)
-* Add PLURAL function for Scots Gaelic (gd)
-* Add Estonian letters äöõšüž to linktrail (et)
-* (bug 18776) Native name of Burmese language (my)
-* (bug 18806) Use correct unicode characters in spelling of native Chuvash
- (Чӑвашла)
-* (bug 18864) Updated autonym for Zhuang language
-* (bug 18308) Updated date formatting in Occitan (oc)
-* (bug 19080) Added ăâîşţșțĂÂÎŞŢȘȚ to Romanion (ro) linktrail
-* (bug 19286) Correct commafying function in Polish (pl)
-* (bug 19441) Updated date formatting for Lithuanian
-* (bug 19630) Added ÄäÇçĞğŇňÖöŞşÜüÝýŽž to Turkmen (tk) linktrail
-* (bug 19949) New linktrail for Greek (el)
-* (bug 19809) Korean (North Korea) (ko-kp) (new)
-* (bug 19968) Fixed "Project talk" namespace name for Maltese (mt)
-* (bug 21168) Added áâãàéêçíóôõúü to Portuguese (pt) linktrail
-* (bug 21596) Change interwiki link for Kurdish (ku)
+=== Configuration changes in 1.17 ===
+
+=== Bug fixes in 1.17 ===
+
+== API changes in 1.17 ==
+
+=== Languages updated in 1.17 ===
== Compatibility ==
-MediaWiki 1.16 requires PHP 5.1 (5.2 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer supported.
+MediaWiki 1.17 requires PHP 5.1 (5.2 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer supported.
MySQL 3.23.x is no longer supported; some older hosts may need to upgrade.
At this time we still recommend 4.0, but 4.1/5.0 will work fine in most cases.
== Upgrading ==
-1.16 has several database changes since 1.15, and will not work without schema
+1.17 has several database changes since 1.16, and will not work without schema
updates.
If upgrading from before 1.11, and you are using a wiki as a commons reposito-
cases, but this is not recommended on live sites. (This must be set for
MathML to display properly in Mozilla.)
-For notes on 1.15.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
+For notes on 1.16.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
=== Online documentation ===