From a5ca3e12f4f36fcf47560085dd513eb1c9036824 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sam Reed Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 22:53:52 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add RELEASE-NOTES-1.18.old into RELEASE-NOTES-1.18 Needs svn copy in REL1_18 --- RELEASE-NOTES-1.18 | 381 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- RELEASE-NOTES-1.18.old | 465 ----------------------------------------- 2 files changed, 380 insertions(+), 466 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 RELEASE-NOTES-1.18.old diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.18 b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.18 index c45000fe97..def6792526 100644 --- a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.18 +++ b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.18 @@ -11,6 +11,58 @@ MediaWiki 1.18 is an alpha-quality branch and is not recommended for use in production. === Configuration changes in 1.18 === +* The WantedPages::getSQL hook has been removed and replaced with + WantedPages::getQueryInfo. This may break older extensions. +* $wgUseCombinedLoginLink controls whether to output a combined + login / create account link in the personal bar, or to output separate login + and create account links. +* Skin names are no longer created based on a ucfirst version of the key in + $wgValidSkinNames but now the value. This means for + $wgValidSkinNames["monobook"] = "MonoBook"; the skin loader will no longer try + loading SkinMonobook and will instead load SkinMonoBook. +* $wgMaxUploadSize may now be set to an array to specify the upload size limit + per upload type. +* $wgAPICacheHelp added in 1.16 is now removed. To disable API help caching, set + $wgAPICacheHelpTimeout = 0; +* OutputPage::isUserJsAllowed() no longer returns false when scripts are allowed + by the page, but $wgAllowUserJs is set to false. +* Pure "Skin" class based custom skins are no longer supported, all custom skins + should be put together using SkinTemplate and BaseTemplate or QuickTemplate. +* The transliteration for passwords in case they were migrated from an old + Latin-1 install (previous to MediaWiki 1.5) is now only done for wikis with + $wgLegacyEncoding set. +* (bug 27508) Add $wgSVGMetadataCutoff to limit the maximum amount of an SVG we + look at when finding metadata to prevent excessive resource usage. +* $wgSysopUserBans and $wgSysopRangeBans (deprecated in 1.17) are now removed. + Use $wgBlockCIDRLimit = array( 'IPv4' => 43, 'IPv6' => 128 ) to achieve the + same functionality as $wgSysopRangeBans; you can use the BlockIp hook to + replicate $wgSysopUserBans functionality. +* The options on the block form have been standardised such that checking a box + makes the block 'more serious'; so while "check to prevent account creation" + and "check to enable autoblock" remain the same, "check to allow user-talk + edit" is reversed to "check to *disable* user-talk edit", and "check to block + anon-only" becomes "check to block logged-in users too". The default settings + remain the same. +* Most of the field names on the Special:Block form have been changed, which + will probably break screen-scraping bots. +* (bug 26866) The 'trackback' right is no longer granted to sysops by default. + $wgUseTrackbacks is already false by default. +* (bug 17009) the hiddenStructure CSS class, a highly hackish way of at least + *appearing* to hide article elements, has been removed. Use the + ParserFunctions extension to actually remove unwanted elements from the + output. +* (bug 14202) $wgUseTeX has been superseded by the Math extension. To re-enable + math conversion after upgrading, obtain the Math extension from SVN or from + http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Math and add to LocalSettings.php: + require_once "$IP/extensions/Math/Math.php"; +* $wgProfiler is now a configuration array, see StartProfiler.sample for + details. +* $wgProfiling has been removed. +* The spyc library is now no longer included in phase3. +* (bug 28343) Unused preferences contextlines/contextchars have been removed +* $wgSkinExtensionFunctions has been removed. Use $wgExtensionFunctions instead. +* $wgProto has been removed. You now only need to set $wgServer to change the + URL protocol. * $wgRateLimitsExcludedGroups (deprecated in 1.13) has been removed * $wgInputEncoding and $wgOutputEncoding (deprecated in 1.5) have now been removed * $wgAllowUserSkin (deprecated in 1.16) has now been removed @@ -33,6 +85,71 @@ production. === New features in 1.18 === * BREAKING CHANGE: action=watch / action=unwatch now requires a token. +* (bug 8130) Query pages should limit to content namespaces, not just main + namespace. +* Search suggestions (other than in the Vector skin) will now use the HTML5 + datalist feature where supported, currently only Firefox 4. +* Special:Contribs now redirects to Special:Contributions. +* (bug 6672) Images are now autorotated according to their EXIF orientation. + This only affects thumbnails; the source remains unrotated. +* (bug 25708) Update case mappings and normalization to Unicode 6.0.0 +* New hook ArticlePrepareTextForEdit added, called when preparing text to be + saved. +* New parser option PreSaveTransform added, allows the pre-save transformation + to be selectively disabled. +* Alternative to $wgHooks implemented, using the new Hooks class. +* Add width parameter to Special:Filepath to allow getting the file path of a + thumbnail. +* (bug 26870) Add size to {{filepath:}}. +* Upload warnings now show a thumbnail of the uploaded file. +* Introduced the edittools-upload message, which will be inserted under the + upload form instead of edittools if available. +* (bug 26285) Extensions will be automatically generated on upload if the user + specified a filename without extension. +* (bug 26851) Special:UserRights now allows to prefill the reason field +* New maintenance script to fix double redirects + (maintenance/fixDoubleRedirects.php). +* (bug 23315) New body classes to allow easier styling of special pages. +* (bug 27159) Make email confirmation code expiration time configurable. +* (bug 29047) CSS/JS for each user group is imported from MediaWiki:Group-sysop.js, + MediaWiki:Group-autoconfirmed.css, etc. +* (bug 24230) Uploads of ZIP types, such as MS Office or OpenOffice can now be + safely enabled. A ZIP file reader was added which can scan a ZIP file for + potentially dangerous Java applets. This allows applets to be blocked + specifically, rather than all ZIP files being blocked. +* (bug 2429) Allow selection of associated namespace in recent changes. +* (bug 26217) File size is now checked before uploading in HTML5 browsers. +* CSS stylesheet MediaWiki:Noscript.css is now loaded for users with JavaScript + disabled (enclosed in the head in a