THIS IS NOT A RELEASE YET
-MediaWiki 1.19 is an alpha-quality branch and is not recommended for use in
+This is a beta release of the MediaWiki 1.19 branch. Please test it and let us
+know what you think of it. Beta releases are not recommended for use in
production.
=== Configuration changes in 1.19 ===
* Introduced $wgQueryPageDefaultLimit (defaults to 50) for the number of
items to show by default on query pages (special pages such as Whatlinkshere).
* (bug 32470) Increase the length of ug_group.
-* (bug 32239) Removed wgEnableTooltipsAndAccesskeys.
+* (bug 32239) Removed $wgEnableTooltipsAndAccesskeys.
* Removed $wgVectorShowVariantName.
-* Removed $wgExtensionAliasesFiles. Use wgExtensionMessagesFiles.
+* Removed $wgExtensionAliasesFiles. Use $wgExtensionMessagesFiles.
=== New features in 1.19 ===
* (bug 19838) Add ability to get all interwiki prefixes also if the interwiki
* New path mappings can be added using the WebRequestPathInfoRouter hook
and adding paths to the PathRouter.
* (bug 32666) Special:ActiveUsers now allows a subpage to be used as value for the
- "target" query parameter (eg. Special:ActiveUsers/Username)
-* New JavaScript variable wgPageContentLanguage
-* Added new debugging toolbar, enabled with $wgDebugToolbar
+ "target" query parameter (eg. Special:ActiveUsers/Username).
+* New JavaScript variable wgPageContentLanguage.
+* Added new debugging toolbar, enabled with $wgDebugToolbar.
* Differences in the history page now uses slightly better colors for people
perceiving colors differently.
-* (bug 32879) Upgrade jQuery to 1.7.1
-* jQuery UI upgraded to 1.8.17
+* (bug 32879) Upgrade jQuery to 1.7.1.
+* jQuery UI upgraded to 1.8.17.
* Extensions can use the 'Language::getMessagesFileName' hook to define new
languages using messages files outside of core.
-* (bug 32512) Add 'Associated namespace' checkbox to Special:Contributions
+* (bug 32512) Add 'Associated namespace' checkbox to Special:Contributions.
* Added $wgSend404Code, true by default, which can be set to false to send a
200 status code instead of 404 for nonexistent articles.
* (bug 33447) Link to the broken image tracking category from Special:Wantedfiles.
* (bug 29309) Allow CSS class per tooltip (tipsy).
* (bug 33565) Add accesskey/tooltip to submit buttons on Special:EditWatchlist.
* (bug 17959) Inline rendering/thumbnailing for Gimp XCF images.
-* (bug 27775) Namespace has it's own XML tag in the XML dump file.
+* (bug 27775) Namespace has it's own XML tag in the XML dump file.
* (bug 30513) Redirect tag is now resolved in XML dump file.
-* sha1 xml tag added to XML dump file.
+* sha1 xml tag added to XML dump file.
* (bug 33646) Badtitle error page now emits a 400 HTTP status.
* Special:MovePage now has a dropdown menu for namespaces.
-* (bug 34420) Special:Version now shows git HEAD sha1 when available
+* (bug 34420) Special:Version now shows git HEAD sha1 when available.
* (bug 33952) Refactor mw.toolbar to allow dynamic additions at any time.
=== Bug fixes in 1.19 ===
"create account" when the user cannot create an account.
* (bug 31818) 'usercreated' message now supports GENDER.
* (bug 32022) Our phpunit.php script can now be executed from another directory.
-* (bug 26020) Setting $wgEmailConfirmToEdit to true no longer removes diffs
+* (bug 26020) Setting $wgEmailConfirmToEdit to true no longer removes diffs.
from recent changes feeds.
* (bug 30232) add current time to message wlnote on Special:Watchlist.
* (bug 29110) $wgFeedDiffCutoff did not affect new pages.
* (bug 33101) Viewing a User or User talk of username resembling IP ending
with .xxx causes Internal error.
* Warning about undefined index in certain situations when $wgLogRestrictions
- causes the first log type requested to be removed but not the others
+ causes the first log type requested to be removed but not the others.
* Use separate message ('prefixindex-namespace') for title of
Special:PrefixIndex rather then re-using Special:AllPages's allinnamespace.
* (bug 33156) Special:Block now allows you to confirm you want to block yourself
when using non-normalized username.
-* (bug 33246) News icon shown for news:// URLs but not for news: URLs
+* (bug 33246) News icon shown for news:// URLs but not for news: URLs.
* (bug 33305) Make mw.util.addCSS resistant to IE's @font-face bug by setting
cssText after DOM insertion.
* (bug 30711) When adding a new section to a page with section=new, the text is
a null edit.
* (bug 33880) $wgUsersNotifiedOnAllChanges should not send e-mail to user who made
the edit.
-* (bug 33902) Decoding %2B with mw.Uri.decode results in ' ' instead of +
+* (bug 33902) Decoding %2B with mw.Uri.decode results in ' ' instead of +.
* (bug 33762) QueryPage-based special pages no longer misses *-summary message.
* Other sizes links are no longer generated for wikis without a 404 thumbnail handler.
-* (bug 29454) Enforce byteLimit for page title input on Special:MovePage
-* (bug 34114) CSSMin::remap() doesn't respect its $embed parameter
+* (bug 29454) Enforce byteLimit for page title input on Special:MovePage.
+* (bug 34114) CSSMin::remap() doesn't respect its $embed parameter.
* Special:Contributions/newbies now shows the contributions for the user "newbies".
New user contributions are obtained using the form or using ?contribs=newbie in URL.
* It is now possible to delete images that have no corresponding description pages.
* (bug 33165) GlobalFunctions.php line 1312: Call to a member function
- getText() on a non-object
+ getText() on a non-object.
* (bug 31676) Group dynamically inserted CSS into a single <style> tag, to work
- around a bug where not all styles were applied in Internet Explorer
+ around a bug where not all styles were applied in Internet Explorer.
* (bug 28936, bug 5280) Broken or invalid titles can't be removed from watchlist.
-* (bug 34600) Older skins using useHeadElement=false were broken in 1.18
+* (bug 34600) Older skins using useHeadElement=false were broken in 1.18.
* (bug 34604) [mw.config] wgActionPaths should be an object instead of a numeral
array.
=== API changes in 1.19 ===
* Made action=edit less likely to return "unknownerror", by returning the actual error
- message (which may have come from a hook call or similar)
+ message (which may have come from a hook call or similar).
* (bug 19838) siprop=interwikimap can now use the interwiki cache.
* (bug 29748) Add API search prefix support.
* (bug 29684) Set forgotten parameter types in ApiQueryIWLinks.
changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
* Canadian English (en-ca) (new).
-* Norwegian (bokmål) (nb) (renamed from no).
+* Norwegian (bokmÃ\83Â¥l) (nb) (renamed from no).
* Uighur (Latin) (ug-latn) was incorrectly marked as right-to-left language.
* (bug 30217) Make pt-br a fallback of pt.
* (bug 31193) Set fallback language of Assamese from Bengali to English.
=== Other changes in 1.19 ===
* BREAKING CHANGE: Legacy global array 'ta' and global function 'akeytt' have
- been removed from wikibits.js
+ been removed from wikibits.js.
* jquery.mwPrototypes module was renamed to jquery.mwExtension.
* The maintenance script populateSha1.php was renamed to the more concise
populateImageSha1.php.