-Change notes from older releases. For current info see RELEASE-NOTES-1.24.
+Change notes from older releases. For current info see RELEASE-NOTES-1.25.
+
+== MediaWiki 1.24 ==
+
+=== Configuration changes in 1.24 ===
+* MediaWiki will no longer run if register_globals is enabled. It has been
+ deprecated for 5 years now, and was removed in PHP 5.4. For more information
+ about why, see <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/register_globals>.
+* MediaWiki now requires PHP's iconv extension. openSUSE users may need to
+ install the php5-iconv package. Users of other systems may need to add
+ extension=iconv.so to php.ini or recompile PHP without --without-iconv.
+* MediaWiki will no longer function if magic quotes are enabled. It has
+ been deprecated for 5 years now, and was removed in PHP 5.4.
+* The server's canonical hostname is available as $wgServerName, which is
+ exposed in both mw.config and ApiQuerySiteInfo.
+* Introduced $wgPagePropsHaveSortkey as a backwards-compatibility switch,
+ for using the old schema of the page_props table, in case the respective
+ schema update was not applied.
+* $wgSearchEverythingOnlyLoggedIn was removed as the 'searcheverything'
+ user option was removed. Use $wgNamespacesToBeSearchedDefault instead or
+ if you used to have $wgDefaultUserOptions['searcheverything'] = 1.
+* $wgMasterWaitTimeout has been deprecated.
+* $wgDBClusterTimeout has been removed.
+* $wgProxyKey has been removed. It is no longer used by MediaWiki core.
+ Ensure $wgSecretKey is set in LocalSettings.php.
+* $wgExtraInterlanguageLinkPrefixes is a new configuration variable that
+ contains an array of interwiki prefixes that should be treated as language
+ prefixes (i.e. turned into interlanguage links when $wgInterwikiMagic is set
+ to true).
+* $wgParserTestRemote has been removed.
+* $wgCountTotalSearchHits has been removed. If you're concerned about efficiency
+ of search, you should use something like CirrusSearch instead of built in
+ search.
+* Users in the 'sysop' group have access to Special:MergeHistory by default.
+* $wgFileStore was removed after having been deprecated in 1.17. Alternative
+ configurations are $wgDeletedDirectory and $wgHashedUploadDirectory.
+* The deprecated $wgUseCommaCount variable has been removed.
+* $wgEnableSorbs and $wgSorbsUrl have been removed.
+* The UserCryptPassword and UserComparePassword hooks are no longer called.
+ Any extensions using them must be updated to use the Password Hashing API.
+* $wgCompiledFiles has been removed.
+* $wgSortSpecialPages was removed, the listing on Special:SpecialPages is
+ now always sorted.
+* $wgSpecialPages may now use callback functions as an alternative to plain class names.
+ This allows more control over constructor parameters.
+* $wgHTCPMulticastAddress, $wgHTCPMulticastRouting and $wgHTCPPort were removed.
+* $wgRC2UDPAddress, $wgRC2UDPInterwikiPrefix, $wgRC2UDPOmitBots, $wgRC2UDPPort
+ and $wgRC2UDPPrefix have been removed.
+* The default password type for MediaWiki has been changed from MD5 to PBKDF2.
+ Password hashes will automatically be updated as users log in. If necessary, the
+ old MD5 hashing can be restored by changing $wgPasswordDefault to 'B'. In addition,
+ there is a maintenance script wrapOldPassword.php that can wrap all passwords in
+ PBKDF2 (or the hashing algorithm of your choice) if you don't want to wait for your
+ users to log in.
+* $wgImportSources can now either be a regular array, or an associative map
+ specifying subprojects on the interwiki map of the target wiki, or a mix of
+ the two. Existing configurations will still work.
+* Users must be able to edit through a page's protection to be able to delete it.
+* The default thumb size ($wgDefaultUserOptions['thumbsize']) is now 300px, up from
+ 180px. If you have altered the number of entries in $wgThumbLimits for your wiki, you
+ may need to adjust your default user settings to compensate for the index change.
+* $wgDeferredUpdateList is now deprecated, you should use DeferredUpdates::addUpdate()
+ instead.
+* $wgCanonicalLanguageLinks has been removed. Per Google recommendations, we
+ will not send a rel=canonical pointing to a variant-neutral page, however
+ we will send rel=alternate.
+* $wgResourceLoaderLESSFunctions has been deprecated and will be removed in the future.
+* $wgGoToEdit has been removed. Use the SpecialSearchNogomatch hook for similar
+ functionality.
+
+=== New features in 1.24 ===
+* Added new hook WatchlistEditorBeforeFormRender, allowing subscribers to
+ manipulate the list of pages and/or preload lots of data at once.
+* Added new argument &$link in hook WatchlistEditorBuildRemoveLine, allowing the
+ link to the title to be changed.
+* Added a new hook, "WhatLinksHereProps", to allow extensions to annotate
+ WhatLinksHere entries.
+* Added a new hook, "ContentGetParserOutput", to customize parser output for
+ a given content object.
+* Deprecated the hook "ShowRawCssJs", use "ContentGetParserOutput" instead.
+* HTMLForm's HTMLTextField now supports the 'url' type.
+* HTMLForm fields may now be dynamically hidden based on the values of other
+ fields in the form.
+* HTMLForm now supports multiple copies of an input field or set of input
+ fields, e.g. the form may request "one or more usernames" without having to
+ have the user enter delimited list of names into a text field.
+* Added a new hook, "SidebarBeforeOutput", to allow to edit the structure of
+ the sidebar just before its display.
+* (bug 49156) Added the mediawiki.cookie ResourceLoader module, which wraps
+ jquery.cookie so that getting/setting a cookie is syntactically and
+ functionally similar to using the WebRequest::getCookie() and
+ WebResponse::setcookie() methods.
+* (bug 44740) jQuery upgraded from 1.8.3 to 1.11.1. A new configuration option,
+ $wgIncludejQueryMigrate, also loads the jQuery Migrate hack to let extensions
+ and gadgets use the long-deprecated functions that were removed in jQuery 1.9.
+ This option is turned off by default, and will be removed in MediaWiki 1.25.
+* (bug 47076) jQuery UI upgraded from 1.8.24 to 1.9.2.
+* Changes to content typography (fonts, etc.). See
+ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Typography_refresh for further information.
+* WikitextContent will now render redirects with the expected "redirect"
+ header, rather than as an ordered list. Code calling Article::viewRedirect
+ can probably be changed to no longer special-case redirects.
+* Header font set to a serif font stack. See
+ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Typography_refresh for further information.
+* (bug 65567) Added a new hook, "BeforeHttpsRedirect", to allow cancellation of
+ the HTTP to HTTPS redirect due to forceHTTPS cookie, userRequires, etc. This
+ is only for page views, since this hook doesn't affect UserLogin, OAuth,
+ CentralAuth, etc. ATTENTION: This hook is likely to be removed soon due to
+ overall design of the system.
+* (bug 17367) It is now possible to add pages to your watchlist from
+ Special:UnwatchedPages without reloading the special page.
+* New methods setVolatile and isVolatile are added to PPFrame, so that
+ extensions such as Cite.php can mark that their output is volatile and
+ shouldn't be cached.
+* (bug 52817) Advanced search options are now saved on the search page itself,
+ rather than in a dedicated pane in the preferences panel.
+* (bug 44591) The dropdown actions menu (little triangle next to page tabs) in
+ the Vector skin has gained a label that should make it more discoverable.
+* MWCryptHKDF added for fast, cryptographically secure random number generation
+ that won't deplete openssl's entropy pool.
+* ResourceLoader: File modules can now provide a skip function that uses an
+ inline feature test to bypass loading of the module.
+* (bug 20210) Special pages may now provide autocompletion of their subpage
+ names in search suggestions. Right now the only useful implementation is in
+ Special:Log, but more are to come.
+* Special:MostLinkedTemplates is no longer limited to transclusions from the
+ Template namespace.
+* Skins can now use 'remoteSkinPath' when defining ResourceLoader modules.
+ This works the same as 'remoteExtPath' but is relative to the skins/ folder
+ instead of the extensions/ folder.
+* Added the json2.js polyfill for the ES5 JSON.stringify and JSON.parse methods.
+ Exposed as module "json" with a skip function to optimise loading.
+* Extensions and skins may now use 'namemsg' in $wgExtensionCredits in addition
+ to 'name', to allow for the name to be localizable. 'name' should still be
+ specified for backwards-compatibility and to define the path Special:Version
+ uses to find extension license information.
+* Browser tests are now included to verify basic wiki functionality in developer
+ environments. For details on running tests, see tests/browser/README.mediawiki.
+* Upgrade jStorage to v0.4.10.
+* {{!}} is now a magic word that produces the | character. This removes the need
+ for Template:! for purposes such as passing pipes inside of parameters.
+* (bug 20790) The block log snippet on Special:Contributions and while
+ editing user and user talk pages now works for IP range blocks.
+* (bug 9360) Added ability to change the page language for MediaWiki pages using
+ Special:PageLanguage. All pages are set to wiki language by default.
+ The feature needs to be enabled with $wgPageLanguageUseDB=true and
+ permission needs to be set for 'pagelang'.
+* Upgrade Moment.js to v2.8.3.
+* (bug 67042) Added support for the HTML5 <rtc> tag for East Asian typography.
+* Upgrade Sinon.JS to 1.10.3.
+* Added the es5-shim polyfill for older or non-compliant javascript engines.
+* Upgrade jQuery Cookie to v1.3.1.
+* (bug 20476) Add a "viewsuppressed" user right to be able to view
+ suppressed content but not suppress it ("suppressrevision" right).
+* (bug 66440) The MediaWiki web installer will now allow you to choose the skins
+ to enable (from the ones included in download tarball) and decide which one
+ should be the default.
+* (bug 68085, 68802) Links like [[localInterwikiPrefix:languageCode:pageTitle]],
+ where localInterwikiPrefix is a member of the $wgLocalInterwikis array, will
+ no longer be displayed in the sidebar when $wgInterwikiMagic is true. In a
+ similar way, links like [[localInterwikiPrefix:File:Image.png]] and
+ [[localInterwikiPrefix:Category:Hello]] will now render as regular links, and
+ will not include the file or add the page to the category.
+* New special page, MyLanguage, to redirect users to subpages with localised
+ versions of a page. (Integrated from Extension:Translate)
+* MediaWiki now supports multiple password types, including bcrypt and PBKDF2.
+ The default type can be changed with $wgPasswordDefault and the type
+ configurations can be changed with $wgPasswordConfig.
+* Skins can now define custom styles for default ResourceLoader modules using
+ the $wgResourceModuleSkinStyles global. See the Vector skin for examples.
+* (bug 4488) There is now a preference to watch pages where the user has
+ rollbacked an edit by default.
+* (bug 15484) Users will now be redirected to the login page when they need to
+ log in, rather than being shown a page asking them to log in and having to click
+ another link to actually get to the login page.
+* A JsonContent and JsonContentHandler were added for extensions to extend.
+* (bug 35045) Redirects to sections will now update the URL in browser's address
+ bar using the HTML5 History API. When [[Dog]] redirects to [[Animals#Dog]],
+ the user will now see "Animals#Dog" in their browser instead of "Dog#Dog".
+* API token handling has been rewritten. Any API module using tokens will need
+ to be updated. See the entry below under "Action API internal changes".
+* Added HTMLAutoCompleteSelectField.
+* Added a new hook, "SkinPreloadExistence", to allow extensions to add titles to
+ link existence cache before the page is rendered.
+* Config::set() was moved to its own interface, MutableConfig. GlobalVarConfig::set()
+ is now deprecated, does not implement MutableConfig.
+* A MutableConfig named HashConfig was added, that stores an array of configuration
+ settings.
+* (bug 69418) A MultiConfig implementation was added that supports fallback
+ to multiple Config instances.
+* Update CSSJanus to v1.1.0.
+* Added FormatJson::parse() returning status with result or localized error message
+
+=== Bug fixes in 1.24 ===
+* (bug 50572) MediaWiki:Blockip should support gender
+* (bug 49116) Footer copyright notice is now always displayed in user language
+ rather than content language (same as copyright notice for editing interface).
+* (bug 62258) A bug was fixed in File::getUnscaledThumb when a height
+ restriction was present in the parameters. Images with both the "frame"
+ option and a size specification set will now always ignore the provided
+ size and display an unscaled image, as the documentation has always
+ claimed it would.
+* (bug 39035) Improved Vector skin performance by removing collapsibleNav,
+ which used to collapse some sidebar elements by default.
+ This removes -list id suffixes like p-lang-list: instead of using things like
+ #p-lang-list, you can do #p-lang .body ul.
+* (bug 890) Links in Special:RecentChanges and Special:Watchlist no longer
+ follow redirects to their target pages.
+* Parser now dies early if called recursively, instead of producing subtle bugs.
+* (bug 14323) Redirect pages, when viewed with redirect=no, no longer hide the
+ remaining page content.
+* (bug 52587) Maintenance script deleteBatch.php no longer follows redirects
+ in the file namespace and delete the file on the target page. It will still
+ however delete the redirect page.
+* (bug 22683) {{msgnw:}} and other uses of PPFrame::RECOVER_ORIG will correctly
+ recover the original code of extension tags.
+* (bug 65757) MSSQL: Update script drops unnamed constraints to be prepared
+ for future updates. Because it's doing so heuristically, it may fail or drop
+ wrong constraints.
+* (bug 67870) wfShellExec() cuts off stdout at multiples of 8192 bytes.
+* $wgRunJobsAsync now works with private wikis (e.g. read requires login).
+* (bugs 57238, 65206) Blank pages can now be directly created.
+* (bug 69789) Title::getContentModel() now loads from the database when
+ necessary instead of incorrectly returning the default content model.
+* (bug 69249) wfBaseConvert() now works around PHP Bug #50175 when using GMP.
+* (bug 57909) URLs in the externallinks table will no longer have certain
+ characters decoded in the query string.
+* (bug 67368) LESS mixins like .background-image() correctly flip image
+ references for RTL stylesheets now.
+
+=== Action API changes in 1.24 ===
+* action=parse API now supports prop=modules, which provides the list of
+ ResourceLoader modules that should be used to enhance the parsed content.
+* action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=interwikimap returns a new "protorel"
+ field which is true if protocol-relative urls can be used to access
+ a particular interwiki map entry.
+* list=logevents now provides logpage, which is the page ID from the
+ logging table, if ids are requested and the user has the permissions.
+* action=edit now requires that appendtext, prependtext, or section=new be used
+ when using the 'redirect' parameter, to prevent clients accidentally
+ overwriting the target page with the content of the redirect.
+* list=logevents will now return an error if both letitle and leprefix are
+ specified.
+* list=logevents has a new parameter, lenamespace, to allow filtering by
+ namespace.
+* action=expandtemplates has a new parameter, prop, and a new output format.
+ The old format is still used if prop isn't provided, but this is deprecated.
+* meta=userinfo can now return the count of unread pages on the watchlist.
+* list=watchlist can now filter by unread status.
+* The deprecated action=parse&prop=languageshtml has been removed.
+* (bug 48071) action=setnotificationtimestamp no longer throws PHP or database
+ errors when no pages are given.
+* (bug 60734) Actions that use ApiPageSet (e.g. purge, watch,
+ setnotificationtimestamp) will now include continuation information when
+ using a generator.
+* Removed 'props' and 'errors' from action=paraminfo, as they have extremely
+ limited use and are generally inaccurate, unmaintained, and impossible to
+ properly maintain.
+* Formats dbg, dump, txt, wddx, and yaml are now deprecated.
+* action=paraminfo now indicates when a parameter is specifying a submodule.
+* The iwurl parameter to prop=iwlinks is deprecated in favor of iwprop=url, for
+ parallelism with prop=langlinks.
+* All tokens should be fetched from action=query&meta=tokens; all other methods
+ of fetching tokens are deprecated. The value needed for meta=tokens's 'type'
+ parameter for each module is documented in the action=help output and is
+ returned from action=paraminfo.
+* New action ClearHasMsg that can be used to clear HasMsg flag.
+* The cmstartsortkey and cmendsortkey parameters to list=categorymembers are
+ deprecated in favor of cmstarthexsortkey and cmendhexsortkey.
+* (bug 63326) Add blockedtimestamp field to output of blockinfo property for
+ the list=allusers and list=users modules.
+* prop=imageinfo no longer requires iiurlwidth to be set when using iiurlparam.
+* Added prop=linkshere, prop=fileusage, and prop=transcludedin, which are
+ roughly equivalent to list=backlinks, list=imageusage, and list=embeddedin
+ but can work on a list of titles (including titles from a generator).
+* prop=redirects can now filter returned redirects by namespace.
+
+=== Action API internal changes in 1.24 ===
+* Methods for handling continuation are added to ApiResult, so actions other
+ than query that use generators can easily support continuation.
+* $wgAPIModules (and the related $wgAPIFormatModules, $wgAPIMetaModules,
+ $wgAPIPropModules, and $wgAPIListModules settings) now allow API modules
+ to be specified using a "module spec" array instead of a plain class name.
+ A "module spec" is an associative array containing at least the 'class' key
+ for the module's class, and optionally a 'factory' key for the factory function
+ to use for the module. This is intended for extensions that want control over
+ the instantiation of their API modules, to allow for proper dependency
+ injection.
+* A new param type 'submodule' is available. Parameters of this type will take
+ the list of valid values from the module's ApiModuleManager for the group
+ corresponding to the parameter name.
+* The 'APIGetPossibleErrors' and 'APIGetResultProperties' hooks are no longer used.
+* API token handling has been rewritten. Any API module using tokens will need
+ to be updated:
+ * ApiBase::needsToken now returns a token type instead of boolean true when a
+ token is needed. Returning true will throw an exception. See documentation
+ of that method for details.
+ * Information for the 'token' parameter is automatically set by ApiBase
+ getFinalParams and getFinalParamDescription.
+ * ApiBase::getTokenSalt has been removed.
+ * The hooks APIQueryInfoTokens, APIQueryRevisionsTokens,
+ APIQueryRecentChangesTokens, APIQueryUsersTokens, and
+ ApiTokensGetTokenTypes are deprecated, but are still called to support
+ backwards-compatible token access.
+* ApiBase::validateLimit and ApiBase::validateTimestamp are now protected.
+* ApiQueryRedirects was removed; prop=redirects is now implemented by
+ ApiQueryBacklinksProp along with the newly-added prop modules.
+* The following methods have been deprecated and may be removed in a future
+ release:
+ * ApiBase::getResultProperties
+ * ApiBase::getFinalResultProperties
+ * ApiBase::addTokenProperties
+ * ApiBase::getRequireOnlyOneParameterErrorMessages
+ * ApiBase::getRequireMaxOneParameterErrorMessages
+ * ApiBase::getRequireAtLeastOneParameterErrorMessages
+ * ApiBase::getTitleOrPageIdErrorMessage
+ * ApiBase::getPossibleErrors
+ * ApiBase::getFinalPossibleErrors
+ * ApiBase::parseErrors
+ * ApiQuery::setGeneratorContinue
+ * ApiQueryBase::checkRowCount
+ * ApiQueryBase::titleToKey
+ * ApiQueryBase::keyToTitle
+ * ApiQueryBase::keyPartToTitle
+ * ApiQueryInfo::getTokenFunctions
+ * ApiQueryInfo::resetTokenCache
+ * ApiQueryInfo::getEditToken
+ * ApiQueryInfo::getDeleteToken
+ * ApiQueryInfo::getProtectToken
+ * ApiQueryInfo::getMoveToken
+ * ApiQueryInfo::getBlockToken
+ * ApiQueryInfo::getUnblockToken
+ * ApiQueryInfo::getEmailToken
+ * ApiQueryInfo::getImportToken
+ * ApiQueryInfo::getWatchToken
+ * ApiQueryInfo::getOptionsToken
+ * ApiQueryRecentChanges::getTokenFunctions
+ * ApiQueryRecentChanges::getPatrolToken
+ * ApiQueryRevisions::getTokenFunctions
+ * ApiQueryRevisions::getRollbackToken
+ * ApiQueryUsers::getTokenFunctions
+ * ApiQueryUsers::getUserrightsToken
+* The following classes have been deprecated and may be removed in a future
+ release:
+ * ApiFormatDbg
+ * ApiFormatDump
+ * ApiFormatTxt
+ * ApiFormatWddx
+ * ApiFormatYaml
+ * ApiTokens
+* The following class constants have been deprecated and may be removed in a
+ future release:
+ * ApiBase::PROP_ROOT
+ * ApiBase::PROP_LIST
+ * ApiBase::PROP_TYPE
+ * ApiBase::PROP_NULLABLE
+
+=== Languages updated in 1.24 ===
+
+MediaWiki supports over 350 languages. Many localisations are updated
+regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
+changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
+
+=== Other changes in 1.24 ===
+* The deprecated jquery.delayedBind ResourceLoader module was removed.
+* The deprecated function mw.util.toggleToc was removed.
+* The Special:Search hooks SpecialSearchGo and SpecialSearchResultsAppend
+ were removed as they were unused.
+* (bug 65477) User::pingLimiter() now has an additional profile point varying
+ by action being used.
+* mediawiki.util.$content no longer supports old versions of the Vector,
+ Monobook, Modern and CologneBlue skins that don't yet implement the "mw-body"
+ and/or "mw-body-primary" class name in their html.
+* Added pp_sortkey column to page_props table, so pages can be efficiently
+ queried and sorted by property value (bug 58032).
+ See $wgPagePropsHaveSortkey if you want to postpone the schema change.
+* BREAKING CHANGE: All four built-in MediaWiki skins (Vector, MonoBook, Modern
+ and Cologne Blue) were moved out of MediaWiki core to their own respective
+ repositories. They will be installed with the release tarball, but you must
+ install them separately if installing MediaWiki from source code. A warning
+ message displayed until you do it should guide you through the process. See
+ also <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Skin_configuration>.
+* BREAKING CHANGE: Skins built for MediaWiki 1.15 and earlier that do not use
+ the "headelement" template key are no longer supported. Setting
+ $useHeadElement = false; is no longer supported and will not cause old keys
+ like "headlinks", "skinnameclass", etc. to be defined.
+* BREAKING CHANGE: The files commonElements.css, commonContent.css and
+ commonInterface.css (in skins/common/) have been removed. Skins may no longer
+ rely on their presence and include them in their style modules. ResourceLoader
+ modules introduced in MediaWiki 1.23 should be loaded instead:
+ - skins/common/commonElements.css → 'mediawiki.skinning.elements' module
+ - skins/common/commonContent.css → 'mediawiki.skinning.content' module
+ - skins/common/commonInterface.css → 'mediawiki.skinning.interface' module
+* The deprecated 'SpecialVersionExtensionTypes' hook was removed.
+* (bug 63891) Add 'X-Robots-Tag: noindex' header in action=render pages.
+* SpecialPage no longer supports the syntax for invoking wfSpecial*() functions.
+ Special pages should subclass SpecialPage and implement the execute() method.
+* (bug 63755) The deprecated constants RC_MOVE and RC_MOVE_OVER_REDIRECT were
+ removed.
+* Special:MostLinkedTemplates has been renamed to Special:MostTranscludedPages.
+* The skin autodiscovery mechanism has been deprecated and will be removed in
+ MediaWiki 1.25. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Skin_autodiscovery
+ for migration guide for creators and users of custom skins that relied on it.
+* ResourceLoaderFileModule#getAllStyleFiles now returns all style files and all
+ skin style files used by the module.
+* Removed getLang() from IContextSource and subclasses. (deprecated since 1.19)
+* Removed setLang() from subclasses of IContextSource. (deprecated since 1.19)
+* Removed WebRequest::escapeAppendQuery(). (deprecated since 1.20)
+* Removed info(), purge(), revert() and rollback() from the Article class; they
+ have since become subclasses of the Action class. (deprecated since 1.19)
+* SearchEngineReplacePrefixesComplete hook was removed.
+* The "jquery.json" module has been deprecated. Use the "json" module instead.
+* Removed HTMLForm::addJS(). (deprecated since 1.18)
+* Removed LogEventsList::showHeader(). (deprecated since 1.19)
+* Removed ImageGalleryBase::useSkin(). (deprecated since 1.18)
+* Removed DatabaseMysqlBase::getLagFromProcesslist(). (deprecated since 1.19)
+* Removed LoadBalancer::closeConnecton(). (deprecated since 1.18)
+* Removed ApiBase::createContext(). (deprecated since 1.19)
+* BREAKING CHANGE: The undocumented Special{$this->getName()}BeforeFormDisplay
+ set of hooks has been removed and replaced by a single new hook
+ SpecialPageBeforeFormDisplay.
+* (bug 65781) Removed block warning on included {{Special:Contributions}}
+* Removed Skin::makeGlobalVariablesScript(). (deprecated since 1.19)
+* Removed MWNamespace::isMain(). (deprecated since 1.19)
+* Removed Preferences::loadOldSearchNs(). (deprecated since 1.19)
+* Removed OutputPage::getStatusMessage(). (deprecated since 1.18)
+* Removed OutputPage::isUserJsAllowed(). (deprecated since 1.18)
+* Removed Title::updateTitleProtection(). (deprecated since 1.19)
+* Removed ParserOptions::setSkin(). (deprecated since 1.19)
+* Removed Title::escapeCanonicalURL(). (deprecated since 1.19)
+* Removed Title::escapeLocalURL(). (deprecated since 1.19)
+* Removed Title::escapeFullURL(). (deprecated since 1.19)
+* Removed User::isValidEmailAddr(). (deprecated since 1.18)
+* Removed Title::getEscapedText(). (deprecated since 1.19)
+* Removed Language::getFallbackLanguageCode(). (deprecated since 1.19)
+* Removed WikiPage::isBigDeletion(). (deprecated since 1.19)
+* Removed MWInit class which contained functions related to a now discontinued
+ PHP compiler called hphpc. (deprecated since 1.22)
+* ApiResult::enableSizeCheck() and disableSizeCheck() are now obsolete.
+* Removed ResourceLoaderGetStartupModules hook. (deprecated since 1.23)
+* Removed getFormFields(), onSubmit() and onSuccess() from FormlessAction, as
+ these were meant specifically for FormAction instead.
+* Removed Action::execute().
+* Removed AjaxAddScript which has been obsolete since ResourceLoader and
+ is unused by any modern extension.
+* Removed maintenance/nextJobDB.php; no longer in use.
+* Removed global function wfViewPrevNext(). (deprecated since 1.19)
+* Removed global function xmlsafe() from Export.php. (moved to OAIRepo extension)
+* Removed Title::userCanRead(). (deprecated since 1.19)
+* Removed maintenance script importTextFile.php. Use edit.php script instead.
+* A _from_namespace field has been added to the templatelinks, pagelinks,
+ and filelinks tables. Run update.php to apply this change to the schema.
+* Removed File::sha1Base36(). (deprecated since 1.19)
+* Removed File::getPropsFromPath(). (deprecated since 1.19)
+* Removed functions blockedPage(), noCreatePermission(), readOnlyPage() and
+ userNotLoggedInPage() from EditPage.php. (deprecated since 1.19)
+* Removed functions getContent(), getPreloadedText(), mergeChangesInto() and
+ setPreloadedText() from EditPage.php. (deprecated since 1.21)
+* Removed global functions wfArrayLookup(), wfArrayMerge(), wfDebugDieBacktrace()
+ and wfTime(). (deprecated since 1.22)
+* Browser support for Internet Explorer 6 and 7 lowered from Grade A to Grade C,
+ meaning that JavaScript is no longer executed in these browser versions.
+* Browser support for Opera 11 lowered from Grade A to Grade C.
+* Removed IEFixes module which existed purely to provide support for MSIE versions
+ below 7 (conditionally loaded only for those browsers).
+* Deprecated SpecialPageFactory::getList() in favor of
+ SpecialPageFactory::getNames()
+* Action::checkCanExecute() no longer has a return value.
+* Removed cleanupForIRC(), loadFromCurRow(), newFromCurRow(), notifyRC2UDP()
+ and sendToUDP() from RecentChange.php. (deprecated since 1.22)
+* Removed EnhancedChangesList::arrow(), sideArrow(), downArrow(), spacerArrow().
+* Removed Xml::namespaceSelector(). (deprecated since 1.19)
+* Removed WikiPage::estimateRevisionCount(). (deprecated since 1.19)
+* MYSQL: Enum item added to "major MIME type" columns.
+ Running update.php on MySQL < v5.1 may result in heavy processing.
+* RSS and Atom feeds generated by MediaWiki no longer include a fallback
+ stylesheet. It was ignored by most browsers these days anyway.
+* SpecialSearchNoResults hook has been removed. SpecialSearchResults is now
+ called unconditionally.
+* TablePager::getBody() is now 'final' and can't be overridden in subclasses.
+* TablePager::getBody() is deprecated, use getBodyOutput() or getFullOutput().
+* Added $outputPage parameter to the SkinTemplateGetLanguageLink hook.
+* log_page for move log entries store the original page ID, rather than that
+ of the new redirect page. This is not retroactive.
+* LCStoreAccel was removed. $wgLocalisationCacheConf can no longer be set to
+ use this store class.
+* Html::infoBox() no longer accepts paths relative to skins/common/images/.
+* Deprecated defunct Skin::getCommonStylePath().
+* Some extensions had their ResourceLoader modules depend on the "mediawiki"
+ and "jquery" modules. In the past, this behavior was undefined, now it will
+ throw an error.
+* Removed BagOStuff::replace(). (deprecated since 1.23)
+* In Linker.php, link(), linkText() and makeBrokenImageLinkObj() now display
+ warnings if their first parameter is not a Title object. Also makeImageLink()
+ now requires a Parser as its first parameter.
+* (bug 67368) LESS functions embed() and embeddable(), added in MediaWiki 1.23
+ and broken by design, have been removed. Use appropriate LESS mixins instead.
+* Removed cssjanus.py from maintenance directory as it was unused.
+* Removed maintenance/purgeOldText.inc and the PurgeRedundantText() function
+ it contained (superseded by Maintenance::purgeRedundantText() in 1.16).
+ The purgeOldText.php maintenance script has been retained.
+* PHPUnit tests can be found by directory discovery, by adding the directory
+ path from your UnitTestsList callback. Older versions of MediaWiki core will
+ barf at this usage.
+
+==== Renamed classes ====
+* CLDRPluralRuleConverter_Expression to CLDRPluralRuleConverterExpression
+* CLDRPluralRuleConverter_Fragment to CLDRPluralRuleConverterFragment
+* CLDRPluralRuleConverter_Operator to CLDRPluralRuleConverterOperator
+* CLDRPluralRuleEvaluator_Range to CLDRPluralRuleEvaluatorRange
+* CSSJanus_Tokenizer to CSSJanusTokenizer
+* MediaWiki_I18N to MediaWikiI18N
+* Parser_DiffTest to ParserDiffTest
+* RevDel_ArchiveItem to RevDelArchiveItem
+* RevDel_ArchiveList to RevDelArchiveList
+* RevDel_ArchivedFileItem to RevDelArchivedFileItem
+* RevDel_ArchivedFileList to RevDelArchivedFileList
+* RevDel_ArchivedRevisionItem to RevDelArchivedRevisionItem
+* RevDel_FileItem to RevDelFileItem
+* RevDel_FileList to RevDelFileList
+* RevDel_Item to RevDelItem
+* RevDel_List to RevDelList
+* RevDel_LogItem to RevDelLogItem
+* RevDel_LogList to RevDelLogList
+* RevDel_RevisionItem to RevDelRevisionItem
+* RevDel_RevisionList to RevDelRevisionList
+* WebInstaller_Complete to WebInstallerComplete
+* WebInstaller_Copying to WebInstallerCopying
+* WebInstaller_DBConnect to WebInstallerDBConnect
+* WebInstaller_DBSettings to WebInstallerDBSettings
+* WebInstaller_Document to WebInstallerDocument
+* WebInstaller_ExistingWiki to WebInstallerExistingWiki
+* WebInstaller_Install to WebInstallerInstall
+* WebInstaller_Language to WebInstallerLanguage
+* WebInstaller_Name to WebInstallerName
+* WebInstaller_Options to WebInstallerOptions
+* WebInstaller_Readme to WebInstallerReadme
+* WebInstaller_ReleaseNotes to WebInstallerReleaseNotes
+* WebInstaller_Restart to WebInstallerRestart
+* WebInstaller_Upgrade to WebInstallerUpgrade
+* WebInstaller_UpgradeDoc to WebInstallerUpgradeDoc
+* WebInstaller_Welcome to WebInstallerWelcome
+
+==== Removed classes ====
+* IPBlockForm - Use SpecialBlock directly
+* WatchlistEditor - Use SpecialEditWatchlist directly
+* FormatExif - Use FormatMetadata directly
+* RevertFileAction - Use RevertAction directly
+* HistoryPage - Use HistoryAction directly
+* RawPage - Use RawAction directly
+* StubContLang - Use Language::factory() instead
+* XMLReader2 - Use XMLReader directly
+* ResourceLoaderLESSFunctions - No longer in use, not intended for public usage
+
+==== Removed files ====
+The skins/common/ directory, previously containing some assets intended to be
+used by skins and a number of legacy styles and scripts, has been removed. Its
+contents have been deleted or relocated into the resources/ directory. Full list
+of files that are no longer available follows.
+
+* skins/common/ajax.js
+* skins/common/commonContent.css
+* skins/common/commonElements.css
+* skins/common/commonInterface.css
+* skins/common/commonPrint.css
+* skins/common/config-cc.css
+* skins/common/config.css
+* skins/common/config.js
+* skins/common/feed.css
+* skins/common/IEFixes.js
+* skins/common/oldshared.css
+* skins/common/protect.js
+* skins/common/shared.css
+* skins/common/upload.js
+* skins/common/wikibits.js
+* skins/common/images/add.png
+* skins/common/images/ajax-loader.gif
+* skins/common/images/arrow_disabled_first_25.png
+* skins/common/images/arrow_disabled_last_25.png
+* skins/common/images/arrow_disabled_left_25.png
+* skins/common/images/arrow_disabled_right_25.png
+* skins/common/images/arrow_first_25.png
+* skins/common/images/arrow_last_25.png
+* skins/common/images/arrow_left_25.png
+* skins/common/images/arrow_right_25.png
+* skins/common/images/Arr_.png
+* skins/common/images/Arr_d.png
+* skins/common/images/Arr_l.png
+* skins/common/images/Arr_r.png
+* skins/common/images/Arr_u.png
+* skins/common/images/bullet.gif
+* skins/common/images/button_bold.png
+* skins/common/images/button_extlink.png
+* skins/common/images/button_headline.png
+* skins/common/images/button_hr.png
+* skins/common/images/button_image.png
+* skins/common/images/button_italic.png
+* skins/common/images/button_link.png
+* skins/common/images/button_media.png
+* skins/common/images/button_nowiki.png
+* skins/common/images/button_sig.png
+* skins/common/images/button_template.png
+* skins/common/images/cc-0.png
+* skins/common/images/cc-by-nc-sa.png
+* skins/common/images/cc-by-sa.png
+* skins/common/images/cc-by.png
+* skins/common/images/Checker-16x16.png
+* skins/common/images/closewindow.png
+* skins/common/images/closewindow19x19.png
+* skins/common/images/critical-32.png
+* skins/common/images/diffunderline.gif
+* skins/common/images/download-32.png
+* skins/common/images/feed-icon.png
+* skins/common/images/feed-icon.svg
+* skins/common/images/gnu-fdl.png
+* skins/common/images/help-question-hover.gif
+* skins/common/images/help-question.gif
+* skins/common/images/info-32.png
+* skins/common/images/link_icon.gif
+* skins/common/images/magnify-clip-rtl.png
+* skins/common/images/magnify-clip.png
+* skins/common/images/mediawiki.png
+* skins/common/images/nextredirectltr.png
+* skins/common/images/nextredirectrtl.png
+* skins/common/images/poweredby_mediawiki_88x31.png
+* skins/common/images/public-domain.png
+* skins/common/images/question-small.png
+* skins/common/images/question.svg
+* skins/common/images/redirectltr.png
+* skins/common/images/redirectrtl.png
+* skins/common/images/remove.png
+* skins/common/images/spinner.gif
+* skins/common/images/tick-32.png
+* skins/common/images/tipsy-arrow.gif
+* skins/common/images/tooltip_icon.png
+* skins/common/images/warning-32.png
+* skins/common/images/wiki.png
+* skins/common/images/Zoom_sans.gif
+* skins/common/images/ar/button_bold.png
+* skins/common/images/ar/button_headline.png
+* skins/common/images/ar/button_italic.png
+* skins/common/images/ar/button_link.png
+* skins/common/images/ar/button_nowiki.png
+* skins/common/images/be-tarask/button_bold.png
+* skins/common/images/be-tarask/button_italic.png
+* skins/common/images/be-tarask/button_link.png
+* skins/common/images/cyrl/button_bold.png
+* skins/common/images/cyrl/button_italic.png
+* skins/common/images/cyrl/button_link.png
+* skins/common/images/de/button_bold.png
+* skins/common/images/de/button_italic.png
+* skins/common/images/fa/button_bold.png
+* skins/common/images/fa/button_headline.png
+* skins/common/images/fa/button_italic.png
+* skins/common/images/fa/button_link.png
+* skins/common/images/fa/button_nowiki.png
+* skins/common/images/icons/fileicon-c.png
+* skins/common/images/icons/fileicon-cpp.png
+* skins/common/images/icons/fileicon-deb.png
+* skins/common/images/icons/fileicon-djvu.png
+* skins/common/images/icons/fileicon-djvu.xcf
+* skins/common/images/icons/fileicon-dvi.png
+* skins/common/images/icons/fileicon-exe.png
+* skins/common/images/icons/fileicon-h.png
+* skins/common/images/icons/fileicon-html.png
+* skins/common/images/icons/fileicon-iso.png
+* skins/common/images/icons/fileicon-java.png
+* skins/common/images/icons/fileicon-mid.png
+* skins/common/images/icons/fileicon-mov.png
+* skins/common/images/icons/fileicon-o.png
+* skins/common/images/icons/fileicon-ogg.png
+* skins/common/images/icons/fileicon-ogg.xcf
+* skins/common/images/icons/fileicon-pdf.png
+* skins/common/images/icons/fileicon-ps.png
+* skins/common/images/icons/fileicon-psd.png
+* skins/common/images/icons/fileicon-rm.png
+* skins/common/images/icons/fileicon-rpm.png
+* skins/common/images/icons/fileicon-svg.png
+* skins/common/images/icons/fileicon-tar.png
+* skins/common/images/icons/fileicon-tex.png
+* skins/common/images/icons/fileicon-ttf.png
+* skins/common/images/icons/fileicon-txt.png
+* skins/common/images/icons/fileicon.png
+* skins/common/images/ksh/button_S_italic.png
+
== MediaWiki 1.23 ==
* Added jquery.throttle-debounce ResourceLoader module to limit the number of
callbacks for frequently occurring events.
* Special:ProtectedPages shows now a table. The timestamp, the reason and
- the protecting user is also shown.
+ the protecting user are also shown.
* Added experimental support for using Microsoft SQL Server as the database
backend.
** Added new Microsoft SQL Server-specific configuration variable
* (bug 52810) Preference "Justify paragraphs" was removed.
* OutputPage::showErrorPage raises a notice if arguments are incoherent.
* Thumbnails that keep failing to render in thumb.php will be rate-limited
- againt further render attempts for 1 hour. $wgAttemptFailureEpoch can be
+ against further render attempts for 1 hour. $wgAttemptFailureEpoch can be
altered to reset all rate-limited thumbnails at once.
* (bug 56572) Builds of the OOjs and OOjs UI libraries are now available.
* mw.loader.go and mw.loader.version have been removed.
HTML output is now exclusively HTML5.
* $wgDBOracleDRCP added. True enables persistent connection with DRCP on Oracle.
* $wgLogAutopatrol added to allow disabling logging of autopatrol edits in the logging table.
- default for $wgLogAutopatrol is true.
+ Default for $wgLogAutopatrol is true.
* The 'edit' right no longer allows for editing a user's own CSS and JS.
* New rights 'editmyusercss', 'editmyuserjs', 'viewmywatchlist',
'editmywatchlist', 'viewmyprivateinfo', 'editmyprivateinfo', and
* $wgCascadingRestrictionLevels was added, allowing one to specify restriction levels
which can be cascading (previously 'sysop' was hard-coded as the only one).
* XHTML5 support has been improved. If you set $wgMimeType = 'application/xhtml+xml'
- MediaWiki will try outputting markup acording to XHTML5 rules.
+ MediaWiki will try outputting markup according to XHTML5 rules.
* Altered hook 'ProtectionForm::save', adding the reason page protection is
changed as third parameter.
* New hook 'TitleSquidURLs' for manipulating the list of URLs to be purged from
* Make thumb.php give HTTP redirects for file redirects
* (bug 30607) Special:ListFiles can now show old versions of files. Additionally
Special:AllMyUploads was introduced so the user can get a list of all things
- they have ever uploaded, even if it was subsequently overriden.
+ they have ever uploaded, even if it was subsequently overridden.
* Introduced Special:MyFiles and Special:AllMyFiles as an alias for Special:MyUploads
and Special:AllMyUploads respectively.
* IPv6 addresses in X-Forwarded-For headers are now normalised before checking
The skins/common/wikiprintable.css file no longer exists. Return value of
Skin#commonPrintStylesheet is ignored. Please use the 'mediawiki.legacy.commonPrint'
module instead or base your skin on SkinTemplate.
-* (bug 49629) The hook ExtractThumbParamaters has been deprecated in favour
+* (bug 49629) The hook ExtractThumbParameters has been deprecated in favour
of media handler overriding MediaHandler::parseParamString.
* (bug 46512) The collapsibleNav feature from the Vector extension has been moved
to the Vector skin in core.
* Added $wgCopyUploadProxy global to define which proxy to use for copy
uploads.
* (bug 40448) mediawiki.legacy.mwsuggest has been replaced with a new module,
- mediawiki.searchSuggest, based on SimpleSeach from Extension:Vector.
+ mediawiki.searchSuggest, based on SimpleSearch from Extension:Vector.
=== Known issues in 1.20.0 ===
These are issues that we're targeting to be fixed in a later release
* (bug 34735) Updated compressOld.php documentation to mention the different
usages of -s and -n parameters depending on compression type.
* (bug 13896) Rendering of devanagari numbers in automatic '#' number lists.
-* (bug 33689) Upgrade to 1.19 on Postgres fails due to incomplete query when.
+* (bug 33689) Upgrade to 1.19 on Postgres fails due to incomplete query when
trying to defer foreign key for externallinks.
* (bug 32748) Printer friendly version of article decode Unicode chars as a
pretty IRI in footer.
* (bug 30410) Removed deprecated $wgFilterCallback and the 'filtered' API error.
* (bug 32604) Some messages needs escaping of wikitext inside username.
* (bug 36537) Rename wfArrayToCGI to wfArrayToCgi for consistency with wfCgiToArray.
-* (bug 25946) The message on the top of Special:RecentChanges is now displayed.
+* (bug 25946) The message on the top of Special:RecentChanges is now displayed
in user language instead of content language.
* (bug 35264) Wrong type used for <ns> in export.xsd
* (bug 24985) Use $wgTmpDirectory as the default temp directory so that people
until the second was introduced in 1.17.
* BREAKING CHANGE: Style rules for wikitable are now more specific and prevent
inheritance to nested tables which caused various issues (bug 30485 and bug
- 33434). If your wiki has overriden rules for ".wikitable", please revise them and
- adjust where neccecary. For comparison, use the "table.wikitable" section in
+ 33434). If your wiki has overridden rules for ".wikitable", please revise them and
+ adjust where necessary. For comparison, use the "table.wikitable" section in
skins/common/shared.css as base.
* $wgUploadNavigationUrl is now used for file redlinks if
$wgUploadMissingFileUrl is not set. The former was used for this until the
"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 32168) Add wfAssembleUrl for use in wfExpandUrl.
* (bug 32168) fixed - wfExpandUrl expands dot segments now.
* (bug 31535) Upload comments now truncated properly, and don't have brackets.
-* (bug 32086) Special:PermanentLink now show an error message when no subpage
+* (bug 32086) Special:PermanentLink now shows an error message when no subpage
was specified.
* (bug 30368) Special:Newpages now shows the new page name for moved pages.
* (bug 1697) The way to search blocked usernames in block log should be clearer.
* (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 34604) [mw.config] wgActionPaths should be an object instead of a numeral
- array.* (bug 12262) Indents and lists are now aligned
+ array.
+* (bug 12262) Indents and lists are now aligned
* (bug 29753) mw.util.tooltipAccessKeyPrefix should be alt-shift for Chrome
on Windows
* (bug 25095) Special:Categories should also include the first relevant item
address blocks for list=blocks.
* (bug 30591) Add support to only return keys in ApiAllMessages.
* The API now respects $wgShowHostnames and won't share the hostname in
- severedby if it's set to false.
+ servedby if it's set to false.
* wlexcludeuser parameter added to ApiFeedWatchlist.
* (bug 7304) Links on redirect pages no longer cause the redirect page to show
up as a redirect to the linked page on Special:Whatlinkshere.
This is a maintenance and security release of the MediaWiki 1.18 branch.
=== Changes since 1.18.1 ===
-* (bug 33686) could not get a list of contributor for an article when using
- a SQLite database.
+* (bug 33686) could not get a list of contributors for an article when using
+ a SQLite database.
* (Bug 33865) Exception thrown in action=parse when attempting to use the title
parameter without setting the text parameter.
* UserMailer could potentially throw a fatal error when a MailAddress object had
=== New features in 1.18 ===
* BREAKING CHANGE: action=watch / action=unwatch now requires a token.
-* BREAKING CHANGE: Article class hierarchy split into WikiPage (backend).
+* BREAKING CHANGE: Article class hierarchy split into WikiPage (backend)
and Article (frontend) hierarchies. Several hooks now pass a WikiPage object instead
- of an Article object. These hooks all use an $article paramater as documented in hooks.txt.
+ of an Article object. These hooks all use an $article parameter as documented in hooks.txt.
Extensions should be updated to account for this, though most won't require any changes.
* (bug 27860) Minor edit after clicking 'new section' tab
Now the "This is a minor edit" checkbox is not available when you
unicode code point is (aka pre-1.17 behavior).
* (bug 30940) Add a hook in User:getDefaultOptions.
To give extensions a better and more flexible way of providing default
- values for preferences a hook has been introdiced in User:getDefaultOptions().
+ values for preferences a hook has been introduced in User:getDefaultOptions().
Setting preferences in $wgDefaultUserOptions still work fine, but when reading
them (i.e. with array_keys) to get a list of all preferences, then
$wgDefaultUserOptions should no longer be used as it will contain those set via
file description page for multi-paged documents.
* (bug 28883) Message names for different compression types commonly
used in Tiff files.
-* When translcuding a special page, do not let it interpret url parameters.
+* When transcluding a special page, do not let it interpret url parameters.
* (bug 28887) Special page classes are no longer re-used during 1 request.
* (bug 28888) Searching for something starting with a # sign no longer tells
the user a page named [[:]] already exists.
RefreshLinks::deleteLinksFromNonexistent.
* (bug 29797) Error: "Tried to load block with invalid type" when subpages
are disabled for user pages.
-* (bug 12205) Bidirectional names in action=credits are split and displayed.
+* (bug 12205) Bidirectional names in action=credits are split and displayed
incorrectly when wrapped to the next line.
* (bug 20781) Move 'mainpagetext' messages to installer's .i18n file.
* (bug 29737) "MediaWiki:Qbsettings-directionality" should refer to script,
to the FCKEditor extension.
* (bug 28762) Resizing to specified height broken for very thin images.
* (bug 29959) Installer fatal when cURL and allow_url_fopen is disabled and user
- tries to subsribe to mediawiki-announce.
+ tries to subscribe to mediawiki-announce.
* (bug 27427) mw.util.getParamValue shouldn't return value from hash even if
param is only present in hash.
* Installer checked for magic_quotes_runtime instead of register_globals.
* (bug 30335) Fix for HTMLForms using GET breaking when non-friendly URLs
are used.
* (bug 30264) Changed installer-generated LocalSettings.php to use require_once()
- instead require() for included extensions.
+ instead of require() for included extensions.
* Tracking categories are no longer shown in footer for special pages.
* (bug 30684) Fix bad escaping in mw.message for inexistent messages (i.e. <key>).
* $wgOverrideSiteFeed no longer double escapes urls.
* (bug 27897) list=allusers and list=users list hidden users.
* (bug 27717) API's exturlusage module does not respect $wgMiserMode.
* (bug 27588) list=filearchive&faprop=sha1 returns empty attribute.
-* (bug 28010) Passing a non existant user to list=users gives internal error.
+* (bug 28010) Passing a non existent user to list=users gives internal error.
* (bug 27549) action=query&list=users&usprop=groups doesn't show implicit
groups if a user doesn't have explicit groups.
* (bug 27670) Ordering by timestamp (and usage of start and end) isn't as clear
* $wgSVGMaxSize is now applied to the smaller of width or height, making very
wide pano/timeline/diagram SVGs renderable at saner sizes.
* (bug 29959) Installer fatal when cURL and allow_url_fopen is disabled and user
- tries to subsribe to mediawiki-announce.
+ tries to subscribe to mediawiki-announce.
* Installer checked for magic_quotes_runtime instead of register_globals
* (bug 30131) XCache with variable caching disabled no longer used for variable
caching (CACHE_ACCEL)
* Fixed recentchanges FK violation on page delete and cache purge error in updater
for Oracle DB.
* (bug 32276) Skins were generating output using the internal page title which
- would allow anonymous users to determine wheter a page exists, potentially
+ would allow anonymous users to determine whether a page exists, potentially
leaking private data. In fact, the curid and oldid request parameters would
allow page titles to be enumerated even when they are not guessable.
* (bug 32616) action=ajax requests were dispatched to the relevant internal
with $wgPasswordSender configurable.
* (bug 22463) $wgFooterIcons added to allow configuration of the icons shown in
the footers of skins.
-* $wgFileCacheDepth can be used to set the depth of the subdirectory hierarchy.
+* $wgFileCacheDepth can be used to set the depth of the subdirectory hierarchy
used for the file cache. Default value is 2, which matches former behavior.
=== Bug fixes in 1.17 ===
language.
* (bug 22852) "Served in" comment is now the time used to cache a single page
when using rebuildFileCache.php
-* (bug 22496) Viewing diff of a redirect page without specifying "oldid".
+* (bug 22496) Viewing diff of a redirect page without specifying "oldid"
parameter no longer makes the page displayed as being the redirect target.
* (bug 22918) Feed cache keys now use $wgRenderHashAppend.
* (bug 21916) Last-Modified header is now correct when outputting cached feed.
* (bug 20049) Fixed PHP notice in search highlighter that occurs in some cases.
* (bug 23017) Special:Disambiguations now list pages in content namespaces
rather than only main namespace.
-* (bug 23063) $wgMaxAnimatedGifArea is checked against the total size of all.
+* (bug 23063) $wgMaxAnimatedGifArea is checked against the total size of all
frames, and $wgMaxImageArea against the size of the first frame, rather than
the other way around. Both now default to 12.5 megapixels. Also, images
exceeding $wgMaxImageArea can still be embedded at original size.
correct link.
* (bug 23284) Times are now rounded correctly.
* (bug 23375) Added ogv, oga, spx as extensions for ogg files.
-* (bug 18408) All required permissions for uploading (upload, edit, create).
+* (bug 18408) All required permissions for uploading (upload, edit, create)
are now checked when loading Special:Upload. Toolbar link for Special:Upload
is no longer shown if the user does not have the required permissions.
* (bug 23397) texvc in html mode renders \sim as ˜ not ∼
* (bug 19910) Headings of the form ===+\s+ are now displayed as valid headings.
* (bug 24022) Only check file extensions on the uploadpage when needed.
* (bug 24076) Recognize Office 2003 files with OpenXML trailers.
-* (bug 24244) Updated comments in DefaultSettings.php to reflect.
+* (bug 24244) Updated comments in DefaultSettings.php to reflect
Image: --> File: namespace rename.
* Make wfTimestamp recognize negative unix timestamp values.
* (bug 24401) SimpleSearch: No button/text indicating 'Search' if image is
* (bug 20744) Wiki forgets about an uploaded file.
* (bug 17913) Don't show "older edit" when no older edit available.
* (bug 6204) TOC not properly rendered when using $wgMaxTocLevel.
-* (bug 24977) The accesskey in history page now lead directly to the diff.
+* (bug 24977) The accesskey in history page now lead directly to the diff
instead of alternating focus between the two buttons.
* (bug 24987) Special:ListUsers does not take external groups into account.
* (bug 20633) update.php has mixed language output.
* (bug 25175) HTML file cache now honor $wgCacheDirectory if
$wgFileCacheDirectory is not set.
* (bug 13353) Diff3 version checks were too strict, did not detect working diff3.
-* (bug 25843) Links to special pages using link= attribute on images are now.
+* (bug 25843) Links to special pages using link= attribute on images are now
normalised like normal links to special pages.
* (bug 21364) External links using link= attribute on images now respect
$wgExternalLinkTarget.
* (bug 27508) SVGMetadataExtractor takes too much resources on huge svgs.
* (bug 27465) SVG thumbnail generation.
* (bug 27467) preload can leave UNIQ.
-* (bug 27539) Allow attributes beginning with a digit in wiktext tag parameters.
+* (bug 27539) Allow attributes beginning with a digit in wikitext tag parameters.
* (bug 27328) using relative paths in CSS imports in MediaWiki:Common.css broken
in 1.17.
* (bug 27333) Fix repetitive last-seen time queries on page history.
* (bug 22764) uselang parameter for action=parse.
* (bug 22944) API: watchlist options are inconsistent.
* (bug 22868) don't list infinite block expiry date as "now" in API logevents.
-* (bug 22290) prop=revisions now outputs "comment" field even when comment.
+* (bug 22290) prop=revisions now outputs "comment" field even when comment
is empty, for consistency with list=recentchanges.
* (bug 19721) API action=help should have a way to just list for a specific
module.
* (bug 23524) Api Modules as followup to bug 14473 (Add iwlinks table to
track inline interwiki link usage).
* Add pltitles and tltemplates to prop=links and prop=templates respectively,
- similar to prop=categories's clcategorie.
+ similar to prop=categories's clcategories.
* (bug 23834) Invalid "thumbwidth" and "thumbheight" in "imageinfo" query when
thumbnailing larger than original image.
* (bug 23835) Need "thumbmime" result in "imageinfo" query.
current revision id, try the parser cache, and save it to it if necessary.
* (bug 25463) Export header should not be shown if no pages were requested, to
reduce confusion.
-* (bug 25648) API discovery information has been added as RSD link in page.
+* (bug 25648) API discovery information has been added as RSD link in page
<head> and by providing an API module action=rsd. Added hook
ApiRsdServiceApis for extensions to add their own service to the services
list.
* Moroccan Spoken Arabic (ary)
* Banjar (bjn)
-* Kabardian (kdb)
+* Kabardian (kbd)
* Kabardian (Cyrillic) (kbd-cyrl)
* Latgalian (ltg)
* Minangkabau (min)
similarly to the category namespace.
* $wgEnableSorbs renamed to $wgDnsBlacklistUrls ($wgEnableSorbs kept for
backward compatibility)
-* $wgUploadNavigationUrl now also affects images inline images that do not
+* $wgUploadNavigationUrl now also affects 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
* 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
+* (bug 19576) Moved the id attributes 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
* (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.
+ variable instead of using this to overrule 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
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.
+ Keyword set was not useful, and is ignored by modern search engines anyway.
* (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
* 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,
+* (bug 19301) Duplicate entries in $wgAddGroups, $wgRemoveGroups,
$wgGroupsAddToSelf and $wgGroupsRemoveFromSelf are no more displayed on
Special:ListGroupRights
* (bug 18799) Special:Userlogin now handles correctly the returnto parameter
* (bug 15680) Split the edit tip message of user CSS/JS subpage into
"usercssyoucanpreview" and "userjsyoucanpreview" respectively.
* (bug 12110) Split the rights for editing users' CSS/JS subpage from
- "editusercssjs" into "editusercss" and edituserjs" respectively.
+ "editusercssjs" into "editusercss" and "edituserjs" respectively.
* (bug 19394) RecentChanges feed URLs for log items with no revisions
(eg Newuser, Userrights) are no longer broken
* (bug 17395) Remote file descriptions use user language ($wgLang), not wiki
"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
+* (bug 20159) thumbnails rerendered if older than $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
* (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.
+* Redirecting special pages now keep query string parameters set to "0" (e.g.
for namespace)
* (bug 20765) Special:ListGroupRights no longer misses addables and removables
groups if there are duplicate entries
* 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
+* (bug 21986) Special page names are now capitalized by content language
+* If two log types 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
* Added $wgNoFollowDomainExceptions to allow exempting particular domain names
from rel="nofollow" on external links
* (bug 12970) Brought back $wgUseImageResize.
-* Added $wgRedirectOnLogin to allow specifying a specifc page to redirect users
+* Added $wgRedirectOnLogin to allow specifying a specific page to redirect users
to upon logging in (ex: "Main Page")
* Add $wgExportFromNamespaces for enabling/disabling the "export all from
namespace" option (disabled by default)
$wgRedirectOnLogin
* Added a link to Special:UserRights on Special:Contributions for privileged users
* (bug 10336) Added new magic word {{REVISIONUSER}}, which displays the editor
- of the displayed revision's author user name
+ of the displayed revision
* LinkerMakeExternalLink now has an $attribs parameter for link attributes and
a $linkType parameter for the type of external link being made
* (bug 17785) Dynamic dates surrounded with a <span> tag, fixing sortable tables with
* (bug 17778) MediaWiki:Catseparator can now have HTML entities
* (bug 17676) Error on Special:ListFiles when using Postgres
* Special:Export doesn't use raw SQL queries anymore
-* (bug 14771) Thumbnail links to individual DjVu pages have two no longer have
+* (bug 14771) Thumbnail links to individual DjVu pages no longer have
two "page" parameters
* (bug 17972) Special:FileDuplicateSearch form now works correctly on wikis that
don't use PathInfo or short urls
* Dropped old Paser_OldPP class. Only new parser with preprocessor is used.
* Moved password reset form from Special:Preferences to Special:ResetPass
* Added Special:ChangePassword as a special page alias for Special:ResetPass
-* Added complimentary function for addHandler() called removeHandler() for removing events
+* Added complementary function for addHandler() called removeHandler() for removing events
* Improved security of file uploads for IE clients, using a reverse-engineered
algorithm very similar to IE's content detection algorithm.
* Cascading protection no longer requires that both edit and move are restricted
* (bug 13705) Don't show rollback link in page history on incorrect revisions
* (bug 13708) Don't set "Search results" title when loading Special:Search
without query
-* (bug 13736) Don't show MediaWiki:Anontalkpagetext on non-existant IP addresses
+* (bug 13736) Don't show MediaWiki:Anontalkpagetext on non-existent IP addresses
* (bug 13728) Don't trim initial whitespace during section edits
* (bug 13727) Don't delete log entries from recentchanges on page deletion
* (bug 13752) Redirects to sections now work again
* (bug 14764) Fix regression in from Article::lastModified(), failed to work
on non-mySQL schemas.
* (bug 14763) Child classes of Database (DatabasePostgres and DatabaseOracle)
- had stict standards issues with setFakeSlaveLag() and setFakeMaster().
+ had strict standards issues with setFakeSlaveLag() and setFakeMaster().
* (bug 451) Improve the phrase mappings of the Chinese converter arrays.
* (bug 12487) Rights log is not fully internationalized
* (bug 10837) Language variants no longer override other languages than base
* (bug 13128) Added patrolled flag to list=recentchanges
* Implemented {bl,ei,iu}redirect (lists links through redirects as well)
* (bug 13154) Introduced subpages flag to meta=siteinfo&siprop=namespaces
-* (bug 13157) Added ucuserprefix parameter to list=usercontibs
+* (bug 13157) Added ucuserprefix parameter to list=usercontribs
* (bug 12394) Added rctitles parameter to list=recentchanges, making rcid
retrieval easier
* (bug 13218) Fix inclusion of " character in hyperlinks
* (bug 3953) Work around poor display of parenthesis in the in other
languages section of MonoBook skin
* (bug 8539) Enable PLURAL option for another message of recentchanges.
-* (bug 8728) MediaWiki:Badfiletype splitted into 3 messages
+* (bug 8728) MediaWiki:Badfiletype split into 3 messages
* (bug 9131) Allow SpecialContributions to work with Postgres
* (bug 9155) Allow footer info to wrap in Monobook
* (bug 8847) Strip spurious #fragments from request URI to fix redirect
* (bug 6304) Show timestamp for current revision in diff pages
* Vertically align current version with old version header in diff display
* (bug 6174) Remove redundant "emailforlost" message
-* (bug 6189) Show an error to an unprivilleged user trying to create account
+* (bug 6189) Show an error to an unprivileged user trying to create account
* (bug 6365) Show user information in the "old revision" navigation links
* Introduce 'FetchChangesList' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information
* (bug 6345) Update to Indonesian localisation (id) #22
* (bug 1956) Hide bot uploads from Special:Newimages
* (bug 3220) Fix escaping of block URLs in Recentchanges
* (bug 3284) Ipblocklist paging, substring search
-* Allow filtering of robot edits in Special:Watchlist by stting
+* Allow filtering of robot edits in Special:Watchlist by setting
$wgFilterRobotsWL = true.
* Fix interlanguage links on special pages when extra namespaces configured
* (bug 3475) anon contrib links on Special:Newpages
* Supplying a reason for a block is no longer mandatory
* Language conversion support for category pages
* $wgStyleSheetDirectory is no longer an alias for $wgStyleDirectory;
-* Special:Movepage can now take paramaters like Special:Movepage/Page_to_move
- (used to just be able to take paramaters via a GET request like index.php?title=Special:Movepage&target=Page_to_move)
+* Special:Movepage can now take parameters like Special:Movepage/Page_to_move
+ (used to just be able to take parameters via a GET request like index.php?title=Special:Movepage&target=Page_to_move)
* (bug 2151) The delete summary now includes editor name, if only one has edited the article.
* (bug 2105) Fixed from argument to the PHP mail() function. A missing space could prevent sending mail with some versions of sendmail.
* (bug 2228) Updated the Slovak translation
* Skip sidebar entries where link text is '-'
* Convert non-UTF-8 URL parameters even if referer is local
* (bug 2460) <img> width & height properly filled when resizing image
-* (bug 2273) deletion log comment used user interface langage
+* (bug 2273) deletion log comment used user interface language
* Try reading revision _text_ from master if no result on slave
* Use content-language message cache for raw view of message pages
* (bug 2530) Not displaying talk pages on Special:Watchlist/edit