it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN
=== Configuration changes in 1.16 ===
-* $wgScriptModifiedMsgCheck Checks the mediawiki namespace recent changes to
-ensure a updated urid for script-loader
-* $wgScriptModifiedCheck Checks script file modified time for unique request id)
-* $wgEnableAsyncDownload (lets you disable Async download for windows.
-Hopefully we will remove this configuration var soon)
-* $wgEnableFirefogg enable support for firefogg extension, firefogg supports
- in-browser transcoding, chunk uploads and client side hash checking.
-* $wgEnableTemporalOggUrls enable oggz_chop support a server side ogg seeking
- helper
-* $wgEnableScriptLoader if the script-loader should be enabled
-* $wgJSAutoloadClasses array of javascript classes to file paths used by
- script-loader to load javascript by class name.
-* $wgEnableJS2system if we should include js2 stuff like jquery, mv_embed.js
- (script-loader helper) and use new interfaces for upload
-* $wgEnableScriptLoaderJsFile if we support grabbing js files with the script
- loader. By default we only grab classes in $wgJSAutoloadClasses
-* $wgEnableScriptMinify if you want the script loader to minify js
-* $wgEnableScriptLocalization if you want the script loader to do msg lookups
-* $wgMwEmbedDirectory the path to MwEmbed Directory (maybe we can depreciate
- this. Was used when mwEmbed was going to be an extension.
-* $wgDebugJavaScript if we want to enable fresh debug javascript
-* $wgPhpCliPath Path to php-cli for spinning up background php processes
* (bug 18222) $wgMinimalPasswordLength default is now 1
* $wgSessionHandler can be used to configure session.save_handler
* $wgLocalFileRepo/$wgForeignFileRepos now have a 'fileMode' parameter to
interface will not appear in Special:AllMessages.
* $wgRegisterInternalExternals can be used to record external links pointing
to same server
-* $wgSpecialVersionExtended shows the extended version information besides
- PHP and database version.
* (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
* $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
+* (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
-* $wgWikiId added to override default output of wfWikiId()
+* $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.
=== New features in 1.16 ===
** 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,
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 getOtherBlockLogLink, called in Special:IPBlockList and Special:Block
+* 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 in add-new-section link
- for Talk page
+* (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
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
=== Bug fixes in 1.16 ===
* (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
== API changes in 1.16 ==
* (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
=== Languages updated in 1.16 ===
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)
* 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)