* (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+* (bug 14202) $wgUseTeX has been superseded by the Math extension.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
=== New features in 1.18 ===
-* Added a special page, disabled by default, that allows users with the
- 'disableaccount' privilege to permanently deactivate user accounts.
* (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
to avoid loops and confusion; auth plugins like CentralAuth need to handle
AbortNewAccount separately.
* Special:ListFiles is now transcludable.
-
+* (bug 13879) Special:Emailuser asks for suitable target user if called without.
+* (bug 16956) IPTC and XMP metadata now extracted from images
+* (bug 23816) A tracking category is now added for any pages with broken images.
+* Conversion script between Syllabics and Latin for the Inuktitut language
=== Bug fixes in 1.18 ===
* (bug 23119) WikiError class and subclasses are now marked as deprecated
* (bug 15641) blocked administrators are now prevented from deleting or protecting
their own talk page; and all blocked users are more comprehensively prevented
from performing other actions
-* (bug 15641) Fixed positioning of permissions checks in Special:Import which
- allowed users without the 'import' permission to import pages if they directly
- submitted the form.
* (bug 27893) Edit-on-doubleclick now applies only on view and purge actions;
no longer triggers unexpectedly on delete, history etc.
* (bug 28417) Fix PHP notice when importing revision without a listed id
-* (bug 28394) Set forgotten parameters types in ApiUnblock
-* (bug 28395) Set forgotten parameters types in ApiParse
* (bug 28430) Make html and TeX output of <math> always be left-to-right.
* (bug 28306) Fix exposure of suppressed usernames in ForeignDBRepo
* (bug 28372) Fix bogus link to suppressed file versions in ForeignDBRepo
* (bug 27473) Fix regression: bold, italic no longer interfere with linktrail for ca, kaa
+* (bug 28444) Fix regression: edit-on-doubleclick retains revision id again
+* ' character entity is now allowed in wikitext
+* UtfNormal::cleanUp on an invalid utf-8 sequence no longer returns false if intl installed.
+* (bug 28561) The css class small will no longer make nested elements even smaller.
+* (bug 13172) Array type exif data (like GPS) was not being extracted from images.
+* (bug 28532) wfMsgExt() and wfMsgWikiHtml() use $wgOut->parse()
+* (bug 16129) Transcluded special pages expose strip markers when they output parsed messages
=== API changes in 1.18 ===
* (bug 26339) Throw warning when truncating an overlarge API result
* (bug 28263) cannot import xml with the api, when have not "import" user
right, but "importupload"
* (bug 28365) Added description for uiprop=preferencestoken in meta=userinfo
+* (bug 28394) Set forgotten parameters types in ApiUnblock
+* (bug 28395) Set forgotten parameters types in ApiParse
+* (bug 28368) add hint for multipart/form-data to api information of
+ action=import&xml=
+* (bug 28391) action=feedwatchlist&allrev should be a bool
+* (bug 28364) add registration date to meta=userinfo
+* (bug 28254) action=paraminfo: Extract type from PARAM_DFLT if
+ PARAM_TYPE is not set
+* (bug 27712) add parent_id to list=deletedrevs
+* (bug 28455) Add 'toponly' to recentchanges API module
+* (bug 26873) API: Add 'toponly' filter in usercontribs module
+* (bug 28586) YAML: strings that are the same as boolean literals
+* (bug 28591) Update/replace/supplement spyc (YAML parsing library)
+* YAML API output is now 1.2 compliant, using JSON as the formatter
+* (bug 28672) give information about misermode on api
+* (bug 28558) Add iw_api and iw_wikiid to meta=siteinfo&siprop=interwikimap
+* (bug 26882) Allow listing of indefinite protections with the api
+* (bug 27344) add drprefix param to list=deletedrevs
+* (bug 28560) list=deletedrevs should die, if combination of param is invalid
=== Languages updated in 1.18 ===
regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
+* Angika (anp) (new)
+* Brahui (brh) (new)
+* Central Dusun (new)
+* Jamaican Creole English (jam) (new)
+* Khowar (khw) (new)
* Liv (liv) (new)
-
+* Tokipona (tp) (removed) 'tokipona' is still valid.
* (bug 17160) Gender specific display text for User namespace
* Link trail added for sl and sh
* (bug 27633) Add characters to linkTrail for Potuguese (pt and pt-br)