This only affects installations which have $wgAllowCopyUploads set to true.
* Removed f-prot support from $wgAntivirusSetup.
* New variable $wgDBerrorLogTZ to provide dates in the error log in a
- different timezone than the wiki timezone set by $wgLocalTimezone.
+ different timezone than the wiki timezone set by $wgLocaltimezone.
* New variables $wgDBssl and $wgDBcompress to enable SSL and compression for database
connections, if either are available for the selected DB type.
+* $wgUseCombinedLoginLink now defaults to false, making MediaWiki output separate
+ login and create account links by default.
=== New features in 1.20 ===
* Added TitleIsAlwaysKnown hook which gets called when determining if a page exists.
* (bug 35685) api.php URL and other entry point URLs are now listed on
Special:Version
* Edit notices can now be translated.
-* jQuery upgraded to 1.8.
+* jQuery upgraded to 1.8.1
* jQuery UI upgraded to 1.8.23.
-* (bug 35705) QUnit upgraded from v1.2.0 to v1.9.0.
+* QUnit upgraded from v1.2.0 to v1.10.0.
* (bug 37604) jquery.cookie upgraded to 2011 version.
* (bug 22887) Add warning and tracking category for preprocessor errors
* (bug 31704) Allow selection of associated namespace on the watchlist
replacement, and so on.
* (bug 34678) Added InternalParseBeforeSanitize hook which gets called during Parser's
internalParse method just before the parser removes unwanted/dangerous HTML tags.
+* Added new hook AfterFinalPageOutput to allow modifications to buffered page output before sent
+ to the client.
* (bug 36783) Implement jQuery Promise interface in mediawiki.api module.
* Make dates in sortable tables sort according to the page content language
instead of the site content language
* HTMLForm mutators can now be chained (they return $this)
* A new message, "api-error-filetype-banned-type", is available for formatting
API upload errors due to the file extension blacklist.
-* jsMessage: Redesigned in Vector/Monobook as floating bubble with auto-hide.
* New hook 'ParserTestGlobals' allows to set globals before running parser tests.
* Allow importing pages as subpage.
* Add lang and hreflang attributes to language links on Login page.
* Added ResourceLoader module "jquery.badge".
* mw.util.$content now points to the overall content area in the skin rather than just
page text content area. If you need the old behaviour please use $( '#mw-content-text').
+* jsMessage has been replaced with a floating bubble notification system complete
+ with auto-hide, multi-message support, and message replacement tags.
+* jquery.messageBox which appears to be unused by both core and extensions has
+ been removed.
+* (bug 34939) Made link parsing insensitive ([HttP://])
+* (bug 40072) Add CSS classes to items in output of ChangesList pages.
=== Bug fixes in 1.20 ===
* (bug 30245) Use the correct way to construct a log page title.
PCRE is compiled without support for unicode properties.
* (bug 30390) Suggested file name on Special:Upload should not contain
illegal characters.
-* (bug 27111) Cascading foreign file repos now fetch shared descriptions properly.
* EXIF below sea level GPS altitude data is now shown correctly.
* (bug 39284) jquery.tablesorter should not consider "."" or "?"" to be a currency.
* (bug 39273) "Show changes" should not be incorrectly displayed in the Live Preview state.
+* Made body-content lang attribute honor the variant language when it is set.
+* (bug 36761) "Mark pages as visited" now submits previously established filter options.
+* (bug 39635) PostgreSQL LOCK IN SHARE MODE option is a syntax error.
+* (bug 36329) Accesskey tooltips for Firefox 14 on Mac should use "ctrl-option-" prefix.
+* (bug 32552) Drop unused database field cat_hidden from table category.
+* (bug 40214) Category pages no longer use deprecated "width" HTML attribute.
+* (bug 39941) Add missing stylesheets to the installer pages
+* In HTML5 mode, allow new input element types values (such as color, range..)
=== API changes in 1.20 ===
* (bug 34316) Add ability to retrieve maximum upload size from MediaWiki API.
* (bug 34927) Output media_type for list=filearchive.
* (bug 28814) add properties to output of action=parse.
* (bug 33224) add variants of content language to meta=siteinfo.
-* (bug 36761) "Mark pages as visited" now submits previously established filter options.
* (bug 32643) action=purge with forcelinkupdate no longer crashes when ratelimit is reached.
* The paraminfo module now also contains result properties for most modules.
* (bug 32348) Allow descending order for list=alllinks.
* (bug 38904) prop=revisions&rvstart=... no longer blows up when continuing.
* (bug 39032) ApiQuery generates help in constructor.
* (bug 11142) Improve file extension blacklist error reporting in API upload.
-* (bug 39635) PostgreSQL LOCK IN SHARE MODE option is a syntax error.
-* (bug 36329) Accesskey tooltips for Firefox 14 on Mac should use "ctrl-option-" prefix.
+* (bug 39665) Cache AllowedGenerator array so it doesn't autoload all query classes
+ on every request.
=== Languages updated in 1.20 ===
* Deprecated DatabaseBase functions newFromParams(), newFromType(), set(),
quote_ident(), and escapeLike() were removed.
* Use of __DIR__ instead of dirname( __FILE__ ).
+* OutputPage::wrapWikiMsg() no longer supports the 'options' parameter. It was
+ not used and complicated migration to Message class.
== Compatibility ==