1 = MediaWiki release notes =
3 Security reminder: MediaWiki does not require PHP's register_globals
4 setting since version 1.2.0. If you have it on, turn it *off* if you can.
8 THIS IS NOT A RELEASE YET.
10 MediaWiki is now using a "continuous integration" development model with
11 quarterly snapshot releases. The latest development code is always kept
12 "ready to run", and in fact runs our own sites on Wikipedia.
14 Release branches will continue to receive security updates for about a year
15 from first release, but nonessential bugfixes and feature development happen
16 will be made on the development trunk and appear in the next quarterly release.
18 Those wishing to use the latest code instead of a branch release can obtain
19 it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN
21 == Configuration changes ==
23 === $wgCommandLineDarkBg ==
25 A new switch used by maintenance scripts (parserTests.php). It lets you specify
26 if your terminal use a dark background, the colorized output will be made
27 lighter making things easier to read.
29 == Major new features ==
31 == Changes since 1.9 ==
33 * (bug 7292) Fix site statistics when moving pages in/out of content namespaces
34 * (bug 6937) Introduce "statistics-footer" message, appended to Special:Statistics
35 * (bug 8531) Correct local name of Lingála (patch by Raymond)
36 * (bug 6638) List block flags in block log entries
37 * New script maintenance/language/checkExtensioni18n.php used to check i18n
38 progress in the extension repository.
39 * Running maintenance/parserTests.php with '--record' option, will now
40 automatically attempt to create the required tables
41 * Made the PLURAL: parser function return singular on -1 per default
42 * Fixed up the AjaxSearch
43 * (bugs 5051, 5376) Tooltips and accesskeys no longer require JavaScript
44 * Added SkinTemplateOutputPageBeforeExec hook before SkinTemplate::outputPage()
45 starts page output (http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2007-January/028554.html)
46 * Fix SpecialVersion->formatCredits input. Version and Url parameters should be
47 null to be treated properly with isset.
48 * Page restrictions moved into a new, dedicated table
49 * Introduce "cascading protection" -- implicit protection on pages transcluded
50 into a page protected with this option enabled
51 * The minimum permissions needed to edit a page in each namespace can now be
52 customized via the $wgNamespaceProtection array. By default, editing pages in
53 the MediaWiki namespace requires "editinterface" permission, as before.
54 * (bug 8567) Added hook RawPageViewBeforeOutput just before the text is blown
55 out in action=raw, so extensions might influence the output.
56 * Correct tooltip accesskey hint for Opera on the Macintosh
57 (uses Shift-Esc-, not Ctrl-).
58 * (bug 3446) Add user preference to hide page content below diffs, can be
59 overridden by adding diffonly=1 or diffonly=0 to the URL of the diff page
60 * (bug 8002) Math should render left-to-right even in right-to-left wikis
61 * Pass e-mail and real name fields to AuthPlugin::addUser, as additional
62 optional fields, which may be considered useful at registration time.
63 * PostgreSQL upgrade scripts fixed and updated
64 * (bug 8613) Fix error when viewing "Recent Changes" and using Postgres.
65 * Initialise site_stats table at upgrade time if data was missing
66 * (bug 7250) Updated Unicode normalization tables to Unicode 5.0
67 * Add 'purge' privilege to replace the hardcoded check for login state in
68 determining whether action=purge can be done via GET. Switching the
69 permission on for anons can be helpful for benchmarking.
70 * Unmaintained Oracle support files have been removed.
71 * Use browser default for printing size, don't force to 11pt
72 * (bug 8632) Fix regression in page protection null edit update
73 * (bug 7842) Link back to deleted revision list from deleted revision preview
74 * (bug 8619) Add user-aware "unblock" link to Special:Blockip
75 * (bug 8407) Disallow indexing of "printable" versions
76 * (bug 8522) Provide a "delete" link on Special:Brokenredirects for users with
77 the appropriate permission
78 * (bug 8628) Add user-aware block list link to Special:Blockip
79 * (bug 8643) Correctly escape the page-specific CSS class for non-Monobook skins
80 * (bug 8629) Document $wgFilterCallback
81 * (bug 1000) Clarify warning about memory_limit in installer
82 * Suppress PHP warning about set_time_limit in installer when safe mode is on
83 * (bug 3000) Fall back to SCRIPT_NAME plus QUERY_STRING when REQUEST_URI is
84 not available, as on IIS with PHP-CGI
85 * (bug 8621) Log revisions marked as patrolled
86 * Introduce "BookInformation" hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more details
87 * Missing interwiki row for English Wikipedia restored (as "wikipedia:")
88 * use configured cache servers for mctest.php
89 * bucket details in mcc.php
90 * fix input validation and remove debugging code in compressOld
91 * full ID range for moveToExternal
92 * fix resolveStubs.php for compatibility with older serialized data
93 * maximum line length for bar graphs in getLagTimes.php
94 * recognize specieswiki in rebuildInterwiki.inc
95 * --purge option to do additional parser-cache purging for purgeList.php
96 * profile unicode cleanup in Xml
97 * log slow parses in Article.php
101 * rebuild empty DjVu metadata containing ''
102 * security fix for DjVu metadata retrieval
103 * Add title prefix search for Special:Undelete
104 * Remove full-archive list from Special:Undelete
105 * Undelete page list can use plural marker
106 * (bug 8638) Fix update from 1.4 and earlier
107 * Allow restriction of autoconfirmed permission by edit count. New global setting
108 $wgAutoConfirmCount (defaulting to zero, naturally).
109 * (bug 8641) Fix order of updates to ipblocks table
110 * (bug 8678) Fix detection of self-links for numeric titles in Parser
111 * (bug 6171) Magically close tags in tables when not using Tidy.
112 * Fix hardcoded background color in parserTests.php
113 * parserTests.php : removed the 'light' option for --color argument, replacing
114 it with a new global switch : $wgCommandLineDarkBg
115 * Sanitizer now correctly escapes lonely '>' occurring before the first wikitag.
116 * Ignore self closing on closing tags ( '</div />' now gives '</div>')
117 * (bug 8673) Minor fix for web service API content-type header
118 * Fix API revision list on PHP 5.2.1; bad reference assignment
119 * (bug 8136) Introduce 'ArticleUndelete' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more info
120 * (bug 8688) Handle underscores/spaces in Special:Blockip and Special:Ipblocklist
121 in a consistent manner
122 * (bug 8701) Check database lock status when blocking/unblocking users
123 * ParserOptions and ParserOutput classes are now in their own files
124 * (bug 8708) Namespace translations for Zealandic language
125 * Renamed constructor methods to PHP 5 __construct reserved name
126 * (bug 8715) Warn users when editing an interface message whether or not the message page exists
127 * ar: fix the 'create a new page' on search page when no exact match found
128 * (bug 8703) Corrected Talk namespace name for Limburgish (li)
129 * (bug 8712) Expose user groups as a JavaScript global
130 * Introduce 'CustomEditor' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information
131 * (bug 8671) Expose "wpDestFile" as a parameter to "uploadtext"
132 * (bug 8403) Respect bad image list exceptions in galleries on wiki pages
133 * New special page, Special:Protectedpages, which shows all protected pages
134 and their protection status (full protection status is not pulled out due
135 to performance considerations, so it just shows "full protected" or
137 * (bug 4133) Allow page protections to be made with an expiry date, in the same format
138 as block expiry dates. Existing protections are assumed to be infinite, as are protections
139 made with the new field left blank.
140 * Allow sending per-user contribution requests to "contributions" query group
141 * (bug 3717) Update user count for AuthPlugin account autocreation
142 * (bug 8719) Firefox release notes lie! Fix tooltips for Firefox 2 on x11;
143 accesskeys default settings appear to be same as Windows.
144 * Added an option to make Linker::userToolLinks() show the contribs link
145 red when the user has no edits. Linker::userToolLinksRedContribs() is an
146 alias to that which should be used to make it more self documentating.
147 * (bug 8749) Bring MySQL 5 table defs back into sync
148 * (bug 8751) Set session cookies to HTTPS-only to match other cookies
149 * (bug 8652) Catch exceptions generated by malformed XML in multipage media
150 * (bug 8782) Help text in Makefile
151 * (bug 8780) Clarify message for command-line scripts if LocalSettings.php exists but is not readable
152 * (bug 8777) Suppress 'previous' link on Special:Allpages when at first page
153 * (bug 8774) Fix path for GNU FDL rights icon on new installs
154 * Fix multipage selector drop-down for DjVu images to work when title
155 is passed as a query string parameter; we have to pass the title as
156 a form parameter or it gets dropped from the form submission URL
157 * (bug 8819) Fix full path disclosure in with skins dependencies
158 * Fixed bug affecting HTML formatting in sortable table column titles
159 * Merged table sorting code into wikibits.js
160 * (bug 8711) Stop floats in previews from spilling into edit area
161 * (bug 8535) Allow certain vertical alignment attributes to be used as image
163 * (bug 6987) Allow perrow, widths, and heights attributes for <gallery>
164 * (bug 8858) Safer handling when $wgImageLimits is changed. Added a note
165 in DefaultSettings to make it clear.
166 * (bug 4268) Fixed data-loss bug in compressOld batch text compression
167 affecting pages which had null edits (move, protect, etc) as second
168 edit in a batch group. Isolated and patched by Travis Derouin.
169 * Fix for paths in 1.4->1.5 special-case updater script
170 * (bug 8789) AJAX search: IE users can now use the return key
173 == Languages updated ==
200 MediaWiki 1.10 requires PHP 5 (5.1 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer supported.
202 PHP 5.0.x fails on 64-bit systems due to serious bugs with array processing:
203 http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=34879
204 Upgrade affected systems to PHP 5.1 or higher.
206 MySQL 3.23.x is no longer supported; some older hosts may need to upgrade.
207 At this time we still recommend 4.0, but 4.1/5.0 will work fine in most cases.
212 Some minor database changes have been made since 1.7:
213 * new fields and indexes on ipblocks
214 * index change on recentchanges
216 Several changes from 1.5 and 1.6 do require updates to be run on upgrade.
217 To ensure that these tables are filled with data, run refreshLinks.php after
220 If you are upgrading from MediaWiki 1.4.x or earlier, some major database
221 changes are made, and there is a slightly higher chance that things could
222 break. Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading!
224 See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions.
230 Some output, particularly involving user-supplied inline HTML, may not
231 produce 100% valid or well-formed XHTML output. Testers are welcome to
232 set $wgMimeType = "application/xhtml+xml"; to test for remaining problem
233 cases, but this is not recommended on live sites. (This must be set for
234 MathML to display properly in Mozilla.)
237 For notes on 1.9.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
240 === Online documentation ===
242 Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is currently being
243 built up on Meta-Wikipedia, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation
246 http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation
251 A MediaWiki-l mailing list has been set up distinct from the Wikipedia
254 http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
256 A low-traffic announcements-only list is also available:
258 http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
260 It's highly recommended that you sign up for one of these lists if you're
261 going to run a public MediaWiki, so you can be notified of security fixes.
266 There's usually someone online in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net