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 1.19 is an alpha-quality branch and is not recommended for use in
13 === Configuration changes in 1.19 ===
14 * Removed SkinTemplateSetupPageCss hook; use BeforePageDisplay instead.
15 * (bug 27132) movefile right granted by default to registered users.
16 * Default cookie lifetime ($wgCookieExpiration) is increased to 180 days.
17 * (bug 31204) Removed old user.user_options
19 === New features in 1.19 ===
20 * (bug 30497) Add client-nojs and client-js classes on document element
21 to let styles easily hide or show things based on general JS availability
22 * (bug 19838) Possibility to get all interwiki prefixes if the interwiki
24 * $wgDnsBlacklistUrls now accepts an array with url and key as the
25 elements to work with DNSBLs that require keys, such as
27 * (bug 30022) Add support for custom loadScript sources to ResourceLoader.
28 * (bug 19052) Unicode space separator characters (Zs) now terminates external
29 links and images links.
30 * (bug 30160) Add public method to mw.loader to get module names from registry.
31 * (bug 15558) Parameters to special pages included in wikitext can now be passed
33 * Installer now issues a warning if mod_security is present.
34 * (bug 29455) Add support for a filter callback function in jQuery byteLimit
36 * Extensions can now participate in the extraction of titles from url paths
37 * Added two new GetLocalURL hooks to better serve extensions working on a
38 limited type of titles.
39 * Added a --no-updates flag to importDump.php that skips updating the links
41 * Most presentational html attributes like valign are now converted to inline
42 css style rules. These attributes were removed from html5 and so we clean
43 them up when $wgHtml5 is enabled. This can be disabled using
44 $wgCleanupPresentationalAttributes.
45 * Magic words (time and number-formatting ones, plus DIRECTIONMARK, but not
46 NAMESPACE) now depend on the page content language instead of the site
47 language. In theory this sets the right magic words in system messages,
48 although they are not used there.
49 * (bug 30451) Add page_props to RefreshLinks::deleteLinksFromNonexistent
50 * (bug 30450) Clear page_props table on page deletion
51 * Hook added to check for exempt from account creation throttle
52 * (bug 30344) Add configuration variable for setting custom priorities when
54 * (bug 16428) Include permalink in printable version
55 * (bug 96170) Add array support for space-separated list attributes (like
56 'class') in the Html helper class.
57 * (bug 26470) Add checkered background image on hover on files pages.
58 * (bug 30774) mediawiki.html: Add support for numbers and booleans in the
59 attribute values and element contents.
60 * Conversion script between Tifinagh and Latin for the Tachelhit language
61 * (bug 16755) Add options 'noreplace' and 'noerror' to {{DEFAULTSORT:...}}
62 to stop it from replace an already existing default sort, and suppress error.
63 * (bug 18578) Rewrote revision delete related messages to allow better
65 * (bug 30364) LanguageConverter now depends on the page content language
66 instead of the wiki content language
67 * Jump links will now be usable in css-capable browsers instead of only
68 in outdated text browsers.
69 * New common*.css files usable by skins instead of having to copy piles
70 of generic styles from MonoBook or Vector's css.
71 * Some deprecated presentational html attributes will now be automatically converted to css.
72 * (bug 31233) New OutputPage::addJsConfigVars() method to make the output page specific
73 mw.config map extendable.
75 === Bug fixes in 1.19 ===
76 * $wgUploadNavigationUrl should be used for file redlinks if
77 $wgUploadMissingFileUrl is not set. The first was used for this
78 until the second was introduced in 1.17.
79 * (bug 25355) Parser generates edit section links for special pages.
80 * (bug 27894) Move 'editondblclick' event listener down from body to
82 * (bug 30172) The check for posix_isatty() in maintenance scripts did not detect
83 when the function exists but is disabled. Introduced
84 Maintenance::posix_isatty().
85 * (bug 30264) Changed installer-generated LocalSettings.php to use
86 require_once() instead require() for included extensions.
87 * Do not convert text in the user interface language to another script.
88 * (bug 26283) Previewing user JS/CSS pages didn't load other user JS/CSS pages
89 * (bug 11374) Improved diff readability for colorblind people.
90 * (bug 26486) ResourceLoader modules with paths to nonexistent files cause PHP
91 warnings/notices to be thrown.
92 * (bug 30335) Fix for HTMLForms using GET breaking when non-friendly URLs are
94 * (bug 28649) Avoiding half truncated multi-byte unicode characters when
95 truncating log comments.
96 * Show --batch-size option in help of maintenance scripts that support it
97 * (bug 4381) Magic quotes cleaning was not comprehensive, key strings were not
99 * (bug 30684) Fix bad escaping in mw.message for inexistent messages (i.e. <key>)
100 * (bug 23057) Importers no longer can 'edit' or 'create' a fully-protected page by
101 importing a new revision into it
102 * Allowing moving the associated talk pages of subpages even if the base page
104 * (bug 30907) Special:Unusedcategories should sort ascendingly.
105 * (bug 18424) Special:Prefixindex and Special:Allpages paging links are
106 really small, and somewhat inconsistent with each other.
107 * Per page edit-notices now work in namespaces without subpages enabled.
108 * (bug 30245) Use the correct way to construct a log page title
109 * (bug 31081) $wgEnotifUseJobQ causes many unnecessary jobs to be queued
110 * (bug 30202) File names are now restricted on upload to 240 bytes, because of
111 restrictions on some of the database fields.
113 === API changes in 1.19 ===
114 * (bug 19838) siprop=interwikimap can now use the interwiki cache.
115 * (bug 29748) Add API search prefix support.
116 * (bug 29684) Set forgotten parameter types in ApiQueryIWLinks.
117 * (bug 29685) do not output NULL parentid with list=deletedrevs&drprop=parentid.
118 * siprop=interwikimap and siprop=languages can use silanguagecode to have
119 a best effort language name translation. Use CLDR extension for best result.
120 * (bug 30230) action=expandtemplates should not silently override invalid title
122 * (bug 18634) Create API to fetch MediaWiki's language fallback tree structure.
123 * (bug 26885) Allow show/hide of account blocks, temporary blocks and single IP
124 address blocks for list=blocks.
125 * (bug 30591) Add support to only return keys in ApiAllMessages.
127 === Languages updated in 1.19 ===
129 MediaWiki supports over 330 languages. Many localisations are updated
130 regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
131 changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
133 * Uighur (Latin) (ug-latn) was incorrectly marked as right-to-left language.
134 * (bug 30217) Make pt-br a fallback of pt
135 * (bug 31193) Set fallback language of Assamese from Bengali to English
137 === Other changes in 1.19 ===
138 * jquery.mwPrototypes module was renamed to jquery.mwExtension.
139 * The maintenance script populateSha1.php was renamed to the more concise
140 populateImageSha1.php
141 * The Client-IP header is no longer checked for when trying to resolve a client's
146 MediaWiki 1.19 requires PHP 5.2.3. PHP 4 is no longer supported.
148 MySQL is the recommended DBMS. PostgreSQL or SQLite can also be used, but
149 support for them is somewhat less mature. There is experimental support for IBM
150 DB2 and Microsoft SQL Server.
152 The supported versions are:
155 * PostgreSQL 8.3 or later
157 * Oracle 9.0.1 or later
161 1.19 has several database changes since 1.18, and will not work without schema
164 If upgrading from before 1.11, and you are using a wiki as a commons
165 repository, make sure that it is updated as well. Otherwise, errors may arise
166 due to database schema changes.
168 If upgrading from before 1.7, you may want to run refreshLinks.php to ensure
169 new database fields are filled with data.
171 If you are upgrading from MediaWiki 1.4.x or earlier, some major database
172 changes are made, and there is a slightly higher chance that things could
173 break. Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading!
175 See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions.
177 For notes on 1.15.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
179 == Online documentation ==
181 Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is available on
182 MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation License (except
183 for pages that explicitly state that their contents are in the public domain):
185 http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation
189 A mailing list is available for MediaWiki user support and discussion:
191 http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
193 A low-traffic announcements-only list is also available:
195 http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
197 It's highly recommended that you sign up for one of these lists if you're
198 going to run a public MediaWiki, so you can be notified of security fixes.
202 There's usually someone online in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net.