THIS IS NOT A RELEASE YET
-MediaWiki 1.18 is an alpha-quality branch and is not recommended for use in
+This is a beta release of the MediaWiki 1.18 branch. Please test it and let us
+know what you think of it. Beta releases are not recommended for use in
production.
=== Configuration changes in 1.18 ===
* New hook "Collation::factory" to allow extensions to create custom
category collations.
* $wgGroupPermissions now supports per namespace permissions.
+* $wgEnableAutoRotation enables or disables auto-rotation. Leaving it set to
+ null will cause MediaWiki to determine if auto-rotation is available.
=== New features in 1.18 ===
* BREAKING CHANGE: action=watch / action=unwatch now requires a token.
+* (bug 27860) Minor edit after clicking 'new section' tab
+ Now the "This is a minor edit" checkbox is not available when you
+ create a page or new section.
* (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
* Introduced $wgVaryOnXFPForAPI which will cause the API to send
Vary: X-Forwarded-Proto headers.
* New maintenance script to refresh image metadata (maintenance/refreshImageMetadata.php)
+* (bug 16428) Include permalink in printable version
* (bug 30722) Add an identity collation that sorts things based on what the
unicode code point is (aka pre-1.17 behaviour)
+* (bug 30940) Add a hook in User:getDefaultOptions.
+ To give extensions a better and more flexible way of providing default
+ values for preferences a hook has been introdiced in User:getDefaultOptions().
+ Setting preferences in $wgDefaultUserOptions still work fine, but when reading
+ them (i.e. with array_keys) to get a list of all preferences, then
+ $wgDefaultUserOptions should no longer be used as it will contain those set via
+ User:getDefaultOptions().
+* (bug 30497) Add client-nojs and client-js classes on document element
+ to let styles easily hide or show things based on general JS availability
+* (bug 31293) If Special:Userlogin is loaded over HTTPS, display
+ MediaWiki:loginend-https instead of MediaWiki:loginend, if it's not empty.
+ Same for signupend on the account creation page.
+* (bug 31233) New OutputPage::addJsConfigVars() method to make the output page specific
+ mw.config map extendable.
=== Bug fixes in 1.18 ===
+* (bug 27860) Minor edit after clicking 'new section' tab
* mw.util.getScript has been implemented (like wfScript in GlobalFunctions.php)
* (bug 23119) WikiError class and subclasses are now marked as deprecated.
* (bug 10871) Javascript and CSS pages in MediaWiki namespace are no longer
* (bug 27410) The tag filter on a history page is now within a <label> element
* (bug 29779) DairikiDiff/WikiDiff <ins> and <del> should undo browser default
styling (strike/underline).
-* Translate the block expiry date
* (bug 28630) Add iwlinks, langlinks, redirect to
RefreshLinks::deleteLinksFromNonexistent
* (bug 29797) Error: "Tried to load block with invalid type" when subpages
Windows servers.
* (bug 30074) Moving user JS subpages resulted in JS errors because
#REDIRECT [[Foo]] is invalid JS
+* (bug 30335) Fix for HTMLForms using GET breaking when non-friendly URLs
+ are used
+* (bug 30264) Changed installer-generated LocalSettings.php to use require_once()
+ instead require() for included extensions.
* Tracking categories are no longer shown in footer for special pages
+* (bug 30684) Fix bad escaping in mw.message for inexistent messages (i.e. <key>)
* $wgOverrideSiteFeed no longer double escapes urls.
* The preprocessor no longer fails with a PHP warning about XML_PARSE_HUGE when
processing complex pages using newer versions of libxml2.
+* (bug 30907) Special:Unusedcategories should sort ascendingly.
* (bug 28545) When using the uca-default collation, sortkey's starting with a
space (U+20) will sort under an invisible header like in 1.16 rather than a U+6DE
* (bug 30192) Thumbnails of archived files are now deleted
+* (bug 30843) mediawiki.Title should not convert extensions (anything after the
+ last full stop) to lower case)
+* (bug 31213) Exception thrown when trying to move file cross-namespace
+* (bug 18424) Special:Prefixindex and Special:Allpages paging links are
+ really small, and somewhat inconsistent with each other.
+* (bug 30466) Entries in iwlinks table are now cleared when moving a page over
+ redirect
+* (bug 31674) Can't edit watchlist if it contains special pages
+* (bug 32100) Installer complains about Suhosin GET limit even if it is
+ already set above 1024 bytes
+* (bug 32086) Special:PermanentLink now show an error message when no subpage
+ was specified.
+* (bug 31822) Error during upgrade due to output buffer reset in stdout
+* (bug 31913) Special:MostLinkedTemplates had an incorrect GROUP BY clause
+ under Microsoft SQL.
+* (bug 31990) justify paragraphs pref adds extra space to category listing
=== API changes in 1.18 ===
* BREAKING CHANGE: action=watch now requires POST and token.
* (bug 28817) Add reference help page link to API Modules
* (bug 29935) Improve formatting of examples in ApiParamInfo
* (bug 29938) list=users&usprop=rights shows rights the user doesn't have
+* (bug 24781) The API will include an XML namespace if the includexmlnamespace
+ parameter is set.
+* (bug 29392) Setting the start or end parameter now works with lists blocks,
+ categorymembers, deletedrevs, logevents, protectedtitles, usercontributions
+ and watchlist in Postgres
=== Languages updated in 1.18 ===
* Angika (anp) (new).
* Brahui (brh) (new).
-* Central Dusun (new).
+* Central Dusun (dtp) (new).
* Jamaican Creole English (jam) (new).
* Khowar (khw) (new).
* Liv (liv) (new).
* (bug 30864) Use bengali numerals for <ol> for Assamese
* (bug 30817) Restored linktrail for kk (Kazakh)
* (bug 27398) Add $wgExtraGenderNamespaces for configured gendered namespaces
+* (bug 30846) New LanguageOs class
=== Other changes in 1.18 ===
* Removed legacy wgAjaxWatch javascript global object, no longer in use.
See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions.
-For notes on 1.15.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
+For notes on 1.17.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
== Online documentation ==