production.
=== Configuration changes in 1.19 ===
+* Changed LoginAuthenticateAudit hook so that it may be called before a
+ valid user is available. In those cases, an anonymouse user object
+ will be supplied
* Removed SkinTemplateSetupPageCss hook; use BeforePageDisplay instead.
* (bug 27132) movefile right granted by default to registered users.
* Default cookie lifetime ($wgCookieExpiration) is increased to 180 days.
+* (bug 31204) Removed old user.user_options
+* $wgMaxImageArea now applies to jpeg files if they are not scaled with
+ ImageMagick.
+* Introduced $wgQueryPageDefaultLimit (defaults to 50) for the number of
+ items to show by default on query pages (special pages such as Whatlinkshere).
=== New features in 1.19 ===
* (bug 19838) Possibility to get all interwiki prefixes if the interwiki
NAMESPACE) now depend on the page content language instead of the site
language. In theory this sets the right magic words in system messages,
although they are not used there.
+* (bug 30451) Add page_props to RefreshLinks::deleteLinksFromNonexistent
+* (bug 30450) Clear page_props table on page deletion
+* Hook added to check for exempt from account creation throttle
+* (bug 30344) Add configuration variable for setting custom priorities when
+ generating sitemaps
+* (bug 96170) Add array support for space-separated list attributes (like
+ 'class') in the Html helper class.
+* (bug 26470) Add checkered background image on hover on files pages.
+* (bug 30774) mediawiki.html: Add support for numbers and booleans in the
+ attribute values and element contents.
+* Conversion script between Tifinagh and Latin for the Tachelhit language
+* (bug 16755) Add options 'noreplace' and 'noerror' to {{DEFAULTSORT:...}}
+ to stop it from replace an already existing default sort, and suppress error.
+* (bug 18578) Rewrote revision delete related messages to allow better
+ localisation
+* (bug 30364) LanguageConverter now depends on the page content language
+ instead of the wiki content language
+* Jump links will now be usable in css-capable browsers instead of only
+ in outdated text browsers.
+* New common*.css files usable by skins instead of having to copy piles
+ of generic styles from MonoBook or Vector's css.
+* Some deprecated presentational html attributes will now be automatically
+ converted to css.
+* (bug 31297) Add support for namespaces in Special:RecentChanges subpage filter
+ syntax.
+* The default user signature now contains a talk link in addition to the user link.
+* (bug 25306) Add link of old page title to MediaWiki:Delete_and_move_reason
+* Added hook BitmapHandlerCheckImageArea
+* (experimental) $wgRealNameInInterface can be enabled to display a user's
+ real name in some parts of the interface instead of a username.
+* (bug 30062) Add $wgDBprefix option to cli installer
+* getUserPermissionsErrors and getUserPermissionsErrorsExpensive hooks are now
+ also called when checking for 'read' permission
+* Introduce $wgEnableSearchContributorsByIP which controls whether searching
+ for an IP address redirects to the contributions list for that IP
=== Bug fixes in 1.19 ===
* $wgUploadNavigationUrl should be used for file redlinks if
* (bug 30264) Changed installer-generated LocalSettings.php to use
require_once() instead require() for included extensions.
* Do not convert text in the user interface language to another script.
-* (bug 26283) Previewing user JS/CSS pages doesn't load other user JS/CSS pages
+* (bug 26283) Previewing user JS/CSS pages didn't load other user JS/CSS pages
* (bug 11374) Improved diff readability for colorblind people.
* (bug 26486) ResourceLoader modules with paths to nonexistent files cause PHP
warnings/notices to be thrown.
+* (bug 30335) Fix for HTMLForms using GET breaking when non-friendly URLs are
+ used
+* (bug 28649) Avoiding half truncated multi-byte unicode characters when
+ truncating log comments.
+* Show --batch-size option in help of maintenance scripts that support it
+* (bug 4381) Magic quotes cleaning was not comprehensive, key strings were not
+ unescaped
+* (bug 23057) Importers no longer can 'edit' or 'create' a fully-protected page by
+ importing a new revision into it
+* Allow moving the associated talk pages of subpages even if the base page
+ has no subpage.
+* Per page edit-notices now work in namespaces without subpages enabled.
+* (bug 30245) Use the correct way to construct a log page title
+* (bug 31081) $wgEnotifUseJobQ caused many unnecessary jobs to be queued
+* (bug 30202) File names are now restricted on upload to 240 bytes, because of
+ restrictions on some of the database fields.
+* Timezones are now recognised in user preferences when offset is different
+ due to DST
+* (bug 31692) "summary" parameter now also work when undoing revisions
+* (bug 18823) "move succeeded" text displayed bluelinks even when redirect was
+ suppressed
+* (bug 31921) Magic words REVISIONDAY, REVISIONMONTH and REVISIONYEAR now give
+ current values on preview
+* (bug 19186) Special:UserLogin's title on Special:SpecialPages now says
+ "create account" when the user cannot create an account
+* (bug 31818) 'usercreated' message now supports GENDER
+* (bug 32022) Our phpunit.php script can now be executed from another directory
+* (bug 26020) Setting $wgEmailConfirmToEdit to true no longer removes diffs
+ from recent changes feeds
+* (bug 30232) add current time to message wlnote on Special:Watchlist
+* (bug 29110) $wgFeedDiffCutoff did not affect new pages
+* (bug 32168) Add wfRemoveDotSegments for use in wfExpandUrl
+* (bug 32358) Do not display "No higher resolution available" for dimensionless
+ files (like audio files)
+* (bug 32168) Add wfAssembleUrl for use in wfExpandUrl
+* (bug 32168) fixed - wfExpandUrl expands dot segments now
+* (bug 31535) Upload comments now truncated properly, and don't have brackets
=== API changes in 1.19 ===
* (bug 19838) siprop=interwikimap can now use the interwiki cache.
* (bug 18634) Create API to fetch MediaWiki's language fallback tree structure.
* (bug 26885) Allow show/hide of account blocks, temporary blocks and single IP
address blocks for list=blocks.
+* (bug 30591) Add support to only return keys in ApiAllMessages.
+* The API now respects $wgShowHostnames and won't share the hostname in
+ severedby if it's set to false
+* wlexcludeuser parameter added to ApiFeedWatchlist
=== Languages updated in 1.19 ===
-MediaWiki supports over 330 languages. Many localisations are updated
+MediaWiki supports over 350 languages. Many localisations are updated
regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
-* Kichwa (qug) (new).
+* Canadian English (en-ca) (new).
* Uighur (Latin) (ug-latn) was incorrectly marked as right-to-left language.
+* (bug 30217) Make pt-br a fallback of pt.
+* (bug 31193) Set fallback language of Assamese from Bengali to English.
+* Update date format for dsb and hsb: month names need the genitive.
+* (bug 28643) Serbian variant conversion improvements (Nikola Smolenski)
=== Other changes in 1.19 ===
* jquery.mwPrototypes module was renamed to jquery.mwExtension.
populateImageSha1.php
* The Client-IP header is no longer checked for when trying to resolve a client's
real IP address.
+* (bug 22096) Although IE5.x and below was already unsupported officially, stylesheets
+ existing exclusively for IE5.0 and IE5.5 have now been removed (which were in skins
+ 'chick' and 'monobook').
+* The constructor for CategoryView has changed, the second parameter is now a
+ Context source and is required.
== Compatibility ==
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 ==