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
css style rules. These attributes were removed from html5 and so we clean
them up when $wgHtml5 is enabled. This can be disabled using
$wgCleanupPresentationalAttributes.
+* Magic words (time and number-formatting ones, plus DIRECTIONMARK, but not
+ 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 ==