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 developments
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 in 1.15 ===
23 * Added $wgNewPasswordExpiry, to specify an expiry time (in seconds) to
25 * Added $wgUseTwoButtonsSearchForm to choose the Search form behavior/look
26 * Added $wgNoFollowDomainExceptions to allow exempting particular domain names
27 from rel="nofollow" on external links
28 * (bug 12970) Brought back $wgUseImageResize.
29 * Added $wgRedirectOnLogin to allow specifying a specifc page to redirect users
30 to upon logging in (ex: "Main Page")
31 * Add $wgExportFromNamespaces for enabling/disabling the "export all from
32 namespace" option (disabled by default)
33 * (bug 18222) $wgMinimalPasswordLength default is now 1
34 * $wgSessionHandler can be used to configure session.save_handler
36 === New features in 1.15 ===
38 * (bug 2242) Add an expiry time to temporary passwords
39 * (bug 9947) Add PROTECTIONLEVEL parser function to return the protection level
40 for the current page for a given action
41 * (bug 17002) Add &minor= and &summary= as parameters in the url when editing,
42 to automatically add a summary or a minor edit.
43 * (bug 16852) padleft and padright now accept multiletter pad characters
44 * When using 'UserCreateForm' hook to add new checkboxes into
45 Special:UserLogin/signup, the messages can now contain HTML to allow
46 hyperlinking to the site's Terms of Service page, for example
47 * Add new hook 'UserLoadFromDatabase' that is called while loading a user
49 * (bug 17045) Options on the block form are prefilled with the options of the
50 existing block when modifying an existing block.
51 * (bug 17055) "(show/hide)" links to Special:RevisionDelete now use a CSS class
52 rather than hardcoded HTML tags
53 * Added new hook 'WantedPages::getSQL' into SpecialWantedpages.php to allow
54 extensions to alter the SQL query which is used to get the list of wanted
56 * (bugs 16957/16969) Add show/hide to preferences for RC patrol options on
58 * (bug 11443) Auto-noindex user/user talk pages for blocked user
59 * (bug 11644) Add $wgMaxRedirects variable to control how many redirects are
60 recursed through until the "destination" page is reached.
61 * Add $wgInvalidRedirectTargets variable to prevent redirects to certain
63 * Use HTML5 rel attributes for some links, where appropriate
64 * Added optional alternative Search form look - Go button & Advanced search
65 link instead of Go button & Search button
66 * (bug 2314) Add links to user custom CSS and JS to Special:Preferences
67 * More helpful error message on raw page access if PHP_SELF isn't set
68 * (bug 13040) Gender switch in user preferences
69 * (bug 13040) {{GENDER:}} magic word for interface messages
70 * (bug 3301) Optionally sort user list according to account creation time
71 * Remote description pages for foreign file repos are now fetched in the
73 * (bug 17180) If $wgUseFileCache is enabled, $wgShowIPinHeader is automatically
75 * (bug 16604) Mark non-patrolled edits in feeds with "!"
76 * (bug 16604) Show title/rev in IRC for patrol log
77 * (bug 16854) Whether a page is being parsed as a preview or section preview
78 can now be determined and set with ParserOptions.
79 * Wrap message 'confirmemail_pending' into a div with CSS classes "error" and
80 "mw-confirmemail-pending"
81 * (bug 8249) The magic words for namespaces and pagenames can now be used as
82 parser functions to return the desired namespace or normalized title/title
83 part for a given title.
84 * (bug 17110) Styled #mw-data-after-content in cologneblue.css to match the
86 * (bug 7556) Time zone names in signatures lack i18n
87 * (bug 3311) Automatic category redirects
88 * (bug 17236) Suppress 'watch user page link' for IP range blocks
89 * Wrap message 'searchresulttext' (Special:Search) into a div with
90 class "mw-searchresult"
91 * (bug 15283) Interwiki imports can now fetch included templates
92 * Treat svn:// URLs as external links by default
93 * New function to convert namespace text for display (only applies on wiki with
94 LanguageConverter class)
95 * (bug 17379) Contributions-title is now parsed for magic words.
96 * Preprocessor output now cached in memcached.
97 * (bug 14468) Lines in classic RecentChanges and Watchlist have classes
98 "mw-line-odd" and "mw-line-even" to make styling using css possible.
99 * (bug 17311) Add a note beside the gender selection menu to tell users that
100 this information will be public
101 * Localize time zone regions in Special:Preferences
102 * Add NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS magic word, which is like NUMBEROFUSERS, but uses
103 the active users data from site_stats.
104 * Add a <link rel="canonical"> tag on redirected page views
105 * Replace hardcoded '...' as indication of a truncation with the
107 * Wrap warning message 'editinginterface' into a div with class
108 'mw-editinginterface'
109 * (bug 17497) Oasis opendocument added to mime.types
110 * Remove the link to Special:FileDuplicateSearch from the "file history" section
111 of image description pages as the list of duplicated files is shown in the
113 * Added $wgRateLimitsExcludedIPs, to allow specific IPs to be whitelisted from
115 * (bug 14981) Shared repositories can now have display names, located at
116 Mediawiki:Shared-repo-name-REPONAME, where REPONAME is the name in
118 * Special:ListUsers: Sort list of usergroups by alphabet
119 * (bug 16762) Special:Movepage now shows a list of subpages when possible
120 * (bug 17585) Hide legend on Special:Specialpages from non-privileged users
121 * Added $wgUseTagFilter to control enabling of filter-by-change-tag
122 * (bug 17291) MediaWiki:Nocontribs now has an optional $1 parameter for the
124 * Wrap special page summary message '$specialPageName-summary' into a div
125 with class 'mw-specialpage-summary'
126 * $wgSummarySpamRegex added to handle edit summary spam. This is used *instead*
127 of $wgSpamRegex for edit summary checks. Text checks still use $wgSpamRegex.
128 * New function to convert content text to specified language (only applies on
129 wiki with LanguageConverter class)
130 * (bug 17844) Redirect users to a specific page when they log in, see
132 * Added a link to Special:UserRights on Special:Contributions for privileged
134 * (bug 10336) Added new magic word {{REVISIONUSER}}, which displays the editor
135 of the displayed revision's author user name
136 * LinkerMakeExternalLink now has an $attribs parameter for link attributes and
137 a $linkType parameter for the type of external link being made
138 * (bug 17785) Dynamic dates surrounded with a <span> tag, fixing sortable tables
140 * (bug 4582) Provide preference-based autoformatting of unlinked dates with the
141 dateformat parser function.
142 * (bug 17886) Special:Export now allows you to export a whole namespace (limited
144 * (bug 17714) Limited TIFF upload support now built in if 'tif' extension is
145 enabled. Image width and height are now recognized, and when using
146 ImageMagick, optional flattening to PNG or JPEG for inline display can be
147 enabled by setting $wgTiffThumbnailType
148 * Renamed two input IDs on Special:Log from 'page' and 'user' to 'mw-log-page'
149 and 'mw-log-user', respectively
150 * Added $wgInvalidUsernameCharacters to disallow certain characters in
151 usernames during registration (such as "@")
152 * Added $wgUserrightsInterwikiDelimiter to allow changing the delimiter
153 used in Special:UserRights to denote the user should be searched for
154 on a different database
155 * Add a class if 'missingsummary' is triggered to allow styling of the summary
157 * Add CSS defintion of the 'wikitable' class to shared.css
158 * (bug 17163) Added MediaWiki:Talkpageheader which will be displayed when
160 * Add group convertsion support for LanguageConverter. New magic word
161 "{{GROUPCONVERT:xxx}}" enabled for this new feature. You can set related
162 conversion rules in [[MediaWiki:Groupconversiontable-xxx/language_code]].
163 * Superfluous border="0" removed from images
164 * Added new hook 'MessageCacheReplace' into MessageCache.php. For instance
165 to allow extensions to update caches in similar way as MediaWiki invalidates
166 a cached MonoBook sidebar
167 * Special:AllPages: Move hardcoded styles from code to CSS
168 * (bug 6092) Add parser function equivalents of {{REVISIONID}},
169 {{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}} (and friends) and {{REVISIONUSER}} magic words
170 * (bug 18529) New hook: SoftwareInfo for adding information about the software
172 * Added $wgExtPGAlteredFields to allow extensions to easily alter the data
173 type of columns when using the Postgres backend.
174 * (bug 16950) Show move log when viewing/creating a deleted page
175 * (bug 18242) Show the Subversion revision number per extensions in
177 * (bug 18420) Missing file revisions are handled gracefully now
178 * (bug 9219) Auth plugins can control editing RealName/Email/Nick preferences
180 === Bug fixes in 1.15 ===
181 * (bug 16968) Special:Upload no longer throws useless warnings.
182 * (bug 17000) Special:RevisionDelete now checks if the database is locked
183 before trying to delete the edit.
184 * (bug 16852) padleft and padright now handle multibyte characters correctly
185 * (bug 17010) maintenance/namespaceDupes.php now add the suffix recursively if
186 the destination page exists
187 * (bug 17035) Special:Upload now fails gracefully if PHP's file_uploads has
189 * Fixing the caching issue by using -{T|xxx}- syntax (only applies on wiki with
190 LanguageConverter class)
191 * Improving the efficiency by using -{A|xxx}- syntax (only applies on wiki with
192 LanguageConverter class)
193 * (bug 17054) Added more descriptive errors in Special:RevisionDelete
194 * (bug 11527) Diff on page with one revision shows "Next" link to same diff
195 * (bug 8065) Fix summary forcing for new pages
196 * (bug 10569) redirects to Special:Mypage and Special:Mytalk are no longer
197 allowed by default. Change $wgInvalidRedirectTargets to re-enable.
198 * (bug 3043) Feed links of given page are now preceded by standard feed icon
199 * (bug 17150) escapeLike now escapes literal \ properly
200 * Inconsistent use of sysop, admin, administrator in system messages changed
202 * (bug 14423) Check block flag validity for block logging
203 * DB transaction and slave-lag avoidance tweaks for Email Notifications
204 * (bug 17104) Removed [Mark as patrolled] link for already patrolled revisions
205 * (bug 17106) Added 'redirect=no' and 'mw-redirect' class to redirects at
207 * Rollback links on new pages removed from "user contributions"
208 * (bug 15811) Re-upload form tweaks: license fields removed, destination locked,
209 comment label uses better message
210 * Whole HTML validation ($wgValidateAllHtml) now works with external tidy
211 * Parser tests no longer fail when $wgExternalLinkTarget is set in
213 * (bug 15391) catch DBQueryErrors on external storage insertion. This avoids
214 error messages on save were the edit in fact is saved.
215 * (bug 17184) Remove duplicate "z" accesskey in MonoBook
216 * Parser tests no longer fail when $wgAlwaysUseTidy is set in LocalSettings.php
217 * Removed redundant dupe warnings on reupload for the same title. Dupe warnings
218 for identical files at different titles are still given.
219 * Add 'change tagging' facility, where changes can be tagged internally with
220 certain designations, which are displayed on various summaries of changes,
221 and the entries can be styled with CSS.
222 * (bug 17207) Fix regression breaking category page display on PHP 5.1
223 * Categoryfinder utility class no longer fails on invalid input or gives wrong
224 results for category names that include pseudo-namespaces
225 * (bug 17252) Galician numbering format
226 * (bug 17146) Fix for UTF-8 and short word search for some possible MySQL
228 * (bug 7480) Internationalize database error message
229 * (bug 16555) Number of links to mediawiki.org scaled back on post-installation
230 * (bug 14938) Removing a section no longer leaves excess whitespace
231 * (bug 17304) Fixed fatal error when thumbnails couldn't be generated for file
233 * (bug 17283) Remove double URL escaping in show/hide links for log entries
234 and RevisionDeleteForm::__construct
235 * (bug 17105) Numeric table sorting broken
236 * (bug 17231) Transcluding special pages on wikis using language conversion no
237 longer affects the page title
238 * (bug 6702) Default system messages updated/improved
239 * (bug 17190) User ID on preference page no longer has delimeters
240 * (bug 17341) "Powered by MediaWiki" should be on the left on RTL wikis
241 * (bug 17404) "userrights-interwiki" right was missing in User::$mCoreRights
242 * (bug 7509) Separation strings should be configurable
243 * (bug 17420) Send the correct content type from action=raw when the HTML file
245 * (bug 12746) Do not allow new password e-mails when wiki is in read-only mode
246 * (bug 17478) Fixed a PHP Strict standards error in
247 maintenance/cleanupWatchlist.php
248 * (bug 17488) RSS/Atom links in left toolbar are now localized in classic skin
249 * (bug 17472) use print <<<EOF in maintenance/importTextFile.php
250 * Special:PrefixIndex: Move table styling to shared.css, add CSS IDs to tables
251 use correct message 'allpagesprefix' for input form label, replace _ with ' '
253 * (bug 17506) Exceptions within exceptions now respect $wgShowExceptionDetails
254 * Fixed excessive job queue utilisation
255 * File dupe messages for remote repos are now shown only once.
256 * (bug 14980) Messages 'shareduploadwiki' and 'shareduploadwiki-desc' are now
257 used as a parameter in 'sharedupload' for easier styling and customization.
258 * (bug 17482) Formatting error in Special:Preferences#Misc (Opera)
259 * (bug 17556) <link> parameters in Special:Contributions feeds (RSS and Atom)
260 now point to the actual contributors' feed.
261 * ForeignApiRepos now fetch MIME types, rather than trying to figure it locally
262 * Special:Import: Do not show input field for import depth if
263 $wgExportMaxLinkDepth == 0
264 * (bug 17570) $wgMaxRedirects is now correctly respected when following
265 redirects (was previously one more than $wgMaxRedirects)
266 * (bug 16335) __NONEWSECTIONLINK__ magic word to suppress new section link.
267 * (bug 17581) Wrong index name in PostgreSQL's updater: was rc_timestamp_nobot,
268 changed to rc_timestamp_bot
269 * (bug 17437) Fixed incorrect link to web-based installer
270 * (bug 17538) Use shorter URLs in <link> elements
271 * (bug 13778) Hidden input added to the search form so that using the Enter key
272 on IE will do a fulltext search like clicking the button does
273 * (bug 1061) CSS-added icons next to links display through the text and makes
275 * Special:Wantedtemplates now works on PostgreSQL
276 * (bug 14414) maintenance/updateSpecialPages.php no longer throws error with
278 * (bug 17546) Correct Tongan language native name is "lea faka-Tonga"
279 * (bug 17621) Special:WantedFiles has no link to Special:Whatlinkshere
280 * (bug 17460) Client ecoding is now correctly set for PostgreSQL
281 * (bug 17648) Prevent floats from intruding into edit area in previews if no
283 * (bug 17692) Added (list of members) link to 'user' in Special:Listgrouprights
284 * (bug 17707) Show file destination as plain text if &wpForReUpload=1
285 * (bug 10172) Moved setting of "changed since last visit" flags out of the job
287 * (bug 17761) "show/hide" link in page history in now works for the first
288 displayed revision if it's not the current one
289 * (bug 17722) Fix regression where users are unable to change temporary
291 * (bug 17799) Special:Random no longer throws a database error when a non-
292 namespace is given, silently falls back to NS_MAIN
293 * (bug 17751) The message for bad titles in WantedPages is now localized
294 * (bug 17860) Moving a page in the "MediaWiki" namespace using SuppressRedirect
295 no longer corrupts the message cache
296 * (bug 17900) Fixed User Groups interface log display after saving groups.
297 * (bug 17897) Fixed string offset error in <pre> tags
298 * (bug 17778) MediaWiki:Catseparator can now have HTML entities
299 * (bug 17676) Error on Special:ListFiles when using Postgres
300 * Special:Export doesn't use raw SQL queries anymore
301 * (bug 14771) Thumbnail links to individual DjVu pages have two no longer have
302 two "page" parameters
303 * (bug 17972) Special:FileDuplicateSearch form now works correctly on wikis that
304 don't use PathInfo or short urls
305 * (bug 17990) trackback.php now has a trackback.php5 alias and works with
307 * (bug 14990) Parser tests works again with PostgreSQL
308 * (bug 11487) Special:Protectedpages doesn't list protections with pr_expiry
310 * (bug 18018) Deleting a file redirect leaves behind a malfunctioning redirect
311 * (bug 17537) Disable bad zlib.output_compression output on HTTP 304 responses
312 * (bug 11213) [edit] section links in printable version no longer appear when
313 you cut-and-paste article text
314 * (bug 17405) "Did you mean" to mirror Go/Search behavior of original request
315 * (bug 18116) 'edittools' is now output identically on edit and upload pages
316 * (bug 17241) The diffonly URI parameter should cascade to "Next edit" and
317 "Previous edit" diff links
318 * (bug 16823) 'Sidebar search form should not use Special:Search view URL as
320 * (bug 16343) Non-existing, but in use, category pages can be "go" match hits
321 * (bug 18031) Make namespace selector on Special:Export remember the previous
323 * The svn-version version numbers on Special:Version have been removed
324 * (bug 17374) Special:Export no longer exports two copies of the same page
325 * (bug 18190) Proper parsing in MediaWiki:Sharedupload message
326 * (bug 17617) HTML cleanup for ImagePage
327 * (bug 17964) namespaceDupes.php no longer fails on an empty interwiki table
328 * Improved error handling for image moving
329 * (bug 17974) On Special:SpecialPages, restricted special pages are now marked
330 with <strong> tags, helps with text-based browsers
331 * (bug 18259) Special:DeletedContributions now also uses
332 MediaWiki:Sp-contributions-logs for the link to Special:Log
333 * Don't add empty title="" attributes to links to anchors on the current page
334 * (bug 18291) rebuildrecentchanges.php failed to add deletion log entries
335 * (bug 18304) rebuildrecentchanges.php got size changes wrong
336 * (bug 18170) Fixed a PHP warning in Parser::preSaveTransform() in PHP 5.3
337 * (bug 18289) Database connection error page now returns correct HTML
338 * "successbox", "errorbox" and related CSS classes are now available in all
340 * Fixed a PHP notice when $wgEnableSerializedMessages was set to false
341 * (bug 18316) Removed superfluous name="fulltext" from Special:Search
342 * (bug 18331) MediaWiki:Undelete-revision can now have wikitext
343 * The "noautoblock" flag is no longer displayed in the block log when blocking
345 * (bug 18009) $wgHooks and $wgExtensionFunctions now support closures
346 * (bug 17948) Maintenance scripts now exit(0) or exit(1) as appropriate
347 * (bug 18377) Time in Enhanced ChangesList lacking localisation
348 * (bug 12998) Allow <sup>, <sub>, etc. in DISPLAYTITLE
349 * (bug 1553) Lowercase navigation headings in German
350 * (bug 7830) Pending transactions failed to commit on loginToUse() error
351 * (bug 11613) session.save_handler being over-ridden
352 * (bug 11381) session.save_handler being set twice (causes error)
353 * (bug 17835) ForeignAPIRepo throwing error on first page load for file
354 * (bug 18115) ForeignAPIRepo cache isn't working
355 * Fixed a bug caused by LanguageConverter.php, which brings an abnormal '}-'
356 after some parsed math syntax.
357 * (bug 18441) rebuildrecentchanges.inc no longer ignores $wgLogRestrictions
358 * (bug 18317) Bolded selections in 1 | 3 | etc days on RecentChanges now use
359 <strong> instead of hardcoded styles
360 * (bug 18449) Fixed items number per column on category pages when the total is
362 * (bug 18121) maintenance/deleteArchivedRevisions.php no longer deletes
363 revisions when --delete is not passed
364 * (bug 13172) GPS coordinates in image Exif data are now actually displayed
365 * Overhaul of preferences system, includes the following bug fixes:
366 * (bug 5363) Changes to default preferences now impact registered users.
367 * (bug 14806) Hook to enable putting preferences in existing tabs.
368 * (bug 17191) Registration date now listed on preferences page.
369 * Note that this change will break some extensions which have not been adapted
371 * (bug 17020) Adding fallback encodings for Traditional and Simplified Chinese
372 languages while the the text is typed as URLs.
373 * (bug 18535) Search tab tool-tops are corrupted
374 * (bug 17614) Prev / Next links not need on ImagePage file history if less than limit
375 * (bug 18069) Fixed some CSS validation issues with colors
377 == API changes in 1.15 ==
378 * (bug 16858) Revamped list=deletedrevs to make listing deleted contributions
379 and listing all deleted pages possible
380 * (bug 16844) Added clcategories parameter to prop=categories
381 * (bug 17025) Add "fileextension" parameter to meta=siteinfo&siprop=
382 * (bug 17048) Show the 'new' flag in list=usercontribs for the revision that
383 created the page, even if it's not the top revision
384 * (bug 17069) Added ucshow=patrolled|!patrolled to list=usercontribs
385 * action=delete respects $wgDeleteRevisionsLimit and the bigdelete user right
386 * (bug 15949) Add undo functionality to action=edit
387 * (bug 16483) Kill filesort in ApiQueryBacklinks caused by missing parentheses.
388 Building query properly now using makeList()
389 * (bug 17182) Fix pretty printer so URLs with parentheses in them are
391 * (bug 17224) Added siprop=rightsinfo to meta=siteinfo
392 * (bug 17239) Added prop=displaytitle to action=parse
393 * (bug 17317) Added watch parameter to action=protect
394 * (bug 17007) Added export and exportnowrap parameters to action=query
395 * (bug 17326) BREAKING CHANGE: Changed output format for iiprop=metadata
396 * (bug 17355) Added auwitheditsonly parameter to list=allusers
397 * (bug 17007) Added action=import
398 * BREAKING CHANGE: Removed rctitles parameter from list=recentchanges because
399 of performance concerns
400 * Listing (semi-)deleted revisions and log entries as well in prop=revisions
402 * (bug 11430) BREAKING CHANGE: Modules may return fewer results than the
403 limit and still set a query-continue in some cases
404 * (bug 17357) Added movesubpages parameter to action=move
405 * (bug 17433) Added bot flag to list=watchlist&wlprop=flags output
406 * (bug 16740) Added list=protectedtitles
407 * Added mainmodule and pagesetmodule parameters to action=paraminfo
408 * (bug 17502) meta=siteinfo&siprop=namespacealiases no longer lists namespace
409 aliases already listed in siprop=namespaces
410 * (bug 17529) rvend ignored when rvstartid is specified
411 * (bug 17626) Added uiprop=email to list=userinfo
412 * (bug 13209) Added rvdiffto parameter to prop=revisions
413 * Manual language conversion improve: Now we can include both ";" and ":" in
415 * (bug 17795) Don't report views count on meta=siteinfo if $wgDisableCounters
417 * (bug 17774) Don't hide read-restricted modules like action=query from users
418 without read rights, but throw an error when they try to use them.
419 * Don't hide write modules when $wgEnableWriteAPI is false, but throw an error
420 when someone tries to use them
421 * BREAKING CHANGE: action=purge requires write rights and, for anonymous users,
423 * (bug 15935) Added action=userrights to add/remove users to/from groups
424 * (bug 18099) Using appendtext to edit a non-existent page causes an interface
425 message to be included in the page text
426 * Added uiprop=changeablegroups to meta=userinfo
427 * Added usprop=gender to list=users
428 * (bug 18311) action=purge now works for images too
429 * Add parentid to prop=revisions output
430 * (bug 17832) action=delete returns 'unknownerror' instead of 'permissiondenied'
431 when the user is blocked
432 * (bug 18546) Added timestamp of new revision to action=edit output
433 * (bug 18554) Also list hidden revisions in list=usercontribs for privileged
435 * (bug 13049) "API must be accessed from the primary script entry point" error
436 * (bug 18601) generator=backlinks returns invalid continue parameter
437 * (bug 18597) Internal error with empty generator= parameter
438 * (bug 16422) Don't display help for format=jsonfm unless specifically requested
439 * (bug 18617) Add xml:space="preserve" attribute to relevant tags in XML output
441 === Languages updated in 1.15 ===
443 MediaWiki supports over 300 languages. Many localisations are updated
444 regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
445 changes to languages because of MediaZilla reports.
447 * Austrian German (de-at) (new)
448 * Swiss Standard German (de-ch) (new)
449 * Simplified Gan Chinese (gan-hans) (new)
450 * Traditional Gan Chinese (gan-hant) (new)
451 * Literary Chinese (lzh) (new)
452 * Uyghur (Latin script) (ug-latn) (renamed from 'ug')
454 * Võro (vro) (renamed from fiu-vro)
455 * (bug 17151) Add magic word alias for #redirect for Vietnamese
456 * (bug 17288) Messages improved for default language (English)
457 * (bug 12937) Update native name for Afar
458 * (bug 16909) 'histlegend' now reuses messages instead of copying them
459 * Traditional/Simplified Gan Chinese conversion support
460 * (bug 18474) Sorani (ckb - Central Kurdish) (renamed from ku-arab)
461 * Add PLURAL function for Scots Gaelic (gd)
465 MediaWiki 1.15 requires PHP 5 (5.2 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer supported.
467 PHP 5.0.x fails on 64-bit systems due to serious bugs with array processing:
468 http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=34879
469 Upgrade affected systems to PHP 5.1 or higher.
471 MySQL 3.23.x is no longer supported; some older hosts may need to upgrade.
472 At this time we still recommend 4.0, but 4.1/5.0 will work fine in most cases.
477 1.15 has several database changes since 1.14, and will not work without schema
480 If upgrading from before 1.11, and you are using a wiki as a commons reposito-
481 ry, make sure that it is updated as well. Otherwise, errors may arise due to
482 database schema changes.
484 If upgrading from before 1.7, you may want to run refreshLinks.php to ensure
485 new database fields are filled with data.
487 If you are upgrading from MediaWiki 1.4.x or earlier, some major database
488 changes are made, and there is a slightly higher chance that things could
489 break. Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading!
491 See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions.
496 Some output, particularly involving user-supplied inline HTML, may not
497 produce 100% valid or well-formed XHTML output. Testers are welcome to
498 set $wgMimeType = "application/xhtml+xml"; to test for remaining problem
499 cases, but this is not recommended on live sites. (This must be set for
500 MathML to display properly in Mozilla.)
502 For notes on 1.14.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
505 === Online documentation ===
507 Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is currently being
508 built up on MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation
509 License (except for pages that explicitly state that their contents are in
512 http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation
517 A MediaWiki-l mailing list has been set up distinct from the Wikipedia
520 http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
522 A low-traffic announcements-only list is also available:
524 http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
526 It's highly recommended that you sign up for one of these lists if you're
527 going to run a public MediaWiki, so you can be notified of security fixes.
532 There's usually someone online in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net