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 33456) Show $wgQueryCacheLimit on cached query pages.
* (bug 10574) Add an option to allow all pages to be exported by Special:Export.
* mediawiki.js Message object constructor is now publicly available as mw.Message.
-* (bug 29309) allow CSS class per tooltip (tipsy)
+* (bug 29309) Allow CSS class per tooltip (tipsy).
* (bug 33565) Add accesskey/tooltip to submit buttons on Special:EditWatchlist.
-* (bug 17959) Inline rendering/thumbnailing for Gimp XCF images
+* (bug 17959) Inline rendering/thumbnailing for Gimp XCF images.
+* (bug 27775) Namespace has it's own XML tag in the XML dump file.
+* (bug 30513) Redirect tag is now resolved in XML dump file.
+* sha1 xml tag added to XML dump file.
+* (bug 33646) Badtitle error page now emits a 400 HTTP status.
+* Special:MovePage now has a dropdown menu for namespaces.
=== Bug fixes in 1.19 ===
* $wgUploadNavigationUrl should be used for file redlinks if.
* (bug 25800) mw.config wgAction should contain the actually performed action instead
of whatever the query value contains.
* (bug 4438) Add CSS hook for current WikiPage action.
-* (bug 33703) Common border-bottom color for <abbr> should inherit default (text) color
+* (bug 33703) Common border-bottom color for <abbr> should inherit default (text) color.
+* (bug 33819) Display file sizes in appropriate units.
+* (bug 32948) {{REVISIONID}} and related variables are no longer blank after doing
+ a null edit.
+* (bug 33880) $wgUsersNotifiedOnAllChanges should not send e-mail to user who made
+ the edit.
+* (bug 33902) Decoding %2B with mw.Uri.decode results in ' ' instead of +
+* (bug 33762) QueryPage-based special pages no longer misses *-summary message.
+* Other sizes links are no longer generated for wikis without a 404 thumbnail handler.
+* (bug 29454) Enforce byteLimit for page title input on Special:MovePage
+* (bug 34114) CSSMin::remap() doesn't respect its $embed parameter
+* Special:Contributions/newbies now shows the contributions for the user "newbies".
+ New user contributions are obtained using the form or using ?contribs=newbie in URL.
+* It is now possible to delete images that have no corresponding description pages.
+* (bug 33165) GlobalFunctions.php line 1312: Call to a member function
+ getText() on a non-object
=== API changes in 1.19 ===
* Made action=edit less likely to return "unknownerror", by returning the actual error
* (bug 33147) API examples should explain what they do.
* (bug 33482) Api incorrectly calls ApiBase::parseMultiValue if allowed
values is given as an array.
+* (bug 32948) {{REVISIONID}} and related variables are no longer blank after
+ calling action=purge&forcelinkupdate.
=== Languages updated in 1.19 ===
been removed from wikibits.js
* jquery.mwPrototypes module was renamed to jquery.mwExtension.
* The maintenance script populateSha1.php was renamed to the more concise
- populateImageSha1.php
+ 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
methods have been removed, the variant is now part of the $query argument.
* Removed Title::isValidCssJsSubpage(), deprecated since 1.17 in favor of
using Title::isCssJsSubpage() or checking Title::isWrongCaseCssJsPage().
-* (bug 24430) Remove number of column for edit field in preference page.
* Support for the deprecated hook MagicWordMagicWords was removed.
+* The Xml::namespaceSelector method has been deprecated, please use
+ Html::namespaceSelector instead (note that the parameters have changed also).
+* (bug 33746) Preload popular ResourceLoader modules (mediawiki.util) as stop-gap
+ for scripts missing dependencies.
+ New configuration variable $wgPreloadJavaScriptMwUtil has been introduced for this
+ (set to false by default for new installations). Set to true if your wiki has a large
+ amount of user/site scripts that are lacking dependency information. In the short to
+ medium term these user/site scripts should be fixed by adding the used modules to the
+ dependencies in the module registry and/or wrapping them in a callback to mw.loader.using.
== Compatibility ==
MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation License (except
for pages that explicitly state that their contents are in the public domain):
- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation
+ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation
== Mailing list ==
A mailing list is available for MediaWiki user support and discussion:
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
+ https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
A low-traffic announcements-only list is also available:
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
+ https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
It's highly recommended that you sign up for one of these lists if you're
going to run a public MediaWiki, so you can be notified of security fixes.