RELEASE-NOTES

   1 = MediaWiki release notes =
   2
   3 == Version 1.1.0, 2003-12-08 ==
   4
   5 This is the new production release. Any following 1.1.x releases are expected
   6 to contain only bug fixes; developments of new features will go towards a 1.2.0
   7 release.
   8
   9 New features in 1.1:
  10 * New wiki table syntax:
  11   http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_User%27s_Guide:_Using_tables
  12 * User-editable interface messages:
  13   http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_namespace
  14 * XML-wrapped page source export with optional history:
  15   http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML_import_and_export
  16   (There is not yet an import function!)
  17
  18 Fixes and tweaks:
  19 * linkscc table caches link data for rendering; faster rebuildlinks.php
  20 * Numerous bugs in Cologne Blue skin fixed
  21 * Login gives warning about missing cookies
  22 * Block log, protection log added; deletion log now includes undeletions
  23 * Deletion & upload logs now escape comment text properly
  24 * Problems with <nowiki> segments in section titles etc mitigated
  25 * Contributions offset and minor edit bugs fixed
  26 * Whatlinkshere now sorted alphabetically
  27 * Various small bugs fixed.
  28
  29 === Database changes ===
  30
  31 "linkscc" table added. If upgrading manually (rather than with update.php),
  32 run maintenance/archives/patch-linkscc.sql to create the table.
  33
  34 Older releases were dated snapshots from the old 'stable' branch:
  35
  36 == mediawiki-20031118 ==
  37
  38 * Image deletion fixed.
  39 * Deletion of image old revisions now restricted to sysops
  40   (this is an irreversible action and not well logged)
  41 * Fixed maintenance scripts broken by last release's security fix
  42 * Many errors in rebuildlinks script fixed.
  43
  44 == mediawiki-20031117 ==
  45
  46 * SECURITY FIX: stricter checking of include path
  47 * Fixed user contributions next/prev bug
  48 * Login cookies now have the database name prefixed to allow wikis
  49   to coexist in the same domain. This will invalidate any old saved
  50   password cookies.
  51 * Update cache timestamp when talk pages are created
  52 * Saving the login form in Mozilla no longer blanks password in prefs.
  53 * Check existence of source page before performing a move.
  54 * Detect invalid titles in Special:Allpages
  55 * Q-encode headers on outgoing inter-user e-mail
  56 * Updates to some translations.
  57 * Added table of contents border/bg to Cologne Blue, Nostalgia skins
  58 * Protected pages no longer appear unprotected when visited via redirect
  59 * Swapped old Wikipedia logo for the MediaWiki sunflower logo
  60 * install.php, update.php print warning on old PHP versions,
  61   added compatibility functions that might or might not help
  62
  63 No database changes since 20031107; upgrading should be clean.
  64
  65
  66 == mediawiki-20031107 ==
  67
  68 * Fixed various bugs!
  69 * Some speed improvements from tweaks to the table indexes
  70 * Limited support for memcached (see below)
  71 * New translations (see below)
  72 * Interwiki link data now kept in database for flexibility
  73 * Friendlier read-only source view if asked to edit a page when
  74   the db is locked or the page is protected.
  75 * Normal IP blocks auto-expire after 24 hours
  76 * Optional support for blocking usernames
  77 * Uploads disabled by default (see below)
  78
  79
  80 === Security note ===
  81
  82 Uploads are now disabled by default. If you've set up a secure configuration
  83 you can reenable uploads by putting:
  84
  85   $wgDisableUploads = false;
  86
  87 into LocalSettings.php.
  88
  89 Earlier versions of MediaWiki included a bug that potentially allows logged-
  90 in users to delete arbitrary files in directories writable by the web server
  91 user by manually feeding false form data; this is now fixed.
  92
  93 As a reminder, disable PHP script execution in the upload directory!
  94 You may also wish to serve HTML pages as plaintext to prevent cookie-
  95 stealing JavaScript attacks. Example Apache config fragment:
  96
  97   <Directory "/Library/MediaWiki/web/upload">
  98      # Ignore .htaccess files
  99      AllowOverride None
 100
 101      # Serve HTML as plaintext
 102      AddType text/plain .html .htm .shtml
 103
 104      # Don't run arbitrary PHP code.
 105      php_admin_flag engine off
 106
 107      # If you've other scripting languages, disable them too.
 108   </Directory>
 109
 110
 111 === Database updates ===
 112
 113 If you're using update.php, the necessary database changes should
 114 be made automatically.
 115
 116 To manually upgrade your database from the 2003-08-29 release, run the
 117 following SQL scripts from the maintenance subdirectory:
 118
 119   archives/patch-ipblocks.sql
 120   archives/patch-interwiki.sql
 121   archives/patch-indexes.sql
 122   interwiki.sql
 123
 124 To copy in the Wikipedia language-prefix interwikis as well, add:
 125
 126   wikipedia-interwiki.sql
 127
 128
 129 === Translations ===
 130
 131 New interface localization files are included for:
 132   fy Frisian
 133   ro Romanian
 134   sl Slovene
 135   sq Albanian
 136   sr Serbian
 137
 138
 139 === Memcached ===
 140
 141 Memcached is a distributed cache system. See http://www.danga.com/memcached/
 142 MediaWiki can optionally use memcached to store some data between calls
 143 to reduce load on the database. Currently this is limited to user and
 144 talk page notification data, interwiki prefix/URL matches, and the
 145 UTF-8 conversion tables.
 146
 147 MediaWiki includes version 1.0.10 of the (GPL'd) PHP memcached client by
 148 Ryan Gilfether; if memcached is disabled it acts as a dummy object with
 149 minimal overhead.
 150
 151 To use memcached you'll need PHP installed with sockets support (this is not
 152 in the default configure options). See docs/memcached for some more details.
 153
 154 Additionally, you can store login session data in memcached instead of the
 155 local filesystem, which can help to enable load-balancing by letting login
 156 sessions transparently work on multiple front-end web servers. (The primary
 157 other issue is with uploads, which requires some care in handling.)
 158
 159 To enable this, set $wgSessionsInMemcached = true; and set $wgCookieDomain
 160 appropriately if exposing multiple hostnames. This system is new and may be
 161 volatile; login sessions will fail dramatically if memcached is unavailable
 162 when this option is turned on.
 163
 164
 165 === Online documentation ===
 166
 167 Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is currently being
 168 built up on Meta-Wikipedia, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation
 169 License:
 170
 171   http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_User%27s_Guide
 172
 173
 174 === Mailing list ===
 175
 176 A MediaWiki-l mailing list has been set up distinct from the Wikipedia
 177 wikitech-l list:
 178
 179   http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
 180
 181
 182 === UseModWiki import script ===
 183
 184 A stripped-down UseModWiki import script is available in the maintenance
 185 subdirectory. It is incomplete and requires a lot of manual clean-up, but
 186 does function for the brave and pure of heart.
 187
 188
 189 === Test suite removed ===
 190
 191 The unmaintained Java-based test suite has been removed from the tarball
 192 release. If you really want it you can check it out from CVS.
 193
 194
 195 == mediawiki-20030829 ==
 196
 197 First release under MediaWiki name.