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 * "Magic words"
  18
  19 Fixes and tweaks:
  20 * linkscc table caches link data for rendering; faster rebuildlinks.php
  21 * Numerous bugs in Cologne Blue skin fixed
  22 * Login gives warning about missing cookies
  23 * Block log, protection log added; deletion log now includes undeletions
  24 * Deletion & upload logs now escape comment text properly
  25 * Problems with <nowiki> segments in section titles etc mitigated
  26 * Contributions offset and minor edit bugs fixed
  27 * Whatlinkshere now sorted alphabetically
  28 * Various small bugs fixed.
  29
  30 Internal changes:
  31 * wfQuery has had a second parameter inserted, DB_READ or DB_WRITE. This value
  32   is not actually used so far.
  33 * Partial code for categories and Smarty template-based skins is in the tree
  34   but disabled.
  35 * Parts of Article.php have been moved to EditPage.php and ImagePage.php.
  36
  37 New translations:
  38 * fi - Finnish
  39 * ia - Interlingua
  40 * no - Norwegian
  41 * sk - Slovak
  42 * ta - Tamil
  43
  44 === Database changes ===
  45
  46 "linkscc" table added. If upgrading manually (rather than with update.php),
  47 run maintenance/archives/patch-linkscc.sql to create the table.
  48
  49 Older releases were dated snapshots from the old 'stable' branch:
  50
  51 == mediawiki-20031118 ==
  52
  53 * Image deletion fixed.
  54 * Deletion of image old revisions now restricted to sysops
  55   (this is an irreversible action and not well logged)
  56 * Fixed maintenance scripts broken by last release's security fix
  57 * Many errors in rebuildlinks script fixed.
  58
  59 == mediawiki-20031117 ==
  60
  61 * SECURITY FIX: stricter checking of include path
  62 * Fixed user contributions next/prev bug
  63 * Login cookies now have the database name prefixed to allow wikis
  64   to coexist in the same domain. This will invalidate any old saved
  65   password cookies.
  66 * Update cache timestamp when talk pages are created
  67 * Saving the login form in Mozilla no longer blanks password in prefs.
  68 * Check existence of source page before performing a move.
  69 * Detect invalid titles in Special:Allpages
  70 * Q-encode headers on outgoing inter-user e-mail
  71 * Updates to some translations.
  72 * Added table of contents border/bg to Cologne Blue, Nostalgia skins
  73 * Protected pages no longer appear unprotected when visited via redirect
  74 * Swapped old Wikipedia logo for the MediaWiki sunflower logo
  75 * install.php, update.php print warning on old PHP versions,
  76   added compatibility functions that might or might not help
  77
  78 No database changes since 20031107; upgrading should be clean.
  79
  80
  81 == mediawiki-20031107 ==
  82
  83 * Fixed various bugs!
  84 * Some speed improvements from tweaks to the table indexes
  85 * Limited support for memcached (see below)
  86 * New translations (see below)
  87 * Interwiki link data now kept in database for flexibility
  88 * Friendlier read-only source view if asked to edit a page when
  89   the db is locked or the page is protected.
  90 * Normal IP blocks auto-expire after 24 hours
  91 * Optional support for blocking usernames
  92 * Uploads disabled by default (see below)
  93
  94
  95 === Security note ===
  96
  97 Uploads are now disabled by default. If you've set up a secure configuration
  98 you can reenable uploads by putting:
  99
 100   $wgDisableUploads = false;
 101
 102 into LocalSettings.php.
 103
 104 Earlier versions of MediaWiki included a bug that potentially allows logged-
 105 in users to delete arbitrary files in directories writable by the web server
 106 user by manually feeding false form data; this is now fixed.
 107
 108 As a reminder, disable PHP script execution in the upload directory!
 109 You may also wish to serve HTML pages as plaintext to prevent cookie-
 110 stealing JavaScript attacks. Example Apache config fragment:
 111
 112   <Directory "/Library/MediaWiki/web/upload">
 113      # Ignore .htaccess files
 114      AllowOverride None
 115
 116      # Serve HTML as plaintext
 117      AddType text/plain .html .htm .shtml
 118
 119      # Don't run arbitrary PHP code.
 120      php_admin_flag engine off
 121
 122      # If you've other scripting languages, disable them too.
 123   </Directory>
 124
 125
 126 === Database updates ===
 127
 128 If you're using update.php, the necessary database changes should
 129 be made automatically.
 130
 131 To manually upgrade your database from the 2003-08-29 release, run the
 132 following SQL scripts from the maintenance subdirectory:
 133
 134   archives/patch-ipblocks.sql
 135   archives/patch-interwiki.sql
 136   archives/patch-indexes.sql
 137   interwiki.sql
 138
 139 To copy in the Wikipedia language-prefix interwikis as well, add:
 140
 141   wikipedia-interwiki.sql
 142
 143
 144 === Translations ===
 145
 146 New interface localization files are included for:
 147   fy Frisian
 148   ro Romanian
 149   sl Slovene
 150   sq Albanian
 151   sr Serbian
 152
 153
 154 === Memcached ===
 155
 156 Memcached is a distributed cache system. See http://www.danga.com/memcached/
 157 MediaWiki can optionally use memcached to store some data between calls
 158 to reduce load on the database. Currently this is limited to user and
 159 talk page notification data, interwiki prefix/URL matches, and the
 160 UTF-8 conversion tables.
 161
 162 MediaWiki includes version 1.0.10 of the (GPL'd) PHP memcached client by
 163 Ryan Gilfether; if memcached is disabled it acts as a dummy object with
 164 minimal overhead.
 165
 166 To use memcached you'll need PHP installed with sockets support (this is not
 167 in the default configure options). See docs/memcached for some more details.
 168
 169 Additionally, you can store login session data in memcached instead of the
 170 local filesystem, which can help to enable load-balancing by letting login
 171 sessions transparently work on multiple front-end web servers. (The primary
 172 other issue is with uploads, which requires some care in handling.)
 173
 174 To enable this, set $wgSessionsInMemcached = true; and set $wgCookieDomain
 175 appropriately if exposing multiple hostnames. This system is new and may be
 176 volatile; login sessions will fail dramatically if memcached is unavailable
 177 when this option is turned on.
 178
 179
 180 === Online documentation ===
 181
 182 Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is currently being
 183 built up on Meta-Wikipedia, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation
 184 License:
 185
 186   http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_User%27s_Guide
 187
 188
 189 === Mailing list ===
 190
 191 A MediaWiki-l mailing list has been set up distinct from the Wikipedia
 192 wikitech-l list:
 193
 194   http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
 195
 196
 197 === UseModWiki import script ===
 198
 199 A stripped-down UseModWiki import script is available in the maintenance
 200 subdirectory. It is incomplete and requires a lot of manual clean-up, but
 201 does function for the brave and pure of heart.
 202
 203
 204 === Test suite removed ===
 205
 206 The unmaintained Java-based test suite has been removed from the tarball
 207 release. If you really want it you can check it out from CVS.
 208
 209
 210 == mediawiki-20030829 ==
 211
 212 First release under MediaWiki name.