Add a script to filecache content pages on the wiki
[lhc/web/wiklou.git] / RELEASE-NOTES
1 = MediaWiki release notes =
2
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.
5
6 == MediaWiki 1.14 ==
7
8 THIS IS NOT A RELEASE YET
9
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.
13
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.
17
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
20
21 === Configuration changes in 1.14 ===
22
23 * $wgExemptFromUserRobotsControl is an array of namespaces to be exempt from
24 the effect of the new __INDEX__/__NOINDEX__ magic words. (Default: null, ex-
25 empt all content namespaces.)
26 * $wgForwardSearchUrl has been removed entirely. Documented setting since 1.4
27 has been $wgSearchForwardUrl.
28 * (bug 15080) $wgOverrideSiteFeed has been added. Setting either
29 $wgSiteFeed['rss'] or 'atom' to a URL will override the default Recent
30 Changes feed that appears on all pages.
31 * $wgSQLiteDataDirMode has been introduced as the default directory mode for
32 SQLite data directories on creation. Note that this setting is separate from
33 $wgDirectoryMode, which applies to all normal dirs created by MediaWiki.
34 * $wgGroupsAddToSelf and $wgGroupsRemoveFromSelf now work more like
35 $wgAddGroups and $wgRemoveGroups, where the user must belong to a specified
36 group in order to add or remove those groups from themselves.
37 Backwards compatibility is maintained.
38 * $wgRestrictDisplayTitle controls if the use of the {{DISPLAYTITLE}} magic
39 word is restricted to titles equivalent to the actual page title. This
40 is true per default, but can be set to false to allow any title.
41 * $wgSpamRegex may now be an array of multiple regular expressions.
42 * $wgAjaxSearch has been removed; use $wgEnableMWSuggest instead.
43 * Editing the MediaWiki namespace is now unconditionally restricted to people
44 with the editinterface right, configuring this in $wgNamespaceProtection
45 is not required.
46 * $wgAllowExternalImagesFrom may now be an array of multiple strings.
47 * Introduced $wgEnableImageWhitelist to toggle the on-wiki external image
48 whitelist on or off.
49 * Added $wgRenderHashAppend to append some string to the parser cache and the
50 sitenotice cache keys.
51 * $wgRCChangedSizeThreshold is now a positive integer by default,
52 * (bug 16006) $wgEnableWriteAPI is now true by default. Authorized can perform
53 write actions using the API.
54 * Added $wgRC2UDPInterwikiPrefix which adds an interwiki prefix
55 ($wgLocalInterwiki) onto the page names in the UDP feed.
56 * Added $wgAllowUserSkin to let the wiki's owner disable user selectable skins
57 on the wiki. If it's set to true, then the skin used will *always* be
58 $wgDefaultSkin.
59 * Added $wgEnotifUseRealName, which allows UserMailer to send out e-mails based
60 on the user's real name if one is set. Defaults to false (use the username)
61 * Removed the 'apiThumbCacheDir' option from $wgForeignFileRepos (only used in
62 ForeignAPIRepo)
63 * (bug 44) Image namespace and accompanying talk namespace renamed to File.
64 For backward compatibility purposes, Image still works. External tools may
65 need to be updated.
66 * The constants NS_FILE and NS_FILE_TALK can now be used instead of NS_IMAGE and
67 NS_IMAGE_TALK. The old constants are retained as aliases for compatibility,
68 and should still be used in code meant to be compatible with v1.13 or older.
69 * MediaWiki can be forced to use private IPs forwarded by a proxy server by
70 using $wgUsePrivateIPs.
71
72 === Migrated extensions ===
73 The following extensions are migrated into MediaWiki 1.14:
74
75 * Special:DeletedContributions to show deleted user contributions (was
76 extension DeletedContributions)
77 * Special:Log/newusers recording new users (was extension Newuserlog)
78 * Special:LinkSearch to search for external links (was extension LinkSearch)
79 * RenderHash
80 * NoMoveUserPages
81 * UniversalEditButton
82
83 === New features in 1.14 ===
84
85 * New URL syntaxes for Special:ListUsers - 'Special:ListUsers/USER' and
86 'Special:ListUsers/GROUP/USER', in addition to the older syntax
87 'Special:ListUsers/GROUP' where GROUP is a valid group name.
88 * Configurable per-namespace and per-page notices for the edit form,
89 respectively MediaWiki:Editnotice-# where # is the namespace number, and
90 MediaWiki:Editnotice-#-PAGENAME where # is the page's namespace number and
91 PAGENAME is the page name minus the namespace prefix.
92 * (bug 8068) New __INDEX__ and __NOINDEX__ magic words allow user control of
93 search engine indexing on a per-article basis.
94 * Handheld stylesheet options
95 * Added 'DoEditSectionLink' hook as a cleaner unified version of the old
96 'EditSectionLink' and 'EditSectionLinkForOther' hooks. Note that the
97 'EditSectionLinkForOther' hook has been removed, but 'EditSectionLink' is
98 run in all cases instead, so extensions using the old hooks should still work
99 if they ran roughly the same code for both hooks (as is almost certain).
100 * Signature (~~~~) "cleaning", i.e. template removal, can be disabled with
101 $wgCleanSignatures=false
102 * Extensions can use the SkinBuildSidebar hook to modify the content of the
103 sidebar and add custom portlets to it
104 * Added 'MakeGlobalVariablesScript' hook for extensions to be able to add vari-
105 ables into into the output of Skin::makeVariablesScript
106 * (bug 13846) Added $wgAddGroups and $wgRemoveGroups display on
107 Special:ListGroupRights
108 * (bug 14377) Add a date selector to history pages
109 * (bug 15007) New 'pagetitle-view-mainpage' message allows the HTML <title> of
110 the main page to be customized
111 * Added $wgDisableTitleConversion to disabling the conversion for all pages on
112 the wiki
113 * Added 'noconvertlink' toggle that can be set per user preferences, also
114 added 'convertlink=no|yes' on GET requests whether have the link titles
115 being converted or not
116 * (bug 14921) Special:Contributions/: add user name to <title>
117 Patch by Emufarmers
118 * Unescape more "safe" characters when producing URLs, for added prettiness
119 * Introduced a new hook 'SkinAfterContent' that allows extensions to add text
120 after the page content and article metadata. Updated all skins and skin
121 templates to work with that hook.
122 * (bug 14929) removeUnusedAccounts.php now supports 'ignore-touched' and
123 'ignore-groups'. Patch by Louperivois
124 * (bug 15127) Work around minor display glitch in Opera.
125 * By default, reject file uploads that look like ZIP files, to avoid the
126 so-called GIFAR vulnerability.
127 * (bug 15141) Give ability to only list protected pages with the cascading
128 option enabled on Special:ProtectedPages
129 * (bug 15157) Special:Watchlist has the same options as Special:Watchlist:
130 Show/Hide logged in users, Show/Hide anonymous, Invert namespace selection
131 * Added hook 'UserrightsChangeableGroups' to allow modification of what
132 groups may be added or removed via the Special:UserRights interface.
133 * HTML entities like &nbsp; now work (are not escaped) in edit summaries.
134 * (bug 13815) In the comment for page moves, use the colon-separator message
135 instead of a hardcoded colon.
136 * Allow <gallery> to accept image names without an Image: prefix
137 * Add tooltips to rollback and undo links
138 * BMP images are now displayed as PNG
139 * (bug 13471) Added NUMBERINGROUP magic word
140 * (bug 11884) Now support Flash EXIF attribute
141 * Show thumbnails in the file history list, patch by User:Agbad
142 * Added support of piped wikilinks using double-width brackets
143 * Added an on-wiki external image whitelist. Items in this whitelist are
144 treated as regular expression fragments to match for when possibly
145 displaying an external image inline.
146 * (bugs 15405, 15436) Sort more currency types correctly in sortable tables
147 * (bug 15422) Sort more different types of numbers in sortable tables
148 * (bug 2889) MediaWiki:Print.css applies to the printable version
149 * Category counts (e.g. from {{PAGESINCATEGORY:}}) should be more accurate for
150 small categories
151 * After logging in, automatically redirect to wherever you logged in from
152 * (bug 5619) Break messages used in Special:Statistics down further
153 * (bug 11029) Add link to Special:Listusers?group=sysop etc at
154 Special:Statistics
155 * (bug 15514) Setting $wgRightsText without $wgRightsUrl now produces a
156 plaintext copyright notice. Patch by Juliano F. Ravasi.
157 * (bug 15551) Deletion log excerpt is now shown whenever a user vists a
158 deleted page, even if they are unable to edit it.
159 * Added Wantedfiles special pages, allowing users to find image links with no
160 image.
161 * (bug 12650) It is now possible to set different expiration times for
162 different restriction types on the protection form.
163 * (bug 8440) Allow preventing blocked users from editing their talk pages
164 * Improved upload file type detection for OpenDocument formats
165 * Added the ability to set the target attribute on external links with
166 $wgExternalLinkTarget
167 * api.php now sends "Retry-After" and "X-Database-Lag" HTTP headers if the
168 maxlag check fails, just like index.php does
169 * Added "link" parameter to image links, to allow images to link to an
170 arbitrary title or URL. This should replace inaccessible and incomplete
171 solutions such as CSS-based overlays and ImageMap.
172 * (bug 368) Don't use caption for alt attribute; allow manual specification
173 using new "alt=" parameter for images
174 * (bug 44) The {{ns:}} core parser function now also accepts localized
175 namespace names and aliases; also, its output now uses spaces instead of
176 underscores to match the behavior of the {{NAMESPACE}} magic word
177 * Added the ability to display user edit counts in Special:ListUsers. Off by
178 default, enabled with $wgEdititis = true (named after the medical condition
179 marked by unhealthy obsession with edit counts).
180 * Added a file cache to the parser to improve page rendering time on pages with
181 several uses of the same image.
182 * (bug 1250) Users can still use "show preview" and "show changes" even if the
183 wiki is set to read-only mode.
184 * Added a call to the 'UnwatchArticleComplete' hook to the watchlist editor.
185 This should make it so that ALL user-accessible methods of removing a page
186 from a watchlist lead to this hook being called (it was previously only
187 called from within Article.php
188 * Maximum execution time for shell processes on linux is now configured with
189 $wgMaxShellTime (180 seconds by default)
190 * (bug 1306) 'Email user' link no longer shown on user page when emailing
191 is not available due to lack of confirmed address or disabled preference
192 * Special:Wanted templates special page added to display missing templates
193 linked from articles
194 * Make search matches bold only, not red as well
195 * (bug 10080) Blocks can be modified without unblocking first
196 * (bug 15820) Special:BlockIP shows a notice if the user being blocked is
197 already directly blocked
198 * (bug 13710) Allow to force "watch this" checkbox via URL using parameter
199 "watchthis"
200 * (bug 15125) Add Public Domain to default options when installing. Patch by
201 Nathan Larson.
202 * Set a special temporary directory for ImageMagick with $wgImageMagickTempDir
203 * (bug 16113) Show/hide for redirects in Special:NewPages
204 * (bug 15903) Upload link was added to Nostalgia skin
205 * (bug 15761) Add user toggle to omit diff after rollback
206 * Added the BitmapHandler_ClientOnly media handler, which allows server-side
207 image scaling to be completely disabled for specific media types, via the
208 $wgMediaHandlers configuration variable.
209 * New 'AbortDiffCache' hook can be used to cancel the caching of a diff
210 * (bug 15835) Added Content-Style-Type meta tag
211 * (bug 11027) Add parameter to MW:Randompage-nopages so that user can see the
212 namespace.
213 * Add id="mw-user-domain-section" to <tr> tag in Userlogin.php template so that
214 admins with a single domain can hide the domain section using CSS
215 * Dropped old Paser_OldPP class. Only new parser with preprocessor is used.
216 * Moved password reset form from Special:Preferences to Special:ResetPass
217 * Added Special:ChangePassword as a special page alias for Special:ResetPass
218 * Added complimentary function for addHandler() called removeHandler() for removing events
219 * Improved security of file uploads for IE clients, using a reverse-engineered
220 algorithm very similar to IE's content detection algorithm.
221
222 === Bug fixes in 1.14 ===
223
224 * (bug 14907) DatabasePostgres::fieldType now defined.
225 * (bug 14659) Passing the default limit param to Special:Recentchanges no more
226 falls back to the user option
227 * (bug 14954) Fix regression in Modern and Simple skins
228 * Recursion loop check added to Categoryfinder class
229 * Fixed few performance troubles of large job queue processing
230 * Not setting various parameters in Foreign Repos now fails more gracefully
231 * (bug 2333) Redirects are properly rendered when previewing an edit.
232 * (bug 14972) Use localized alias of Special:Search on all search forms
233 * (bug 11035) Special:Search should have descriptive <title>
234 * Special pages are now not subject to special handling for "self-links"
235 * (bug 15053) Syntactically incorrect redirects with another link in them
236 no longer redirect to the second link
237 * (bug 15049) Fix for CheckUser extension's log search: usernames containing
238 a "-" were incorrectly turned into bogus IP range searches.
239 Patch by Max Semenik.
240 * (bug 15055) Talk page notifications no longer attempt to send mail when
241 user's e-mail address is invalid or unconfirmed
242 * (bug 12370) Add throttle on password attempts. Defaults to max 5 attempts in
243 5 minutes.
244 * (bug 15016) 'Templates used on this page' list in view source should be
245 wrapped in a div with class "templatesUsed"
246 * (bug 14868) Setting $wgFeedDiffCutoff to 0 now disables generation of the
247 diff entirely, not just the display of it.
248 * (bug 6387) Introduced new setting $wgCategoryPrefixedDefaultSortkey which
249 allows having the unprefixed page title as the default category sortkey
250 * (bug 15079) Add class="ns-talk" / "ns-subject" to <body>. Also added
251 ns-special to special pages.
252 * (bug 15052) Skins should add their name as a class in <body>
253 * (bug 14165, bug 14294) Wikimedia specific configuration in convertGrammar()
254 for several languages was removed. The settings have been put in extension
255 WikimediaMessages. Patch for Czech by Danny B.
256 * (bug 15101) Displaying only bots edits in Special:Recentchanges now works
257 again
258 * (bug 13770) Fixed incorrect detection of PHP's DOM module
259 * (bug 14790) Export of category pages when using Category: prefix now actually
260 gives results
261 * Avoid recursive crazy expansions in section edit comments for pages which
262 contain '/*' in the title
263 * Fix excessive memory usage when parsing pages with lots of links
264 * $wgSpamRegex now matches the edit summary and page move descriptions in
265 addition to body text.
266 * Navigation links to images available from a shared repository (like Commons)
267 from their local talk pages no longer appear as redlinks
268 * Action=purge on ForeignApiFiles now works (purges their thumbnails and
269 description pages).
270 * (bug 15303) Title conversion for templates wasn't working in some cases.
271 * (bug 15264) Underscores in Special:Search/Foo_bar parameters were taken
272 literally; now converting them to spaces per expectation.
273 * (bug 15342) "Invert" checkbox now works correctly when selecting main
274 namespace in Special:Watchlist
275 * (bug 15172) 'Go' button of Special:Recentchanges now on the same line as the
276 last input element (like Special:Watchlist too)
277 * (bug 15351) Fix fatal error for invalid section fragments in autocomments
278 * Fixed intermittent deadlock errors involving objectcache table queries.
279 Use a separate database connection for the objectcache table to avoid
280 long-lasting locks on that table.
281 * Respect file restrictions in the file history list
282 * (bug 15399) Odd/even classes on sortable tables' rows could be slow for large
283 tables, and have been disabled by default.
284 * (bug 15482) Special:Recentchangeslinked has no longer two submit buttons
285 * (bug 15292) New message notification for unregistred users now works again
286 * (bug 14398) mwsuggest.js: Let width of container be configurable
287 * (bug 15543) Only include user touched timestamp to generated CSS
288 * (bug 15497) Removed encoding attribute from <?xml ?> tag
289 * (bug 12284) Special:Preferences now sets a returnto parameter on the link to
290 Special:UserLogin. Patch by Marooned.
291 * Fixed the HTTP accept language string detection length in
292 LanguageConverter.php, instead of the fixed length language codes.
293 * Special:RecentChangesLinked no longer shows outgoing links for nonexistent
294 pages even if there are broken link records with source article id 0 in the
295 database
296 * (bug 15598) Special:Newpages default limit uses user preference for
297 recentchanges limit instead of hardcoded 50.
298 * (bug 15617) $wgFeedClassesOutputPage::getHeadLinks() respects $wgFeedClasses,
299 instead of hardcoding rss and atom. Patch by Juliano F. Ravasi.
300 * (bug 14638) Special:Blockip now provides a link to the block log if the user
301 has been blocked more than 10 times. Patch by Matt Johnston.
302 * (bug 12678) Skins don't show Upload link if the user isn't allowed to upload.
303 * Fixed incorrect usage of DB_LAST in Special:Export. Deprecated DB_LAST.
304 * (bug 15642) Blocked sysops can no longer block other users
305 * Http::request() now respects $wgHTTPtimeout when not using cURL
306 * (bug 15158) Userinvalidcssjstitle not shown on preview
307 * (bug 15196) Free external links should be numbered in a localised manner
308 * (bug 15388) Title of Special:PrefixIndex
309 * Links with no title but a curid parameter now use the curid to pick a page
310 * (bug 10323) Special:Undelete should have "inverse selection" button
311 * (bug 15831) Modern skin RTL support is bugous
312 * (bug 15869) Nostalgia skin does not show page title in printable mode
313 * (bug 15795) Special:Userrights is now listed on Special:SpecialPages when the
314 user can only change his rights
315 * (bug 15846) Categories "leak" from older revisions in certain circumstances
316 * (bug 15928) Special pages dropdown should be inline in non-MonoBook skins
317 * (bug 14178) Some uses of UserLoadFromSession hook cause segfault
318 * (bug 15925) Postitive bytes added on recentchanges and watchlists are now
319 bolded if above the threshold, previously it only worked for negatives
320 * Specify apple-touch-icon before favicon in HTML head section to make the
321 Konqueror browser correctly use the latter
322 * (bug 15717) Set $separatorTransformTable for language 'eu'
323 * (bug 15605) Enabled $datePreferences for language 'hr'. Added standard date
324 preferences.
325 * (bug 13701) {{NUMBEROFVIEWS}} magic word to show number of total views.
326 * (bug 5101) Image from Commons doesn't show up when searched in Wikipedia
327 search box
328 * (bug 14609) User's namespaces to be searched default not updated after adding
329 new namespace
330 * Purge form uses valid XHTML
331 * (bug 12764) Special:LonelyPages shows transcluded pages
332 * (bug 16073) Enhanced RecentChanges uses onclick handler with better fallback
333 if JavaScript is disabled
334 * (bug 4253) Recentchanges IRC messages no longer include title in diff URLs
335 * Allow '0' to be an accesskey.
336 * (bug 8063) Use language-dependent sorting in client-side sortable tables
337 * (bug 16160) Suggestions box should be resized from left for RTL wikis
338 * (bug 11533) Fixed insane slowdown when in read-only mode for long periods
339 of time with CACHE_NONE (default objectcache table configuration).
340 * Trying to set two different default category sort keys for one page now
341 produces a warning
342 * (bug 16143) Fix redirect loop on special pages starting with lower case
343 letters
344 * (bug 15737) Fix notices while expanding using PPCustomFrame
345 * (bug 15544) Non-index entry points cause the "Wiki not set up" message to
346 have corrupt URLs
347 * (bug 5101) Image from Commons doesn't show up when searched in Wikipedia
348 search box
349 * (bug 4362) [[MediaWiki:History copyright]] no more used with most recent
350 revision when passing oldid parameter in the url
351 * (bug 16265) When caching thumbs with the ForeignApiRepo, we now use the same
352 filename as the remote site.
353 * (bug 8345) Don't autosummarize where a redirect was left unchanged
354 * Made thumb caching in ForeignApiFile objects integrated with normal thumb
355 path naming (/thumbs/hash/file), retired 'apiThumbCacheDir' as a result.
356 * (bug 5530) Consistency between character encoding in {{PAGENAMEE}},
357 {{SUBPAGENAMEE}} and {{FULLPAGENAMEE}}
358 * Safer handling of non-MediaWiki exceptions -- now obeys our settings for
359 formatting and path exposure.
360 * Less verbose errors from profileinfo.php when not configured
361 * Blacklist redirects via Special:Filepath, hard to use.
362 * Improved input validation on Special:Import form
363 * Add a .htaccess to deleted images directory for additional protection
364 against exposure of deleted files with known SHA-1 hashes on default
365 installations.
366 * Improved scripting safety heuristics for IE 5/6 content-type detection.
367 * Improved scripting safety heuristics on SVG uploads.
368 * (bug 11728) Unify layout of enhanced watchlist/recent changes
369 * (bug 8702) Properly update stats when running nukePage maintenance script
370 * (bug 7726) Searches for words less than 4 characters now work without
371 requiring customization of MySQL server settings
372 * Honour unchecked "Leave a redirect behind" for moved subpages
373 * (bug 16440) Broken 0-byte math renderings are now deleted and re-rendered
374 when page is re-parsed.
375 * (bug 6100) Unicode BiDi embedding/override characters (U+202A - U+202E) are
376 now automatically removed from titles; these characters can accidentally end
377 up in copy-and-pasted titles, and, by overriding normal bidirectional text
378 handling, can lead to annoying behavior such as text rendering backwards
379 * Fixed minor bug where the memcached value for how many accounts an IP had
380 created that day would be increased even if $wgAccountCreationThrottle was
381 hit. This meant if an IP hit the throttle and then the throttle was raised
382 later that day, the IP still couldn't create another account, because it
383 had marked them as having created another account, when their last account
384 creation had actually failed.
385 * (bug 12647) Allow autogenerated edit summary messages to be blanked with '-'
386 * (bug 16026) 'Revision-info' and 'revision-info-current' both accept wiki
387 markup now.
388 * (bug 16529) Fix for search suggestions with some third-party JS libraries
389 * (bug 13342) importScript() generates more consistent URI encoding
390 * (bug 16577) When a blocked user tries to rollback a page, the block message
391 is now only displayed once
392 * (bug 14268) SVG image sizes now extracted with proper XML parser
393 * (bug 14365) RepoGroup::findFiles() no longer crashes if passed an invalid
394 title via the API
395 * (bug 4253, bug 16586) Revision ID is now given instead of title in URLs for
396 new pages in the recent changes IRC feed
397
398 === API changes in 1.14 ===
399
400 * Registration time of users registered before the DB field was created is now
401 shown as empty instead of the current time.
402 * API search now falls back to fulltext search by default when using Lucene
403 or other engine which doesn't support a separate title search function.
404 This means you can use API search on Wikipedia without explicitly adding
405 &srwhat=text to the query.
406 * Added iiprop=bitdepth to imageinfo and aiprop=bitdepth to allimages
407 * (bug 14713) API-specific permissions (such as 'writeapi' and 'apihighlimits'
408 are now listed on action=help
409 * (bug 15044) Added requestid parameter to api.php to facilitate distinguishing
410 between requests
411 * (bug 15048) Added limit field for multivalue parameters to action=paraminfo
412 output.
413 * When the limit on multivalue parameters is exceeded, a warning is issued
414 * list=search doesn't list missing pages any more
415 * (bug 15178) Added clshow to prop=categories to allow filtering for hidden/
416 non-hidden categories
417 * (bug 15228) Combining revids= and redirects now throws a warning instead of
418 an error, and still resolves redirects generated by the generator.
419 * list={backlinks,embeddedin,imageusage} now return arrays with keys 0, 1, 2,
420 etc. (AKA lists) instead of arrays with pageIDs as keys (AKA hash tables)
421 for consistency with other list modules.
422 * Added action=watch
423 * (bug 15275) apprefix and related parameters ignore spaces at the end
424 * action=edit no longer throws unknown error 228 when trying to create an
425 empty section with section=new
426 * Database replication lag doesn't cause all action=edit requests to return the
427 nochange flag any more
428 * (bug 15392) ApiFormatBase::formatHTML now uses $wgUrlProtocols.
429 * (bug 15444) action=edit returns "Unknown error: ``AS_END''" where it should
430 return just "Unknown error"
431 * (bug 15448) YAML output returns empty values instead of 0
432 * (bug 15445) Added action=patrol
433 * (bug 15466) Added action=purge
434 * (bug 15486) action=block ignores autoblock parameter
435 * (bug 15492) added rcprop=loginfo to list=recentchanges
436 * (bug 15527) action=rollback can now revert anonymous editors
437 * (bug 15535) prop=info&inprop=protection doesn't list pre-1.10 protections
438 if the page is also protected otherwise (1.10+ style or cascading)
439 * list=random now has rnredirect parameter, to get random redirects.
440 * Added APIAfterExecute, APIQueryAfterExecute and APIQueryGeneratorAfterExecute
441 hooks which allow for extending core modules in a cleaner way
442 * action=protect checks for invalid protection types and levels
443 * (bug 15673) Added indentation to format=wddxfm output and improved built-in
444 WDDX formatter to resemble PHP's more
445 * (bug 15706) Empty values for apprtype and apprlevel are now silently ignored
446 rather than causing an exception
447 * Added uiprop=preferencestoken to meta=userinfo
448 * (bug 15609) Add inprop=url and inprop=readable to prop=info
449 * Add ApiDisabled and ApiQueryDisabled classes so individual modules can
450 be disabled in LocalSettings.php
451 * (bug 15653) Add prop=duplicatefiles
452 * (bug 15768) Add list=watchlistraw
453 * (bug 15647) action=edit with basetimestamp fails if the page has been deleted
454 and undeleted since the last edit
455 * (bug 15785) Allow for different expiry times for different protections in
456 action=protect
457 * Added allowsduplicates attribute to action=paraminfo output
458 * (bug 15767) apfilterlanglinks returns duplicate results
459 * (bug 15845) Added pageid/fromid parameter to action=delete/move, making
460 manipulation of legacy pages with invalid titles possible
461 * (bug 15881) Empty or invalid parameters cause database errors
462 * The maxage and smaxage parameters are now properly validated
463 * (bug 15945) list=recentchanges doesn't check $wgUseRCPatrol, $wgUseNPPatrol
464 and patrolmarks right
465 * (bug 15985) acfrom and aifrom parameters didn't work when sorting in
466 descending order.
467 * (bug 15995) Add cmstartsortkey and cmendsortkey parameters to
468 list=categorymembers
469 * (bug 16017) list=categorymembers sets invalid continue parameters for
470 sortkeys containing pipes
471 * (bug 16018) Added uccontinue parameter to list=usercontribs so paging
472 works properly when multiple users are queried or a userprefix is used
473 * (bug 16047) Added activeusers attribute to meta=siteinfo&siprop=statistics
474 output
475 * Added redirect resolution to action=parse
476 * (bug 16074) rvprop=content combined with a generator with a high limit causes
477 an error
478 * (bug 16105) Image metadata attributes containing spaces result in invalid XML
479 * (bug 16126) Added siprop=magicwords to meta=siteinfo
480 * (bug 16159) Added wlshow=patrolled|!patrolled to list=watchlist
481 * (bug 16225) Titles like Talk:Talk:Foo broke apfrom and friends
482 * meta=siteinfo&siprop=interwikimap no longer throws an exception for empty
483 sifilter parameter.
484 * (bug 12760) meta=userinfo&uiprop=ratelimits doesn't list group-specific rate
485 limits
486 * (bug 16398) meta=userinfo&uiprop=rights lists some rights twice in some cases
487 * (bug 16408) Added rvgeneratexml to prop=revisions
488 * (bug 16421) Made list=logevents's leuser accept user names with underscores
489 instead of spaces
490 * (bug 16516) Made rvsection=T-2 work
491 * (bug 16526) Added usprop=emailable to list=users
492 * (bug 16548) list=search threw errors with an invalid error code
493 * (bug 16515) Added pst and onlypst parameters to action=parse
494 * (bug 16541) Added block expiry timestamp to list=logevents output
495 * (bug 16613) action=protect doesn't tell when &cascade was set but cascading
496 protection wasn't allowed
497
498 === Languages updated in 1.14 ===
499
500 MediaWiki supports over 300 languages. Many localisations are updated
501 regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed.
502
503 * Bakhtiari (bqi) (new)
504 * Fiji Hindi (Devanagari script) (hif-deva) (new)
505 * Krio (kri) (new)
506 * Lezghian (lez) (new)
507 * Laz (lzz) (new)
508 * Eastern Mari (mhr) (new)
509 * Niuean (niu) (new)
510 * Oromo (om) (new)
511 * Plautdietsch (pdt) (new)
512 * Western Punjabi (pnb) (new)
513 * Tarantino (roa-tara) (new)
514 * Serbo-Croatian (sh) (new)
515 * Tulu (tcy) (new)
516
517 == Compatibility ==
518
519 MediaWiki 1.14 requires PHP 5 (5.2 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer supported.
520
521 PHP 5.0.x fails on 64-bit systems due to serious bugs with array processing:
522 http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=34879
523 Upgrade affected systems to PHP 5.1 or higher.
524
525 MySQL 3.23.x is no longer supported; some older hosts may need to upgrade.
526 At this time we still recommend 4.0, but 4.1/5.0 will work fine in most cases.
527
528
529 == Upgrading ==
530
531 1.14 has several database changes since 1.13, and will not work without schema
532 updates.
533
534 If upgrading from before 1.11, and you are using a wiki as a commons reposito-
535 ry, make sure that it is updated as well. Otherwise, errors may arise due to
536 database schema changes.
537
538 If upgrading from before 1.7, you may want to run refreshLinks.php to ensure
539 new database fields are filled with data.
540
541 If you are upgrading from MediaWiki 1.4.x or earlier, some major database
542 changes are made, and there is a slightly higher chance that things could
543 break. Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading!
544
545 See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions.
546
547
548 === Caveats ===
549
550 Some output, particularly involving user-supplied inline HTML, may not
551 produce 100% valid or well-formed XHTML output. Testers are welcome to
552 set $wgMimeType = "application/xhtml+xml"; to test for remaining problem
553 cases, but this is not recommended on live sites. (This must be set for
554 MathML to display properly in Mozilla.)
555
556 For notes on 1.13.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
557
558
559 === Online documentation ===
560
561 Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is currently being
562 built up on MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation
563 License (except for pages that explicitly state that their contents are in
564 the public domain) :
565
566 http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation
567
568
569 === Mailing list ===
570
571 A MediaWiki-l mailing list has been set up distinct from the Wikipedia
572 wikitech-l list:
573
574 http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
575
576 A low-traffic announcements-only list is also available:
577
578 http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
579
580 It's highly recommended that you sign up for one of these lists if you're
581 going to run a public MediaWiki, so you can be notified of security fixes.
582
583
584 === IRC help ===
585
586 There's usually someone online in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net