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
  29 === New features in 1.14 ===
  30
  31 * (bug 8068) New __INDEX__ and __NOINDEX__ magic words allow user control of
  32   search engine indexing on a per-article basis.
  33 * Handheld stylesheet options
  34 * Added 'DoEditSectionLink' hook as a cleaner unified version of the old
  35   'EditSectionLink' and 'EditSectionLinkForOther' hooks.  Note that the
  36   'EditSectionLinkForOther' hook has been removed, but 'EditSectionLink' is
  37   run in all cases instead, so extensions using the old hooks should still work
  38   if they ran roughly the same code for both hooks (as is almost certain).
  39 * Signature (~~~~) "cleaning", i.e. template removal, can be disabled with
  40   $wgCleanSignatures=false
  41 * Extensions can use the SkinBuildSidebar hook to modify the content of the
  42   sidebar and add custom portlets to it
  43 * Added 'MakeGlobalVariablesScript' hook for extensions to be able to add vari-
  44   ables into into the output of Skin::makeVariablesScript
  45 * (bug 13846) Added $wgAddGroups and $wgRemoveGroups display on
  46   Special:ListGroupRights
  47 * (bug 14377) Add a date selector to history pages
  48 * (bug 15007) New 'pagetitle-view-mainpage' message allows the HTML <title> of
  49   the main page to be customized
  50 * Added $wgDisableTitleConversion to disabling the conversion for all pages on
  51   the wiki
  52 * Added 'noconvertlink' toogle that can be set per user preferences, also
  53   added 'convertlink=no|yes' on GET requests whether have the link titles
  54   being converted or not
  55 * (bug 14921) Special:Contributions/: add user name to <title>
  56   Patch by Emufarmers
  57
  58 === Bug fixes in 1.14 ===
  59
  60 * (bug 14907) DatabasePostgres::fieldType now defined.
  61 * (bug 14659) Passing the default limit param to Special:Recentchanges no more
  62   falls back to the user option
  63 * (bug 14954) Fix regression in Modern and Simple skins
  64 * Recursion loop check added to Categoryfinder class
  65 * Fixed few performance troubles of large job queue processing
  66 * Not setting various parameters in Foreign Repos now fails more gracefully
  67 * (bug 2333) Redirects are properly rendered when previewing an edit.
  68 * (bug 14972) Use localized alias of Special:Search on all search forms
  69 * (bug 11035) Special:Search should have descriptive <title>
  70 * Special pages are now not subject to special handling for "self-links"
  71 * (bug 15053) Syntactically incorrect redirects with another link in them
  72   no longer redirect to the second link
  73 * (bug 15049) Fix for CheckUser extension's log search: usernames containing
  74   a "-" were incorrectly turned into bogus IP range searches.
  75   Patch by Max Semenik.
  76 * (bug 15055) Talk page notifications no longer attempt to send mail when
  77   user's e-mail address is invalid or unconfirmed
  78
  79 === API changes in 1.14 ===
  80
  81 * Registration time of users registered before the DB field was created is now
  82   shown as empty instead of the current time.
  83 * API search now falls back to fulltext search by default when using Lucene
  84   or other engine which doesn't support a separate title search function.
  85   This means you can use API search on Wikipedia without explicitly adding
  86   &srwhat=text to the query.
  87 * Added iiprop=bitdepth to imageinfo and aiprop=bitdepth to allimages
  88 * (bug 14713) API-specific permissions (such as 'writeapi' and 'apihighlimits'
  89   are now listed on action=help
  90 * (bug 15044) Added requestid parameter to api.php to facilitate distinguishing
  91   between requests
  92 * (bug 15048) Added limit field for multivalue parameters to action=paraminfo
  93   output.
  94 * When the limit on multivalue parameters is exceeded, a warning is issued
  95
  96 === Languages updated in 1.14 ===
  97
  98 MediaWiki supports over 300 languages. Many localisations are updated
  99 regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed.
 100
 101 (no changes yet)
 102
 103 == Compatibility ==
 104
 105 MediaWiki 1.14 requires PHP 5 (5.1 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer supported.
 106
 107 PHP 5.0.x fails on 64-bit systems due to serious bugs with array processing:
 108 http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=34879
 109 Upgrade affected systems to PHP 5.1 or higher.
 110
 111 MySQL 3.23.x is no longer supported; some older hosts may need to upgrade.
 112 At this time we still recommend 4.0, but 4.1/5.0 will work fine in most cases.
 113
 114
 115 == Upgrading ==
 116
 117 If upgrading from before 1.11, and you are using a wiki as a commons repository,
 118 make sure that it is updated as well. Otherwise, errors may arise due to
 119 database schema changes.
 120
 121 If upgrading from before 1.7, you may want to run refreshLinks.php to ensure
 122 new database fields are filled with data.
 123
 124 If you are upgrading from MediaWiki 1.4.x or earlier, some major database
 125 changes are made, and there is a slightly higher chance that things could
 126 break. Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading!
 127
 128 See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions.
 129
 130
 131 === Caveats ===
 132
 133 Some output, particularly involving user-supplied inline HTML, may not
 134 produce 100% valid or well-formed XHTML output. Testers are welcome to
 135 set $wgMimeType = "application/xhtml+xml"; to test for remaining problem
 136 cases, but this is not recommended on live sites. (This must be set for
 137 MathML to display properly in Mozilla.)
 138
 139 For notes on 1.13.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
 140
 141
 142 === Online documentation ===
 143
 144 Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is currently being
 145 built up on MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation
 146 License (except for pages that explicitly state that their contents are in
 147 the public domain) :
 148
 149   http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation
 150
 151
 152 === Mailing list ===
 153
 154 A MediaWiki-l mailing list has been set up distinct from the Wikipedia
 155 wikitech-l list:
 156
 157   http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
 158
 159 A low-traffic announcements-only list is also available:
 160
 161   http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
 162
 163 It's highly recommended that you sign up for one of these lists if you're
 164 going to run a public MediaWiki, so you can be notified of security fixes.
 165
 166
 167 === IRC help ===
 168
 169 There's usually someone online in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net