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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 1.15 ==
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 1.15 ===
22
23 * Added $wgNewPasswordExpiry, to specify an expiry time (in seconds) to
24 temporary passwords
25 * Added $wgUseTwoButtonsSearchForm to choose the Search form behavior/look
26 * Added $wgNoFollowDomainExceptions to allow exempting particular domain names
27 from rel="nofollow" on external links
28
29 === New features in 1.15 ===
30
31 * (bug 2242) Add an expiry time to temporary passwords
32 * (bug 9947) Add PROTECTIONLEVEL parser function to return the protection level
33 for the current page for a given action
34 * (bug 17002) Add &minor= and &summary= as parameters in the url when editing,
35 to automatically add a summary or a minor edit.
36 * (bug 16852) padleft and padright now accept multiletter pad characters
37 * When using 'UserCreateForm' hook to add new checkboxes into
38 Special:UserLogin/signup, the messages can now contain HTML to allow
39 hyperlinking to the site's Terms of Service page, for example
40 * Add new hook 'UserLoadFromDatabase' that is called while loading a user
41 from the database.
42 * (bug 17045) Options on the block form are prefilled with the options of the
43 existing block when modifying an existing block.
44 * (bug 17055) "(show/hide)" links to Special:RevisionDelete now use a CSS class
45 rather than hardcoded HTML tags
46 * Added new hook 'WantedPages::getSQL' into SpecialWantedpages.php to allow
47 extensions to alter the SQL query which is used to get the list of wanted
48 pages
49 * (bugs 16957/16969) Add show/hide to preferences for RC patrol options on
50 specialpages
51 * (bug 11443) Auto-noindex user/user talk pages for blocked user
52 * (bug 11644) Add $wgMaxRedirects variable to control how many redirects are
53 recursed through until the "destination" page is reached.
54 * Add $wgInvalidRedirectTargets variable to prevent redirects to certain
55 special pages.
56 * Use HTML5 rel attributes for some links, where appropriate
57 * Added optional alternative Search form look - Go button & Advanced search
58 link instead of Go button & Search button
59 * (bug 2314) Add links to user custom CSS and JS to Special:Preferences
60 * More helpful error message on raw page access if PHP_SELF isn't set
61 * (bug 13040) Gender switch in user preferences
62 * (bug 13040) {{GENDER:}} magic word for interface messages
63 * (bug 3301) Optionally sort user list according to account creation time
64 * Remote description pages for foreign file repos are now fetched in the
65 content language.
66 * (bug 17180) If $wgUseFileCache is enabled, $wgShowIPinHeader is automatically
67 set to false.
68 * (bug 16604) Mark non-patrolled edits in feeds with "!"
69 * (bug 16604) Show title/rev in IRC for patrol log
70 * (bug 16854) Whether a page is being parsed as a preview or section preview
71 can now be determined and set with ParserOptions.
72 * Wrap message 'confirmemail_pending' into a div with CSS classes "error" and
73 "mw-confirmemail-pending"
74 * Local redirects to foreign images are now displayed on the ImagePage when
75 viewing on the local wiki.
76 * (bug 8249) The magic words for namespaces and pagenames can now be used as
77 parser functions to return the desired namespace or normalized title/title
78 part for a given title.
79 * (bug 17110) Styled #mw-data-after-content in cologneblue.css to match the
80 rest of the font
81 * (bug 7556) Time zone names in signatures lack i18n
82 * (bug 3311) Automatic category redirects
83 * (bug 17236) Suppress 'watch user page link' for IP range blocks
84 * Wrap message 'searchresulttext' (Special:Search) into a div with
85 class "mw-searchresult"
86 * (bug 15283) Interwiki imports can now fetch included templates
87 * Treat svn:// URLs as external links by default
88 * New function to convert namespace text for display (only applies on wiki with
89 LanguageConverter class)
90 * (bug 17379) Contributions-title is now parsed for magic words.
91 * Preprocessor output now cached in memcached.
92 * (bug 14468) Lines in classic RecentChanges and Watchlist have classes
93 "mw-line-odd" and "mw-line-even" to make styling using css possible.
94 * (bug 17311) Add a note beside the gender selection menu to tell users that
95 this information will be public
96 * Localize time zone regions in Special:Preferences
97 * Add NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS magic word, which is like NUMBEROFUSERS, but uses
98 the active users data from site_stats.
99 * Add a <link rel="canonical"> tag on redirected page views
100 * Replace hardcoded '...' as indication of a truncation with the
101 'ellipsis' message
102 * Wrap warning message 'editinginterface' into a div with class
103 'mw-editinginterface'
104 * (bug 17497) Oasis opendocument added to mime.types
105 * Remove the link to Special:FileDuplicateSearch from the "file history" section
106 of image description pages as the list of duplicated files is shown in the
107 next section anyway.
108 * Added $wgRateLimitsExcludedIPs, to allow specific IPs to be whitelisted from
109 rate limits.
110 * (bug 14981) Shared repositories can now have display names, located at
111 Mediawiki:Shared-repo-name-REPONAME, where REPONAME is the name in
112 $wgForeignFileRepos
113
114 === Bug fixes in 1.15 ===
115 * (bug 16968) Special:Upload no longer throws useless warnings.
116 * (bug 17000) Special:RevisionDelete now checks if the database is locked
117 before trying to delete the edit.
118 * (bug 16852) padleft and padright now handle multibyte characters correctly
119 * (bug 17010) maintenance/namespaceDupes.php now add the suffix recursively if
120 the destination page exists
121 * (bug 17035) Special:Upload now fails gracefully if PHP's file_uploads has
122 been disabled
123 * Fixing the caching issue by using -{T|xxx}- syntax (only applies on wiki with
124 LanguageConverter class)
125 * Improving the efficiency by using -{A|xxx}- syntax (only applies on wiki with
126 LanguageConverter class)
127 * (bug 17054) Added more descriptive errors in Special:RevisionDelete
128 * (bug 11527) Diff on page with one revision shows "Next" link to same diff
129 * (bug 8065) Fix summary forcing for new pages
130 * (bug 10569) redirects to Special:Mypage and Special:Mytalk are no longer
131 allowed by default. Change $wgInvalidRedirectTargets to re-enable.
132 * (bug 3043) Feed links of given page are now preceded by standard feed icon
133 * (bug 17150) escapeLike now escapes literal \ properly
134 * Inconsistent use of sysop, admin, administrator in system messages changed
135 to 'administrator'
136 * (bug 14423) Check block flag validity for block logging
137 * DB transaction and slave-lag avoidance tweaks for Email Notifications
138 * (bug 17104) Removed [Mark as patrolled] link for already patrolled revisions
139 * (bug 17106) Added 'redirect=no' and 'mw-redirect' class to redirects at
140 "user contributions"
141 * Rollback links on new pages removed from "user contributions"
142 * (bug 15811) Re-upload form tweaks: license fields removed, destination locked,
143 comment label uses better message
144 * Whole HTML validation ($wgValidateAllHtml) now works with external tidy
145 * Parser tests no longer fail when $wgExternalLinkTarget is set in
146 LocalSettings
147 * (bug 15391) catch DBQueryErrors on external storage insertion. This avoids
148 error messages on save were the edit in fact is saved.
149 * (bug 17184) Remove duplicate "z" accesskey in MonoBook
150 * Parser tests no longer fail when $wgAlwaysUseTidy is set in LocalSettings.php
151 * Removed redundant dupe warnings on reupload for the same title. Dupe warnings
152 for identical files at different titles are still given.
153 * Add 'change tagging' facility, where changes can be tagged internally with
154 certain designations, which are displayed on various summaries of changes,
155 and the entries can be styled with CSS.
156 * (bug 17207) Fix regression breaking category page display on PHP 5.1
157 * Categoryfinder utility class no longer fails on invalid input or gives wrong
158 results for category names that include pseudo-namespaces
159 * (bug 17252) Galician numbering format
160 * (bug 17146) Fix for UTF-8 and short word search for some possible MySQL
161 configs
162 * (bug 7480) Internationalize database error message
163 * (bug 16555) Number of links to mediawiki.org scaled back on post-installation
164 * (bug 14938) Removing a section no longer leaves excess whitespace
165 * (bug 17304) Fixed fatal error when thumbnails couldn't be generated for file
166 history
167 * (bug 17283) Remove double URL escaping in show/hide links for log entries
168 and RevisionDeleteForm::__construct
169 * (bug 17105) Numeric table sorting broken
170 * (bug 17231) Transcluding special pages on wikis using language conversion no
171 longer affects the page title
172 * (bug 6702) Default system messages updated/improved
173 * (bug 17190) User ID on preference page no longer has delimeters
174 * (bug 17341) "Powered by MediaWiki" should be on the left on RTL wikis
175 * (bug 17404) "userrights-interwiki" right was missing in User::$mCoreRights
176 * (bug 7509) Separation strings should be configurable
177 * (bug 17420) Send the correct content type from action=raw when the HTML file
178 cache is enabled.
179 * (bug 12746) Do not allow new password e-mails when wiki is in read-only mode
180 * (bug 17478) Fixed a PHP Strict standards error in
181 maintenance/cleanupWatchlist.php
182 * (bug 17488) RSS/Atom links in left toolbar are now localized in classic skin
183 * (bug 17472) use print <<<EOF in maintenance/importTextFile.php
184 * Special:PrefixIndex: Move table styling to shared.css, add CSS IDs to tables
185 use correct message 'allpagesprefix' for input form label, replace _ with ' '
186 in next page link
187 * (bug 17506) Exceptions within exceptions now respect $wgShowExceptionDetails
188 * Fixed excessive job queue utilisation
189 * File dupe messages for remote repos are now shown only once.
190 * (bug 14980) Messages 'shareduploadwiki' and 'shareduploadwiki-desc' are now
191 used as a parameter in 'sharedupload' for easier styling and customization.
192 * (bug 17482) Formatting error in Special:Preferences#Misc (Opera)
193
194 == API changes in 1.15 ==
195 * (bug 16858) Revamped list=deletedrevs to make listing deleted contributions
196 and listing all deleted pages possible
197 * (bug 16844) Added clcategories parameter to prop=categories
198 * (bug 17025) Add "fileextension" parameter to meta=siteinfo&siprop=
199 * (bug 17048) Show the 'new' flag in list=usercontribs for the revision that
200 created the page, even if it's not the top revision
201 * (bug 17069) Added ucshow=patrolled|!patrolled to list=usercontribs
202 * action=delete respects $wgDeleteRevisionsLimit and the bigdelete user right
203 * (bug 15949) Add undo functionality to action=edit
204 * (bug 16483) Kill filesort in ApiQueryBacklinks caused by missing parentheses.
205 Building query properly now using makeList()
206 * (bug 17182) Fix pretty printer so URLs with parentheses in them are
207 autolinked correctly
208 * (bug 17224) Added siprop=rightsinfo to meta=siteinfo
209 * (bug 17239) Added prop=displaytitle to action=parse
210 * (bug 17317) Added watch parameter to action=protect
211 * (bug 17007) Added export and exportnowrap parameters to action=query
212 * (bug 17326) BREAKING CHANGE: Changed output format for iiprop=metadata
213 * (bug 17355) Added auwitheditsonly parameter to list=allusers
214 * (bug 17007) Added action=import
215 * BREAKING CHANGE: Removed rctitles parameter from list=recentchanges because
216 of performance concerns
217 * Listing (semi-)deleted revisions and log entries as well in prop=revisions
218 and list=logevents
219 * (bug 11430) BREAKING CHANGE: Modules may return fewer results than the
220 limit and still set a query-continue in some cases
221 * (bug 17357) Added movesubpages parameter to action=move
222 * (bug 17433) Added bot flag to list=watchlist&wlprop=flags output
223 * (bug 16740) Added list=protectedtitles
224 * Added mainmodule and pagesetmodule parameters to action=paraminfo
225 * (bug 17502) meta=siteinfo&siprop=namespacealiases no longer lists namespace
226 aliases already listed in siprop=namespaces
227 * (bug 17529) rvend ignored when rvstartid is specified
228
229 === Languages updated in 1.15 ===
230
231 MediaWiki supports over 300 languages. Many localisations are updated
232 regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
233 changes to languages because of MediaZilla reports.
234
235 * Austrian German (de-at) (new)
236 * Swiss Standard German (de-ch) (new)
237 * Literary Chinese (lzh) (new)
238 * Uyghur (Latin script) (ug-latn) (renamed from 'ug')
239 * Võro (vro) (renamed from fiu-vro)
240 * (bug 17151) Add magic word alias for #redirect for Vietnamese
241 * (bug 17288) Messages improved for default language (English)
242 * (bug 12937) Update native name for Afar
243 * (bug 16909) 'histlegend' now reuses messages instead of copying them
244
245 == Compatibility ==
246
247 MediaWiki 1.15 requires PHP 5 (5.2 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer supported.
248
249 PHP 5.0.x fails on 64-bit systems due to serious bugs with array processing:
250 http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=34879
251 Upgrade affected systems to PHP 5.1 or higher.
252
253 MySQL 3.23.x is no longer supported; some older hosts may need to upgrade.
254 At this time we still recommend 4.0, but 4.1/5.0 will work fine in most cases.
255
256
257 == Upgrading ==
258
259 1.15 has several database changes since 1.14, and will not work without schema
260 updates.
261
262 If upgrading from before 1.11, and you are using a wiki as a commons reposito-
263 ry, make sure that it is updated as well. Otherwise, errors may arise due to
264 database schema changes.
265
266 If upgrading from before 1.7, you may want to run refreshLinks.php to ensure
267 new database fields are filled with data.
268
269 If you are upgrading from MediaWiki 1.4.x or earlier, some major database
270 changes are made, and there is a slightly higher chance that things could
271 break. Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading!
272
273 See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions.
274
275
276 === Caveats ===
277
278 Some output, particularly involving user-supplied inline HTML, may not
279 produce 100% valid or well-formed XHTML output. Testers are welcome to
280 set $wgMimeType = "application/xhtml+xml"; to test for remaining problem
281 cases, but this is not recommended on live sites. (This must be set for
282 MathML to display properly in Mozilla.)
283
284 For notes on 1.14.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
285
286
287 === Online documentation ===
288
289 Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is currently being
290 built up on MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation
291 License (except for pages that explicitly state that their contents are in
292 the public domain) :
293
294 http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation
295
296
297 === Mailing list ===
298
299 A MediaWiki-l mailing list has been set up distinct from the Wikipedia
300 wikitech-l list:
301
302 http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
303
304 A low-traffic announcements-only list is also available:
305
306 http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
307
308 It's highly recommended that you sign up for one of these lists if you're
309 going to run a public MediaWiki, so you can be notified of security fixes.
310
311
312 === IRC help ===
313
314 There's usually someone online in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net