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 1.13 ==
   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 1.13 ===
  22
  23 * New option $wgFeed can be set false to turn off syndication feeds
  24 * (bug 5745) Special:Whatlinkshere now shows up to $wgMaxRedirectLinksRetrieved
  25   links through each redirect instead of hardcoded 500
  26 * Set $wgUploadSizeWarning to false by default
  27 * Added $wgLBFactoryConf, for generic configuration of multi-master wiki farms
  28 * Removed $wgAlternateMaster, use $wgLBFactoryConf
  29 * (bug 13562) Misspelled option $wgUserNotifedOnAllChanges changed to
  30   $wgUserNotifiedOnAllChanges
  31 * (bug 12860) New option $wgSitemapNamespaces allows sitemaps to be generated
  32   for only some namespaces
  33
  34 === New features in 1.13 ===
  35
  36 * __HIDDENCAT__ on a category page causes the category to be hidden on the
  37   article page.
  38 * Don't show edit permissions errors on a red link click, just redirect to the
  39   article. This is so that readers who don't know what a red link is aren't
  40   confused when they are told they are range-blocked.
  41 * Add a new hook ImageBeforeProduceHTML to allow extensions to modify wikitext
  42   image syntax output.
  43 * (bug 13100) Added 'preloadtitle' parameter to action=edit&section=new that
  44   pre-fills the section title field.
  45 * (bug 13112) Added Special:RelatedChanges alias to Special:Recentchangeslinked
  46 * (bug 13130) Moved edit token and autosummary fields above edit tools to
  47   reduce broken form submissions
  48 * Add --old-redirects-only option to maintenance/refreshLinks.php, to add old
  49   redirects to the redirect table
  50 * Add links to page and file deletion forms to edit predefined delete reasons
  51 * (bug 13269) Added MediaWiki:Uploadfooter to the bottom of Special:Upload
  52 * (bug 2815) Search results for media now use thumb instead of text extract
  53 * When a page doesn't exist, the tab should say "create", not "edit"
  54 * (bug 12882) Added a span with class "patrollink" arround "Mark as patrolled"
  55   link on diffs
  56 * Magic word formatnum can now take raw suffix to undo formatting
  57 * Add updatelog table to reliably permit updates that don't change the schema
  58 * Add category table to allow better tracking of category membership counts
  59 ** (bug 1212) Give correct membership counts on the pages of large categories
  60 ** Use category table for more efficient display of Special:Categories
  61 * (bug 1459) Search for duplicate files by hash: Special:FileDuplicateSearch
  62 * (bug 9447) Added hooks for search result headings
  63 * Image redirects are now enabled
  64 * (bug 13450) Email confirmation can now be canceled before the expiration
  65 * (bug 13490) Show upload/file size limit on upload form
  66 * Redesign of Special:Userrights
  67 * Make rev_deleted log entries more intelligible.
  68 * (bug 6943) Added PAGESINCATEGORY: magic word
  69 * (bug 13604) Added Special:ListGroupRights
  70 * Added message 'mainpage-description' as duplicate of 'mainpage' and added it
  71   to message 'sidebar'
  72 ** (bug 6332) Lacking entry Mainpage-url
  73 ** (bug 8617) Separate main page url and name
  74 * Automatically add old redirects to the redirect table when needed
  75 * (bug 6934) Allow separated inclusions, links, redirects on whatlinkshere
  76 * Cache image redirects
  77 * (bug 10457) Reorganize Special:Specialpages
  78 * Add a new hook EditPageBeforeConflictDiff to allow extensions like FCKeditor
  79   to modify the output for edit conflicts.
  80 * Add class="nested" for <fieldset>s so fieldsets inside fieldsets get
  81   a slightly less huge margin and padding.
  82 * (bug 13527) Use sitemaps.org format 0.9 instead of a Google-specific format
  83 * Allow \C and \Q as TeX commands to match \R, \N, \Z
  84
  85 === Bug fixes in 1.13 ===
  86
  87 * (bug 10677) Add link to the file description page on the shared repository
  88 * (bug 13084) Increase size of source/destination filename fields in upload form
  89 * (bug 13115) rebuildrecentchanges should print the current value of $wgRCMaxAge
  90 * (bug 13140) Show parent categories in category namespace
  91 * (bug 13149) Correctly format 'fileexists' message on Upload page
  92 * Make the default filepageexists message accurate
  93 * (bug 12988) $wgMinimalPasswordLength no longer breaks create user by email
  94 * (bug 13022) Fix upload from URL on PHP 5.0.x
  95 * (bug 13132) Unable to unprotect pages protected with earlier versions of MediaWiki
  96 * (bug 12723) OpenSearch description name now uses more compact language code
  97   to avoid passing the length limit as often, is customizable per site via
  98   'opensearch-desc' message.
  99 * (bug 13135) Special:Userrights now passes IDs through form submission
 100   to allow functionality on not-quite-right usernames
 101 * (bug 12575) Prevent duplicate patrol log entries from being created
 102 * (bug 13174) __HIDDENCAT__ now applies only to category pages
 103 * (bug 13031) Add links to user pages in e-mail form
 104 * (bug 13147) Description for categoriespagetext (used in Special:Categories) reworded
 105 * (bug 11561) Fix fatal error when calling action=revert to non-image page
 106 * (bug 12430) Fix call to private method LinkFilter::makeRegex fatal error in
 107   maintenance/cleanupSpam.php
 108 * All skins should have the "mediawiki" class on the body element
 109 * (bug 13019) Message cache for some extensions not loaded at time of editing
 110 * (bug 13247) Prettified ISBN links
 111 * maintenance/refreshLinks.php did not fix page_id 1 with the --new-only option
 112 * (bug 13110) Don't show "Permission error" page if the edit is already rolled
 113   back when using rollback
 114 * (bug 13012) Use content messages for block options when generating the
 115   recentchanges entry
 116 * (bug 13274) Change links for messages to ucfirst
 117 * (bug 13273) Un-hardcode some punctuation (add new messages colon-separator,
 118   autocomment-prefix)
 119 * Parse MediaWiki message translations with a correct language setting on preview
 120 * (bug 13281) Treat X-Forwarded-For, Client-ip and User-Agent headers as
 121   case-insensitive names.
 122 * Adding the fix for lists in RTL wikis to more skins, and fixing the image toc
 123 * (bug 8157) Remove redirects from Special:Unusedtemplates. Patch by WebBoy.
 124 * (bug 10721) Duplicate section anchors with differing case now disambiguated
 125   for Internet Explorer's sake and standards compliance
 126 * (bug 13298) Tighter limits on Special:Newpages limits when embedding
 127 * Email subject in content language instead of sending user's UI language
 128 * (bug 13251) Allow maintenance rebuild scripts to work with Postgres
 129 * (bug 2084) Fixed incorrect regex to match redirects
 130 * (bug 3131) Manually-specified upload destination filename is no longer
 131   overwritten by browsing for a file after you wrote it.
 132 * (bug 7251) Sidebars generated by MediaWiki:Sidebar now have the class
 133   'generated-sidebar'.
 134 * (bug 13265) Media handler is missing 'image/x-bmp'
 135 * (bug 13407) MediaWiki:Powersearch is used in two places
 136 * (bug 13403) Fix cache invalidation of history pages when old revisions change
 137 * (bug 11563) Deprecated SearchMySQL4 class; merged code to SearchMySQL
 138 * (bug 12801) Fix link in subtitle message in AJAX search
 139 * (bug 13428) Fix regression in protection form layout HTML validity
 140 * (bug 9403) Sanitize newlines from search term input
 141 * (bug 13429) Separate date and time in message sp-newimages-showfrom
 142 * (bug 13137) Allow setting 'editprotected' right separately from 'protect',
 143   so groups may optionally edit protected pages without having 'protect' perms
 144 * Disallow deletion of big pages by means of moving a page to its title and
 145   using the "delete and move" option.
 146 * (bug 13466, 13632) White space differences not shown in diffs
 147 * (bug 1953) Search form now honors namespace selections more reliably
 148 * (bug 12294) Namespace class renamed to MWNamespace for PHP 5.3 compatibility
 149 * PHP 5.3 compatibility fix for wfRunHooks() called with no parameters
 150 * (bug 6447) Trackbacks now work with transactional tables, if enabled
 151 * (bug 6892, 7147) Trackback error handling, optional fields more robust
 152 * (bug 6813) Don't break HTML validator when using trackbacks
 153 * Fix for size checks on SVG images with global 'stroke-width' attribute
 154 * (bug 11874) Inline CSS with !important no longer borken
 155 * (bug 1600) Strip extra == section markup == in new-comment field
 156 * (bug 11325) Wrapped page titles in MonoBook skin spaced more nicely
 157 * (bug 12077) Fix HTML nesting for TOC
 158 * (bug 344) Purge cache for talk/article pages when deleting the other tab
 159 * (bug 13436) Treat image captions correctly when they include option keywords
 160   (like ending with "px" or starting with "upright")
 161 * Trackback display formatting fixed
 162 * Don't die when single-element arrays are passed to SQL query constructors
 163   that have an array index other than 0
 164 * (bug 13522) Fix fatal error in Parser::extractTagsAndParams
 165 * (bug 13532) Use proper timestamp call when reverting images
 166 * (bug 13543) Updated FAQ link in the installer sidebar
 167 * (bug 13540) Date format in confirmation e-mail now matches message language
 168 * (bug 13554) PHP Notice in old pre-processor when list item is empty.
 169 * (bug 13556) Don't show a blank form if no image is attached in Special:Upload
 170 * (bug 13576) maintenance/rebuildrecentchanges.php fails
 171 * (bug 13441) Allow Special:Recentchanges to show bots only
 172 * (bug 13431) Show true message source in Special:Allmessages&ot=php / xml
 173 * (bug 13463) Login successful page doesn't use user's preferred interface language
 174 * (bug 13630) Fixed warnings for pass by reference at call time in
 175   Special:Revisiondelete when generating the log entry.
 176 * (bug 12064) BeforePageDisplay hook is now called for all skins
 177 * (bug 13624) Fix regression with manual thumb= parameter on images
 178 * (bug 11039) Add missing labels on protection form
 179 * (bug 13458) Preview/edit toolbar spacing now works consistently
 180 * (bug 13433) Fix action=render on Image: pages
 181 * (bug 13678) Fix CSS validation for Monobook
 182 * (bug 13684) Links in Special:ListGroupRights should be in content language
 183 * (bug 13690) Fix PHP notice on accessing some URLs
 184 * Hide (undo) link if user isn't able to edit page
 185 * Invalidate cache of pages that includes images via redirects on upload
 186 * (bug 13705) Don't show rollback link in page history on incorrect revisions
 187 * (bug 13708) Don't set "Search results" title when loading Special:Search
 188   without query
 189 * (bug 13736) Don't show MediaWiki:Anontalkpagetext on non-existant IP addresses
 190 * (bug 13728) Don't trim initial whitespace during section edits
 191 * (bug 13727) Don't delete log entries from recentchanges on page deletion
 192 * (bug 13752) Redirects to sections now work again
 193 * (bug 13725) Upload form watch checkbox state set correctly with wpDestFile
 194 * (bug 13756) Don't show the form and navigation links of Special:Newpages if
 195   the page is included
 196 * When hiding things on WhatLinksHere, generated URLs should hide them too
 197 * Properly escape search terms with regex chars so they appear highlighted in
 198   search results
 199 * (bug 13768) pt_title field encoding fixed
 200
 201
 202 === API changes in 1.13 ===
 203
 204 * Fixing main page display in meta=siteinfo
 205 * (bug 13128) Added patrolled flag to list=recentchanges
 206 * Implemented {bl,ei,iu}redirect (lists links through redirects as well)
 207 * (bug 13154) Introduced subpages flag to meta=siteinfo&siprop=namespaces
 208 * (bug 13157) Added ucuserprefix parameter to list=usercontibs
 209 * (bug 12394) Added rctitles parameter to list=recentchanges, making rcid
 210   retrieval easier
 211 * (bug 13218) Fix inclusion of " character in hyperlinks
 212 * Added watch and unwatch parameters to action=delete and action=move
 213 * Added action=edit
 214 * (bug 11401) Added xmldoublequote to xml formatter
 215 * Added rvsection parameter to prop=revisions to allow fetching the content of
 216   a certain section only
 217 * Introduced list=allimages
 218 * (bug 13371) Build page set from image hashes
 219 * Mark non-existent messages in meta=allmessages as missing
 220 * (bug 13390) One invalid title no longer kills an entire API query
 221 * (bug 13419) Fix gblredirect so it actually works
 222 * (bug 13418) Disable eiredirect because it's useless
 223 * (bug 13395) list=allcategories should use category table
 224 * (bug 13442) Missing pages in prop=langlinks and prop=extlinks are now
 225   handled properly.
 226 * (bug 13444) Add description to list=watchlist
 227 * (bug 13482) Disabled search types handled properly
 228 * Added inprop=talkid,subjectid to prop=info
 229 * Added help text message that specifies whether a module is POST-only
 230 * Added createonly parameter to action=edit
 231 * Replaced $wgAPIUCUserPrefixMinLength by the more generic $wgAPIMaxDBRows
 232 * (bug 11719) Remove trailing blanks in YAML output.
 233 * (bug 13541) Added siprop=specialpagealiases to meta=siteinfo
 234 * Added fallback8bitEncoding field to meta=siteinfo&siprop=general output
 235 * (bug 13544) Added prop=revid to action=parse
 236 * (bug 13603) Added siprop=usergroups to meta=siteinfo
 237 * Cleaned up redirect resolution
 238 * Added possibility to obtain all external links through list=exturlusage
 239 * (bug 13606) Added archivename to iiprop
 240 * (bug 11633) Explicitly convert redirect titles to strings due to PHP's
 241   very weak typing on array keys.
 242 * (bug 12136) Extend allowed characters in JSON callback to ][.'"_A-Za-z0-9
 243 * (bug 11673) Return error 'unknown_action' in specified format
 244 * (bug 13618) Added rcprop=redirect and rcshow=redirect to list=recentchanges
 245 * (bug 13544) Added oldid parameter to action=parse to allow for parsing of old revisions
 246 * (bug 13718) Return the proper continue parameter for cmsort=timestamp
 247 * action=login now returns the correct waiting time in the details property
 248
 249 === Languages updated in 1.13 ===
 250
 251 * Afrikaans (af)
 252 * Gheg Albanian (aln)
 253 * Amharic (am)
 254 * Aragonese (an)
 255 * Old English (ang)
 256 * Arabic (ar)
 257 * Aramaic (arc)
 258 * Araucanian (arn)
 259 * Egyptian Spoken Arabic (arz) (new)
 260 * Asturian (ast)
 261 * Kotava (avk)
 262 * Samogitian (bat-smg)
 263 * Bikol Central (bcl)
 264 * Belarusian (be)
 265 * Bulgarian (bg)
 266 * Bihari (bh)
 267 * Bengali (bn)
 268 * Breton (br)
 269 * Bosnian (bs)
 270 * Buginese (bug)
 271 * Catalan (ca)
 272 * Min Dong Chinese (cdo)
 273 * Corsican (co)
 274 * Crimean Turkish (Cyrillic) (crh-cyrl)
 275 * Crimean Turkish (Latin) (crh-latn)
 276 * Czech (cs)
 277 * Kashubian (csb)
 278 * Church Slavic (cu)
 279 * Welsh (cy)
 280 * Danish (da)
 281 * Zazaki (diq)
 282 * Dalecarlian (dlc)
 283 * Lower Sorbian (dsb)
 284 * Middle Dutch (dum) (removed)
 285 * Divehi (dv)
 286 * Dzongkha (dz)
 287 * Greek (el)
 288 * English (en)
 289 * British English (en-gb) (new)
 290 * Esperanto (eo)
 291 * Spanish (es)
 292 * Estonian (et)
 293 * Basque (eu)
 294 * Extremaduran (ext)
 295 * Finnish (fi)
 296 * Võro (fiu-vro)
 297 * Faroese (fo)
 298 * French (fr)
 299 * Cajun French (frc)
 300 * Franco-Provençal (frp)
 301 * Friulian (fur)
 302 * Western Frisian (fy)
 303 * Irish (ga)
 304 * Gagauz (gag)
 305 * Gan (gan)
 306 * Galician (gl)
 307 * Swiss German (gsw)
 308 * Gujarati (gu)
 309 * Hakka (hak)
 310 * Hawaiian (haw)
 311 * Hindi (hi)
 312 * Fiji Hindi (Latin) (hif-latn) (new)
 313 * Croatian (hr)
 314 * Upper Sorbian (hsb)
 315 * Haitian (ht)
 316 * Hungarian (hu)
 317 * Armenian (hy)
 318 * Interlingua (ia)
 319 * Indonesian (id)
 320 * Eastern Canadian (Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics) (ike-cans)
 321 * Eastern Canadian (Latin) (ike-latn)
 322 * Iloko (ilo)
 323 * Ido (io)
 324 * Icelandic (is)
 325 * Italian (it)
 326 * Japanese (ja)
 327 * Jutish (jut)
 328 * Javanese (jv)
 329 * Georgian (ka)
 330 * Kara-Kalpak (kaa)
 331 * Kabyle (kab)
 332 * Kazakh (Arabic script) (kk-arab)
 333 * Kazakh (Cyrillic script) (kk-cyrl)
 334 * Kazakh (Latin script) (kk-latn)
 335 * Kalaallisut (kl)
 336 * Khmer (km)
 337 * Kannada (kn)
 338 * Korean (ko)
 339 * Kinaray-a (krj)
 340 * Karelian (krl)
 341 * Kurdish (Latin)‬ (ku-latn)
 342 * Latin (la)
 343 * Luxembourgish (lb)
 344 * Lezghian (lez)
 345 * Lingua Franca Nova (lfn)
 346 * Ganda (lg)
 347 * Limburgish (li)
 348 * Líguru (lij)
 349 * Lumbaart (lmo)
 350 * Lao (lo)
 351 * Lozi (loz)
 352 * Lithuanian (lt)
 353 * Latvian (lv)
 354 * Maithili (mai)
 355 * Moksha (mdf)
 356 * Malagasy (mg)
 357 * Macedonian (mk)
 358 * Malayalam (ml)
 359 * Mongolian (mn)
 360 * Moldavian (mo)
 361 * Marathi (mr)
 362 * Malay (ms)
 363 * Mirandese (mwl)
 364 * Burmese (my)
 365 * Erzya (myv)
 366 * Nahuatl (nah)
 367 * Low German (nds)
 368 * Nedersaksisch (nds-nl)
 369 * Nepali (ne)
 370 * Newari (new)
 371 * Dutch (nl)
 372 * Norwegian Nynorsk (nn)
 373 * Norwegian (bokmål)‬ (no)
 374 * Old Norse (non) (removed)
 375 * Northern Sotho (nso)
 376 * Classical Newari (nwc)
 377 * Occitan (oc)
 378 * Oriya (or)
 379 * Pampanga (pam)
 380 * Pali (pi)
 381 * Polish (pl)
 382 * Piemontèis (pms)
 383 * Pontic (pnt)
 384 * Pashto (ps)
 385 * Portuguese (pt)
 386 * Brazilian Portuguese (pt-br)
 387 * Quechua (qu)
 388 * Romani (rmy)
 389 * Romanian (ro)
 390 * Russian (ru)
 391 * Yakut (sah)
 392 * Sicilian (scn)
 393 * Scots (sco)
 394 * Sassaresu (sdc)
 395 * Northern Sami (se)
 396 * Cmique Itom (sei)
 397 * Sinhalese (si)
 398 * Slovak (sk)
 399 * Slovenian (sl)
 400 * Southern Sami (sma)
 401 * Somali (so)
 402 * Albanian (sq)
 403 * Serbian Cyrillic ekavian (sr-ec)
 404 * latinica (sr-el)
 405 * Sranan Tongo (srn)
 406 * Swati (ss)
 407 * Southern Sotho (st)
 408 * Seeltersk (stq)
 409 * Sundanese (su)
 410 * Swedish (sv)
 411 * Swahili (sw)
 412 * Silesian (szl) (new)
 413 * Tamil (ta)
 414 * Telugu (te)
 415 * Tetum (tet)
 416 * Tajik (tg-cyrl)
 417 * Thai (th)
 418 * Tigrinya (ti)
 419 * Tagalog (tl)
 420 * Tonga (to)
 421 * Toki Pona (tokipona)
 422 * Tok Pisin (tpi)
 423 * Turkish (tr)
 424 * Tatar (Cyrillic) (tt-cyrl)
 425 * Tatar (Latin) (tt-latn)
 426 * Tuvinian (tyv)
 427 * Ukrainian (uk)
 428 * Venda (ve)
 429 * Venetian (vec)
 430 * Vietnamese (vi)
 431 * Volapük (vo)
 432 * Walloon (wa)
 433 * Waray (war)
 434 * Wolof (wo)
 435 * Mingrelian (xmf)
 436 * Yiddish (yi)
 437 * Yoruba (yo)
 438 * Cantonese (yue)
 439 * Zeeuws (zea)
 440 * Old Chinese / Late Time Chinese (zh-classical)
 441 * Simplified Chinese (zh-hans)
 442 * Traditional Chinese (zh-hant)
 443 * ‪Chinese (Taiwan) (zh-tw)
 444
 445 == Compatibility ==
 446
 447 MediaWiki 1.13 requires PHP 5 (5.1 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer supported.
 448
 449 PHP 5.0.x fails on 64-bit systems due to serious bugs with array processing:
 450 http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=34879
 451 Upgrade affected systems to PHP 5.1 or higher.
 452
 453 MySQL 3.23.x is no longer supported; some older hosts may need to upgrade.
 454 At this time we still recommend 4.0, but 4.1/5.0 will work fine in most cases.
 455
 456
 457 == Upgrading ==
 458
 459 1.13 has several database changes since 1.12, and will not work without schema
 460 updates.
 461
 462 If upgrading from before 1.7, you may want to run refreshLinks.php to ensure
 463 new database fields are filled with data.
 464
 465 If upgrading from before 1.11, and you are using a wiki as a commons repository,
 466 make sure that it is updated as well. Otherwise, errors may arise due to
 467 database schema changes.
 468
 469 If you are upgrading from MediaWiki 1.4.x or earlier, some major database
 470 changes are made, and there is a slightly higher chance that things could
 471 break. Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading!
 472
 473 See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions.
 474
 475
 476 === Caveats ===
 477
 478 Some output, particularly involving user-supplied inline HTML, may not
 479 produce 100% valid or well-formed XHTML output. Testers are welcome to
 480 set $wgMimeType = "application/xhtml+xml"; to test for remaining problem
 481 cases, but this is not recommended on live sites. (This must be set for
 482 MathML to display properly in Mozilla.)
 483
 484 For notes on 1.12.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
 485
 486
 487 === Online documentation ===
 488
 489 Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is currently being
 490 built up on MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation
 491 License (except for pages that explicitly state that their contents are in
 492 the public domain) :
 493
 494   http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation
 495
 496
 497 === Mailing list ===
 498
 499 A MediaWiki-l mailing list has been set up distinct from the Wikipedia
 500 wikitech-l list:
 501
 502   http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
 503
 504 A low-traffic announcements-only list is also available:
 505
 506   http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
 507
 508 It's highly recommended that you sign up for one of these lists if you're
 509 going to run a public MediaWiki, so you can be notified of security fixes.
 510
 511
 512 === IRC help ===
 513
 514 There's usually someone online in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net