RELEASE-NOTES-1.24

   1 Security reminder: MediaWiki does not require PHP's register_globals. If you
   2 have it on, turn it '''off''' if you can.
   3
   4 == MediaWiki 1.24 ==
   5
   6 THIS IS NOT A RELEASE YET
   7
   8 MediaWiki 1.24 is an alpha-quality branch and is not recommended for use in
   9 production.
  10
  11 === Configuration changes in 1.24 ===
  12 * The server's canonical hostname is available as $wgServerName, which is
  13   exposed in both mw.config and ApiQuerySiteInfo.
  14 * Introduced $wgPagePropsHaveSortkey as a backwards-compatibility switch,
  15   for using the old schema of the page_props table, in case the respective
  16   schema update was not applied.
  17
  18 === New features in 1.24 ===
  19 * Added a new hook, "WhatLinksHereProps", to allow extensions to annotate
  20   WhatLinksHere entries.
  21 * Added a new hook, "ContentGetParserOutput", to customize parser output for
  22   a given content object.
  23 * Deprecated the hook "ShowRawCssJs", use "ContentGetParserOutput" instead.
  24 * HTMLForm's HTMLTextField now supports the 'url' type.
  25 * HTMLForm fields may now be dynamically hidden based on the values of other
  26   fields in the form.
  27 * HTMLForm now supports multiple copies of an input field or set of input
  28   fields, e.g. the form may request "one or more usernames" without having to
  29   have the user enter delimited list of names into a text field.
  30 * Added a new hook, "SidebarBeforeOutput", to allow to edit the structure of
  31   the sidebar just before its display.
  32 * (bug 49156) Added the mediawiki.cookie ResourceLoader module, which wraps
  33   jQuery.cookie so that getting/setting a cookie is syntactically and functionally
  34   similar to using the WebRequest#getCookie/WebResponse#setcookie methods.
  35 * (bug 44740) jQuery upgraded from 1.8.3 to 1.11.1.
  36 * Changes to content typography (fonts, etc.). See
  37   https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Typography_refresh for further information.
  38 * WikitextContent will now render redirects with the expected "redirect"
  39   header, rather than as an ordered list. Code calling Article::viewRedirect
  40   can probably be changed to no longer special-case redirects.
  41 * (bug 63903) Thumbnails without an explicit size specification are
  42   now resized to a square bounding box. This gives better results for
  43   non-landscape thumbnails.
  44
  45 === Bug fixes in 1.24 ===
  46 * (bug 49116) Footer copyright notice is now always displayed in user language
  47   rather than content language (same as copyright notice for editing interface).
  48 * (bug 62258) A bug was fixed in File::getUnscaledThumb when a height
  49   restriction was present in the parameters.  Images with both the "frame"
  50   option and a size specification set will now always ignore the provided
  51   size and display an unscaled image, as the documentation has always
  52   claimed it would.
  53 * (bug 39035) Improved Vector skin performance by removing collapsibleNav,
  54   which used to collapse some sidebar elements by default.
  55   This removes -list id suffixes like p-lang-list: instead of using things like
  56   #p-lang-list, you can do #p-lang .body ul.
  57 * (bug 890) Links in Special:RecentChanges and Special:Watchlist no longer
  58   follow redirects to their target pages.
  59 * Parser now dies early if called recursively, instead of producing subtle bugs.
  60 * (bug 14323) Redirect pages, when viewed with redirect=no, no longer hide the
  61   remaining page content.
  62 * (bug 52587) Maintenance script deleteBatch.php no longer follows redirects
  63   in the file namespace and delete the file on the target page. It will still
  64   however delete the redirect page.
  65
  66 === Web API changes in 1.24 ===
  67 * action=parse API now supports prop=modules, which provides the list of
  68   ResourceLoader modules that should be used to enhance the parsed content.
  69 * action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=interwikimap returns a new "protorel"
  70   field which is true iff protocol-relative urls can be used to access
  71   a particular interwiki map entry.
  72 * ApiQueryLogEvents now provides logpage, which is the page ID from the
  73   logging table, if ids are requested and the user has the permissions.
  74 * action=edit now requires that appendtext, prependtext, or section=new be used
  75   when using the 'redirect' parameter, to prevent clients accidentally
  76   overwriting the target page with the content of the redirect.
  77 * action=logevents will now return an error if both letitle and leprefix are
  78   specified.
  79 * action=logevents has a new parameter, lenamespace, to allow filtering by
  80   namespace.
  81
  82 === Languages updated in 1.24 ===
  83
  84 MediaWiki supports over 350 languages. Many localisations are updated
  85 regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
  86 changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
  87
  88 === Other changes in 1.24 ===
  89 * The deprecated jquery.delayedBind ResourceLoader module was removed.
  90 * The deprecated function mw.util.toggleToc was removed.
  91 * The Special:Search hooks SpecialSearchGo and SpecialSearchResultsAppend
  92   were removed as they were unused.
  93 * (bug 65477) User::pingLimiter() now has an additional profile point varying
  94   by action being used.
  95 * mediawiki.util.$content no longer supports old versions of the Vector,
  96   Monobook, Modern and CologneBlue skins that don't yet implement the "mw-body"
  97   and/or "mw-body-primary" class name in their html.
  98 * Added pp_sortkey column to page_props table, so pages can be efficiently
  99   queried and sorted by property value (bug 58032).
 100   See $wgPagePropsHaveSortkey if you want to postpone the schema change.
 101 * BREAKING CHANGE: The Modern and Cologne Blue skins were moved out of MediaWiki
 102   core to their own respective repositories. See also
 103   https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Skin:Modern and
 104   https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Skin:CologneBlue.
 105
 106 ==== Renamed classes ====
 107 * CLDRPluralRuleConverter_Expression to CLDRPluralRuleConverterExpression
 108 * CLDRPluralRuleConverter_Fragment to CLDRPluralRuleConverterFragment
 109 * CLDRPluralRuleConverter_Operator to CLDRPluralRuleConverterOperator
 110 * CLDRPluralRuleEvaluator_Range to CLDRPluralRuleEvaluatorRange
 111 * CSSJanus_Tokenizer to CSSJanusTokenizer
 112 * MediaWiki_I18N to MediaWikiI18N
 113 * RevDel_ArchiveItem to RevDelArchiveItem
 114 * RevDel_ArchiveList to RevDelArchiveList
 115 * RevDel_ArchivedFileItem to RevDelArchivedFileItem
 116 * RevDel_ArchivedFileList to RevDelArchivedFileList
 117 * RevDel_ArchivedRevisionItem to RevDelArchivedRevisionItem
 118 * RevDel_FileItem to RevDelFileItem
 119 * RevDel_FileList to RevDelFileList
 120 * RevDel_Item to RevDelItem
 121 * RevDel_List to RevDelList
 122 * RevDel_LogItem to RevDelLogItem
 123 * RevDel_LogList to RevDelLogList
 124 * RevDel_RevisionItem to RevDelRevisionItem
 125 * RevDel_RevisionList to RevDelRevisionList
 126 * WebInstaller_Complete to WebInstallerComplete
 127 * WebInstaller_Copying to WebInstallerCopying
 128 * WebInstaller_DBConnect to WebInstallerDBConnect
 129 * WebInstaller_DBSettings to WebInstallerDBSettings
 130 * WebInstaller_Document to WebInstallerDocument
 131 * WebInstaller_ExistingWiki to WebInstallerExistingWiki
 132 * WebInstaller_Install to WebInstallerInstall
 133 * WebInstaller_Language to WebInstallerLanguage
 134 * WebInstaller_Name to WebInstallerName
 135 * WebInstaller_Options to WebInstallerOptions
 136 * WebInstaller_Readme to WebInstallerReadme
 137 * WebInstaller_ReleaseNotes to WebInstallerReleaseNotes
 138 * WebInstaller_Restart to WebInstallerRestart
 139 * WebInstaller_Upgrade to WebInstallerUpgrade
 140 * WebInstaller_UpgradeDoc to WebInstallerUpgradeDoc
 141 * WebInstaller_Welcome to WebInstallerWelcome
 142
 143 ==== Removed classes ====
 144 * IPBlockForm - Use SpecialBlock directly
 145 * WatchlistEditor - Use SpecialEditWatchlist directly
 146
 147 == Compatibility ==
 148
 149 MediaWiki 1.24 requires PHP 5.3.2 or later.
 150
 151 MySQL is the recommended DBMS. PostgreSQL or SQLite can also be used, but
 152 support for them is somewhat less mature. There is experimental support for
 153 Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server.
 154
 155 The supported versions are:
 156
 157 * MySQL 5.0.2 or later
 158 * PostgreSQL 8.3 or later
 159 * SQLite 3.3.7 or later
 160 * Oracle 9.0.1 or later
 161 * Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (9.00.1399)
 162
 163 == Upgrading ==
 164
 165 1.24 has several database changes since 1.23, and will not work without schema
 166 updates. Note that due to changes to some very large tables like the revision
 167 table, the schema update may take quite long (minutes on a medium sized site,
 168 many hours on a large site).
 169
 170 If upgrading from before 1.11, and you are using a wiki as a commons
 171 repository, make sure that it is updated as well. Otherwise, errors may arise
 172 due to database schema changes.
 173
 174 If upgrading from before 1.7, you may want to run refreshLinks.php to ensure
 175 new database fields are filled with data.
 176
 177 If you are upgrading from MediaWiki 1.4.x or earlier, you should upgrade to
 178 1.5 first. The upgrade script maintenance/upgrade1_5.php has been removed
 179 with MediaWiki 1.21.
 180
 181 Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading!
 182
 183 See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions.
 184
 185 For notes on 1.22.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
 186
 187 == Online documentation ==
 188
 189 Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is available on
 190 MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation License (except
 191 for pages that explicitly state that their contents are in the public domain):
 192
 193         https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation
 194
 195 == Mailing list ==
 196
 197 A mailing list is available for MediaWiki user support and discussion:
 198
 199         https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
 200
 201 A low-traffic announcements-only list is also available:
 202
 203         https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
 204
 205 It's highly recommended that you sign up for one of these lists if you're
 206 going to run a public MediaWiki, so you can be notified of security fixes.
 207
 208 == IRC help ==
 209
 210 There's usually someone online in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net.