correctly (img_auth only)
* $wgUploadMaintenance added to disable file deletions and restorations during
maintenance
+* UserLoginForm and UserCreateForm hooks, and AuthPlugin::modifyUITemplate, now receive a
+ SpecialPage subclass instead of a QuickTemplate subclass. Hence there is no
+ $template->set(), etc. The hook has access to most of the stuff that will go into the
+ Login/Create form; see the documentation on HTMLForm for syntax for extra fields.
+ LoginForm class is deprecated, its state constants are now in the Login class.
=== New features in 1.16 ===
* DISPLAYTITLE now accepts a limited amount of wiki markup (the single-quote
items)
* Special:Search now could search terms in all variant-forms. ONLY apply on
- wikis with LanguageConverter
+ wikis enabled LanguageConverter.
* Add autopromote condition APCOND_BLOCKED to autopromote blocked users to various
user groups.
* Add $wgRevokePermissions as a means of restricting a group's rights. The
* Added $wgUseAJAXCategories allow enabling AJAX based categories system.
This works on all namespaces. Enabled namespaces can be reduces using
$wgAJAXCategoriesNamespaces.
+* Admins could disable some variants using $wgDisabledVariants now. ONLY apply on
+ wikis enabled LanguageConverter.
+* A new permission, 'root', is created. Analogous to root users on Unix systems,
+ the root permission effectively grants all other permissions on a wiki. Useful
+ for debugging and administration.
+* (bug 16979) Tracking categories for __INDEX__ and __NOINDEX__
+* New configuration variable $wgShowPageOnRedlink that can be set to show the page
+ instead of an edit interface when visiting a red link. The value can be specified
+ for specific usergroups and namespaces.
=== Bug fixes in 1.16 ===
revisions when --delete is not passed
* (bug 13172) GPS coordinates in image Exif data are now actually displayed
* Overhaul of preferences system, includes the following bug fixes:
-* (bug 5363) Changes to default preferences now impact registered users.
-* (bug 14806) Hook to enable putting preferences in existing tabs.
-* (bug 17191) Registration date now listed on preferences page.
-* Note that this change will break some extensions which have not been adapted
- for it.
+** (bug 5363) Changes to default preferences now impact registered users.
+** (bug 14806) Hook to enable putting preferences in existing tabs.
+** (bug 17191) Registration date now listed on preferences page.
+** The user_properties table (now used for storing preferences) has been added to
+ $wgSharedTables.
+** Note that this change will break some extensions which have not been adapted
+ for it.
* (bug 17020) Adding fallback encodings for Traditional and Simplified Chinese
languages while the the text is typed as URLs.
* (bug 17614) Prev / Next links are not shown if all results are shown
* (bug 11143) Links containing invalid UTF-8 percent-code sequences are now
cleanly disabled instead of breaking parsing entirely on PHP 5.2.
* (bug 20296) Fixed an PHP warning in Language::getMagic() in PHP 5.3
-* When creating accounts, don't prefill name from current username (which
- presumably is already taken)
* (bug 20358) Unprotect tab was missing accesskey; now same as protect tab.
* (bug 20317) Cleaned up default main page link accesskey settings
* (bug 20362) Special:Statistics now produces valid HTML when view counters are
assume the user object is equal to the current-user object ($wgUser)
* (bug 20517) Cancel link from edit page now returns to the old version when
editing an old version
+* (bug 16902) Installer no longer shows warnings when exec() has been disabled
+ by disable_functions
+* (bug 20726) Title::getLatestRevID's documentation now says that the function
+ returns false if the page doesn't exist
+* (bug 20751) ForeignApiRepo now urldecodes filenames when saving to local cache
+* (bug 20730) Fix to Special:Version ViewVC link for branch checkouts
+* (bug 20353) wfShellExec() was adding extra quotes on Windows Vista, causing
+ command line scripts to fail
+* (bug 20702) Parser functions can now be used correctly in
+ MediaWiki:Missing-article
== API changes in 1.16 ==
Access-Control-Allow-Origin HTTP header
* (bug 19999) Made metadata and properties of search results optional. Added
srprop and srinfo.
+* (bug 20700) Add amprop=default to meta=allmessages to list default value for
+ customized messages
+* Don't parse magic words in meta=allmessages, output messages unparsed
=== Languages updated in 1.16 ===
regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
changes to languages because of MediaZilla reports.
+* Kirmanjki (kiu) (new)
* Lower Silesian (sli) (new)
* Picard (pcd) (new)
* Uyghur (Arabic script) (ug-arab) (new)