Restoring ThomasV's patch for a hook & use of the existing $cache parameter on addPri...

[lhc/web/wiklou.git] / RELEASE-NOTES

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@@ -114,6 +114,14 @@ Images:
 Installer:
 * (bug 3782) Throw fatal installation warning if mbstring.func_overload on.
   Why do people invent these crazy options that change language semantics?
+* Fixed installer bugs 921 and 3914 (issues with using root and so forth)
+* (bug 4258) Use ugly urls for ISAPI by default
+  patch by Rob Church
+* Improve installer 
+       * Use a superuser account (such as root), if specifed, to create tables
+       * Don't overwrite conservative permissions on the mySQL user with ALL
+         permissions, if said user exists
+       * Changes to some of the wording of explanations for fields
 
 i18n / Languages:
 * Partial support for Basque language (from wikipedia and meta)
@@ -202,6 +210,7 @@ i18n / Languages:
   a such distinction
 * (bug 4548) Update for Portuguese language (pt): time format
 * (bug 4530) Use consistent name for Kurdish
+* Tweak default "upload disabled" text
 
 Parser:
 * (bug 2522) {{CURRENTDAY2}} now shows the current day number with two digits
@@ -412,8 +421,6 @@ fully support the editing toolbar, but was found to be too confusing.
 * (bug 3407) Fix encoding of subject and from/to headers on notification
   mails; userMailer() now takes a MailAddress wrapper object instead of
   a raw string to abstract things a level.
-* (bug 4258) Use ugly urls for ISAPI by default
-  patch by Rob Church
 * Fixed --server override on dumpTextPass.php
 * Added plugin interface for dumpBackup, so additional filters and output
   sink types can be registered at runtime from an extension
@@ -458,6 +465,38 @@ fully support the editing toolbar, but was found to be too confusing.
   size. This is necessary to limit server memory usage.
 * Cleanup and error checking on Special:Listredirects
 * Clear up some instances of old OutputPage::sysopRequired() function usage
+* Improve "upload disabled" notice
+* Move parts of index.php to include/Wiki.php in an attempt to both cleanup index.php 
+  and create a MediaWiki-class mediaWiki base object
+* (bug 4104) Added OutputPageBeforeHTML hook for tweaking primary wiki output
+  HTML on final output (cached or not)
+* Avoid PHP notice on command-line scripts if empty argument is passed ('')
+* (bug 4571) Partial fix hack for {{fulllurl:}} in action=render
+* (bug 3502) Bowtie symbol for TeX
+* (bug 4000) Support for \textstyle et al. in <math>
+* (bug 1663) support color in TeX formulas
+* (bug 2026) missing glue around \not= (TeX)
+* (bug 4576) Missing '>' broke license selector's first option in IE, Opera
+* Override $wgLocaltimezone in parser tests for us outside Iceland and UK
+* Fix extra whitespace at end of Wiki.php, DESTROYS XML OUTPUT
+* Remove redundant 'echo' statements from MonoBook.php
+* (bug 1103) Fix up redirect handling for images, categories
+  Redirects are now followed from the top-level, outside of the Article
+  content loading and viewing, for clarity and consistency.
+* (bug 4104) 'OutputPageBeforeHTML' hook to postprocess article HTML on
+  page view (comes after parser cache, if used). Patch by ThomasV.
+* Linker::formatComment corrupted the passed title object on PHP 5
+  if the comment included a section link. Use clone() to make a safe copy.
+* Add wfClone() wrapper since we're still using PHP 4 on some servers.
+* Remove obsolete killthread.php
+* Added wfDie() wrapper, and some manual die(-1), to force the return code
+  to the shell to return nonzero when we crap out with an error.
+* Allow input of the stub from a compressed file instead of stdin
+  for dumpTextPass.php; easier to get errors back on the shell
+* Added an attractive space on the namespace selector on contribs
+* Move PHP 5-friendly XHTML doctype hack to Sanitizer, use for sig checks.
+  Fixes use of named entities in sigs on PHP 5
+
 
 === Caveats ===