Those wishing to use the latest code instead of a branch release can obtain
it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN
-=== Configuration changes in 1.16 ===
+=== Configuration changes in 1.16 ===
* $wgEnableFirefogg enable support for firefogg extension, firefogg supports
- in-browser transcoding, chunk uploads and client side hash checking.
+ in-browser transcoding, chunk uploads and client side hash checking.
* $wgEnableTemporalOggUrls enable oggz_chop support a server side ogg seeking
- helper
+ helper
* $wgEnableScriptLoader if the script-loader shoudl be enabled
* $wgJSAutoloadClasses array of javascript classes to file paths used by
- script-loader to load javascript by class name.
+ script-loader to load javascript by class name.
* $wgEnableJS2system if we should include js2 stuff like jquery, mv_embed.js
(script-loader helper) and use new interfaces for upload
* $wgEnableScriptLoaderJsFile if we support grabbing js files with the script
* $wgEnableScriptMinify if you want the script loader to minify js
* $wgEnableScriptLocalization if you want the script loader to do msg lookups
* $wgMwEmbedDirectory the path to MwEmbed Directory (maybe we can depreciate
- this. Was used when mwEmbed was going to be an extension.
-* $wgDebugJavaScript if we want to enable fresh debug javascript
+ this. Was used when mwEmbed was going to be an extension.
+* $wgDebugJavaScript if we want to enable fresh debug javascript
* $wgPhpCliPath Path to php-cli for spinning up background php processes
* (bug 18222) $wgMinimalPasswordLength default is now 1
* $wgSessionHandler can be used to configure session.save_handler
appropriate privileges. Creating this user with web-install page requires
oci8.privileged_connect set to On in php.ini.
* Removed UserrightsChangeableGroups hook introduced in 1.14
-* Added $wgCacheDirectory, to replace $wgFileCacheDirectory,
- $wgLocalMessageCache, and any other local caches which need a place to put
- files.
+* Added $wgCacheDirectory, to replace $wgFileCacheDirectory,
+ $wgLocalMessageCache, and any other local caches which need a place to put
+ files.
* $wgFileCacheDirectory is no longer set to anything by default, and so either
- needs to be set explicitly, or $wgCacheDirectory needs to be set instead.
+ needs to be set explicitly, or $wgCacheDirectory needs to be set instead.
* $wgLocalMessageCache has been removed. Instead, set $wgUseLocalMessageCache
to true
-* Removed $wgEnableSerializedMessages and $wgCheckSerialized. Similar
+* Removed $wgEnableSerializedMessages and $wgCheckSerialized. Similar
functionality is now available via $wgLocalisationCacheConf.
-* $wgMessageCache->addMessages() is deprecated. Messages added via this
+* $wgMessageCache->addMessages() is deprecated. Messages added via this
interface will not appear in Special:AllMessages.
-* $wgRegisterInternalExternals can be used to record external links pointing
+* $wgRegisterInternalExternals can be used to record external links pointing
to same server
-* $wgSpecialVersionExtended shows the extended version information besides
+* $wgSpecialVersionExtended shows the extended version information besides
PHP and database version.
-* (bug 19907) $wgCrossSiteAJAXdomains and $wgCrossSiteAJAXdomainExceptions added
+* (bug 19907) $wgCrossSiteAJAXdomains and $wgCrossSiteAJAXdomainExceptions added
to control which external domains may access the API via cross-site AJAX.
* $wgMaintenanceScripts for extensions to add their scripts to the default list
* $wgMemoryLimit has been added, default value '50M'
-* $wgExtraRandompageSQL is deprecated, the SpecialRandomGetRandomTitle hook
+* $wgExtraRandompageSQL is deprecated, the SpecialRandomGetRandomTitle hook
should be used instead
* (bug 20489) $wgIllegalFileChars added to override the default list of illegal
characters in file names.
correctly (img_auth only)
* $wgUploadMaintenance added to disable file deletions and restorations during
maintenance
+* $wgCapitalLinkOverrides added to configure per-namespace capitalization
+* (bug 21172) $wgSorbsUrl can now be an array with multiple DNSBL
=== 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
have these rights stripped from them.
* Added a PHP port of CDB (constant database), for improved local caching when
the DBA extension is not available.
-* Introduced a new system for localisation caching. The system is based around
- fast fetches of individual messages, minimising memory overhead and startup
- time in the typical case. The database backend will be used by default, but
+* Introduced a new system for localisation caching. The system is based around
+ fast fetches of individual messages, minimising memory overhead and startup
+ time in the typical case. The database backend will be used by default, but
set $wgCacheDirectory to get a faster CDB-based implementation.
-* Expanded the number of variables which can be set in the extension messages
+* Expanded the number of variables which can be set in the extension messages
files.
-* Added a feature to allow per-article process pool size control for the parsing
+* Added a feature to allow per-article process pool size control for the parsing
task, to limit resource usage when the cache for a heavily-viewed article is
- invalidated. Requires an external daemon.
+ invalidated. Requires an external daemon.
* (bug 19576) Moved the id attribues from the anchors accompanying section
headers to the <span class="mw-headline"> elements within the section headers,
removing the redundant anchor elements.
* Parser::setFunctionTagHook now can be used to add a new tag which is parsed at
preprocesor level.
-* Added $wgShowArchiveThumbnails, allowing sysadmins to disable thumbnail
+* Added $wgShowArchiveThumbnails, allowing sysadmins to disable thumbnail
display for old versions of images.
* In watchlists and Special:RecentChanges, the difference in page size now
appears in dark green if bytes were added and dark red if bytes were removed.
-* Added FSRepo configuration properties thumbUrl and thumbDir, to allow the
+* Added FSRepo configuration properties thumbUrl and thumbDir, to allow the
thumbnails to be stored in a separate location to the source images.
-* If config/ directory is not executable, the command to make it executable
+* If config/ directory is not executable, the command to make it executable
now asks the user to cd to the correct directory
* Add experimental new external authentication framework, ExternalAuth
* (bug 18768) Remove AdminSettings requirements. Maintenance environment
* (bug 19900) The "listgrouprights-key" message is now wrapped in a div with
class "mw-listgrouprights-key"
* (bug 471) Allow RSS feeds for watchlist, using an opt-in security token
-* (bug 10812) Interwiki links can have names and descriptions, fetched from
+* (bug 10812) Interwiki links can have names and descriptions, fetched from
message 'interwiki-desc-PREFIX', not really used anywhere yet though
* (bug 9691) Add type (signup or login) parameter to
AuthPlugin::ModifyUITemplate()
* (bug 16697) Unicode combining characters are difficult to edit in some
browsers
* Parser test supports uploading results to remote CodeReview instance
-* (bug 20013) Added CSS class "mw-version-ext-version" is wrapped on the
+* (bug 20013) Added CSS class "mw-version-ext-version" is wrapped on the
extension version in Special:Version
* (bug 20014) Added CSS class "mw-listgrouprights-right-name" is wrapped on the
right name in Special:ListGroupRights
* Added $wgShowDBErrorBacktrace, to allow users to easily gather backtraces for
database connection and query errors.
* Show change block / unblock link on Special:Contributions if user is blocked
-* Display note on Special:Contributions if the user is blocked, and provide an
+* Display note on Special:Contributions if the user is blocked, and provide an
excerpt from the block log.
* (bug 19646) New hook: ImgAuthBeforeStream for tests and functionality before
file is streamed to user, but only when using img_auth
-* Note on non-existing user and user talk pages if user does not exist and show
- renameuser log if the user has been renamed
+* Note on non-existing user and user talk pages if user does not exist
+* New hook ShowMissingArticle so extensions can modify the output for
+ non-existent pages.
+* 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.
+* (bug 16310) Credits page now lists IP addresses rather than saying the number
+ of anonymous users that edited the page
+* New permission 'sendemail' added. Default right for all registered users. Can
+ for example be used to prevent new accounts from sending spam.
+* (bug 16979) Tracking categories for __INDEX__ and __NOINDEX__
+* Two new hooks, ConfirmEmailComplete and InvalidateEmailComplete, which are
+ called after a user's email has been successfully confirmed or invalidated.
+* (bug 19741) Moved the XCF files out of the main MediaWiki distribution, for
+ a smaller subversion checkout.
+* (bug 13750) First letter capitalization can now be a per-namespace setting
+* (bug 21073) "User does not exist" message no longer displayed on sub-sub-pages
+ of existing users
+* (bug 21095) Tracking categories produced by the parser (expensive parser function
+ limit exceeded, __NOINDEX__ tracking, etc) can now be disabled by setting the
+ system message ([[MediaWiki:expensive-parserfunction-category]] etc) to "-".
+* Added maintenance script sqlite.php for SQLite-specific maintenance tasks.
+* Rewrote Special:Upload to allow easier extension.
+* Upload errors that can be solved by changing the filename now do not require
+ reuploading.
+* Added $wgRateLimitsExcludedIPs, to allow specific IPs to be whitelisted from
+ rate limits.
+* (bug 21222) When $wgUseTeX is not enabled, <math> is no longer registered with
+ the parser so extensions are free to implement their own <math> tag
+* (bug 21047) Wrap 'cannotdelete' into a div with the generic 'error' class and
+ an own 'mw-error-cannotdelete' class
+* New hook AbortNewAccountAuto, called before account creation from AuthPlugin-
+ or ExtUser-driven requests.
+* (bug 3480) The warning saying that the page has a history when deleting it now
+ contains the number of revisions in the history
+* $wgStylePath and $wgLogo are now set in the default LocalSettings.php file.
=== 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 19513) RTL fixes for new Search UI
* (bug 16497) Special:Allmessages is paginated
* (bug 18708) CSS plainlinks class now available to all skins
-* (bug 19590) Database error messages no longer have "MySQL" hardcoded as the
+* (bug 19590) Database error messages no longer have "MySQL" hardcoded as the
database type
* (bug 19759) successbox on Special:Preferences now correctly aligned on
standard, nostalgia and cologneblue skin
the recentchanges table
* (bug 16009) Limit selection forms based on Pager now links to the correct page
when using long urls
-* The display of the language list on the preferences is more comply with the
+* The display of the language list on the preferences is more comply with the
BCP 47 standards.
* (bug 19849) Custom X-Vary-Options header now disabled unless $wgUseXVO is set
* (bug 19301) Duplicates entries in $wgAddGroups, $wgRemoveGroups,
* (bug 19957) All known-failing tests now marked disabled; added --run-disabled
option to parser test suite to run disabled tests if desired.
* (bug 16311) Make recent change flags (n/m/b) <abbr>s instead of <span>s
-* (bug 15680) Split the edit tip message of user CSS/JS subpage into
+* (bug 15680) Split the edit tip message of user CSS/JS subpage into
"usercssyoucanpreview" and "userjsyoucanpreview" respectively.
-* (bug 12110) Split the rights for editing users' CSS/JS subpage from
+* (bug 12110) Split the rights for editing users' CSS/JS subpage from
"editusercssjs" into "editusercss" and edituserjs" respectively.
-* (bug 19394) RecentChanges feed URLs for log items with no revisions
+* (bug 19394) RecentChanges feed URLs for log items with no revisions
(eg Newuser, Userrights) are no longer broken
* (bug 17395) Remote file descriptions use user language ($wgLang), not wiki
language ($wgContLang)
* (bug 20273) Fix broken output when no pages are found in the content
namespaces
* (bug 20265) Make AncientPages and UnusedFiles work on SQLite
-* Fixed XSS vulnerability for Internet Explorer clients (only pre-release
+* Fixed XSS vulnerability for Internet Explorer clients (only pre-release
versions of MediaWiki were affected).
* (bug 14817) Moving a page to a subpage of itself moves it twice
* (bug 20289) $wgMaximumMovedPages should only count pages actually moved
* (bug 11143) Links containing invalid UTF-8 percent-code sequences are now
cleanly disabled instead of breaking parsing entirely on PHP 5.2.
* (bug 20296) Fixed an PHP warning in Language::getMagic() in PHP 5.3
-* When creating accounts, don't prefill name from current username (which
- presumably is already taken)
* (bug 20358) Unprotect tab was missing accesskey; now same as protect tab.
* (bug 20317) Cleaned up default main page link accesskey settings
* (bug 20362) Special:Statistics now produces valid HTML when view counters are
Special:Recentchanges's RSS and Atom feed cache
* The installer will now try to bypass PHP's max_execution_time
* (bug 20260) SQLite no longer tries to automatically create the database at
- execution time, this now happens only at install time; if it is not available
+ execution time, this now happens only at install time; if it is not available
at script execution, it now throws an exception
* Fixed EditFilterMerged hook so the hookError parameter serves a purpose
(analogous to EditFilter hook)
correct type="text" parameter
* (bug 482) Don't include TOC in the printable version if it has been hidden
* Adjust the time according to the user configuration on Special:Revisiondelete
+* (bug 20624) Installation no longer allows "qqq" as the chosen language
+* (bug 20634) The installer-created database user will now have all rights on
+ the database so that upgrades will go more smoothly.
+* (bug 18180) Special:Export ignores limit, dir, offset parameters
+* User::getBlockedStatus() works for all kinds of user objects and doesn't
+ assume the user object is equal to the current-user object ($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
+* (bug 14117) "redirected from" is now also shown on foreign file redirects
+* (bug 17747) Only display thumbnail column in file history if the image can
+ be rendered.
+* (bug 3421) Live preview no longer breaks user CSS/JS previews
+* (bug 11264) The file logo on a file description page for documents (PDF, ...)
+ now links to the file rather than the file description page
+* Password fields built with HTMLForm now still have the type="password"
+ attribute if $wgHtml5=false.
+* (bug 20836) Preload now works for MediaWiki namespace
+* (bug 20885) Search box no longer suggests unavailable special pages
+* (bug 20948) "Create this page" on Special:Search is no longer displayed when
+ searching for special pages
+* (bug 20524) Hideuser: Show nice error when trying to block hidden user without
+ hideuser right
+* (bug 21026) Fixed file redirects on shared repos on non-English client wikis
+* (bug 21030) Fixed schema choices from being overwritten by defining unique
+ field names per driver.
+* (bug 21115) wgCanonicalSpecialPageName javascript variable is now always
+ false on non-special pages
+* (bug 21113) "Other statistics" header on Special:Statistics is no more
+ displayed when there isn't any entry in it
+* (bug 21114) Special:Contributions no longer shows diff links for new
+ revisions
+* (bug 21116) MediaWiki:Templatesused, MediaWiki:Templatesusedpreview and
+ MediaWiki:Templatesusedsection now support plural
+* (bug 21079) There is no more line wrapping between label and field in
+ Special:Log
+* (bug 20256) Fixed SQL errors on Special:Recentchanges and
+ Special:Recentchangeslinked on SQLite backend
+* (bug 20880) Fixed updater failure on SQLite backend
+* (bug 21182) Fixed invalid HTML in Special:Listgrouprights
+* (bug 20242) Installer no longer promts for user credentials for SQLite
+ databases
+* (bug 20911) Installer failed to create a SQLite database
+* (bug 20847) Deprecated deprecated akeytt() removed in wikibits.js leaving
+ dummy
+* (bug 21161) Changing $wgCacheEpoch now always invalidates file cache
+* (bug 20268) Fixed row count estimation on SQLite backend
+* (bug 20275) Fixed LIKE queries on SQLite backend
+* (bug 21234) Moving subpages of titles containing \\ now works properly
+* (bug 21006) maintenance/updateArticleCount.php now works again on PostgreSQL
+* (bug 19319) Add activeusers-intro message at top of SpecialActiveUsers page
+* (bug 21255) Fixed hostname construction for DNSBL checking
+* (bug 18019) Users are now warned when moving a file to a name in use on a
+ shared repository and only users with the 'reupload-shared' permission can
+ complete the move.
== API changes in 1.16 ==
* (bug 17809) Add number of users in user groups to meta=siteinfo
* (bug 18533) Add readonly reason to readonly exception
* (bug 19528) Added XSLT parameter to API queries in format=xml
-* (bug 19040) Fix prependtext and appendtext in combination with section
+* (bug 19040) Fix prependtext and appendtext in combination with section
parameter in action=edit
-* (bug 19090) Added watchlist parameter, deprecated watch and unwatch
+* (bug 19090) Added watchlist parameter, deprecated watch and unwatch
parameter in action=edit
* Added fields to list=search output: size, wordcount, timestamp, snippet
* Where supported by backend, list=search adds a 'searchinfo' element with
optional info: 'totalhits' count and 'suggestion' alternate query term
* (bug 19907) $wgCrossSiteAJAXdomains added to allow specified (or all)
- external domains to access api.php via AJAX, if the browser supports the
+ external domains to access api.php via AJAX, if the browser supports the
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
+* (bug 21105) list=usercontribs can now list contribs for User:0
+* (bug 21085) list=deletedrevs no longer returns only one revision when
+ drcontinue param is passed
=== 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)
* Eastern Yiddish (ydd) (removed)
* Iriga Bicolano (bto) (removed)
+* Ladin (lld) (removed)
+* Laz (lzz) (removed)
* Palembang (plm) (removed)
+* Megleno-Romanian (Greek script) (ruq-grek) (removed)
* Tamazight (tzm) (removed)
* (bug 18474) Sorani (ckb - Central Kurdish) (renamed from ku-arab)
* (bug 19949) New linktrail for Greek (el)
* (bug 19809) Korean (North Korea) (ko-kp) (new)
* (bug 19968) Fixed "Project talk" namespace name for Maltese (mt)
+* (bug 21168) Added áâãàéêçíóôõúü to Portuguese (pt) linktrail
== Compatibility ==