= MediaWiki release notes =
-== Version 1.1.0, 2003-12-08 ==
-
-This is the new production release. Any following 1.1.x releases are expected
-to contain only bug fixes; developments of new features will go towards a 1.2.0
-release.
-
-New features in 1.1:
-* New wiki table syntax:
- http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_User%27s_Guide:_Using_tables
-* User-editable interface messages:
- http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_namespace
-* XML-wrapped page source export with optional history:
- http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML_import_and_export
- (There is not yet an import function!)
-
-Fixes and tweaks:
-* linkscc table caches link data for rendering; faster rebuildlinks.php
-* Numerous bugs in Cologne Blue skin fixed
-* Login gives warning about missing cookies
-* Block log, protection log added; deletion log now includes undeletions
-* Deletion & upload logs now escape comment text properly
-* Problems with <nowiki> segments in section titles etc mitigated
-* Contributions offset and minor edit bugs fixed
-* Whatlinkshere now sorted alphabetically
-* Various small bugs fixed.
+Security reminder: MediaWiki does not require PHP's register_globals
+setting since version 1.2.0. If you have it on, turn it *off* if you can.
-=== Database changes ===
-"linkscc" table added. If upgrading manually (rather than with update.php),
-run maintenance/archives/patch-linkscc.sql to create the table.
+== MediaWiki 1.5 alpha 1 ==
+
+May 3, 2005
+
+This is a testing preview release, being put out mainly to aid testers in
+finding installation bugs and other major problems. It is strongly recommended
+NOT to run a live production web site on this alpha release.
+
+** WARNING: USE OF THIS ALPHA RELEASE MAY INFEST YOUR HOUSE WITH **
+** TERMITES, ROT YOUR TEETH, GROW HAIR ON YOUR PALMS, AND PASTE **
+** INNUENDO INTO YOUR C.V. RIGHT BEFORE A JOB INTERVIEW! **
+** DON'T SAY WE DIDN'T WARN YOU, MAN. WE TOTALLY DID RIGHT HERE. **
+
+
+=== Big changes ===
+
+Schema:
+ The core table schema has changed significantly. This should make better
+ use of the database's cache and disk I/O, and make significantly speed up
+ rename and delete operations on pages with very long edit histories.
+
+ Unfortunately this does mean upgrading a wiki of size from 1.4 will require
+ some downtime for the schema restructuring, but future storage backend
+ changes should be able to integrate into the new system more easily.
+
+Permalinks:
+ The current revision of a page now has a permanent 'oldid' number assigned
+ immediately, and the id numbers are now preserved across deletion/undeletion.
+ A permanent reference to the current revision of a page is now just a matter
+ of going to the 'history' tab and copying the first link in the list.
+
+Page move log:
+ Renames of pages are now recorded in Special:Log and the page history.
+ A handy revert link is available from the log for sysops.
+
+Editing diff:
+ Ever lost track of what you'd done so far during an edit? A 'Show diff'
+ button on the edit page now makes it easy to remember.
+
+Uploads:
+ It's now possible to specify the final filename of an upload distinct
+ from the original filename on your disk.
+
+ An image link for a missing file will now take you straight to the upload page.
+
+ More metadata is pre-extracted from uploaded images, which will ease pressure
+ on disk or NFS volumes used to store images. EXIF metadata is displayed on
+ the image description page if PHP is configured with the necessary module.
+
+User accounts:
+ There are some changes to the user permissions system, with assignable
+ groups. This is still somewhat in flux; do not rely on the present system
+ that you see in this alpha to still be there.
+
+E-mail:
+ User-to-user e-mail can now be restricted to require a mail-back confirmation
+ first to reduce potential for abuse with false addresses.
+
+ Updates to user talk pages and watchlist entries can optionally send e-mail
+ notifications.
+
+External hooks:
+ A somewhat experimental interface for hooking in an external editor
+ application is included. This may not be on by default in final release,
+ depending on support.
+
+And...
+ A bunch of stuff we forgot to mention.
+
+
+=== What's gone? ===
+
+Latin-1:
+ Wikis must now be encoded in Unicode UTF-8; this has been the default for
+ some time, but some languages could optionally be installed in Latin-1 mode.
+ This is no longer supported.
+
+MySQL 3.x:
+ Some optimization hacks for MySQL 3.x have been removed as part of the schema
+ clean-up (specifically, the inverse_timestamp fields). MediaWiki 1.5 should
+ still run, but wikis of significant size should very seriously consider
+ upgrading to a more modern release. MySQL 3.x support will probably be
+ entirely dropped in the next major release later this year.
+
+Special:Maintenance
+ These tools were, ironically enough, not really maintained. This special
+ page has been removed; insofar as some of its pieces were useful and haven't
+ already been supplanted by other special pages they should be rewritten in
+ an efficient and safe manner in the future.
+
+
+=== What's still waiting? ===
+
+These things should be fixed by the time 1.5.0 final is released:
+
+Upgrade:
+ Wikis in Latin-1 encoding are no longer supported; only Unicode UTF-8.
+ A new option $wgLegacyEncoding is provided to allow on-the-fly recoding of
+ old page text entries, but other metadata fields (titles, comments etc) need
+ to be pre-converted. The upgrade process does not yet fully automate this.
+
+ In general the upgrade from 1.4 to 1.5 schema has not been tested for all
+ cases, and there may be problems.
+
+Backups:
+ The text entries of deleted pages are no longer removed from the main
+ text table on deletion. If you provide public backup dumps of your databases,
+ you will probably want to use the new XML-format dump generator... but
+ this hasn't been finished yet.
+
+PostgreSQL:
+ The table definitions for PostgreSQL install are out of date, and patches
+ to support PostgreSQL from the main installer are still pending.
+
+MySQL 4.1+:
+ Proper charset encoding / collation configuration for installs on MySQL 4.1
+ and higher still needs to be fiddled with. Some bits may fail on the UTF-8
+ setting due to some long field keys.
+
+Authentication plugin fixes:
+ The AuthPlugin interface needs some improvements to work better with LDAP,
+ HTTP basic auth, and other such environments. Some patches are pending.
+
+
+=== Smaller changes ===
+
+Various bugfixes, small features, and a few experimental things:
+
+* 'live preview' reduces preview reload burden on supported browsers
+* Schema reworking: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposed_Database_Schema_Changes/October_2004
+* New WikiSyntax: -- turns into — or – depending on context
+* (bug 15) Allow editors to view diff of their change before actually submitting an edit
+* (bug 190) Hide your own edits on the watchlist
+* (bug 510): Special:Randompage now works for other namespaces than NS_MAIN.
+* (bug 1015) support for the full wikisyntax in <gallery> captions.
+* (bug 1105) A "Destination filename" (save as) added to Special:Upload Upload.
+* (bug 1352) Images on description pages now get thumbnailed regardless of whether the thumbnail is larger than the original.
+* (bug 1662) A new magicword, {{CURRENTMONTHABBREV}} returns the abbreviation of the current month
+* (bug 1668) 'Date format' supported for other languages than English, see:
+ http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2005-March/028364.html
+* (bug 1739) A new magicword, {{REVISIONID}} give you the article or diff database
+ revision id, useful for proper citation.
+* (bug 1998) Updated the Russian translation.
+* It's now possible to invert the namespace selection at Special:Allpages and Special:Contributions
+* No longer using sorbs.net to check for open proxies by default.
+* What was $wgDisableUploads is now $wgEnableUploads, and should be set to true if one wishes to enable uploads.
+* Supplying a reason for a block is no longer mandatory
+* Language conversion support for category pages
+* $wgStyleSheetDirectory is no longer an alias for $wgStyleDirectory;
+* ...and more!
-Older releases were dated snapshots from the old 'stable' branch:
-
-== mediawiki-20031118 ==
-* Image deletion fixed.
-* Deletion of image old revisions now restricted to sysops
- (this is an irreversible action and not well logged)
-* Fixed maintenance scripts broken by last release's security fix
-* Many errors in rebuildlinks script fixed.
-== mediawiki-20031117 ==
+=== Caveats ===
-* SECURITY FIX: stricter checking of include path
-* Fixed user contributions next/prev bug
-* Login cookies now have the database name prefixed to allow wikis
- to coexist in the same domain. This will invalidate any old saved
- password cookies.
-* Update cache timestamp when talk pages are created
-* Saving the login form in Mozilla no longer blanks password in prefs.
-* Check existence of source page before performing a move.
-* Detect invalid titles in Special:Allpages
-* Q-encode headers on outgoing inter-user e-mail
-* Updates to some translations.
-* Added table of contents border/bg to Cologne Blue, Nostalgia skins
-* Protected pages no longer appear unprotected when visited via redirect
-* Swapped old Wikipedia logo for the MediaWiki sunflower logo
-* install.php, update.php print warning on old PHP versions,
- added compatibility functions that might or might not help
-
-No database changes since 20031107; upgrading should be clean.
+Some output, particularly involving user-supplied inline HTML, may not
+produce 100% valid or well-formed XHTML output. Testers are welcome to
+set $wgMimeType = "application/xhtml+xml"; to test for remaining problem
+cases, but this is not recommended on live sites. (This must be set for
+MathML to display properly in Mozilla.)
-== mediawiki-20031107 ==
-
-* Fixed various bugs!
-* Some speed improvements from tweaks to the table indexes
-* Limited support for memcached (see below)
-* New translations (see below)
-* Interwiki link data now kept in database for flexibility
-* Friendlier read-only source view if asked to edit a page when
- the db is locked or the page is protected.
-* Normal IP blocks auto-expire after 24 hours
-* Optional support for blocking usernames
-* Uploads disabled by default (see below)
-
-
-=== Security note ===
-
-Uploads are now disabled by default. If you've set up a secure configuration
-you can reenable uploads by putting:
-
- $wgDisableUploads = false;
-
-into LocalSettings.php.
-
-Earlier versions of MediaWiki included a bug that potentially allows logged-
-in users to delete arbitrary files in directories writable by the web server
-user by manually feeding false form data; this is now fixed.
-
-As a reminder, disable PHP script execution in the upload directory!
-You may also wish to serve HTML pages as plaintext to prevent cookie-
-stealing JavaScript attacks. Example Apache config fragment:
-
- <Directory "/Library/MediaWiki/web/upload">
- # Ignore .htaccess files
- AllowOverride None
-
- # Serve HTML as plaintext
- AddType text/plain .html .htm .shtml
-
- # Don't run arbitrary PHP code.
- php_admin_flag engine off
-
- # If you've other scripting languages, disable them too.
- </Directory>
-
-
-=== Database updates ===
-
-If you're using update.php, the necessary database changes should
-be made automatically.
-
-To manually upgrade your database from the 2003-08-29 release, run the
-following SQL scripts from the maintenance subdirectory:
-
- archives/patch-ipblocks.sql
- archives/patch-interwiki.sql
- archives/patch-indexes.sql
- interwiki.sql
-
-To copy in the Wikipedia language-prefix interwikis as well, add:
-
- wikipedia-interwiki.sql
-
-
-=== Translations ===
-
-New interface localization files are included for:
- fy Frisian
- ro Romanian
- sl Slovene
- sq Albanian
- sr Serbian
-
-
-=== Memcached ===
-
-Memcached is a distributed cache system. See http://www.danga.com/memcached/
-MediaWiki can optionally use memcached to store some data between calls
-to reduce load on the database. Currently this is limited to user and
-talk page notification data, interwiki prefix/URL matches, and the
-UTF-8 conversion tables.
-
-MediaWiki includes version 1.0.10 of the (GPL'd) PHP memcached client by
-Ryan Gilfether; if memcached is disabled it acts as a dummy object with
-minimal overhead.
-
-To use memcached you'll need PHP installed with sockets support (this is not
-in the default configure options). See docs/memcached for some more details.
-
-Additionally, you can store login session data in memcached instead of the
-local filesystem, which can help to enable load-balancing by letting login
-sessions transparently work on multiple front-end web servers. (The primary
-other issue is with uploads, which requires some care in handling.)
-
-To enable this, set $wgSessionsInMemcached = true; and set $wgCookieDomain
-appropriately if exposing multiple hostnames. This system is new and may be
-volatile; login sessions will fail dramatically if memcached is unavailable
-when this option is turned on.
+For notes on 1.4.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
=== Online documentation ===
built up on Meta-Wikipedia, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation
License:
- http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_User%27s_Guide
+ http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents
=== Mailing list ===
http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
+A low-traffic announcements-only list is also available:
+ http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
-=== UseModWiki import script ===
-
-A stripped-down UseModWiki import script is available in the maintenance
-subdirectory. It is incomplete and requires a lot of manual clean-up, but
-does function for the brave and pure of heart.
-
-
-=== Test suite removed ===
-
-The unmaintained Java-based test suite has been removed from the tarball
-release. If you really want it you can check it out from CVS.
+It's highly recommended that you sign up for one of these lists if you're
+going to run a public MediaWiki, so you can be notified of security fixes.
-== mediawiki-20030829 ==
+=== IRC help ===
-First release under MediaWiki name.
+There's usually someone online in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net
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