- = MediaWiki release notes =
+= MediaWiki release notes =
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.
hyperlinking to the site's Terms of Service page, for example
* Add new hook 'UserLoadFromDatabase' that is called while loading a user
from the database.
-* (bug 17045) Options on the block form are prefilled with the options of the
+* (bug 17045) Options on the block form are prefilled with the options of the
existing block when modifying an existing block.
-* (bug 17055) "(show/hide)" links to Special:RevisionDelete now use a CSS class
+* (bug 17055) "(show/hide)" links to Special:RevisionDelete now use a CSS class
rather than hardcoded HTML tags
* Added new hook 'WantedPages::getSQL' into SpecialWantedpages.php to allow
extensions to alter the SQL query which is used to get the list of wanted
"mw-confirmemail-pending"
* Local redirects to foreign images are now displayed on the ImagePage when
viewing on the local wiki.
+* (bug 8249) The magic words for namespaces and pagenames can now be used as
+ parser functions to return the desired namespace or normalized title/title
+ part for a given title.
+* (bug 17110) Styled #mw-data-after-content in cologneblue.css to match the
+ rest of the font
+* (bug 7556) Time zone names in signatures lack i18n
+* (bug 3311) Automatic category redirects
+* (bug 17236) Suppress 'watch user page link' for IP range blocks
+* Wrap message 'searchresulttext' (Special:Search) into a div with
+ class "mw-searchresult"
+* (bug 15283) Interwiki imports can now fetch included templates
+* Treat svn:// URLs as external links by default
+* New function to convert namespace text for display (only applies on wiki with
+ LanguageConverter class)
+* (bug 17379) Contributions-title is now parsed for magic words.
+* Preprocessor output now cached in memcached.
+* (bug 14468) Lines in classic RecentChanges and Watchlist have classes
+ "mw-line-odd" and "mw-line-even" to make styling using css possible.
+* (bug 17311) Add a note beside the gender selection menu to tell users that
+ this information will be public
+* Localize time zone regions in Special:Preferences
+* Add NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS magic word, which is like NUMBEROFUSERS, but uses
+ the active users data from site_stats.
+* (bug 13040) Gender-aware user namespace aliases
+* Add a <link rel="canonical"> tag on redirected page views
=== Bug fixes in 1.15 ===
* (bug 16968) Special:Upload no longer throws useless warnings.
* (bug 15811) Re-upload form tweaks: license fields removed, destination locked,
comment label uses better message
* Whole HTML validation ($wgValidateAllHtml) now works with external tidy
-* Parser tests no longer fail when $wgExternalLinkTarget is set in LocalSettings
-* (bug 15391) catch DBQueryErrors on external storage insertion. This avoids error
- messages on save were the edit in fact is saved.
+* Parser tests no longer fail when $wgExternalLinkTarget is set in
+ LocalSettings
+* (bug 15391) catch DBQueryErrors on external storage insertion. This avoids
+ error messages on save were the edit in fact is saved.
* (bug 17184) Remove duplicate "z" accesskey in MonoBook
* Parser tests no longer fail when $wgAlwaysUseTidy is set in LocalSettings.php
* Removed redundant dupe warnings on reupload for the same title. Dupe warnings
for identical files at different titles are still given.
* Add 'change tagging' facility, where changes can be tagged internally with
- certain designations, which are displayed on various summaries of changes, and
- the entries can be styled with CSS.
+ certain designations, which are displayed on various summaries of changes,
+ and the entries can be styled with CSS.
* (bug 17207) Fix regression breaking category page display on PHP 5.1
* Categoryfinder utility class no longer fails on invalid input or gives wrong
results for category names that include pseudo-namespaces
* (bug 17252) Galician numbering format
-* (bug 17146) Fix for UTF-8 and short word search for some possible MySQL configs
+* (bug 17146) Fix for UTF-8 and short word search for some possible MySQL
+ configs
+* (bug 7480) Internationalize database error message
+* (bug 16555) Number of links to mediawiki.org scaled back on post-installation
+* (bug 14938) Removing a section no longer leaves excess whitespace
+* (bug 17304) Fixed fatal error when thumbnails couldn't be generated for file
+ history
+* (bug 17283) Remove double URL escaping in show/hide links for log entries
+ and RevisionDeleteForm::__construct
+* (bug 17105) Numeric table sorting broken
+* (bug 17231) Transcluding special pages on wikis using language conversion no
+ longer affects the page title
+* (bug 6702) Default system messages updated/improved
+* (bug 17190) User ID on preference page no longer has delimeters
+* (bug 17341) "Powered by MediaWiki" should be on the left on RTL wikis
+* (bug 17404) "userrights-interwiki" right was missing in User::$mCoreRights
+* (bug 7509) Separation strings should be configurable
+* (bug 17420) Send the correct content type from action=raw when the HTML file
+ cache is enabled.
+* (bug 12746) Do not allow new password e-mails when wiki is in read-only mode
+* (bug 17478) Fixed a PHP Strict standards error in
+ maintenance/cleanupWatchlist.php
== API changes in 1.15 ==
* (bug 16858) Revamped list=deletedrevs to make listing deleted contributions
* (bug 15949) Add undo functionality to action=edit
* (bug 16483) Kill filesort in ApiQueryBacklinks caused by missing parentheses.
Building query properly now using makeList()
-* Add "check" parameter to action=email
+* (bug 17182) Fix pretty printer so URLs with parentheses in them are
+ autolinked correctly
+* (bug 17224) Added siprop=rightsinfo to meta=siteinfo
+* (bug 17239) Added prop=displaytitle to action=parse
+* (bug 17317) Added watch parameter to action=protect
+* (bug 17007) Added export and exportnowrap parameters to action=query
+* (bug 17326) BREAKING CHANGE: Changed output format for iiprop=metadata
+* (bug 17355) Added auwitheditsonly parameter to list=allusers
+* (bug 17007) Added action=import
+* BREAKING CHANGE: Removed rctitles parameter from list=recentchanges because
+ of performance concerns
+* Listing (semi-)deleted revisions and log entries as well in prop=revisions
+ and list=logevents
+* (bug 11430) BREAKING CHANGE: Modules may return fewer results than the
+ limit and still set a query-continue in some cases
+* (bug 17357) Added movesubpages parameter to action=move
+* (bug 17433) Added bot flag to list=watchlist&wlprop=flags output
=== Languages updated in 1.15 ===
MediaWiki supports over 300 languages. Many localisations are updated
-regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed.
+regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
+changes to languages because of MediaZilla reports.
* Austrian German (de-at) (new)
* Swiss Standard German (de-ch) (new)
* Literary Chinese (lzh) (new)
* Võro (vro) (renamed from fiu-vro)
* (bug 17151) Add magic word alias for #redirect for Vietnamese
+* (bug 17288) Messages improved for default language (English)
+* (bug 12937) Update native name for Afar
+* (bug 16909) 'histlegend' now reuses messages instead of copying them
== Compatibility ==