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
-* 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 hook AbortNewAccountAuto, called before account creation from AuthPlugin-
+ or ExtUser-driven requests.
+* $wgCapitalLinkOverrides added to configure per-namespace capitalization
=== New features in 1.16 ===
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
-* New hook ShowMissingArticle so extensions can modify the output for
+* 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.
-* 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.
+* 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 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) $wgMaximumMovedPages should only count pages actually moved
Special:Recentchanges's RSS and Atom feed cache
* The installer will now try to bypass PHP's max_execution_time
* (bug 20260) SQLite no longer tries to automatically create the database at
- execution time, this now happens only at install time; if it is not available
+ execution time, this now happens only at install time; if it is not available
at script execution, it now throws an exception
* Fixed EditFilterMerged hook so the hookError parameter serves a purpose
(analogous to EditFilter hook)
* (bug 20634) The installer-created database user will now have all rights on
the database so that upgrades will go more smoothly.
* (bug 18180) Special:Export ignores limit, dir, offset parameters
-* User::getBlockedStatus() works for all kinds of user objects and doesn't
+* User::getBlockedStatus() works for all kinds of user objects and doesn't
assume the user object is equal to the current-user object ($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
+* (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.
== 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.
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)