-= 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.
=== New features in 1.15 ===
* (bug 2242) Add an expiry time to temporary passwords
-* Special:Upload can now have a custom upload message instead of uploadtext by
- passing "uploadmsg" parameter in the url
* (bug 9947) Add PROTECTIONLEVEL parser function to return the protection level
for the current page for a given action
* (bug 17002) Add &minor= and &summary= as parameters in the url when editing,
link instead of Go button & Search button
* (bug 2314) Add links to user custom CSS and JS to Special:Preferences
* More helpful error message on raw page access if PHP_SELF isn't set
-* (bug 17145) Specific categories can be excluded from Special:UnusedCategories
- with __IGNOREUNUSED__
* (bug 13040) Gender switch in user preferences
* (bug 13040) {{GENDER:}} magic word for interface messages
+* (bug 3301) Optionally sort user list according to account creation time
+* Remote description pages for foreign file repos are now fetched in the
+ content language.
+* (bug 17180) If $wgUseFileCache is enabled, $wgShowIPinHeader is automatically
+ set to false.
+* (bug 16604) Mark non-patrolled edits in feeds with "!"
+* (bug 16604) Show title/rev in IRC for patrol log
+* (bug 16854) Whether a page is being parsed as a preview or section preview
+ can now be determined and set with ParserOptions.
=== Bug fixes in 1.15 ===
* (bug 16968) Special:Upload no longer throws useless warnings.
to 'administrator'
* (bug 14423) Check block flag validity for block logging
* DB transaction and slave-lag avoidance tweaks for Email Notifications
+* (bug 17104) Removed [Mark as patrolled] link for already patrolled revisions
+* (bug 17106) Added 'redirect=no' and 'mw-redirect' class to redirects at
+ "user contributions"
+* Rollback links on new pages removed from "user contributions"
+* (bug 15811) Re-upload form tweaks: license fields removed, destination locked,
+ comment label uses better message
+* Whole HTML validation ($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.
+* (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.
+* (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
== API changes in 1.15 ==
* (bug 16858) Revamped list=deletedrevs to make listing deleted contributions
created the page, even if it's not the top revision
* (bug 17069) Added ucshow=patrolled|!patrolled to list=usercontribs
* action=delete respects $wgDeleteRevisionsLimit and the bigdelete user right
-* (bug 17024) Added legaltitlechars field to meta=siteinfo&siprop=general output
* (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
=== Languages updated in 1.15 ===
MediaWiki supports over 300 languages. Many localisations are updated
regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed.
+* 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
== Compatibility ==