X-Git-Url: http://git.cyclocoop.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=RELEASE-NOTES;h=599214d0c89ea180f3010f38202df5ddf62025c9;hb=e137ce07a8fc1345b42e95d055dcba2a09b9d467;hp=9442e28f8e78cedb89f95eeed7a96d0afda4053d;hpb=9f371cf9a13d4e2a568072793f1b1eea7680a75e;p=lhc%2Fweb%2Fwiklou.git diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES index 9442e28f8e..599214d0c8 100644 --- a/RELEASE-NOTES +++ b/RELEASE-NOTES @@ -1,5 +1,174 @@ = MediaWiki release notes = +== Version 1.3.0beta3, 2004-06-12 == + +**** THIS IS A BETA AND MAY STUNT YOUR GROWTH OR KILL YOUR PETS **** + +Look & layout: +* New default layout 'MonoBook' +* Print stylesheet now built-in to every page +* More or less correct XHTML 1.0 (served as text/html by default) + +Wiki features: +* Image captions can now include links and other basic formatting +* Image bounding box can be specified instead of width, e.g. as + 100x100px, making the image not wider than 100px and not higher + than 100px, keeping aspect ratio. +* Templates have been expanded with parameters, and separated from + the MediaWiki: localization scheme. +* Categories more or less work +* added a special page for listing users with sysop rights. + +Editing: +* Automatic merging of edit conflicts that don't directly interfere +* Edit summaries can now include basic formatting and links + +Metadata and output: +* Linked Creative Commons copyright metadata (optional) +* RSS 2.0 & Atom 0.3 feeds for Recent Changes, New Pages + +Optional modules: +* WikiHiero hieroglyphic module can be added (separate download) +* Timeline module can be added (separate download). + Requires ploticus. +* TeX now has an experimental MathML output mode (incomplete) + +Installation and upgrading: +* The old install.php and update.php have been removed. In-place + installation introduced in 1.2 is now the standard installation + and upgrade method, see INSTALL for directions. + +Database: +* The links table has been changed to use a cur_id for l_from. + The link tables must be converted on upgrade, which may entail + some downtime. + +Code and compatibility: +* Should now run clean with error reporting set to E_ALL. +* register_globals hack from 1.2 has been replaced with safer code +* Bundled PHPTAL 0.7.0 from http://phptal.sourceforge.net/ + (with some patches) +* Most image-related code moved to Image.php +* More fixes for PHP 4.1.2 (thanks to Asheesh Laroia) +* URL encoding fix for anchors +* All languages now available in UTF-8 mode +* Various other fixes + +=== Caveats === + +Some output, particularly involving user-supplied inline HTML, may not +produce 100% valid or well-formed XHTML output. Testers are welcome to +set $wgMimeType = "application/xhtml+xml"; to test for remaining problem +cases, but this is not recommended on live sites. (This must be set for +MathML to display properly in Mozilla.) + + +== Version 1.2.6, 2004-05-24 == +* Spam blocker ($wgSpamRegex - refuses to save edits that match) +* Updated documentation about $wgWhitelistRead +* Ensure that searchindex table is created as MyISAM +* Interwiki cache timeout (memcached) +* Fix uploads on Windows with magic_quotes_gpc +* Some config fixes for Windows (slashes etc) +* Local interwiki URL redirects +* Fixed obscure deletion problem in squid mode on corrupt entries +* Language files updated to remove more hard-coded "Wikipedia" strings + +== Version 1.2.5, 2004-05-01 == +* Fixed install problem with blank root password +* Fixed Special:Emailuser/Username links +* Fixed main-page edit links on fuzzy search results +* Fixed wikipedia-interwiki.sql +* Fixed install with apache2filter (ugly URLs) +* IP in 'go' search brings up contributions +* Switch from broken & to ? on top-level wiki URL hack + +== Version 1.2.4, 2004-04-13 == + +* Fixed edit toolbar in Mozilla +* Diff links in Contributions for 'top' edits +* Fixed Nostalgia skin drop-down for register_globals off +* Backported optional open proxy blocker +* Backported $wgWhitelistRead +* $wgCapitalLinks option to force full case sensitivity in titles +* Cleaned up error handling when can't talk to database +* Disabled unsafe command-line installer (remove the "die()" call to use) + +== Version 1.2.3, 2004-04-02 == + +* Fixed an in-place install bug with non-root MySQL user +* Fixed history diff checkboxes bug on titles with ampersands +* Fixed printable link bug on special pages with parameters +* Fixed bug that broke IP blocking w/o memcached +* Turns off E_NOTICE warnings if PHP settings have them on + (you can grope in and turn this off if you like to debug) + +== Version 1.2.2, 2004-03-28 == + +* Fixed an upgrade bug introduced in 1.2.1. +* Disabled $wgUseCategoryMagic, which feature is incomplete broken + +== Version 1.2.1, 2004-03-27 == + +Installation, compatibility, security fixlets: +* Detect use of PHP as CGI and disable index.php/Title URLs +* Try to auto-create math tmp & output directories if not present +* Disable Asksql in default install ($wgAllowSysopQueries) +* Better handling of get_magic_quotes_gpc (apostrophe problems) +* French localisation no longer hard-codes "Wikipedia" name + +== Version 1.2.0 == + +New features in 1.2: +* Image resizing/thumbnail generation +* Stricter upload file extension blacklist and whitelist options +* More flexible blocking system; time period may be set +* Handier sysop account management. An account marked "bureaucrat" + may assign sysop access to other accounts via Special:Makesysop. + (The exact details of this may change in the future) +* Support for a squid cache with explicit purging of cached anon pages +* Optional compression of old revision text (requires zlib support) +* Fuzzy title search (experimental, requires memcached) +* Page rendering cache (experimental) +* Editing toolbar to demonstrate wiki syntax to newbies + (off by default in user preferences) +* Support for authenticated SMTP outgoing e-mail (experimental) +* It's now possible to assign sysop accounts from within the wiki. + An account with this ability must be labeled with the "bureaucrat" + privilege, such as the 'Developer' account created by the install. + +Fixes and tweaks: +* Now works with register_globals off! +* Works with short tags disabled. +* Should work out of the box on MySQL 3.2.x again. On 4.x set + $wgEnablePersistentLC = true; to turn on the link cache table + for a slight rendering speed boost. +* rebuildMessages.php can now selectively update new messages, or + overwrite everything. +* Various bug fixes. +* Other stuff we forgot. +* Documentation more out of date than ever before! + +=== Behavior changes === + +* wiki.phtml and redirect.phtml are now renamed to index.php and redirect.php + The old names are provided too for compatibility, but make sure they don't + conflict if you've been putting other files in your wiki. +* Uploaded filenames are more strictly checked than before. See bits in + DefaultSettings.php to tweak this behavior to your needs. +* Database messages are now enabled by default, so the interface messages can + be tweaked through the wiki with a sysop account. Disable this if you + don't want the performance hit. + +=== Database changes === + +An index was added to recentchanges table to speed up Newpages +(patch-rc-newindex.sql for manual updaters). + +Expiration date field has been added to ipblocks table +(patch-ipb_expiry.sql for manual updaters). + + == Version 1.1.0, 2003-12-08 == This is the new production release. Any following 1.1.x releases are expected @@ -25,6 +194,8 @@ Fixes and tweaks: * Problems with segments in section titles etc mitigated * Contributions offset and minor edit bugs fixed * Whatlinkshere now sorted alphabetically +* Various exciting new profiling options. +* Debug log is off by default. * Various small bugs fixed. Internal changes: