X-Git-Url: http://git.cyclocoop.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=RELEASE-NOTES;h=6a937911ff749731efc1ba58d89bd32fb3a4a158;hb=88a20cb0562bced5d77daeb68fc3bf89a5ad772c;hp=733b3f56648978903f0328cda54729751b894a7a;hpb=b896103f54e75204a4df6bbb4bf77900539cf28f;p=lhc%2Fweb%2Fwiklou.git diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES index 733b3f5664..6a937911ff 100644 --- a/RELEASE-NOTES +++ b/RELEASE-NOTES @@ -3,14 +3,152 @@ 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. - -*** COMMITTERS! Before 1.4 release, make sure 1.3.x release notes are -*** up to date in the file HISTORY. Don't put 1.3 updates here please. - -== MediaWiki 1.4 PRE-ALPHA == +** NOTE TO COMMITTERS: Before 1.5.0 release, rearrange these nicely +** and move 1.4 stuff to HISTORY. + +== MediaWiki 1.5 == + +New exciting things! Need further work and testing... +* user groups/permissions scheme +* e-mail change notifications +* '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 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 +* ...and more! + +Need to merge: +* stuff + + +== Version Enotif+Eauthent EN+EA v2.00/CVS, 14.12.2004 == +written by Thomas Gries, Berlin and Markus Arndt, Munich + +Executive summary for the impatient reader: + +Enotif adds e-mail notification to MediaWiki and sends e-mails +to watching users when a watch-listed page or user_talk page is changed +http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=454 +Visit the complete documentation on http://meta.wikipedia.org/Enotif + +Eauthent is a mechanism to use a temporary one-time password cycle +to check whether the email address a user has entered is a valid one. +http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=866 +Visit the complete documentation on http://meta.wikipedia.org/Eauthent + +The current patch has only been checked for (see DefaultSettings.php): + +- php mail() + ( = not using PEAR:Mail() module --- I do not know anyone who uses that) + $wgSMTP = false; +- MySQL database + ( = not using PostgreSQL --- I do not know anyone who uses that) + $wgDBtype = "mysql"; + $wgSearchType = "MyISAM"; + +- STILL TODO: + NEW (newpageletter) and CORR (minoreditletter) markers needs + corresponding "spacers" + +- table user_newtalk dropped; changes on usertalk pages and their + notifications are now fully handled via existing table watchlist + The user interface and behavious is unchanged to previous version. +- updaters.inc for compatibility with older mediawiki tables: + the conversion script converts existing user_newtalk entries + watchlist table entries + (user_newtalk) id ==> (watchlist) NS_USER_TALK:namefromId(id) timestamp=1 +- minor bug fixes: + updated marker now correctly shown on watchlist page + watching users number display with enhanced RC view + RCUseModStyle +- wfUrlencode() instead of rawurlencode() in enotif mails +- duplicate enotif code moved from UserTalkUpdate.php and + merged into UserMailer.php and using usermailer() solely +- fixed an enotif mail text error for user names with spaces +- fixed missing part for suppressing watching user number + +v1.36: +magic watchlist shows and counts now only the content page, notwithstanding +the content and talk page are stored separately in watchlist. +* bug fixed: rawurlencode for pagetitles in enotif mails +* bug fixed: link to userpages of anonymous user are correct now + +* Enotif v1.34 + bugs fixed regarding missing $oldid parameter + +* v1.33 +* Details: + Implements almost all enotif options as user preferences. + These are only shown on the user preference page, if they are globally + enabled by the corresponding admin option in DefaultSettings.php. + Added admin feature to let enotifs appear to come from the page editor. + This facilitates automatic mail sorting and anti-spam filtering; feature was + originally proposed by Nick Triantos, thank you ! + Page editor's email address is however only shown, if this user enabled + the option "reveal my email address" in user preferences. Otherwise, + the enotifs appear to come from WikiAdmin as usual (tricky to program, + but simply trust the algorithm. or look into UserMailer.php and + UserTalkPage.php). + +* Changes from previous enotif versions +* v1.31 is an improved version with many security and also cosmetic changes + applied after two first reviews by Brion Vibber. v1.31 is basically the same as + the older Enotif v1.30 and v1.22 versions. + + Added UseMod style for recent changes view so that only the most recent + change of any page is listed. The (diff) and (hist) still allow to retrieve the + older versions at users' discretion, but the RC view is much cleaner for + trusted environments such as medium-size companies or family wikis. + +* Enotif v1.30 redesign after review by Brion Vibber 25.10.2003 + +* v1.22 "updated (since my last visit)" also shown for users without stored + email address in preferences, so that they can see, what watched pages + have changed. +* show "updated (since my last visit)" markers in RC, history and watchlist +* Systemvariables to suppress updated marker in all views +* show number of watching users in RC and on bottom of articles in + classic skin and in monobook skin +* Systemvariables in DefaultSettings.php to enable or disable features +* v1.21 now suppresses displaying the marker "updated (since my last visit)" + in recent changes view for the older (already visited) versions of watched + pages - i.e. page versions before the enotif was sent do not bear that + marker any longer. +* enotif mails come with a link to the diff view between current and last + visited version of the watching user. +*database structure is changed automatically when installing via the + recommended way (starting index.php and re-using the old database name). + run php /maintenance/update.php + OR see /maintenance/archives/patch-email-notification.sql and apply the + command + ALTER TABLE watchlist + ADD (wl_notificationtimestamp varchar(14) binary NOT NULL default '0'); + manually to your database, which does not harm the non notification versions + +*adding a page x to the watchlist does automatically add a watch + for the accompanying talk_page talk:x and vice versa; + +== MediaWiki 1.4 BETA == + +[Not everything is 100% working in beta yet, the installer needs fixes still.] Major changes from 1.3.x: -* (?) Support for table prefixes for better sharing with other web apps +* Support for table prefixes for better sharing with other web apps * (?) PostgreSQL support * Optional article validation voting features * 'Recentchanges Patrol' to mark new edits that haven't yet been viewed @@ -33,6 +171,8 @@ Major changes from 1.3.x: * New tag "" to generate a table of image thumbnails * Installer die if it can not write LocalSettings.php (bug #733) * Various special pages no more show the rss/atom feed links (bug #705) +* Support for external authentication plug-ins +* (bug 114) use category backlinks in Special:Recentchangeslinked * ... and more! === Caveats ===