X-Git-Url: http://git.cyclocoop.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=RELEASE-NOTES;h=d4376bfcf2d758be18071edf5d33b268846aafa9;hb=f43c4521fc88b4a75f4fc67c6d08624a6fbf7282;hp=713b4416e31d6bac5599dba66725349255cd90f1;hpb=9768b91b1c97c6982b3b5c2ddab05d741a896a19;p=lhc%2Fweb%2Fwiklou.git diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES index 713b4416e3..d4376bfcf2 100644 --- a/RELEASE-NOTES +++ b/RELEASE-NOTES @@ -3,6 +3,62 @@ 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. +== MediaWiki 1.5 beta 4 == + +July 30, 2005 + +MediaWiki 1.5 beta 4 is a preview release of the new 1.5 release series. +A number of bugs have been fixed since beta 3; see the full changelist below. + + +== MediaWiki 1.5 beta 3 == + +July 7, 2005 + +MediaWiki 1.5 beta 3 is a preview release of the new 1.5 release +series, with a security update over beta 2. + +Incorrect escaping of a parameter in the page move template could +be used to inject JavaScript code by getting a victim to visit a +maliciously constructed URL. Users of vulnerable releases are +recommended to upgrade to this release. + +Vulnerable versions: +* 1.5 preview series: n <= 1.5beta2 vulnerable, fixed in 1.5beta3 +* 1.4 stable series: 1.4beta6 <= n <= 1.4.5 vulnerable, fixed in 1.4.6 +* 1.3 legacy series: not vulnerable + +This release also includes several bug fixes and localization updates. +See the changelog at the end of this file for a detailed list. + + + +== MediaWiki 1.5 beta 2 == + +July 5, 2005 + +MediaWiki 1.5 beta 2 is a preview release of the new 1.5 release series. +While most exciting new bugs should have been ironed out at this point, +third-party wiki operators should probably not run this beta release +on a public site without closely following additional development. + +Anyone who _has_ been running beta 1 is very very strongly advised to +upgrade to beta 2, as it fixes many bugs from the previous beta including +a couple of HTML and SQL injections. + +This release should be followed by one or two release candidates and +a 1.5.0 final within the next few weeks. + +Beta upgraders, note there are some minor database changes. For upgrades +from 1.4, see the file UPGRADE for details on significant database and +configuration file changes. + +Beta 2 includes a preliminary command-line XML wiki dump importer tool, +maintenance/importDump.php, paired with maintenance/dumpBackup.php. +These use the same format as Special:Export and Special:Import, able +to package a wiki's entire page set independent of the backend database +and compression format. + == MediaWiki 1.5 beta 1 == @@ -448,6 +504,7 @@ edit area) and &editintro=Page_name (load text of an existing page instead of MediaWiki:Newpagetext) to &action=edit, if page is new. * (bugs 2633, 2672, 2685, 2695) Fix Estonian, Portuguese, Italian, Finnish and Spanish numeric formatting +* Fixed Swedish numeric formatting * (bug 2658) Fix signature time, localtime to match timezone offset again * Files from shared repositories (e.g. commons) now display with their image description pages when viewed on local wikis. @@ -463,9 +520,118 @@ of MediaWiki:Newpagetext) to &action=edit, if page is new. * (bug 923) Fix title and subtitle for rclinked special page * (bug 2642) watchdetails message in several languages used instead of [ ] * (bug 2181) basic CSB language localisation by Tomasz G. Sienicki (thanks for the patch) -* (bug 2632) also adjust height when zooming an image by giving only width * Fix correct use of escaping in edit toolbar bits * Removed language conversion support from Icelandic +* (bug 2616) Fix proportional image scaling, giving correct height +* (bug 2640) Include width and height attributes on unscaled images +* Workaround for mysterious problem with bogus epoch If-Last-Modified reqs +* (bug 1109) Suppress compressed output on 304 responses +* (bug 2674) Include some site configuration info in export data: + namespaces definitions, case-sensitivity, site name, version. +* Use xml:space="preserve" hint on export elements +* Make language variant selection work again for zh + +== Changes since 1.5beta2 == + +* Escaped & correctly in Special:Contributions +* (bug 2534) Hide edit sections with CSS to make right click to edit section work +* (bug 2708) Avoid undefined notice on cookieless login attempt +* (bug 2188) Correct template namespace for Greek localization +* Fixed number formatting for Dutch +* (bug 1355) add class noprint to commonPrint.css +* (bug 2350) Massive update for Limburgish (li) language using Wikipédia +* Massive update for Arab (ar) language using Wikipédia +* (bug 1560) Massive update for Kurdish (ku) language using Wikipédia +* (bug 2709) Some messages were not read from database +* (bug 2416) Don't allow search engine robots to index or follow nonexisting articles +* Fix escaping in page move template. +* (bug 153) Discrepancy between thumbnail size and height attribute + +== Changes since 1.5beta3 == + +* Fix talk page move handling +* (bug 2721) New language file for Vietnamese with the Vietnamese number notation +* (bug 2749)   would appear as a literal in image galleries for Cs, Fr, Fur, Pl and Sv +* (bug 787) external links being rendered when they only have one slash +* Fixed a missing typecast in Language::dateFormat() that would cause some + interesting errors with signitures. +* (bug 2764) Number format for Nds +* (bug 1553) Stop forcing lowercase in Monobook skin for German language. +* (bug 1064) Implements Special:Unusedcategories +* (bug 2311) New language file for Macedonian +* Fix nohistory message on empty page history +* Fix fatal error in history when validation on +* Cleaned up email notification message formatting +* Finally fixed Special:Disambiguations that was broke since SCHEMA_WORK +* (bug 2761) fix capitalization of "i" in Turkish +* (bug 2789) memcached image metadata now cleared after deletion +* Add serialized version number to image metadata cache records +* (bug 2780) Fix thumbnail generation with GD for new image schema +* (bug 2791) Slovene numeric format +* (bug 655) Provide empty search form when searching for nothing +* Nynorsk numeric format fix +* (bug 2825) Fix regression in newtalk notifications for anons w/ enotif off +* (bug 2833) Fix bug in previous fix +* With $wgCapitalLinks off, accept off-by-first-letter-case in 'go' match +* Optional parameters for [[Special:Listusers]] +* (bug 2832) [[Special:Listadmins]] redirects to [[Special:Listusers/sysop]] +* (bug 785) Parser did not get out of
 with list elements
+* Some shared upload fixes
+* (bug 2768) section=new on nonexistent talk page does not add heading
+* support preload= parameter for section=new
+* show comment subject in preview when using section=new
+* use comment form when creating a new talk page
+* (bug 460) Properly handle 
tags as a block. +* Undo inconsistent editing behavior change +* (bug 2835) Back out fix for bug 2802, caused regressions in category sort +* PHP 4.1.2 compatibility fix: define floatval() equivalent if missing +* (bug 2901) Number format for Catalan +* Special:Allpages performance hacks: index memcached caching, removed + inverse checkbox, use friendlier relative offsets in index build +* Bring back "Chick" skin for mobile devices. It needs testing. +* Fix spelling of $wgForwardSearchUrl in DefaultSettings.php +* Specify USE INDEX on Allpages chunk queries, sometimes gets lost + due to bogus optimization +* (bug 275) Section duplication fix +* Remove unused use of undefined variable in UserMailer +* Fix notice on search index update due to non-array +* (bug 2885) Fix fatal errors and notices in PHP 5.1.0beta3 +* (bug 2931) Fix additional notices on reference use in PHP 4.4.0 +* (bug 2774) Add three new $wgHooks to LogPage which enable extensions to add + their own logtypes, see extensions/Renameuser/SpecialRenameuser.php for an + example of this. +* (bug 740) Messages from extensions now appear in Special:Allmessages +* (bug 2857) fixed parsing of lists in
 sections
+* (bug 796) Trackback support
+* Fix 1.5 regression: weird, backwards diff links on new pages in enhanced RC
+  are now suppressed as before.
+* New skin: Simple
+* "uselang" and "useskin" URL parameters can now be used in the URL when
+  viewing a page, to change the language and skin of a page respectively.
+* Skins can now be previewed in preferences
+* (bug 2943) AuthPlugin::getCanonicalName() name canonicalization hook,
+  patch from robla
+* Wrap revision insert & page update in a transaction, rollback on late
+  edit conflict.
+* (bug 2953) 'other' didn't work in Special:Blockip when localized
+* (bug 2958) Rollback and delete auto-summary should be in the project's
+  content language
+* Removed useless protectreason message
+* Spelling fix: $wgUrlProtcols -> $wgUrlProtocols
+* Switch Moldovan local name to cyrillic
+* Fix typo in undefined array index access prevention
+* (bug 2947) Update namespaces for sr localization
+* (bug 2952) Added Asturian language file with translated namespaces
+* (bug 2676) Apply a protective transformation on editing input/output
+  for browsers that hit the Unicode blacklist. Patch by plugwash.
+* (bug 2999) Fix encoding conversion of pl_title in upgrade1_5.php
+* compressOld.php disabled, as it's known to be broken.
+
+
+=== Changes since 1.5beta4 ===
+
+* Fix Special:Allmessages under PHP 5
+* (bug ????) Special:Watchlist allowed only one type of limit at a time
 
 
 === Caveats ===