bump ver to 1.5alpha1; add some upgrade notes (needs work)

diff --git a/UPGRADE b/UPGRADE
index 4449ffa..462c89b 100644 (file)
--- a/UPGRADE
+++ b/UPGRADE
@@ -17,6 +17,27 @@ Basically, to upgrade a wiki you:
 * Run the installer to upgrade the database schema (if necessary).
 
 
+== IMPORTANT: Upgrading to 1.5 ==
+
+Major changes have been made to the schema from 1.4.x. The updater
+has not been fully tested for all conditions, and might well break.
+
+DO NOT ATTEMPT TO UPGRADE A LIVE, PUBLIC SITE TO 1.5 AT THIS TIME.
+NEVER EVER ATTEMPT TO PERFORM AN UPGRADE WITHOUT BACKING UP FIRST!
+
+On a large site, the schema update might take a long time. It might
+explode, or leave your database half-done or otherwise badly hurting.
+
+Among other changes, note that Latin-1 encoding (ISO-8859-1) is
+no longer supported. Latin-1 wikis will need to be upgraded to
+UTF-8, however the updater has not yet been updated to support
+this automatically.
+
+Message changes:
+* A number of additional UI messages have been chagned from HTML to
+  wikitext, and will need to be manually fixed if customized.
+
+
 === Web installer ===
 
 You can use the web-based installer wizard if you first remove the
@@ -68,6 +89,7 @@ http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2004-November/026359.html
 
 == Caveats ==
 
+
 === Upgrading from 1.4.2 or earlier ===
 
 1.4.3 has added new fields to the sitestats table. These fields are

diff --git a/includes/DefaultSettings.php b/includes/DefaultSettings.php
index 7ca31c6..971bb98 100644 (file)
--- a/includes/DefaultSettings.php
+++ b/includes/DefaultSettings.php
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 if( defined( 'MEDIAWIKI' ) ) {
 
 /** MediaWiki version number */
-$wgVersion                     = '1.5pre-alpha';
+$wgVersion                     = '1.5alpha1';
 
 /** Name of the site. It must be changed in LocalSettings.php */
 $wgSitename         = 'MediaWiki';