THIS IS NOT A RELEASE YET
-MediaWiki 1.19 is an alpha-quality branch and is not recommended for use in
+This is a beta release of the MediaWiki 1.19 branch. Please test it and let us
+know what you think of it. Beta releases are not recommended for use in
production.
+=== Changes since 1.19 beta 2 ===
+* Special:Watchlist no longer sets links to feed when the user is anonymous
+* (bug 35565) Special:Log/patrol doesn't indicate whether patrolling was
+ automatic
+
+=== Changes since 1.19 beta 1 ===
+* (bug 35014) Including a special page no longer sets the page's title to the
+ included page.
+* (bug 35019) Edit summaries are no longer transformed in notification e-mails.
+* (bug 35152) Help message for e-mail is shown again in user preferences.
+* (bug 34887) $3 and $4 parameters are now substituted correctly in message
+ "movepage-moved".
+* (bug 34841) Edit links are no longer displayed when display old page versions
+* (bug 34889) User name should be normalized on Special:Contributions.
+* (bug 35051) If heading has a trailing space after == then its name is not
+ preloaded into edit summary on section edit.
+* (bug 31417) New ID mw-content-text around the actual page text, without categories,
+ contentSub, ... The same div often also contains the class mw-content-ltr/rtl.
+* (bug 35303) Proxy and DNS blacklist blocking works again
+* (bug 35294) jquery.byteLimit shouldn't set element specific variables outside
+ the "return this.each" loop.
+* (bug 22555) Remove or skip strip markers from tag hooks like <nowiki> in
+ core parser functions which operate on strings, such as padleft.
+* (bug 18295) Don't expose strip markers when a tag appears inside a link
+ inside a heading.
+* (bug 34907) Fixed exposure of tokens through load.php that could have facilitated
+ CSRF attacks
+
=== Configuration changes in 1.19 ===
-* Changed LoginAuthenticateAudit hook so that it may be called before a
- valid user is available. In those cases, an anonymouse user object
- will be supplied.
* Removed SkinTemplateSetupPageCss hook; use BeforePageDisplay instead.
* (bug 27132) movefile right granted by default to registered users.
* Default cookie lifetime ($wgCookieExpiration) is increased to 180 days.
* Introduced $wgQueryPageDefaultLimit (defaults to 50) for the number of
items to show by default on query pages (special pages such as Whatlinkshere).
* (bug 32470) Increase the length of ug_group.
-* (bug 32239) Removed wgEnableTooltipsAndAccesskeys.
+* (bug 32239) Removed $wgEnableTooltipsAndAccesskeys.
* Removed $wgVectorShowVariantName.
-* Removed $wgExtensionAliasesFiles. Use wgExtensionMessagesFiles.
+* Removed $wgExtensionAliasesFiles. Use $wgExtensionMessagesFiles.
+* Removed $wgResourceLoaderInlinePrivateModules, now always enabled.
=== New features in 1.19 ===
-* (bug 19838) Possibility to get all interwiki prefixes if the interwiki
+* (bug 19838) Add ability to get all interwiki prefixes also if the interwiki
cache is used.
* $wgDnsBlacklistUrls now accepts an array with url and key as the
elements to work with DNSBLs that require keys, such as
localisation.
* (bug 30364) LanguageConverter now depends on the page content language
instead of the wiki content language.
-* Jump links will now be usable in css-capable browsers instead of only
+* Jump links will now be usable in CSS-capable browsers instead of only
in outdated text browsers.
* New common*.css files usable by skins instead of having to copy piles
of generic styles from MonoBook or Vector's css.
* Introduce $wgEnableSearchContributorsByIP which controls whether searching
for an IP address redirects to the contributions list for that IP.
* (bug 8859) Database::update should take array of tables too.
-* (bug 19698) Inverse selection for Special:Contributions.
+* (bug 19698) Add "Inverse namespaces" option to Special:Contributions.
* (bug 24037) Add byte length of revision to Special:Contributions.
* (bug 1672) Added $wgDisableUploadScriptChecks to allow uploading of files
containing HTML or JS. DISABLING THESE CHECKS IS VERY DANGEROUS.
* New path mappings can be added using the WebRequestPathInfoRouter hook
and adding paths to the PathRouter.
-* (bug 32666) Special:ActiveUsers now allows a subpage to be used as the
- username (eg. Special:ActiveUsers/Username)
-* New JavaScript variable wgPageContentLanguage
-* Added new debugging toolbar, enabled with $wgDebugToolbar
+* (bug 32666) Special:ActiveUsers now allows a subpage to be used as value for the
+ "target" query parameter (eg. Special:ActiveUsers/Username).
+* New JavaScript variable wgPageContentLanguage.
+* Added new debugging toolbar, enabled with $wgDebugToolbar.
* Differences in the history page now uses slightly better colors for people
- perceiving colors differently. Colors comes from the French Wikipedia.
-* (bug 32879) Upgrade jQuery to 1.7.1
-* jQuery UI upgraded to 1.8.17
+ perceiving colors differently.
+* (bug 32879) Upgrade jQuery to 1.7.1.
+* jQuery UI upgraded to 1.8.17.
* Extensions can use the 'Language::getMessagesFileName' hook to define new
languages using messages files outside of core.
-* (bug 32512) Include 'associated namespace' checkbox on Special:Contributions
+* (bug 32512) Add 'Associated namespace' checkbox to Special:Contributions.
* Added $wgSend404Code, true by default, which can be set to false to send a
200 status code instead of 404 for nonexistent articles.
* (bug 33447) Link to the broken image tracking category from Special:Wantedfiles.
* (bug 27724) Add timestamp to job queue.
-* (bug 30339) Implement SpecialPage for running javascript tests. Disabled by default, due to
- tests potentially being harmful, not to be run on a production wiki.
+* (bug 30339) Implement SpecialPage for running javascript tests. Disabled by default,
+ due to tests potentially being harmful, not to be run on a production wiki.
Enable by setting $wgEnableJavaScriptTest to true.
* Extensions can use the RequestContextCreateSkin hook to override what skin is
loaded in some contexts.
* (bug 29309) Allow CSS class per tooltip (tipsy).
* (bug 33565) Add accesskey/tooltip to submit buttons on Special:EditWatchlist.
* (bug 17959) Inline rendering/thumbnailing for Gimp XCF images.
+* (bug 27775) Namespace has it's own XML tag in the XML dump file.
+* (bug 30513) Redirect tag is now resolved in XML dump file.
+* sha1 xml tag added to XML dump file.
+* (bug 33646) Badtitle error page now emits a 400 HTTP status.
+* Special:MovePage now has a dropdown menu for namespaces.
+* (bug 34420) Special:Version now shows git HEAD sha1 when available.
+* (bug 33952) Refactor mw.toolbar to allow dynamic additions at any time.
+* Now possible to specify separate section title and edit summary when adding
+ a new section to a page via the edit API action.
=== Bug fixes in 1.19 ===
* $wgUploadNavigationUrl should be used for file redlinks if.
$wgUploadMissingFileUrl is not set. The first was used for this
until the second was introduced in 1.17.
+* BREAKING CHANGE: Style rules for wikitable are now more specific and prevent
+ inheritance to nested tables which caused various issues (bug 30485 and bug
+ 33434). If your wiki has overriden rules for ".wikitable", please revise them and
+ adjust where neccecary. For comparison, use the "table.wikitable" section in
+ skins/common/shared.css as base.
+* $wgUploadNavigationUrl is now used for file redlinks if
+ $wgUploadMissingFileUrl is not set. The former was used for this until the
+ second was introduced in 1.17.
* (bug 27894) Move 'editondblclick' event listener down from body to
div#bodyContent.
* (bug 30172) The check for posix_isatty() in maintenance scripts did not detect
require_once() instead require() for included extensions.
* Do not convert text in the user interface language to another script.
* (bug 26283) Previewing user JS/CSS pages didn't load other user JS/CSS pages.
-* (bug 11374) Improved diff readability for colorblind people.
* (bug 26486) ResourceLoader modules with paths to nonexistent files cause PHP
warnings/notices to be thrown.
-* (bug 30335) Fix for HTMLForms using GET breaking when non-friendly URLs are
- used.
-* (bug 28649) Avoiding half truncated multi-byte unicode characters when
+* (bug 30335) Fix for HTMLForms using GET that were breaking when non-friendly
+ URLs are used.
+* (bug 28649) Preventing half truncated multi-byte unicode characters when
truncating log comments.
-* Show --batch-size option in help of maintenance scripts that support it
+* Show --batch-size option in help of maintenance scripts that support it.
* (bug 4381) Magic quotes cleaning was not comprehensive, key strings were not
unescaped.
* (bug 23057) Importers no longer can 'edit' or 'create' a fully-protected page by
* Allow moving the associated talk pages of subpages even if the base page
has no subpage.
* Per page edit-notices now work in namespaces without subpages enabled.
-* (bug 30245) Use the correct way to construct a log page title.
-* (bug 31081) $wgEnotifUseJobQ caused many unnecessary jobs to be queued.
+* (bug 31081) $wgEnotifUseJobQ is no longer unconditionally enqueueing jobs.
* (bug 30202) File names are now restricted on upload to 240 bytes, because of
restrictions on some of the database fields.
* Timezones are now recognised in user preferences when offset is different
due to DST.
-* (bug 31692) "summary" parameter now also work when undoing revisions.
+* (bug 31692) "summary" parameter now also works when undoing revisions.
* (bug 18823) "move succeeded" text displayed bluelinks even when redirect was
suppressed.
* (bug 19186) Special:UserLogin's title on Special:SpecialPages now says
"create account" when the user cannot create an account.
* (bug 31818) 'usercreated' message now supports GENDER.
* (bug 32022) Our phpunit.php script can now be executed from another directory.
-* (bug 26020) Setting $wgEmailConfirmToEdit to true no longer removes diffs
+* (bug 26020) Setting $wgEmailConfirmToEdit to true no longer removes diffs.
from recent changes feeds.
* (bug 30232) add current time to message wlnote on Special:Watchlist.
* (bug 29110) $wgFeedDiffCutoff did not affect new pages.
* (bug 33101) Viewing a User or User talk of username resembling IP ending
with .xxx causes Internal error.
* Warning about undefined index in certain situations when $wgLogRestrictions
- causes the first log type requested to be removed but not the others
+ causes the first log type requested to be removed but not the others.
* Use separate message ('prefixindex-namespace') for title of
Special:PrefixIndex rather then re-using Special:AllPages's allinnamespace.
* (bug 33156) Special:Block now allows you to confirm you want to block yourself
when using non-normalized username.
-* (bug 33246) News icon shown for news:// URLs but not for news: URLs
+* (bug 33246) News icon shown for news:// URLs but not for news: URLs.
* (bug 33305) Make mw.util.addCSS resistant to IE's @font-face bug by setting
cssText after DOM insertion.
* (bug 30711) When adding a new section to a page with section=new, the text is
for backward compatibility.
* (bug 31469) Make sure tracking category messages expand variables like
{{NAMESPACE}} relative to correct title.
-* (bug 30485 and bug 33434) Style rules for wikitable are now more specific and
- prevent inheritance to nested tables which caused various issues.
* (bug 33454) ISO-8601 week-based year number (format character 'o') is now
calculated correctly with respect to timezone.
* (bug 32219) InstantCommons now fetches content from Wikimedia Commons using
* (bug 33819) Display file sizes in appropriate units.
* (bug 32948) {{REVISIONID}} and related variables are no longer blank after doing
a null edit.
+* (bug 33880) $wgUsersNotifiedOnAllChanges should not send e-mail to user who made
+ the edit.
+* (bug 33902) Decoding %2B with mw.Uri.decode results in ' ' instead of +.
+* (bug 33762) QueryPage-based special pages no longer misses *-summary message.
+* Other sizes links are no longer generated for wikis without a 404 thumbnail handler.
+* (bug 29454) Enforce byteLimit for page title input on Special:MovePage.
+* (bug 34114) CSSMin::remap() doesn't respect its $embed parameter.
+* Special:Contributions/newbies now shows the contributions for the user "newbies".
+ New user contributions are obtained using the form or using ?contribs=newbie in URL.
+* It is now possible to delete images that have no corresponding description pages.
+* (bug 33165) GlobalFunctions.php line 1312: Call to a member function
+ getText() on a non-object.
+* (bug 31676) Group dynamically inserted CSS into a single <style> tag, to work
+ around a bug where not all styles were applied in Internet Explorer.
+* (bug 28936, bug 5280) Broken or invalid titles can't be removed from watchlist.
+* (bug 34600) Older skins using useHeadElement=false were broken in 1.18.
+* (bug 34604) [mw.config] wgActionPaths should be an object instead of a numeral
+ array.
+* (bug 29753) mw.util.tooltipAccessKeyPrefix should be alt-shift for Chrome
+ on Windows
+* (bug 25095) Special:Categories should also include the first relevant item
+ when "from" is filled.
+* (bug 12262) Indents and lists are now aligned
+* (bug 34972) An error occurred while changing your watchlist settings for
+ [[Special:WhatLinksHere/Example]]
=== API changes in 1.19 ===
* Made action=edit less likely to return "unknownerror", by returning the actual error
- message (which may have come from a hook call or similar)
+ message (which may have come from a hook call or similar).
* (bug 19838) siprop=interwikimap can now use the interwiki cache.
* (bug 29748) Add API search prefix support.
* (bug 29684) Set forgotten parameter types in ApiQueryIWLinks.
values is given as an array.
* (bug 32948) {{REVISIONID}} and related variables are no longer blank after
calling action=purge&forcelinkupdate.
+* (bug 34377) action=watch now parses messages using the correct title instead
+ of "API".
+* (bug 35036) ResourceLoaderWikiModule should auto-update when messages (created
+ or overwritten) in the MediaWiki namespace change.
=== Languages updated in 1.19 ===
=== Other changes in 1.19 ===
* BREAKING CHANGE: Legacy global array 'ta' and global function 'akeytt' have
- been removed from wikibits.js
+ been removed from wikibits.js.
* jquery.mwPrototypes module was renamed to jquery.mwExtension.
* The maintenance script populateSha1.php was renamed to the more concise
populateImageSha1.php.
methods have been removed, the variant is now part of the $query argument.
* Removed Title::isValidCssJsSubpage(), deprecated since 1.17 in favor of
using Title::isCssJsSubpage() or checking Title::isWrongCaseCssJsPage().
-* (bug 24430) Remove number of column for edit field in preference page.
* Support for the deprecated hook MagicWordMagicWords was removed.
+* The Xml::namespaceSelector method has been deprecated, please use
+ Html::namespaceSelector instead (note that the parameters have changed also).
+* (bug 33746) Preload popular ResourceLoader modules (mediawiki.util) as stop-gap
+ for scripts missing dependencies.
+ New configuration variable $wgPreloadJavaScriptMwUtil has been introduced for this
+ (set to false by default for new installations). Set to true if your wiki has a large
+ amount of user/site scripts that are lacking dependency information. In the short to
+ medium term these user/site scripts should be fixed by adding the used modules to the
+ dependencies in the module registry and/or wrapping them in a callback to mw.loader.using.
+* MediaWiki now requires MySQL 5.0.2 or later when using a MySQL database.
== Compatibility ==
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for pages that explicitly state that their contents are in the public domain):
- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation
+ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation
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