== MediaWiki 1.19 ==
-THIS IS NOT A RELEASE YET
+MediaWiki 1.19 is a large release that contains many new features and bug
+fixes. This is a summary of the major changes of interest to users.
+You can consult the RELEASE-NOTES-1.19 file for the full list of changes in
+this version.
-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.
+Our thanks go to everyone who helped to improve MediaWiki by testing the beta
+release and submitting bug reports.
=== 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
+* Special:Watchlist no longer sets links to feed when the user is anonymous.
+* (bug 35961) Hash comparison should always be strict.
+* Fix broken email confirmation expiration caused by MWCryptRand changes.
+* (bug 35671) PHP Notice: Undefined index: gettoken in includes/api/ApiMain.php
+ on line 598.
+* (bug 36042) 'show' causes a fatal in blocks API.
=== 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.
+ 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".
+ "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 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 34212) ApiBlock/ApiUnblock allow action to take place without a token
+ parameter present.
* (bug 34907) Fixed exposure of tokens through load.php that could have facilitated
- CSRF attacks
+ CSRF attacks.
+* (bug 35317) CSRF in Special:Upload.
=== Configuration changes in 1.19 ===
* Removed SkinTemplateSetupPageCss hook; use BeforePageDisplay instead.
* (bug 32239) Removed $wgEnableTooltipsAndAccesskeys.
* Removed $wgVectorShowVariantName.
* Removed $wgExtensionAliasesFiles. Use $wgExtensionMessagesFiles.
-* Removed $wgResourceLoaderInlinePrivateModules, now always enabled.
+* Removed $wgResourceLoaderInlinePrivateModules , now always enabled.
=== New features in 1.19 ===
* (bug 19838) Add ability to get all interwiki prefixes also if the interwiki
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.
* 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.
* (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.
+ array.* (bug 12262) Indents and lists are now aligned
* (bug 29753) mw.util.tooltipAccessKeyPrefix should be alt-shift for Chrome
on Windows
-* (bug 12262) Indents and lists are now aligned
+* (bug 25095) Special:Categories should also include the first relevant item
+ when "from" is filled.
* (bug 34972) An error occurred while changing your watchlist settings for
[[Special:WhatLinksHere/Example]]
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.
+* (bug 35036) WikiLove messages were not automatically updated in JavaScript
+ after having been changed on-wiki due to a bug in core
=== Languages updated in 1.19 ===
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 ==