1 = MediaWiki release notes =
3 == Version 1.2.0rc1, 2004-02-27 ==
5 This is a RELEASE CANDIDATE for the new production release. It is more or
6 less in sync with what is running on Wikipedia right now. There may be
7 some interesting bugs, it may eat all your data, and documentation may
8 not be up to date. If you use this on a production site, BE CAREFUL.
11 * Image resizing/thumbnail generation
12 * Stricter upload file extension blacklist and whitelist options
13 * More flexible blocking system; time period may be set
14 * Handier sysop account management. An account marked "bureaucrat"
15 may assign sysop access to other accounts via Special:Makesysop.
16 (The exact details of this may change in the future)
17 * Support for a squid cache with explicit purging of cached anon pages
18 * Optional compression of old revision text (requires zlib support)
19 * Fuzzy title search (experimental, requires memcached)
20 * Page rendering cache (experimental)
21 * JavaScript editing toolbar (off by default in user preferences)
24 * Should work out of the box on MySQL 3.2.x again. On 4.x set
25 $wgEnablePersistentLC = true; to turn on the link cache table
26 for a slight rendering speed boost.
28 * Other stuff we forgot.
29 * Documentation more out of date than ever before!
31 === IMPORTANT BEHAVIOR CHANGES: ===
33 * wiki.phtml and redirect.phtml are now installed as index.php and redirect.php
34 by default. If you are upgrading from an older version, you will have to
35 change $wgScript in LocalSettings.php to point to index.php and
38 === Database changes ===
40 An index was added to recentchanges table to speed up Newpages
41 (patch-rc-newindex.sql for manual updaters).
43 Expiration date field has been added to ipblocks table
44 (patch-ipb_expiry.sql for manual updaters).
47 == Version 1.1.0, 2003-12-08 ==
49 This is the new production release. Any following 1.1.x releases are expected
50 to contain only bug fixes; developments of new features will go towards a 1.2.0
54 * New wiki table syntax:
55 http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_User%27s_Guide:_Using_tables
56 * User-editable interface messages:
57 http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_namespace
58 * XML-wrapped page source export with optional history:
59 http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML_import_and_export
60 (There is not yet an import function!)
64 * linkscc table caches link data for rendering; faster rebuildlinks.php
65 * Numerous bugs in Cologne Blue skin fixed
66 * Login gives warning about missing cookies
67 * Block log, protection log added; deletion log now includes undeletions
68 * Deletion & upload logs now escape comment text properly
69 * Problems with <nowiki> segments in section titles etc mitigated
70 * Contributions offset and minor edit bugs fixed
71 * Whatlinkshere now sorted alphabetically
72 * Various exciting new profiling options.
73 * Debug log is off by default.
74 * Various small bugs fixed.
77 * wfQuery has had a second parameter inserted, DB_READ or DB_WRITE. This value
78 is not actually used so far.
79 * Partial code for categories and Smarty template-based skins is in the tree
81 * Parts of Article.php have been moved to EditPage.php and ImagePage.php.
90 === Database changes ===
92 "linkscc" table added. If upgrading manually (rather than with update.php),
93 run maintenance/archives/patch-linkscc.sql to create the table.
95 Older releases were dated snapshots from the old 'stable' branch:
97 == mediawiki-20031118 ==
99 * Image deletion fixed.
100 * Deletion of image old revisions now restricted to sysops
101 (this is an irreversible action and not well logged)
102 * Fixed maintenance scripts broken by last release's security fix
103 * Many errors in rebuildlinks script fixed.
105 == mediawiki-20031117 ==
107 * SECURITY FIX: stricter checking of include path
108 * Fixed user contributions next/prev bug
109 * Login cookies now have the database name prefixed to allow wikis
110 to coexist in the same domain. This will invalidate any old saved
112 * Update cache timestamp when talk pages are created
113 * Saving the login form in Mozilla no longer blanks password in prefs.
114 * Check existence of source page before performing a move.
115 * Detect invalid titles in Special:Allpages
116 * Q-encode headers on outgoing inter-user e-mail
117 * Updates to some translations.
118 * Added table of contents border/bg to Cologne Blue, Nostalgia skins
119 * Protected pages no longer appear unprotected when visited via redirect
120 * Swapped old Wikipedia logo for the MediaWiki sunflower logo
121 * install.php, update.php print warning on old PHP versions,
122 added compatibility functions that might or might not help
124 No database changes since 20031107; upgrading should be clean.
127 == mediawiki-20031107 ==
129 * Fixed various bugs!
130 * Some speed improvements from tweaks to the table indexes
131 * Limited support for memcached (see below)
132 * New translations (see below)
133 * Interwiki link data now kept in database for flexibility
134 * Friendlier read-only source view if asked to edit a page when
135 the db is locked or the page is protected.
136 * Normal IP blocks auto-expire after 24 hours
137 * Optional support for blocking usernames
138 * Uploads disabled by default (see below)
141 === Security note ===
143 Uploads are now disabled by default. If you've set up a secure configuration
144 you can reenable uploads by putting:
146 $wgDisableUploads = false;
148 into LocalSettings.php.
150 Earlier versions of MediaWiki included a bug that potentially allows logged-
151 in users to delete arbitrary files in directories writable by the web server
152 user by manually feeding false form data; this is now fixed.
154 As a reminder, disable PHP script execution in the upload directory!
155 You may also wish to serve HTML pages as plaintext to prevent cookie-
156 stealing JavaScript attacks. Example Apache config fragment:
158 <Directory "/Library/MediaWiki/web/upload">
159 # Ignore .htaccess files
162 # Serve HTML as plaintext
163 AddType text/plain .html .htm .shtml
165 # Don't run arbitrary PHP code.
166 php_admin_flag engine off
168 # If you've other scripting languages, disable them too.
172 === Database updates ===
174 If you're using update.php, the necessary database changes should
175 be made automatically.
177 To manually upgrade your database from the 2003-08-29 release, run the
178 following SQL scripts from the maintenance subdirectory:
180 archives/patch-ipblocks.sql
181 archives/patch-interwiki.sql
182 archives/patch-indexes.sql
185 To copy in the Wikipedia language-prefix interwikis as well, add:
187 wikipedia-interwiki.sql
192 New interface localization files are included for:
202 Memcached is a distributed cache system. See http://www.danga.com/memcached/
203 MediaWiki can optionally use memcached to store some data between calls
204 to reduce load on the database. Currently this is limited to user and
205 talk page notification data, interwiki prefix/URL matches, and the
206 UTF-8 conversion tables.
208 MediaWiki includes version 1.0.10 of the (GPL'd) PHP memcached client by
209 Ryan Gilfether; if memcached is disabled it acts as a dummy object with
212 To use memcached you'll need PHP installed with sockets support (this is not
213 in the default configure options). See docs/memcached for some more details.
215 Additionally, you can store login session data in memcached instead of the
216 local filesystem, which can help to enable load-balancing by letting login
217 sessions transparently work on multiple front-end web servers. (The primary
218 other issue is with uploads, which requires some care in handling.)
220 To enable this, set $wgSessionsInMemcached = true; and set $wgCookieDomain
221 appropriately if exposing multiple hostnames. This system is new and may be
222 volatile; login sessions will fail dramatically if memcached is unavailable
223 when this option is turned on.
226 === Online documentation ===
228 Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is currently being
229 built up on Meta-Wikipedia, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation
232 http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_User%27s_Guide
237 A MediaWiki-l mailing list has been set up distinct from the Wikipedia
240 http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
243 === UseModWiki import script ===
245 A stripped-down UseModWiki import script is available in the maintenance
246 subdirectory. It is incomplete and requires a lot of manual clean-up, but
247 does function for the brave and pure of heart.
250 === Test suite removed ===
252 The unmaintained Java-based test suite has been removed from the tarball
253 release. If you really want it you can check it out from CVS.
256 == mediawiki-20030829 ==
258 First release under MediaWiki name.