* (bug 10735) Add a warning for non-descriptive filenames at Special:Upload
* Add {{filepath:}} parser function to get full path to an uploaded file,
complementing {{fullurl:}} for pages.
-* (bug 11136) If using Postgres, search path is explicitly set if wgDBmwschema
+* (bug 11136) If using Postgres, search path is explicitly set if wgDBmwschema
is not set to 'mediawiki', allowing multiple mediawiki instances per user.
* (bug 11151) Add descriptive <title> to revision history page
* (bug 5412) Add feed links for the site to all pages
* (bug 11353) Add ability to retrieve raw section content via action=raw
-* (bug 6909) Show relevant deletion log lines when uploading a previously
+* (bug 6909) Show relevant deletion log lines when uploading a previously
deleted file
* On SkinTemplate based skins (like MonoBook), omit confusing "edit"/"view
source" tab entirely if the page doesn't exist and the user isn't allowed to
on Special:Newpages
* LogLine hook added to allow formatting custom entries in Special:Log.
* Support for Iranian calendar
-* (bug 1401) Allow hiding logged-in users, bots and patrolled pages on
+* (bug 1401) Allow hiding logged-in users, bots and patrolled pages on
Special:Newpages
* ChangesListInsertArticleLink hook added for adding extra article info to RC.
* MediaWikiPerformAction hook added for diverting control after the main
* BeforeWatchlist hook added for filtering or replacing watchlist.
* SkinTemplateTabAction hook added for altering the properties of tab links.
* OutputPage::getRedirect public method added.
-* (bug 11848) Allow URL parameters 'editintro' and 'preload' in Special:Mypage
+* (bug 11848) Allow URL parameters 'editintro' and 'preload' in Special:Mypage
and Special:Mytalk
* Add ot=raw to Special:Allmessages
* Support for Hebrew calendar
* Support for Hebrew numerals in dates and times
* (bug 11315) Signatures can be configured in [[MediaWiki:Signature]] and
[[MediaWiki:Signature-anon]]
-* Signatures for anonymous users link to Special:Contributions page rather than
+* Signatures for anonymous users link to Special:Contributions page rather than
user page
* Added --override switch for disabled pages in updateSpecialPages.php
-* Provide a unique message (ipb_blocked_as_range) if unblock of a single IP
- fails
+* Provide a unique message (ipb_blocked_as_range) if unblock of a single IP
+ fails
because it is part of a blocked range.
-* (bug 3973) Use a separate message for the email content when an account is
+* (bug 3973) Use a separate message for the email content when an account is
created by another user
* dumpTextPass.php can spawn fetchText.php as a subprocess, which should restart
cleanly if database connections fail unpleasantly.
* (bug 12622) A JavaScript constant to declare whether api.php is available
* Add caching to the AJAX search
* Add APCOND_INGROUPS
-* Add DBA caching to installer
+* Add DBA caching to installer
* (bug 18585) Added a bunch of parameters to the revertpage message
* Support redirects in image namespace
* (bug 10049) Prefix index search and namespaces in Special:Withoutinterwiki
* (bug 12668) Support for custom iPhone bookmark icon via $wgAppleTouchIcon
* Add option to include templates in Special:Export.
-
+* (bug 12655) Added $wgUserEmailUseReplyTo config option to put sender
+ address in Reply-To instead of From for user-to-user emails.
+ This protects against SPF problems and privacy-leaking bounce messages
+ when using mailers that set the envelope sender to the From header value.
=== Bug fixes in 1.12 ===
* (bug 4021) Fix for MySQL wildcard search
* (bug 10699) Fix for MySQL phrase search
* (bug 11321) Fix width of gallerybox when option "width=xxx" is used
-* (bug 7890) Special:BrokenRedirects links deleted redirects to a non-existent
+* (bug 7890) Special:BrokenRedirects links deleted redirects to a non-existent
page
* Fix initial statistics when installing: add correct values
* (bug 11342) Fix several 'returnto' links in permissions/error pages which
linked to the main page instead of targetted page
-* Strike the link to the redirect rather than using an asterisk in
+* Strike the link to the redirect rather than using an asterisk in
Special:Listredirects
* (bug 11355) Fix false positives in Safe Mode and other config detection
when boolean settings are disabled with 'Off' via php_admin_value/php_value
-* (bug 11292) Fixed unserialize errors with Postgres by creating special Blob
+* (bug 11292) Fixed unserialize errors with Postgres by creating special Blob
object.
* (bug 11363) Make all metadata fields bytea when using Postgres.
-* (bug 11331) Add buildConcat() and use CASE not IF for DB compatibility. Make
- oldimage cascade delete via image table for Postgres, change fa_storage_key
+* (bug 11331) Add buildConcat() and use CASE not IF for DB compatibility. Make
+ oldimage cascade delete via image table for Postgres, change fa_storage_key
TEXT.
* (bug 11438) Live Preview chops returned text
* Show the right message on account creation when the user is blocked
* Initial-lowercase prefix checks in namespaceDupes.php now actually work.
* Fix regression in LinkBatch.php breaking PHP 5.0
* (bug 11452) wfMsgExt uses sometimes wrong language object for parsing magic
- words when called with options ''parsemag'' or ''content''.
+ words when called with options ''parsemag'' or ''content''.
* (bug 11727) Support plural in 'historysize' message
* (bug 11744) Incorrect return value from Title::getParentCategories()
* (bug 11762) Fix native language name of Akan (ak)
* (bug 11722) Fix inconsistent case in unprotect tabs
-* (bug 11795) Be more paranoid about confirming accept-encoding header is
+* (bug 11795) Be more paranoid about confirming accept-encoding header is
present
* (bug 11809) Use formatNum() for more numbers
* (bug 11818) Fix native language name of Inuktitut (iu)
* (bug 12143) Do not show a link to patrol new pages for non existent pages
* (bug 12166) Fix XHTML validity for Special:Emailuser
* (bug 11346) Users who cannot edit a page can now no longer unprotect it.
-* (bug 451) Add a generic Traditional / Simplified Chinese conversion table,
- instead of a Traditional conversion with Taiwan variant, and a Simplified
+* (bug 451) Add a generic Traditional / Simplified Chinese conversion table,
+ instead of a Traditional conversion with Taiwan variant, and a Simplified
conversion with China variant.
* (bug 12178) Fix wpReason parameter to action=delete, again.
* Graceful behavior for updateRestrictions.php if a page already has records
* Template expansion
* Main section...
-to
+to
* Template and extension tag parse to intermediate representation
* Template expansion and extension rendering
* HTML normalisation and security
* Main section...
-The main effect of this for the user is that the rules for uncovered syntax
-have changed.
+The main effect of this for the user is that the rules for uncovered syntax
+have changed.
Uncovered main-pass syntax, such as HTML tags, are now generally valid, whereas
previously in some cases they were escaped. For example, you could have "<ta" in
one template, and "ble>" in another template, and put them together to make a
-valid <table> tag. Previously the result would have been "<table>".
+valid <table> tag. Previously the result would have been "<table>".
Uncovered preprocessor syntax is generally not recognised. For example, if you
have "{{a" in Template:A and "b}}" in Template:B, then "{{a}}{{b}}" will be
converted to a literal "{{ab}}" rather than the contents of Template:Ab. This
-was the case previously in HTML output mode, and is now uniformly the case in
+was the case previously in HTML output mode, and is now uniformly the case in
the other modes as well. HTML-style comments uncovered by template expansion
will not be recognised by the preprocessor and hence will not prevent template
-expansion within them, but they will be stripped by the following HTML security
+expansion within them, but they will be stripped by the following HTML security
pass.
The rules for template expansion during message transformation were
edit links have been merged. This removes a significant failure mode and fixes a
whole category of bugs (tracked by bug #4899). Wikitext headings uncovered by
template expansion or comment removal will still be rendered into a heading tag,
-and will get an entry in the TOC, but will not have a section edit link.
+and will get an entry in the TOC, but will not have a section edit link.
HTML-style headings will also not have a section edit link. Valid wikitext
-headings present in the template source text will get a template section edit
-link. This is a major break from previous behaviour, but I believe the effects
+headings present in the template source text will get a template section edit
+link. This is a major break from previous behaviour, but I believe the effects
are almost entirely beneficial.
The main motivation for making these changes was performance. The new two-pass
preprocessor can skip "dead branches" in template expansion, such as unfollowed
#switch cases and unused defaults for template arguments. This provides a
-significant performance improvement in template-heavy test cases taken from
+significant performance improvement in template-heavy test cases taken from
Wikipedia. Parser function hooks can participate in this performance improvement
by using the new SFH_OBJECT_ARGS flag during registration.
* (bug 11275) Enable descending sort in categorymembers
* (bug 11308) Allow the API to output the image metadata
-* (bug 11296) Temporary fix for escaping of ampersands inside links in
+* (bug 11296) Temporary fix for escaping of ampersands inside links in
pretty-printed
help document.
* (bug 11405) Expand templates implementation in the API
* (bug 11218) Add option to feedwatchlist to display multiple revisions for each
page.
-* (bug 11404) Provide name of exception caught in error code field of internal
+* (bug 11404) Provide name of exception caught in error code field of internal
api error messages.
* (bug 11534) rvendid doesn't work
* Fixed rvlimit of the revisions query to only enforce the lower query limit if
revision content is requested.
-* Include svn revision number (if install is checked-out from svn) in siteinfo
+* Include svn revision number (if install is checked-out from svn) in siteinfo
query.
* (bug 11173) Allow limited wikicode rendering via api.php
* (bug 11572) API should provide interface for expanding templates
-* (bug 11569) Login should return the cookie prefix
+* (bug 11569) Login should return the cookie prefix
* (bug 11632) Breaking change: Specify the type of a change in the recentchanges
list as 'edit', 'new', 'log' instead of 0, 1, 2, respectively.
* Compatibility fix for PHP 5.0.x.
* Add rctype parameter to list=recentchanges that filters by type
-* Add apprtype and apprlevel parameters to filter list=allpages by protection
+* Add apprtype and apprlevel parameters to filter list=allpages by protection
types and levels
* Add apdir parameter to enable listing all pages from Z to A
* (bug 11721) Use a different title for results than for the help page.
-* (bug 11562) Added a user_registration parameter/field to the list=allusers
+* (bug 11562) Added a user_registration parameter/field to the list=allusers
query.
* (bug 11588) Preserve document structure for empty dataset in backlinks query.
-* Outputting list of all user preferences rather than having to request them by
+* Outputting list of all user preferences rather than having to request them by
name
* (bug 11206) api.php should honor maxlag
* Make prop=info check for restrictions in the old format too.
* Use bold and italics highlighting only in API help
* Added action={block,delete,move,protect,rollback,unblock,undelete} and list={blocks,deletedrevs}
* Fixed sessionid attribute in action=login
-* Standardized limits. Revisions and Deletedrevisions formerly using 200 / 10000,
+* Standardized limits. Revisions and Deletedrevisions formerly using 200 / 10000,
now 500 / 5000, in line with other modules.
* Added list=allcategories module
* (bug 12321) API list=blocks reveals private data
If upgrading from before 1.7, you may want to run refreshLinks.php to ensure
new database fields are filled with data.
-If upgrading from before 1.11, and you are using a wiki as a commons repository,
-make sure that it is updated as well. Otherwise, errors may arise due to
+If upgrading from before 1.11, and you are using a wiki as a commons repository,
+make sure that it is updated as well. Otherwise, errors may arise due to
database schema changes.
If you are upgrading from MediaWiki 1.4.x or earlier, some major database