Security reminder: MediaWiki does not require PHP's register_globals
setting since version 1.2.0. If you have it on, turn it *off* if you can.
-== MediaWiki 1.7 ==
+== MediaWiki 1.8 ==
THIS IS NOT A RELEASE YET.
== Configuration changes ==
-Some default configuration options have changed:
-* $wgAllowExternalImages now defaults to off for increased security.
+* None yet!
+
== Major new features ==
-* Deleted files can now be archived and undeleted, if you set up
- an appropriate non-web-accessible directory.
- Set $wgSaveDeletedFiles on and an appropriate directory path in
- $wgFileStore['deleted']['directory']
-
-
-
-
-== Changes since 1.6 ==
-
-* (bug 5458) Fix double-URL encoding in block log link in contribs and contribs
- link in block log
-* (bug 5462) Bogus missing patch warning in updater
-* (bug 5461) Use of deprecated "showhideminor" in Special:Recentchangeslinked
-* PHP warning when allow_call_time_pass_reference is off
-* Update to Finnish localization
-* (bug 5467) Link to page histories in watchlist edit mode
-* Further additions to Hebrew localisation
-* (bug 5476) Invalid xhtml in German localization
-* (bug 5479) Id translation for preferences tabs caption
-* (bug 5493) Id translation for special pages
-* Added skinname and style path parameters to CBT version of MonoBook
-* Include subversion revision number in Special:Version if available
-* (bug 5344) Fix regression that broke slashes in extension tag parameters
-* Improve Special:Log performance on big log sets
-* (bug 5507) Changed mediawiki:logouttext from plain to wikitext
-* (bug 4760) Prevent creation of entries in protection log when protection
- levels haven't changed
-* (bug 861) Show page protection/unprotection events in histories
-* (bug 5499) Don't clear the tag strip state when asked not to clear state.
- Fixes regression with use of <ref> in a template breaking <nowiki> etc.
-* Minor improvements to English language files
-* Display the anon talk page info message on anon talk pages again
- (moved outside the parser cache)
-* Optional {{DISPLAYTITLE|title with markup}} magic word
- Deactivated by default, set "$wgAllowDisplayTitle = true" in LocalSettings.php
- to activate
-* Cleaned SpecialContributions a bit
-* Added a table to track interlanguage links
-* (bug 5544) Fix redirect arrow in Special:Listredirects for right-to-left
- languages
-* Replace "doubleredirectsarrow" with a content language check that picks the
- appropriate arrow
-* (bug 5537) Add stub language file for Samogitian (bat-smg); inherits
- Lithuanian (lt)
-* Don't force edit summaries when a user is editing their own user/talk page
-* (bug 5510) Warning produced when using {{SUBPAGENAME}} in some namespaces
-* (bug 385) Installer support for PostgreSQL, fixes for PG compatibility
-* PersistentObject removed; it doesn't do anything and was broken besides.
- All extensions using it have been corrected.
-* Propagate ISBN number for Booksources in LanguageNo.php
-* (bug 5548) Improvements to Indonesian localisation [patch: Ivan Lanin]
-* Add TALKSPACE, SUBJECTSPACE, TALKPAGENAME, SUBJECTPAGENAME (and encoded forms
- for all) magic words
-* (bug 5403) Fix Special:Newpages RSS/Atom feeds
-* Reject malformed addresses in X-Forwarded-For entries
-* (bug 3359) Add hooks on completion of file upload
-* (bug 5559) Improve detection of ImageMagick [patch: Greg Turnquist]
-* (bug 5475) New pages feeds ignore "limit" argument
-* (bug 5184) CSS misapplied to elements in Special:Allmessages due to
- conflicting anchor identifiers
-* (bug 5519) Allow sidebar cache to be disabled; disable it by default.
-* Maintenance script to import the contents of a text file into a wiki page
-* Add $wgReservedUsernames configuration directive to block account creation/use
-* (bug 5576) Remove debugging hack in session check
-* (bug 5426) Lowercase treatment of titles in rights log leads to broken links
- on Special:Log
-* Minor improvements to French localisation files
-* (bug 5181) Update "nogomatch" for Slovak
-* (bug 5594) Id translation up to # Login and logout pages section
-* (bug 5536) Use content language for editing help link
-* Improvements to German localisation files
-* (bug 5570) Problems using <special page>/parameter link form for long titles
-* (bug 3884) Add $user parameter to AddNewUser hook, call it for by-email
- registrations as well as self-registrations.
-* (bug 4327) Report age of cached data sets in query pages
-* (bug 4662) Fix Safari check in wikibits.js
-* (bug 4663) Edit toolbar enabled in compatible versions of Safari
-* (bug 5572) Edit toolbar enabled in compatible versions of Konqueror (3.5+)
-* (bug 5235) Edit toolbar tooltips no longer show JavaScript junk in Opera
-* Edit toolbar now works in pure XHTML mode (application/xhtml+xml)
-* Add watchlist clear function to allow quick purging of all items
-* (bug 5625) Additional namespace translations for Welsh
-* Add meta tag and JavaScript variables to cached special pages which provides
- the timestamp of the last update, in YYYYMMDDHHMMSS format.
-* (bug 5628) More translations for MessagesHr.php
-* (bug 5595) Localisation for Bosnian language (bs)
-* (bug 2910) Default view preferences for watchlists
-* Add "hide bot edits from the watchlist" user preference
-* (bug 5250) Introduce Special:Unusedtemplates
-* Add user preference setting for an extended watchlist, showing all recent
- edits up to a certain edit, and not just the latest edit..
-* Made MessageRo.php more general
-* (bug 5640) Indonesian localisation improvements
-* (bug 5592) Actions are logged with the default language for the
- wiki, not the language of the user performing the operation.
-* (bug 5644) Error in LanguageBs.php file
-* (bug 5646) Compare for identical types in wfElement()
-* (bug 5472) Language::userAdjust()->minDiff not initialized on else condition
-* (bug 5386) LanguageMk.php: updated namespaces translations
-* (bug 5422) Stub for Romani (rmy) language which extends ro
-* Fix linktrail for LanguageSr
-* (bug 5664) Fix Bosnian linktrail
-* (bug 3825) Namespace filtering on Special:Newpages
-* (bug 1922) When Special:Wantedpages is cached, mark links to pages
- which have since been created
-* (bug 5659) Change grammar hacks for Bosnian Wikimedia namespaces.
- This sort of special casing should be removed and fixed properly.
-* Remove useless whitespace from Special:Brokenredirects header
-* Treat "allmessagesnotsupporteddb" as wikitext when echoing; change default
- text
-* (bug 5497) Regression in HTML normalization in 1.6 (unclosed <li>,<dd>,<dt>)
-* (bug 5709) Allow customisation of separator for categories
-* (bug 5684) Introduce Special:Randomredirect
-* (bug 5611) Add a name attribute to the text box containing source text in
- read-only pages
-* Indicate when a protected page is an interface message ("protectedinterface")
-* (bug 4259) Indicate when a protected page being edited is an interface message
- ("editinginterface")
-* (bug 4834) Fix XHTML output when using $wgMaxTocLevel
-* Pass login link to "whitelistedittext" containing 'returnto' parameter
-* (bug 5728): mVersion missing from User::__sleep() leading to constant cache
- miss
-* Updated maintenance/transstat.php so it can show duplicate messages
-* Improvements to update scripts; print out the version, check for superuser
- credentials before attempting a connection, and produce a friendlier error if
- the connection fails
-* (bug 5005) Fix XHTML <gallery> output.
-* (bug 5315) "Expires: -1" HTTP header made strictly valid (using 1970 date).
-* (bug 4825) note in DefaultSettings.php about 'profiling' table creation
-* Remove unneeded extra whitespace at top of Special:Categories
-* (bug 5679) time units are now using local numerals
-* (bug 5751) Updates to Portuguese localisation files
-* (bug 5741) Introduce {{NUMBEROFUSERS}} magic word
-* (bug 93) <nowiki> tags and tildes in templates
-* The returnto parameter is now actually used by SpecialUserlogin.php
-* Parser can now know that it is parsing an interface message
-* (bug 4737) MediaWiki:Viewcount supports {{PLURAL}} now
-* Fix bug in wfMsgExt under PHP 5.1.2
-* (bug 5761) Project talk namespace broken in Xal, Os, Udm and Cv
-* Rewrite reassignEdits script to be more efficient; support optional updates to
- recent changes table; add reporting and silent modes
-* Cleaned up formatNum usage in langfiles
-* (bug 5716) Warn when a user tries to upload a file which was previously
- deleted
-* (bug 5565) Add a class attribute to the table on Special:Allpages
-* "lang=xx" option for parser test cases to set content language
-* (bug 5764) Friulian translation updated
-* (bug 5757) Fix premature cutoff in LanguageConverter with extra end markers
-* (bug 5516) Show appropriate "return to" link on blocked page
-* (bug 5377) Do not auto-login when creating an account as another user
-* (bug 5284) Special redirect pages should remember parameters
-* Suppress 7za output on dumpBackup
-* (bug 5338) Reject extra initial colons in title
-* (bug 5487) Escape self-closed HTML pair tags
-* Add "raw suffix" magic word for some magic words, e.g. {{NUMBEROFUSERS|R}}
- will produce a count minus formatting
-* Fix Parser::cleanSig() to use Parser::startExternalParse() and choose an
- appropriate output format given the scope of the clean
-* (bug 5593) Change "bureaucrat log" to "rights log"
-* Show a boilerplate "(none)" in place of a blank within the log action text for
- user rights
-* (bug 137) Commented out translations for copyrightwarning which mention GNU FDL
-* (bug 5723) Don't count pages linked to from the MediaWiki namespace as "wanted"
-* (bug 5696) Add a third parameter, $3, to "rcnote", passing the current time
- formatted according to the current user's settings
-* (bug 5780) Thousands and decimal separators for Norwegian
-* Updated initStats maintenance script
-* (bug 5767) Fix date formats in Vietnamese locale
-* (bug 361) URL in URL, they were almost fixed. Now they are.
-* (bug 4876) Add __NEWSECTIONLINK__ magic word to force the "new section" link/tab to
- show up on specific pages on demand
-* Bidi-aid on list pages
-* (bug 5782) Allow entries in the bad image list to use canonical namespace names
-* (bug 5789) Treat "loginreqpagetext" as wikitext
-* Sanitizer: now handles nested <li> in <ul> or <ol>
-* (bug 5796) We require MySQL >=4.0.14
-* Add 'EmailConfirmed' hook
-* New findhooks.php script to find undocumented hooks.
-* Silently ignore errors on profiling table update.
-* (bug 5801) Correct handling of underscores in Special:Listusers
-* Clean up Special:Listusers; add an "(all)" label to the group selection box
-* (bug 5812) Use appropriate link colour in Special:Mostlinked
-* (bug 5802) {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} variable broken in Vietnamese locale
-* (bug 5817) Appropriate handling for Special:Recentchangeslinked where the target
- page doesn't exist
-* Special:Randompage now additionally accepts English namespace name as parameter
-* (bug 2981) Really fixed linktrail for Tamil (ta)
-* Disallow substituting Special pages when included into a page
-* (bug 5587) Clean up the languages from references to the Groups special page
-* Added new group-X and group-X-member messages
-* Rewritten removeUnusedAccounts to be more efficient, print names of inactive
- accounts
-* Redirect Special:Userlist to Special:Listusers
-* Introduce $wgAllowTitlesInSVG, which allows the <title> attribute in uploaded files
- bearing the image/svg MIME type. Disabled by default due to the vast majority of
- web servers being hideously misconfigured. See DefaultSettings.php for more details.
-* Changed default LocalSettings.php to append the previous include path when setting it
-* (bug 5837) Use "members" for the value descriptor in Special:Categories,
- Special:Wantedcategories and Special:Mostlinkedcategories.
-* (bug 3309) Allow comments when undeleting pages
-* Clean up Special:Undelete a bit
-* (bug 5805) messages nbytes, ncategories can now use {{plural:}}
-* Clean up Special:Imagelist a bit
-* (bug 5838) Namespace names for Nds-NL
-* (bug 5749) Added Tyvan language files
-* (bug 5791) Fix SQL syntax in Special:BrokenRedirects, was causing incorrect data to show
-* (bug 5839) Prevent access to Special:Confirmemail for logged-out users
-* (bug 5853) Update for Portuguese messages (pt)
-* (bug 5851) Use Cyrillic for Kirghiz language name
-* (bug 5841) Allow the 'EditFilter' hook to return a non-fatal error message
-* (bug 5846) Link to individual group description pages in Special:Listusers
-* (bug 5857) Update for German localisation (de)
-* (bug 5858) Update for Russian language (ru)
-* (bug 5860) Update for Indonesian language (id)
-* (bug 1120) Update for Czech language (Cs)
-* Added many missing formatNum calls
-* Added grammar function to Belarusian (be)
-* (bug 5819) Add 'PersonalUrls' hook
-* (bug 5862) Update of Belarusian language (be)
-* (bug 5886) Update for Portuguese messages (pt)
-* (bug 5586) <gallery> treated text as links
-* (bug 5878) Update for Indonesian language (id)
-* (bug 5697) Update for Malay language (ms)
-* (bug 5890) Update for German language (de)
-* (bug 5889) Name for Sindhi language should appear as سنڌي
-* --force-normal parameter on dump scripts to force check for ICU extension
-* (bug 5895) Update for Dutch language (nl)
-* (bug 5891) Linktrail for Polish language (pl)
-* User::isBureaucrat , User::isDeveloper , User::isSysop deprecated in
- v1.6 now die with a backtrace. They will be removed in v1.8
-* dumpTextPass now skips goes to database for entries that were blank in the
- previous dump, as this may indicate a broken dump.
-* dumpTextPass progress includes percentage of items prefetched
-* dumpTextPass can now use 7zip files for prefetch
-* (bug 5915) Update to Indonesian localisation (id)
-* (bug 5913) Update for German localisation (de)
-* (bug 5905) Plural support for Bosnian localisation (bs)
-* Groups which won't hit the rate limiter now configurable with
- $wgRateLimitsExcludedGroups
-* (bug 5806) {{plural:}} support instead of "twin" MediaWiki messages
-* (bug 5931) Update for Polish language (pl)
-* Ignore the user and user talk namespaces on Special:Wantedpages
-* Introduce NUMBEROFPAGES magic word
-* (bug 5833) Introduce CURRENTVERSION magic word
-* (bug 5370) Allow throttling of password reminder requests with the rate limiter
-* (bug 5683) Respect parser output marked as uncacheable when saving
-* (bug 5918) Links autonumbering now work for all defined protocols
-* (bug 5935) Improvement to German localisation (de)
-* (bug 5937) Register links from gallery captions with the parent parser output
- object so that link tables receive those updates too
-* (bug 5845) Introduce BASEPAGENAME and BASEPAGENAMEE magic words
-* (bug 5941) Use content language when getting the administrator page title for
- Special:Statistics
-* (bug 5949) Update to Indonesian localisation (id)
-* (bug 5862) Update of Belarusian translation (be)
-* (bug 5950) Improvements to French localisation
-* (bug 5805) {{plural:}} support for counters in some special pages
-* (bug 5952) Improvement to German localisation (de)
-* Rename conflicting metadata help message to "metadata_help" (was "metadata")
- and treat it as wiki text
-* Improve preferences input filtering
-* Maintenance script to import multiple files into the wiki
-* (bug 5957) Update for Hebrew language (he)
-* (bug 5962) Update for Italian language (it)
-* (bug 5961) Update for Portuguese localisation (pt)
-* (bug 5849) Remove some hard-coded references to "Wikipedia" in messages
-* (bug 5967) Improvement to German localisation (de)
-* (bug 5962) Update for Italian language (it)
-* Suppress images in galleries which appear on the bad image list (when rendering
- for a wiki page; galleries in special pages and categories are unaffected)
-* Maintenance script to remove orphaned revisions from the database
-* (bug 5991) Update for Russian language (ru)
-* (bug 6001) PAGENAMEE and FULLPAGENAMEE don't work in FULLURL and LOCALURL magic
- words
-* (bug 5958) Switch Uzbek language name to use latin script
-* (bug 839) Add URLENCODE magic word
-* (bug 6004) Update for Polish language (pl)
-* (bug 5971) Improvement to German localisation (de)
-* (bug 4873) Don't overwrite the subtitle navigation when viewing a redirect page
- that isn't current
-* (bug 2203) Namespace updates for Thai
-* Fix breakage in parser test suite which caused incorrect reporting of the failure of
- {{NUMBEROFFILES}}. Now initialises the site_stats table with some dumb data. Updated
- the expected output for {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} to reflect this.
-* (bug 6009) Use {{ns:project}} in messages where appropriate
-* (bug 6012) Update to Indonesian localisation (id)
-* (bug 6017) Update list of bookstores in German localisation files
-* (bug 5187) Allow programmatically bypassing username validation, for scripts
-* (bug 6025) SpecialImport: wrong message when no file selected
-* (bug 6015) EditPage: add spacing in the boxes "edit is minor" and "watch this"
-* (bug 6018) Userrights: new message when no user specified ('nouserspecified')
-* (bug 2015) Add "\sim" to ~ conversion for HTML rendering
-* (bug 6029) Improvement to German localisation (de)
-* (bug 5015) Update be: magic words
-* (bug 3974) Add parameter for site URL to "passwordremindertext"
-* (bug 6039) Update for Portuguese localisation (pt)
-* (bug 764) Add CREATE TEMPORARY TABLES to default database permissions
-* Big update to Swedish localisation (sv)
-* Use appropriate HTML functions to create the tool links on image pages, so they don't
- look garbled when tidy isn't on
-* (bug 5511) Fix URL-encoding of usernames in links on Special:Ipblocklist
-* (bug 6046) Update to Indonesian localisation (id) #15
-* (bug 5523) $wgNoFollowNsExceptions to allow disabling rel="nofollow" in
- specially-selected namespaces.
-* (bug 6055) Fix for HTML/JS injection bug in variable handler (found by Nick Jenkins)
-* Reordered wiki table handling and __TOC__ extraction in the parser to better
- handle some overlapping tag cases.
-* Only the first __TOC__ is now turned into a TOC
-* (bug 4610) Indicate patrolled status on watchlists and allow users to mark
- changes as patrolled using the diff links there
-* Add 'DiffViewHeader' hook called before diff page output
-* (bug 6051) Improvement to German localisation (de)
-* (bug 6054) Update to Indonesian localisation (id) #16
-* Add {{CURRENTTIMESTAMP}} magic word
-* (bug 6061) Improper escaping in some html forms
-* (bug 6065) Remove underscore when using NAMESPACE and TALKSPACE magics.
-* (bug 6074) Correct squid purging of offsite upload URLs
-* To simplify the lives of extension developers, the logging type arrays
- can now be appended to directly by an extension setup function. It is
- no longer necessary to write four separate functions just to add a
- custom log type.
-* (bug 6057) Count "licenses" as a message (and show it in Special:Allmessages)
-* Added $wgGrammarForms global
-* Fixed hardcoded 'done.' when removing watchlist entries.
-* (bug 5962) Update for Italian language (it)
-* (bug 6086) Remove vestigial attempt to call Article::validate()
-* wfHostname() function for consistent server hostname use in debug messages
-* Send thumbnailing error messages to 'thumbnail' log group
-* wfShellexec() now accepts an optional parameter to receive the exit code
-* Failed, but not zero-length, thumbnail renderings are now removed.
- Should help clean up when rsvg fails in weird ways.
-* (bug 6081) Change description for Turkmen language
-* Increase robustness of parser placeholders; fixes some glitches when
- adjacent to identifier-ish constructs such as URLs.
-* Shut up the parser test whining about files in a temp directory.
-* (bug 6098) Add Aragonese language support (an)
-* (bug 6101) Update for Russian language (ru)
-* Add $wgIgnoreImageErrors to suppress error messages for thumbnail rendering
- problems. If errors are transitory, this should reduce annoying messages
- making it into cached display.
-* (bug 6103) Wrap self-links in a CSS class ("selflink")
-* (bug 6102) For consistency with other markup, normalize all HTML-encoded
- character entities in URLs, not just ampersands. This allows use of eg
- = when making URLs for template parameters.
-* Markup anality: escape </ as <\/ in toolbar javascript for pure correctness
- under HTML-compatible browsers.
-* (bug 5077) Added hook 'BeforePageDisplay' to SkinTemplate::outputPage
-* Replace fatally changed 'uploadnewversion' with 'uploadnewversion-linktext'
-* (bug 472) Syndication feeds for the last few edits of page history
-* Format edit comments in Recent Changes feed
-* Switch incorrectly ordered column headers on Recent Changes feed diffs
-* (bug 6117) Use message for history feed description, add German localization
-* (bug 1017) fixed thumbnails of animated gifs.
-* Add APC as object caching option
-* Update to Albanian localization (sq)
-* (bug 6099) Introduce {{DIRECTIONMARK}} magic word (with {{DIRMARK}} as an alias)
-* Use optimized php5-only microtime()
-* Add possibility to store local message cache as PHP executable script
-* Fix profiling table definition
-* (bug 6040) Run pre-save transform before calculating the diff. when doing a
- "show changes" operation in the editor
-* (bug 4033) Respect $wgStyleDirectory when checking available skins
-* Remove hideous backslashes from MessagesBr.php
-* Fix APC object cache issues, add functionality to installer
-* (bug 6133) Update strip state as we work. This mostly fixes extensions
- used in Cite.php <ref> tags when Tidy is on.
-* (bug 6139) Workaround for transclusion oddities in Vietnamese upload text
-* (bug 6136) Update to Catalan language (ca)
-* Update to Japanese localization (ja)
-* Add /usr/local/bin to the diff3 search paths in the installer
-* (bug 6106) Update to Indonesian localisation (id) #17
-* (bug 6125) Add links to edit old versions to diff views
-* (bug 5127) Auto edit summary when creating/editing redirect page
-* (bug 3926) Introduce {{#language:}} magic word
-* Fix section links from edit comments for [[:Image:Bla.jpg]] in section titles
-* (bug 6126) Allow fallback to customized primary language when user language
- message contains '-'; fixes licenses selector on Commons configuration after
- recent addition of the message to Messages.php
-* (bug 5527) Batch up job queue insertions for, hopefully, better survivability
- of lock contention etc. Duplicates are now removed at pop time instead of
- at insert time.
-* When showing the "blah has been undeleted" page, make sure it's a blue link
-* parserTests.php accepts a --file parameter to run an alternate test sutie
-* parser tests can now test extensions using !!hooks sections
-* Fix oddity with open tag parameters getting stuck on </li>
-* (bug 5384) Fix <!-- comments --> in <ref> extension
-* Nesting of different tag extensions and comments should now work more
- consistently and more safely. A cleaner, one-pass tag strip lets the
- 'outer' tag either take source (<nowiki>-style) or pass it down to
- further parsing (<ref>-style). There should no longer be surprise
- expansion of foreign extensions inside HTML output, or differences
- in behavior based on the order tags are loaded.
-* (bug 885) Pre-save transform no longer silently appends close tags
-* Pre-save transform no longer changes the case of close tags
-* (bug 6164) Fix regression with <gallery> resetting <ref> state
-* Hackaround for IE 7 wrapping bug in MonoBook footer
-* New message sp-newimages-showfrom replaces rclistfrom on special:newimages
-* Improve handling of ;: definition list construct with overlapping or
- nested HTML tags
-* (bug 6171) Fix sanitizing of HTML-elements with an optional closing
- tag. The sanitizer still needs to learn how to make well-formed XML
- in this case.
-* Fix fatal error when specifying illegal name for manual thumbnail
-* (bug 6184) Use shinier Linker::userLink() to make user links in
- Special:Undelete
-* (bug 6170) Update for Kashubian translation (csb)
-* (bug 6191) Update to Indonesian translation (id) #18
-* (bug 6114) Update to Walloon localization (wa)
-* Added $wgNamespaceRobotPolicies to allow customisation of robot policies on a
- per-namespace basis.
-* Add <ol> to the list of block elements for doBlockLevels; avoids <p>s being
- interspersed into your ordered lists.
-* (bug 5021) Transcluding the same special page twice now works
-* Add 'SiteNoticeBefore' and 'SiteNoticeAfter' hooks
-* (bug 6182) Date passed in "sp-newimages-showfrom" not adjusted to user time
- preferences
-* (bug 2587) Fix for section editing with comment prefix
-* (bug 2607) Fix for section editing with mix of wiki and HTML headings
-* (bug 3342) Fix for section editing with headings wrapped in <noinclude>
-* (bug 3476) Fix for section editing with faux headings in extensions
-* (bug 5272) Fix for section editing with HTML-heading subsections
-* Fix for bogus wiki headings improperly detected with following text
-* Fix for HTML headings improperly not detected with preceding/following text
-* Section extraction and replacement functions merged into one implementation
- on the Parser object, so they can't get out of sync with each other.
-* Edit security precautions in raw HTML mode, etc
-* (bug 6197) Update to Indonesian translation (id) #19
-* (bug 6175) Improvement to German translation (de)
-* Redirect Special:Logs to Special:Log
-* (bug 6206) Linktrail for Swedish localization (se)
-* (bug 3202) Attributes now allowed on <pre> tags
-* Sanitizer::validateTagAttributes now available to discard illegal/unsafe
- attribute values from an array.
-* (bug 3837) Leave <center> as is instead of doing an unsafe text replacement
- to <div class="center">. <center> is perfectly valid in the target doctype
- (XHTML 1.0 Transitional), while the replacement didn't catch all cases and
- could even result in invalid output from valid input.
-* (bug 4280) Use 'noindex,nofollow' instead of 'noindex,follow' for default
- meta robots tag on diff view and special pages. Should reduce impact of
- robots on scrolling special pages, diffs etc on sites where robots.txt
- doesn't forbid access.
-* Regression fix: suppress warning about session failure when clicking to
- edit with 'preview on first edit' enabled.
-* (bug 6230) Regression fix: <nowiki> in [URL link text]
-* Added AutoLoader.php, which loads classes without need of require_once()
-* (bug 5981) Add plural function Slovenian (sl)
-* (bug 5945) Introduce {{CONTENTLANGUAGE}} magic word
-* {{PLURAL}} can now take up to five forms
-* (bug 6243) Fix email for usernames containing dots when using PEAR::Mail
-* Remove a number of needless {{ns:project}}-type transforms from messages files. These
- usages already have separate label text. Such transforms are wasteful on each page view.
-* Update to Yiddish localization (yi)
-* (bug 6254) Update to Indonesian translation (id) #20
-* (bug 6255) Fix transclusions starting with "#" or "*" in HTML attributes
-* Whitespace now normalized more or less properly in HTML attributes
-* Fix regression(?) in behavior of initial-whitespace-pre in <center>
-* (bug 6260) Update to Interlingua localization (ia)
-* Update to Vlax Romany localization (rmy)
-* Update to Latin translation (la)
-* Update to Dutch translation (nl)
-* Avoid some notices in page history with bad input
-* Use double quoted consistently on attributes in linker output; preparing
- for new normalization code when tidy not in use
-* Replace "nogomatch" with "noexactmatch" and place the magic colon in the messages
- themselves. Some minor tweaks to the actual message content.
-* Introduce $wgContentNamespaces which allows for articles to exist in namespaces other
- than the main namespace, and still be counted as valid content in the site statistics.
-* (bug 5932) Introduce {{PAGESINNAMESPACE}} magic word
-* Disable $wgAllowExternalImages by default.
-* (bug 2700) Nice things like link completion and signatures now work in <gallery> tags.
-* Cancel output buffering in StreamFile; when used inside gzip buffering this
- could cause funny timeout behavior as the Content-Length was wrong.
-* Return correct content-type header with 304 responses for StreamFile;
- it confuses Safari if you let it return "text/html".
-* (bug 6280) Correct GRAMMAR for Slovenian localisation (sl)
-* (bug 6162) Change date format for Dutch Low Saxon (nds-nl)
-* (bug 6296) Update to Indonesian localisation (id) #21
-* Introduce EditFormPreloadText hook, see docs/hooks.txt for more information
-* (bug 4054) Add "boteditletter" to recent changes flags
-* Update to Catalan localization (ca)
-* (bug 2099) Deleted image files can now be archived and undeleted.
- Set $wgSaveDeletedFiles on and an appropriate directory path in
- $wgFileStore['deleted']['directory']
-* (bug 6324) Fix regression in enhanced RC alignment
-* Introduce {{NUMBEROFADMINS}} magic word
-* Update to Slovak translation (sk)
-* Update to Alemannic localization (gsw)
-* (bug 6300) Bug fixes for sr: variants
-* namespaceDupes.php can now accept an arbitrary prefix, for checking rogue
- interwikis and such. Not yet fully automated.
-* (bug 6344) Add Special:Uncategorizedimages page
-* (bug 6357) Update to Russian translation (ru)
-* Workaround possible bug in Firefox nightlies by properly removing the
- Content-Encoding header instead of sending explicit 'identity' value
- in StreamFile
-* (bug 6304) Show timestamp for current revision in diff pages
-* Vertically align current version with old version header in diff display
-* (bug 6174) Remove redundant "emailforlost" message
-* (bug 6189) Show an error to an unprivilleged user trying to create account
-* (bug 6365) Show user information in the "old revision" navigation links
-* Introduce 'FetchChangesList' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information
-* (bug 6345) Update to Indonesian localisation (id) #22
-* (bug 6279) Add genitive month names to Slovenian localisation
-* (bug 6351) Update to German translation (de)
-* Respect language directionality when displaying arrow in Special:Brokenredirects
-* Remove unused "validation" table definitions from the schema files
-* (bug 6398) Work around apparent PCRE bug breaking section editing when
- massively-indented preformatted text immediately followed a header
-* (bug 6392) Fix misbehaving <br /> in preferences form
-* Add translated magic words to Hebrew localization
-* (bug 6396) Change name for Chuvash language
-* Introduce optional (off by default) language selector bar for user login
- and registration. Customisable via the "loginlanguagelinks" message, the
- links will preserve "returnto" values. If the user creates an account while
- using such a link, then the language in use will be saved as their language
- preference.
-* Make sure '~~~' '~~~~' '~~~~~' are removed in Nickname preference.
-* Rename "ipusuccess" to "unblocked", change the format (now wiki text)
-* (bug 2316) Add "caption" attribute to <gallery> tag
-* Allow setting the skin object that ImageGallery will use; needed during parse
- operations (the skin must come from the ParserOptions, not $wgUser)
-* Fix notice in MacBinary detection debug data for files of certain lengths
-* (bug 6131) Add type detection for DjVu files, allowing them to be uploaded
- with validity checking and size detection. No inline thumbnailing yet,
- but could be added in the future.
-* (bug 6423) Don't update newtalk flag if page content didn't change (null edits
- were causing the newtalk flag to trigger inappropriately)
-* Parser functions are now set using magic words.
-* (bug 6428) Incorrect form action URL on Special:Newimages with hidebots = 0 set
-* (bug 4990) Show page source to blocked users on edits, or their modified version
- if blocked during an edit
-* (bug 5903) When requesting the raw source of a non-existent message page,
- return blank content (as opposed to the message key)
-* Improve default blank content of MediaWiki:Common.css and MediaWiki:Monobook.css
-* (bug 6434) Allow customisation of submit button text on Special:Export
-* (bug 6314) Add user tool links on page histories
-* Fix display of file-type icons in galleries when $wgIgnoreImageErrors is off
-* (bug 6438) Update to Indonesian translation (id) #23
-* Adding the language code parameter to the hook "LanguageGetMagic", to allow
- localizble extensions magic words.
-* Update to Romanian translation (ro)
-* Update to Esperanto translation (eo)
-* Check for preg_match() existence when installing and die out whining about PCRE
- if it's not there, instead of throwing a fatal error
-* (bug 672) Add MathAfterTexvc hook
-* Update to Piedmontese localization (pms)
-* dumpBackup can optionally compress via dbzip2
-* (bug 2483) Run link updates on change via XML import
-* (bug 2481) List imported pages during Special:Import
-* (bug 2482) Log and RC entries for Special:Import events
-* Allow fetching all revisions from transwiki Special:Import
-* Allow fetching all revisions from Special:Export GET request
-* Disable output buffering on Special:Export; should help with streaming
- large numbers of history items.
-* Allow setting a maximum number of revisions for history Special:Export;
- pages with more than $wgExportMaxHistory revisions are excluded from
- export when history is requested.
-* Fix transwiki import of pages with space in name
-* Save null edit when importing pages through Special:Import
-* Update to Korean translation (ko)
-* Show a more specific message when an anonymous user tries to access Special:Watchlist
-* (bug 3278) Paging links in Special:Prefixindex
-* Added Latvian localization (lv)
-* (bug 6472) Fix regression in Special:Export with multiple pages
-* Update to Macedonian translation (mk)
-* Allow page moves over historyless self-redirects. Such are usually created
- as part of namespace rearrangements, and it's easier to clean them up if
- we can move over them.
-* Show some error results in moveBatch.php
-* (bug 6479) Allow specification of the skin to use during HTML dumps
-* (bug 6461) Link to page histories in Special:Newpages
-* (bug 6484) Don't do message transformations when preloading messages for editing
-* (bug 6201) Treat spaces as underscores in parameters to {{ns:}}
-* (bug 6006) Allow hiding the password change fields using an authentication plugin
-* (bug 6489) Use appropriate link colour on Special:Shortpages
-* Added formatnum magic word
-* Added Javanese localization (jv)
-* (bug 6491) Apply bad image list in category galleries
-* (bug 6488) Show relevant log fragment in Special:Movepage
-* Fix potential PHP notice in Special:Blockme when $wgBlockOpenProxies is true
-* Use mysql_real_escape_string instead of addslashes for string escaping in
- the MySQL Database class. This may fix some rare breakage with binary fields.
- Note that MediaWiki does not support the multibyte character sets where a
- "dumb" byte replacement can be actively dangerous; UTF-8 is always safe
- in this regard due to the bit patterns which make head and tail bytes
- distinct.
-* (bug 6497) Use $wgMetaNamespaceTalk for Esperanto if set
-* (bug 6498) Use localized forms for image size in Special:Undelete
-* (bug 6485) Update to Indonesian translation (id) #24
-* Extension messages translation is now possible.
-* Add target namespace override selector for transwiki imports.
- $wgImportTargetNamespace specifies the default, to be used for
- Wiktionary's 'Transwiki:' namespace etc.
-* (bug 6506) Update to German localisation (de)
-* (bug 502) Avoid silly tabs on bad title by using virtual special page
-* (bug 6511) Add diff links to old revision navigation bar
-* (bug 6511) Replace 'oldrevisionnavigation' message with 'old-revision-navigation'
-* Fix regression in Polish genitive month forms
-* (bug 4037) Make input handling in Special:Allpages and Special:Prefixindex
- more consistent: Accept just a namespace prefix and a colon, reject input
- with interwiki prefixes, otherwise do what Title::makeTitleSafe() does.
-* (bug 6516) Update to Russian translation
-* New 'allpagesbadtitle' message for Special:Allpages, based on 'badtitletext'.
-* Rename "searchquery" to "searchsubtitle" and support wiki text in it
-* Introduce updateArticleCount maintenance script which uses a better check that
- reflects what Article::isCountable() tests for
-* Introduce 'BadImage' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information
-* Add "searchsubtitleinvalid" message for searches that are not valid titles.
-* (bug 5962) Update to Italian localisation
-* (bug 6530) Update to Indonesian localisation (id) #25
-* (bug 6523) Fix SVG issue in rebuildImages.php
-* (bug 6512) Link to page-specific logs on page histories
-* (bug 6504) Allow configuring session name with $wgSessionName
-* (bug 6185) Add standard user tool links to log page views
-* Update to Venetian translation (vec)
-* Update to Slovenian translation (sl)
-* Add standard user tool links to deleted revision list
-* Separate out EditPage's getContent bits from regular Article getContent.
- Cleans up read-only-mode warning on empty pages and neats up some code.
-* (bug 6565) Strict JavaScript writing
-* (bug 6570) Update to Indonesian localisation (id) #26
-* Added Telugu translation (te)
-* Update to Catalan translation (ca)
-* (bug 6560) Avoid PHP notice when trimming ISBN whitespace
-* Added namespace translation to Kannada (ka)
-* (bug 6566) Improve input validation on timestamp conversion
-* Implicit group "emailconfirmed" for all users whose email addresses are confirmed
+* None!
+
+
+
+== Changes since 1.7 ==
+
+* None!
+
== Compatibility ==
-MediaWiki 1.7 requires PHP 5 (5.1 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer supported.
+MediaWiki 1.8 requires PHP 5 (5.1 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer supported.
MySQL 3.23.x is no longer supported; some older hosts may need to upgrade.
At this time we still recommend 4.0, but 4.1/5.0 will work fine in most cases.