RELEASE-NOTES

   1 = MediaWiki release notes =
   2
   3 Security reminder: MediaWiki does not require PHP's register_globals
   4 setting since version 1.2.0. If you have it on, turn it *off* if you can.
   5
   6 == MediaWiki 1.12 ==
   7
   8 THIS IS NOT A RELEASE YET
   9
  10 MediaWiki is now using a "continuous integration" development model with
  11 quarterly snapshot releases. The latest development code is always kept
  12 "ready to run", and in fact runs our own sites on Wikipedia.
  13
  14 Release branches will continue to receive security updates for about a year
  15 from first release, but nonessential bugfixes and feature developments
  16 will be made on the development trunk and appear in the next quarterly release.
  17
  18 Those wishing to use the latest code instead of a branch release can obtain
  19 it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN
  20
  21 === Configuration changes in 1.12 ===
  22
  23 === New features in 1.12 ===
  24 * Add a warning for non-descriptive filenames at Special:Upload
  25 * Add {{filepath:}} parser function to get full path to an uploaded file,
  26   complementing {{fullurl:}} for pages.
  27 * (bug 11136) If using Postgres, search path is explicitly set if wgDBmwschema is
  28   not set to 'mediawiki', allowing multiple mediawiki instances per user.
  29 * (bug 11151) Add descriptive <title> to revision history page
  30
  31 === Bug fixes in 1.12 ===
  32
  33 * Subpages are now indexed for searching properly when using PostgreSQL
  34 * (bug 3846) Suppress warnings from, e.g. open_basedir when scanning for
  35   ImageMagick, diff3 et al. during installation [patch by Jan Reininghaus]
  36 * (bug 7027) Shift handling of deletion permissions-checking to
  37   getUserPermissionsErrors.
  38 * Login and signup forms are now more correct for right-to-left languages.
  39 * (bug 5387) Block log items on RecentChanges don't make use of possible
  40   translations
  41 * (bug 11211) Pass, as a parameter to the protectedpagetext interface
  42   message, the level of protection.
  43 * (bug 9611) Supply the blocker and reason for the cantcreateaccounttext
  44   message.
  45 * (bug 8759) Fixed bug where rollback was allowed on protected pages for wikis
  46   where rollback is given to non-sysops.
  47 * (bug 8834) Split off permission for editing user JavaScript and CSS from
  48   editinterface to a new permission key editusercssjs.
  49 * (bug 11266) Set fallback language for Fulfulde (ff) to French
  50 * (bug 11179) Include image version deletion comment in public log
  51 * Fixed notice when accessing special page without read permission and whitelist
  52   is not defined
  53 * (bug 9252) Fix for tidy funkiness when using editintro mode
  54 * (bug 4021) Fix for MySQL wildcard search
  55 * (bug 10699) Fix for MySQL phrase search
  56 * (bug 11321) Fix width of gallerybox when option "width=xxx" is used
  57 * (bug 7890) Special:BrokenRedirects links deleted redirects to a non-existent page
  58 * Fix initial statistics when installing: add correct values
  59 * (bug 11342) Fix several 'returnto' links in permissions/error pages which
  60   linked to the main page instead of targetted page
  61 * Strike the link to the redirect rather than using an asterisk in Special:Listredirects
  62 * (bug 11355) Fix false positives in Safe Mode and other config detection
  63   when boolean settings are disabled with 'Off' via php_admin_value/php_value
  64
  65 === API changes in 1.12 ===
  66
  67 Full API documentation is available at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API
  68
  69 * (bug 11275) Enable descending sort in categorymembers
  70 * (bug 11308) Allow the API to output the image metadata
  71 * (bug 11296) Temporary fix for escaping of ampersands inside links in pretty-printed
  72   help document.
  73
  74 === Languages updated in 1.12 ===
  75
  76 * Amharic (am) (new)
  77 * Arabic (ar)
  78 * Mapudungun (arn) (new)
  79 * Samogitian (bat-smg)
  80 * Bikol Central (bcl)
  81 * Belarusian Taraskievica orthography (be-tarask)
  82 * Bulgarian (bg)
  83 * Bislama (bi) (new)
  84 * Bengali (bn)
  85 * Catalan (ca)
  86 * Breton (br)
  87 * Czech (cs)
  88 * Cassubian (csb)
  89 * Welsh (cy)
  90 * Danish (da)
  91 * German (de)
  92 * Lower Sorbian (dsb) (new)
  93 * Greek (el)
  94 * Spanish (es)
  95 * Extremaduran (ext)
  96 * Finnish (fi)
  97 * Persian (fa)
  98 * Võro (fiu-vro)
  99 * Frisian (fy)
 100 * French (fr)
 101 * Cajun French (frc)
 102 * Franco-Provençal (frp)
 103 * Irish (ga)
 104 * Galician (gl)
 105 * Ancient Greek (grc) (new)
 106 * Hakka (hak)
 107 * Hebrew (he)
 108 * Upper Sorbian (hsb)
 109 * Indonesian (id)
 110 * Icelandic (is)
 111 * Kazakh (kk)
 112 * Korean (ko)
 113 * Low Saxon (nds)
 114 * Dutch (nl)
 115 * Russian (ru)
 116 * Sakha (sah)
 117 * Sicilian (scn)
 118 * Slovak (sk)
 119 * Serbian (Cyrillic) (sr-ec)
 120 * Sundanese (su)
 121 * Tamil (ta)
 122 * Tetun (tet) (new)
 123 * Walloon (wa)
 124 * Yiddish (yi)
 125 * Zhuang (za)
 126 * Zealandic (zea)
 127
 128 == Compatibility ==
 129
 130 MediaWiki 1.12 requires PHP 5 (5.1 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer supported.
 131
 132 PHP 5.0.x fails on 64-bit systems due to serious bugs with array processing:
 133 http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=34879
 134 Upgrade affected systems to PHP 5.1 or higher.
 135
 136 MySQL 3.23.x is no longer supported; some older hosts may need to upgrade.
 137 At this time we still recommend 4.0, but 4.1/5.0 will work fine in most cases.
 138
 139
 140 == Upgrading ==
 141
 142 1.12 has several database changes since 1.11, and will not work without schema
 143 updates.
 144
 145 If upgrading from before 1.7, you may want to run refreshLinks.php to ensure
 146 new database fields are filled with data.
 147
 148 If you are upgrading from MediaWiki 1.4.x or earlier, some major database
 149 changes are made, and there is a slightly higher chance that things could
 150 break. Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading!
 151
 152 See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions.
 153
 154
 155 === Caveats ===
 156
 157 Some output, particularly involving user-supplied inline HTML, may not
 158 produce 100% valid or well-formed XHTML output. Testers are welcome to
 159 set $wgMimeType = "application/xhtml+xml"; to test for remaining problem
 160 cases, but this is not recommended on live sites. (This must be set for
 161 MathML to display properly in Mozilla.)
 162
 163 For notes on 1.11.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
 164
 165
 166 === Online documentation ===
 167
 168 Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is currently being
 169 built up on MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation
 170 License (except for pages that explicitly state that their contents are in
 171 the public domain) :
 172
 173   http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation
 174
 175
 176 === Mailing list ===
 177
 178 A MediaWiki-l mailing list has been set up distinct from the Wikipedia
 179 wikitech-l list:
 180
 181   http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
 182
 183 A low-traffic announcements-only list is also available:
 184
 185   http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
 186
 187 It's highly recommended that you sign up for one of these lists if you're
 188 going to run a public MediaWiki, so you can be notified of security fixes.
 189
 190
 191 === IRC help ===
 192
 193 There's usually someone online in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net