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 1.14 ==
   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 1.14 ===
  22
  23 * $wgExemptFromUserRobotsControl is an array of namespaces to be exempt from
  24   the effect of the new __INDEX__/__NOINDEX__ magic words.  (Default: null, ex-
  25   empt all content namespaces.)
  26 * $wgForwardSearchUrl has been removed entirely. Documented setting since 1.4
  27   has been $wgSearchForwardUrl.
  28
  29 === New features in 1.14 ===
  30
  31 * (bug 8068) New __INDEX__ and __NOINDEX__ magic words allow user control of
  32   search engine indexing on a per-article basis.
  33 * Handheld stylesheet options
  34 * Added 'DoEditSectionLink' hook as a cleaner unified version of the old
  35   'EditSectionLink' and 'EditSectionLinkForOther' hooks.  Note that the
  36   'EditSectionLinkForOther' hook has been removed, but 'EditSectionLink' is
  37   run in all cases instead, so extensions using the old hooks should still work
  38   if they ran roughly the same code for both hooks (as is almost certain).
  39 * Signature (~~~~) "cleaning", i.e. template removal, can be disabled with
  40   $wgCleanSignatures=false
  41 * Extensions can use the SkinBuildSidebar hook to modify the content of the
  42   sidebar and add custom portlets to it
  43 * Added 'MakeGlobalVariablesScript' hook for extensions to be able to add vari-
  44   ables into into the output of Skin::makeVariablesScript
  45 * (bug 13846) Added $wgAddGroups and $wgRemoveGroups display on
  46   Special:ListGroupRights
  47 * (bug 14377) Add a date selector to history pages
  48 * (bug 15007) New 'pagetitle-view-mainpage' message allows the HTML <title> of
  49   the main page to be customized
  50 * Added $wgDisableTitleConversion to disabling the conversion for all pages on
  51   the wiki
  52 * Added 'noconvertlink' toogle that can be set per user preferences, also
  53   added 'convertlink=no|yes' on GET requests whether have the link titles
  54   being converted or not
  55
  56 === Bug fixes in 1.14 ===
  57
  58 * (bug 14907) DatabasePostgres::fieldType now defined.
  59 * (bug 14659) Passing the default limit param to Special:Recentchanges no more
  60   falls back to the user option
  61 * (bug 14954) Fix regression in Modern and Simple skins
  62 * Recursion loop check added to Categoryfinder class
  63 * Fixed few performance troubles of large job queue processing
  64 * Not setting various parameters in Foreign Repos now fails more gracefully
  65 * (bug 2333) Redirects are properly rendered when previewing an edit.
  66 * (bug 14972) Use localized alias of Special:Search on all search forms
  67 * (bug 11035) Special:Search should have descriptive <title>
  68 * Special pages are now not subject to special handling for "self-links"
  69 * (bug 15053) Syntactically incorrect redirects with another link in them
  70   no longer redirect to the second link
  71 * (bug 15049) Fix for CheckUser extension's log search: usernames containing
  72   a "-" were incorrectly turned into bogus IP range searches.
  73   Patch by Max Semenik.
  74 * (bug 15055) Talk page notifications no longer attempt to send mail when
  75   user's e-mail address is invalid or unconfirmed
  76
  77 === API changes in 1.14 ===
  78
  79 * Registration time of users registered before the DB field was created is now
  80   shown as empty instead of the current time.
  81 * API search now falls back to fulltext search by default when using Lucene
  82   or other engine which doesn't support a separate title search function.
  83   This means you can use API search on Wikipedia without explicitly adding
  84   &srwhat=text to the query.
  85 * Added iiprop=bitdepth to imageinfo and aiprop=bitdepth to allimages
  86 * (bug 14713) API-specific permissions (such as 'writeapi' and 'apihighlimits'
  87   are now listed on action=help
  88 * (bug 15044) Added requestid parameter to api.php to facilitate distinguishing
  89   between requests
  90 * (bug 15048) Added limit field for multivalue parameters to action=paraminfo
  91   output.
  92 * When the limit on multivalue parameters is exceeded, a warning is issued
  93
  94 === Languages updated in 1.14 ===
  95
  96 MediaWiki supports over 300 languages. Many localisations are updated
  97 regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed.
  98
  99 (no changes yet)
 100
 101 == Compatibility ==
 102
 103 MediaWiki 1.14 requires PHP 5 (5.1 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer supported.
 104
 105 PHP 5.0.x fails on 64-bit systems due to serious bugs with array processing:
 106 http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=34879
 107 Upgrade affected systems to PHP 5.1 or higher.
 108
 109 MySQL 3.23.x is no longer supported; some older hosts may need to upgrade.
 110 At this time we still recommend 4.0, but 4.1/5.0 will work fine in most cases.
 111
 112
 113 == Upgrading ==
 114
 115 If upgrading from before 1.11, and you are using a wiki as a commons repository,
 116 make sure that it is updated as well. Otherwise, errors may arise due to
 117 database schema changes.
 118
 119 If upgrading from before 1.7, you may want to run refreshLinks.php to ensure
 120 new database fields are filled with data.
 121
 122 If you are upgrading from MediaWiki 1.4.x or earlier, some major database
 123 changes are made, and there is a slightly higher chance that things could
 124 break. Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading!
 125
 126 See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions.
 127
 128
 129 === Caveats ===
 130
 131 Some output, particularly involving user-supplied inline HTML, may not
 132 produce 100% valid or well-formed XHTML output. Testers are welcome to
 133 set $wgMimeType = "application/xhtml+xml"; to test for remaining problem
 134 cases, but this is not recommended on live sites. (This must be set for
 135 MathML to display properly in Mozilla.)
 136
 137 For notes on 1.13.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
 138
 139
 140 === Online documentation ===
 141
 142 Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is currently being
 143 built up on MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation
 144 License (except for pages that explicitly state that their contents are in
 145 the public domain) :
 146
 147   http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation
 148
 149
 150 === Mailing list ===
 151
 152 A MediaWiki-l mailing list has been set up distinct from the Wikipedia
 153 wikitech-l list:
 154
 155   http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
 156
 157 A low-traffic announcements-only list is also available:
 158
 159   http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
 160
 161 It's highly recommended that you sign up for one of these lists if you're
 162 going to run a public MediaWiki, so you can be notified of security fixes.
 163
 164
 165 === IRC help ===
 166
 167 There's usually someone online in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net