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[lhc/web/wiklou.git] / 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 1.15 ==
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 1.15 ===
22
23 * Added $wgNewPasswordExpiry, to specify an expiry time (in seconds) to
24 temporary passwords
25 * Added $wgUseTwoButtonsSearchForm to choose the Search form behavior/look
26 * Added $wgNoFollowDomainExceptions to allow exempting particular domain names
27 from rel="nofollow" on external links
28
29 === New features in 1.15 ===
30
31 * (bug 2242) Add an expiry time to temporary passwords
32 * (bug 9947) Add PROTECTIONLEVEL parser function to return the protection level
33 for the current page for a given action
34 * (bug 17002) Add &minor= and &summary= as parameters in the url when editing,
35 to automatically add a summary or a minor edit.
36 * (bug 16852) padleft and padright now accept multiletter pad characters
37 * When using 'UserCreateForm' hook to add new checkboxes into
38 Special:UserLogin/signup, the messages can now contain HTML to allow
39 hyperlinking to the site's Terms of Service page, for example
40 * Add new hook 'UserLoadFromDatabase' that is called while loading a user
41 from the database.
42 * (bug 17045) Options on the block form are prefilled with the options of the
43 existing block when modifying an existing block.
44 * (bug 17055) "(show/hide)" links to Special:RevisionDelete now use a CSS class
45 rather than hardcoded HTML tags
46 * Added new hook 'WantedPages::getSQL' into SpecialWantedpages.php to allow
47 extensions to alter the SQL query which is used to get the list of wanted
48 pages
49 * (bugs 16957/16969) Add show/hide to preferences for RC patrol options on
50 specialpages
51 * (bug 11443) Auto-noindex user/user talk pages for blocked user
52 * (bug 11644) Add $wgMaxRedirects variable to control how many redirects are
53 recursed through until the "destination" page is reached.
54 * Add $wgInvalidRedirectTargets variable to prevent redirects to certain
55 special pages.
56 * Use HTML5 rel attributes for some links, where appropriate
57 * Added optional alternative Search form look - Go button & Advanced search
58 link instead of Go button & Search button
59 * (bug 2314) Add links to user custom CSS and JS to Special:Preferences
60 * More helpful error message on raw page access if PHP_SELF isn't set
61 * (bug 13040) Gender switch in user preferences
62 * (bug 13040) {{GENDER:}} magic word for interface messages
63 * (bug 3301) Optionally sort user list according to account creation time
64 * Remote description pages for foreign file repos are now fetched in the
65 content language.
66 * (bug 17180) If $wgUseFileCache is enabled, $wgShowIPinHeader is automatically
67 set to false.
68 * (bug 16604) Mark non-patrolled edits in feeds with "!"
69 * (bug 16604) Show title/rev in IRC for patrol log
70 * (bug 16854) Whether a page is being parsed as a preview or section preview
71 can now be determined and set with ParserOptions.
72 * Wrap message 'confirmemail_pending' into a div with CSS classes "error" and
73 "mw-confirmemail-pending"
74
75 === Bug fixes in 1.15 ===
76 * (bug 16968) Special:Upload no longer throws useless warnings.
77 * (bug 17000) Special:RevisionDelete now checks if the database is locked
78 before trying to delete the edit.
79 * (bug 16852) padleft and padright now handle multibyte characters correctly
80 * (bug 17010) maintenance/namespaceDupes.php now add the suffix recursively if
81 the destination page exists
82 * (bug 17035) Special:Upload now fails gracefully if PHP's file_uploads has
83 been disabled
84 * Fixing the caching issue by using -{T|xxx}- syntax (only applies on wiki with
85 LanguageConverter class)
86 * Improving the efficiency by using -{A|xxx}- syntax (only applies on wiki with
87 LanguageConverter class)
88 * (bug 17054) Added more descriptive errors in Special:RevisionDelete
89 * (bug 11527) Diff on page with one revision shows "Next" link to same diff
90 * (bug 8065) Fix summary forcing for new pages
91 * (bug 10569) redirects to Special:Mypage and Special:Mytalk are no longer
92 allowed by default. Change $wgInvalidRedirectTargets to re-enable.
93 * (bug 3043) Feed links of given page are now preceded by standard feed icon
94 * (bug 17150) escapeLike now escapes literal \ properly
95 * Inconsistent use of sysop, admin, administrator in system messages changed
96 to 'administrator'
97 * (bug 14423) Check block flag validity for block logging
98 * DB transaction and slave-lag avoidance tweaks for Email Notifications
99 * (bug 17104) Removed [Mark as patrolled] link for already patrolled revisions
100 * (bug 17106) Added 'redirect=no' and 'mw-redirect' class to redirects at
101 "user contributions"
102 * Rollback links on new pages removed from "user contributions"
103 * (bug 15811) Re-upload form tweaks: license fields removed, destination locked,
104 comment label uses better message
105 * Whole HTML validation ($wgValidateAllHtml) now works with external tidy
106 * Parser tests no longer fail when $wgExternalLinkTarget is set in LocalSettings
107 * (bug 15391) catch DBQueryErrors on external storage insertion. This avoids error
108 messages on save were the edit in fact is saved.
109 * (bug 17184) Remove duplicate "z" accesskey in MonoBook
110 * Parser tests no longer fail when $wgAlwaysUseTidy is set in LocalSettings.php
111 * Removed redundant dupe warnings on reupload for the same title. Dupe warnings
112 for identical files at different titles are still given.
113 * Add 'change tagging' facility, where changes can be tagged internally with
114 certain designations, which are displayed on various summaries of changes, and
115 the entries can be styled with CSS.
116 * (bug 17207) Fix regression breaking category page display on PHP 5.1
117 * Categoryfinder utility class no longer fails on invalid input or gives wrong
118 results for category names that include pseudo-namespaces
119
120 == API changes in 1.15 ==
121 * (bug 16858) Revamped list=deletedrevs to make listing deleted contributions
122 and listing all deleted pages possible
123 * (bug 16844) Added clcategories parameter to prop=categories
124 * (bug 17025) Add "fileextension" parameter to meta=siteinfo&siprop=
125 * (bug 17048) Show the 'new' flag in list=usercontribs for the revision that
126 created the page, even if it's not the top revision
127 * (bug 17069) Added ucshow=patrolled|!patrolled to list=usercontribs
128 * action=delete respects $wgDeleteRevisionsLimit and the bigdelete user right
129 * (bug 15949) Add undo functionality to action=edit
130 * (bug 16483) Kill filesort in ApiQueryBacklinks caused by missing parentheses.
131 Building query properly now using makeList()
132 * Add "check" parameter to action=email
133
134 === Languages updated in 1.15 ===
135
136 MediaWiki supports over 300 languages. Many localisations are updated
137 regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed.
138
139 * Austrian German (de-at) (new)
140 * Swiss Standard German (de-ch) (new)
141 * Literary Chinese (lzh) (new)
142 * Võro (vro) (renamed from fiu-vro)
143 * (bug 17151) Add magic word alias for #redirect for Vietnamese
144
145 == Compatibility ==
146
147 MediaWiki 1.15 requires PHP 5 (5.2 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer supported.
148
149 PHP 5.0.x fails on 64-bit systems due to serious bugs with array processing:
150 http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=34879
151 Upgrade affected systems to PHP 5.1 or higher.
152
153 MySQL 3.23.x is no longer supported; some older hosts may need to upgrade.
154 At this time we still recommend 4.0, but 4.1/5.0 will work fine in most cases.
155
156
157 == Upgrading ==
158
159 1.15 has several database changes since 1.14, and will not work without schema
160 updates.
161
162 If upgrading from before 1.11, and you are using a wiki as a commons reposito-
163 ry, make sure that it is updated as well. Otherwise, errors may arise due to
164 database schema changes.
165
166 If upgrading from before 1.7, you may want to run refreshLinks.php to ensure
167 new database fields are filled with data.
168
169 If you are upgrading from MediaWiki 1.4.x or earlier, some major database
170 changes are made, and there is a slightly higher chance that things could
171 break. Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading!
172
173 See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions.
174
175
176 === Caveats ===
177
178 Some output, particularly involving user-supplied inline HTML, may not
179 produce 100% valid or well-formed XHTML output. Testers are welcome to
180 set $wgMimeType = "application/xhtml+xml"; to test for remaining problem
181 cases, but this is not recommended on live sites. (This must be set for
182 MathML to display properly in Mozilla.)
183
184 For notes on 1.14.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
185
186
187 === Online documentation ===
188
189 Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is currently being
190 built up on MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation
191 License (except for pages that explicitly state that their contents are in
192 the public domain) :
193
194 http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation
195
196
197 === Mailing list ===
198
199 A MediaWiki-l mailing list has been set up distinct from the Wikipedia
200 wikitech-l list:
201
202 http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
203
204 A low-traffic announcements-only list is also available:
205
206 http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
207
208 It's highly recommended that you sign up for one of these lists if you're
209 going to run a public MediaWiki, so you can be notified of security fixes.
210
211
212 === IRC help ===
213
214 There's usually someone online in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net