Surround dynamic dates with a <span>. Bug 17785.
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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 * (bug 12970) Added $wgForceClientThumbnails to force client rendering of thumbs,
29 instead of falling back to GD.
30 * Added $wgRedirectOnLogin to allow specifying a specifc page to redirect users
31 to upon logging in (ex: "Main Page")
32
33 === New features in 1.15 ===
34
35 * (bug 2242) Add an expiry time to temporary passwords
36 * (bug 9947) Add PROTECTIONLEVEL parser function to return the protection level
37 for the current page for a given action
38 * (bug 17002) Add &minor= and &summary= as parameters in the url when editing,
39 to automatically add a summary or a minor edit.
40 * (bug 16852) padleft and padright now accept multiletter pad characters
41 * When using 'UserCreateForm' hook to add new checkboxes into
42 Special:UserLogin/signup, the messages can now contain HTML to allow
43 hyperlinking to the site's Terms of Service page, for example
44 * Add new hook 'UserLoadFromDatabase' that is called while loading a user
45 from the database.
46 * (bug 17045) Options on the block form are prefilled with the options of the
47 existing block when modifying an existing block.
48 * (bug 17055) "(show/hide)" links to Special:RevisionDelete now use a CSS class
49 rather than hardcoded HTML tags
50 * Added new hook 'WantedPages::getSQL' into SpecialWantedpages.php to allow
51 extensions to alter the SQL query which is used to get the list of wanted
52 pages
53 * (bugs 16957/16969) Add show/hide to preferences for RC patrol options on
54 specialpages
55 * (bug 11443) Auto-noindex user/user talk pages for blocked user
56 * (bug 11644) Add $wgMaxRedirects variable to control how many redirects are
57 recursed through until the "destination" page is reached.
58 * Add $wgInvalidRedirectTargets variable to prevent redirects to certain
59 special pages.
60 * Use HTML5 rel attributes for some links, where appropriate
61 * Added optional alternative Search form look - Go button & Advanced search
62 link instead of Go button & Search button
63 * (bug 2314) Add links to user custom CSS and JS to Special:Preferences
64 * More helpful error message on raw page access if PHP_SELF isn't set
65 * (bug 13040) Gender switch in user preferences
66 * (bug 13040) {{GENDER:}} magic word for interface messages
67 * (bug 3301) Optionally sort user list according to account creation time
68 * Remote description pages for foreign file repos are now fetched in the
69 content language.
70 * (bug 17180) If $wgUseFileCache is enabled, $wgShowIPinHeader is automatically
71 set to false.
72 * (bug 16604) Mark non-patrolled edits in feeds with "!"
73 * (bug 16604) Show title/rev in IRC for patrol log
74 * (bug 16854) Whether a page is being parsed as a preview or section preview
75 can now be determined and set with ParserOptions.
76 * Wrap message 'confirmemail_pending' into a div with CSS classes "error" and
77 "mw-confirmemail-pending"
78 * (bug 8249) The magic words for namespaces and pagenames can now be used as
79 parser functions to return the desired namespace or normalized title/title
80 part for a given title.
81 * (bug 17110) Styled #mw-data-after-content in cologneblue.css to match the
82 rest of the font
83 * (bug 7556) Time zone names in signatures lack i18n
84 * (bug 3311) Automatic category redirects
85 * (bug 17236) Suppress 'watch user page link' for IP range blocks
86 * Wrap message 'searchresulttext' (Special:Search) into a div with
87 class "mw-searchresult"
88 * (bug 15283) Interwiki imports can now fetch included templates
89 * Treat svn:// URLs as external links by default
90 * New function to convert namespace text for display (only applies on wiki with
91 LanguageConverter class)
92 * (bug 17379) Contributions-title is now parsed for magic words.
93 * Preprocessor output now cached in memcached.
94 * (bug 14468) Lines in classic RecentChanges and Watchlist have classes
95 "mw-line-odd" and "mw-line-even" to make styling using css possible.
96 * (bug 17311) Add a note beside the gender selection menu to tell users that
97 this information will be public
98 * Localize time zone regions in Special:Preferences
99 * Add NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS magic word, which is like NUMBEROFUSERS, but uses
100 the active users data from site_stats.
101 * Add a <link rel="canonical"> tag on redirected page views
102 * Replace hardcoded '...' as indication of a truncation with the
103 'ellipsis' message
104 * Wrap warning message 'editinginterface' into a div with class
105 'mw-editinginterface'
106 * (bug 17497) Oasis opendocument added to mime.types
107 * Remove the link to Special:FileDuplicateSearch from the "file history" section
108 of image description pages as the list of duplicated files is shown in the
109 next section anyway.
110 * Added $wgRateLimitsExcludedIPs, to allow specific IPs to be whitelisted from
111 rate limits.
112 * (bug 14981) Shared repositories can now have display names, located at
113 Mediawiki:Shared-repo-name-REPONAME, where REPONAME is the name in
114 $wgForeignFileRepos
115 * Special:ListUsers: Sort list of usergroups by alphabet
116 * (bug 16762) Special:Movepage now shows a list of subpages when possible
117 * (bug 17585) Hide legend on Special:Specialpages from non-privileged users
118 * (bug 15876) Users with 'reset-passwords' right can change the passwords of
119 other users.
120 * Add an ID if 'missingsummary' is triggered to allow styling of the summary
121 line
122 * Add logging to password resets if not resetting your own
123 * Added $wgUseTagFilter to control enabling of filter-by-change-tag
124 * (bug 17291) MediaWiki:Nocontribs now has an optional $1 parameter for the
125 username
126 * Wrap special page summary message '$specialPageName-summary' into a div
127 with class 'mw-specialpage-summary'
128 * $wgSummarySpamRegex added to handle edit summary spam. This is used *instead*
129 of $wgSpamRegex for edit summary checks. Text checks still use $wgSpamRegex.
130 * New function to convert content text to specified language (only applies on wiki with
131 LanguageConverter class)
132 * (bug 17844) Redirect users to a specific page when they log in, see
133 $wgRedirectOnLogin
134 * Added a link to Special:UserRights on Special:Contributions for privileged users
135 * (bug 10336) Added new magic word {{REVISIONUSER}}, which displays the user
136 name of the last user to edit the page
137 * LinkerMakeExternalLink now has an $attribs parameter for link attributes and
138 a $linkType parameter for the type of external link being made
139 * (bug 17785) Dynamic dates surrounded with a <span> tag, fixing sortable tables with
140 dynamic dates.
141
142 === Bug fixes in 1.15 ===
143 * (bug 16968) Special:Upload no longer throws useless warnings.
144 * (bug 17000) Special:RevisionDelete now checks if the database is locked
145 before trying to delete the edit.
146 * (bug 16852) padleft and padright now handle multibyte characters correctly
147 * (bug 17010) maintenance/namespaceDupes.php now add the suffix recursively if
148 the destination page exists
149 * (bug 17035) Special:Upload now fails gracefully if PHP's file_uploads has
150 been disabled
151 * Fixing the caching issue by using -{T|xxx}- syntax (only applies on wiki with
152 LanguageConverter class)
153 * Improving the efficiency by using -{A|xxx}- syntax (only applies on wiki with
154 LanguageConverter class)
155 * (bug 17054) Added more descriptive errors in Special:RevisionDelete
156 * (bug 11527) Diff on page with one revision shows "Next" link to same diff
157 * (bug 8065) Fix summary forcing for new pages
158 * (bug 10569) redirects to Special:Mypage and Special:Mytalk are no longer
159 allowed by default. Change $wgInvalidRedirectTargets to re-enable.
160 * (bug 3043) Feed links of given page are now preceded by standard feed icon
161 * (bug 17150) escapeLike now escapes literal \ properly
162 * Inconsistent use of sysop, admin, administrator in system messages changed
163 to 'administrator'
164 * (bug 14423) Check block flag validity for block logging
165 * DB transaction and slave-lag avoidance tweaks for Email Notifications
166 * (bug 17104) Removed [Mark as patrolled] link for already patrolled revisions
167 * (bug 17106) Added 'redirect=no' and 'mw-redirect' class to redirects at
168 "user contributions"
169 * Rollback links on new pages removed from "user contributions"
170 * (bug 15811) Re-upload form tweaks: license fields removed, destination locked,
171 comment label uses better message
172 * Whole HTML validation ($wgValidateAllHtml) now works with external tidy
173 * Parser tests no longer fail when $wgExternalLinkTarget is set in
174 LocalSettings
175 * (bug 15391) catch DBQueryErrors on external storage insertion. This avoids
176 error messages on save were the edit in fact is saved.
177 * (bug 17184) Remove duplicate "z" accesskey in MonoBook
178 * Parser tests no longer fail when $wgAlwaysUseTidy is set in LocalSettings.php
179 * Removed redundant dupe warnings on reupload for the same title. Dupe warnings
180 for identical files at different titles are still given.
181 * Add 'change tagging' facility, where changes can be tagged internally with
182 certain designations, which are displayed on various summaries of changes,
183 and the entries can be styled with CSS.
184 * (bug 17207) Fix regression breaking category page display on PHP 5.1
185 * Categoryfinder utility class no longer fails on invalid input or gives wrong
186 results for category names that include pseudo-namespaces
187 * (bug 17252) Galician numbering format
188 * (bug 17146) Fix for UTF-8 and short word search for some possible MySQL
189 configs
190 * (bug 7480) Internationalize database error message
191 * (bug 16555) Number of links to mediawiki.org scaled back on post-installation
192 * (bug 14938) Removing a section no longer leaves excess whitespace
193 * (bug 17304) Fixed fatal error when thumbnails couldn't be generated for file
194 history
195 * (bug 17283) Remove double URL escaping in show/hide links for log entries
196 and RevisionDeleteForm::__construct
197 * (bug 17105) Numeric table sorting broken
198 * (bug 17231) Transcluding special pages on wikis using language conversion no
199 longer affects the page title
200 * (bug 6702) Default system messages updated/improved
201 * (bug 17190) User ID on preference page no longer has delimeters
202 * (bug 17341) "Powered by MediaWiki" should be on the left on RTL wikis
203 * (bug 17404) "userrights-interwiki" right was missing in User::$mCoreRights
204 * (bug 7509) Separation strings should be configurable
205 * (bug 17420) Send the correct content type from action=raw when the HTML file
206 cache is enabled.
207 * (bug 12746) Do not allow new password e-mails when wiki is in read-only mode
208 * (bug 17478) Fixed a PHP Strict standards error in
209 maintenance/cleanupWatchlist.php
210 * (bug 17488) RSS/Atom links in left toolbar are now localized in classic skin
211 * (bug 17472) use print <<<EOF in maintenance/importTextFile.php
212 * Special:PrefixIndex: Move table styling to shared.css, add CSS IDs to tables
213 use correct message 'allpagesprefix' for input form label, replace _ with ' '
214 in next page link
215 * (bug 17506) Exceptions within exceptions now respect $wgShowExceptionDetails
216 * Fixed excessive job queue utilisation
217 * File dupe messages for remote repos are now shown only once.
218 * (bug 14980) Messages 'shareduploadwiki' and 'shareduploadwiki-desc' are now
219 used as a parameter in 'sharedupload' for easier styling and customization.
220 * (bug 17482) Formatting error in Special:Preferences#Misc (Opera)
221 * (bug 17556) <link> parameters in Special:Contributions feeds (RSS and Atom)
222 now point to the actual contributors' feed.
223 * ForeignApiRepos now fetch MIME types, rather than trying to figure it locally
224 * Special:Import: Do not show input field for import depth if
225 $wgExportMaxLinkDepth == 0
226 * (bug 17570) $wgMaxRedirects is now correctly respected when following
227 redirects (was previously one more than $wgMaxRedirects)
228 * (bug 16335) __NONEWSECTIONLINK__ magic word to suppress new section link.
229 * (bug 17581) Wrong index name in PostgreSQL's updater: was rc_timestamp_nobot,
230 changed to rc_timestamp_bot
231 * (bug 17437) Fixed incorrect link to web-based installer
232 * (bug 17538) Use shorter URLs in <link> elements
233 * (bug 13778) Hidden input added to the search form so that using the Enter key
234 on IE will do a fulltext search like clicking the button does
235 * (bug 1061) CSS-added icons next to links display through the text and makes
236 it unreadable in RTL
237 * Special:Wantedtemplates now works on PostgreSQL
238 * (bug 14414) maintenance/updateSpecialPages.php no longer throws error with
239 PostgreSQL
240 * (bug 17546) Correct Tongan language native name is "lea faka-Tonga"
241 * (bug 17621) Special:WantedFiles has no link to Special:Whatlinkshere
242 * (bug 17460) Client ecoding is now correctly set for PostgreSQL
243 * (bug 17648) Prevent floats from intruding into edit area in previews if no
244 toolbar present
245 * (bug 16899) DISPLAYTITLE should allow Arabic and Persian harakats
246 * (bug 17692) Added (list of members) link to 'user' in Special:Listgrouprights
247 * (bug 17707) Show file destination as plain text if &wpForReUpload=1
248 * (bug 10172) Moved setting of "changed since last visit" flags out of the job
249 queue
250 * (bug 17761) "show/hide" link in page history in now works for the first
251 displayed revision if it's not the current one
252 * (bug 17722) Fix regression where users are unable to change temporary passwords
253 * (bug 17799) Special:Random no longer throws a database error when a non-
254 namespace is given, silently falls back to NS_MAIN
255 * (bug 17751) The message for bad titles in WantedPages is now localized
256 * (bug 17860) Moving a page in the "MediaWiki" namespace using SuppressRedirect
257 no longer corrupts the message cache
258
259 == API changes in 1.15 ==
260 * (bug 16858) Revamped list=deletedrevs to make listing deleted contributions
261 and listing all deleted pages possible
262 * (bug 16844) Added clcategories parameter to prop=categories
263 * (bug 17025) Add "fileextension" parameter to meta=siteinfo&siprop=
264 * (bug 17048) Show the 'new' flag in list=usercontribs for the revision that
265 created the page, even if it's not the top revision
266 * (bug 17069) Added ucshow=patrolled|!patrolled to list=usercontribs
267 * action=delete respects $wgDeleteRevisionsLimit and the bigdelete user right
268 * (bug 15949) Add undo functionality to action=edit
269 * (bug 16483) Kill filesort in ApiQueryBacklinks caused by missing parentheses.
270 Building query properly now using makeList()
271 * (bug 17182) Fix pretty printer so URLs with parentheses in them are
272 autolinked correctly
273 * (bug 17224) Added siprop=rightsinfo to meta=siteinfo
274 * (bug 17239) Added prop=displaytitle to action=parse
275 * (bug 17317) Added watch parameter to action=protect
276 * (bug 17007) Added export and exportnowrap parameters to action=query
277 * (bug 17326) BREAKING CHANGE: Changed output format for iiprop=metadata
278 * (bug 17355) Added auwitheditsonly parameter to list=allusers
279 * (bug 17007) Added action=import
280 * BREAKING CHANGE: Removed rctitles parameter from list=recentchanges because
281 of performance concerns
282 * Listing (semi-)deleted revisions and log entries as well in prop=revisions
283 and list=logevents
284 * (bug 11430) BREAKING CHANGE: Modules may return fewer results than the
285 limit and still set a query-continue in some cases
286 * (bug 17357) Added movesubpages parameter to action=move
287 * (bug 17433) Added bot flag to list=watchlist&wlprop=flags output
288 * (bug 16740) Added list=protectedtitles
289 * Added mainmodule and pagesetmodule parameters to action=paraminfo
290 * (bug 17502) meta=siteinfo&siprop=namespacealiases no longer lists namespace
291 aliases already listed in siprop=namespaces
292 * (bug 17529) rvend ignored when rvstartid is specified
293 * (bug 17626) Added uiprop=email to list=userinfo
294 * (bug 13209) Added rvdiffto parameter to prop=revisions
295 * Manual language conversion improve: Now we can include both ";" and ":" in
296 conversion rules
297 * (bug 17795) Don't report views count on meta=siteinfo if $wgDisableCounters
298 is set
299 * (bug 17774) Don't hide read-restricted modules like action=query from users
300 without read rights, but throw an error when they try to use them.
301 * Don't hide write modules when $wgEnableWriteAPI is false, but throw an error
302 when someone tries to use them
303 * BREAKING CHANGE: action=purge requires write rights and, for anonymous users,
304 a POST request
305
306 === Languages updated in 1.15 ===
307
308 MediaWiki supports over 300 languages. Many localisations are updated
309 regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
310 changes to languages because of MediaZilla reports.
311
312 * Austrian German (de-at) (new)
313 * Swiss Standard German (de-ch) (new)
314 * Literary Chinese (lzh) (new)
315 * Uyghur (Latin script) (ug-latn) (renamed from 'ug')
316 * Võro (vro) (renamed from fiu-vro)
317 * (bug 17151) Add magic word alias for #redirect for Vietnamese
318 * (bug 17288) Messages improved for default language (English)
319 * (bug 12937) Update native name for Afar
320 * (bug 16909) 'histlegend' now reuses messages instead of copying them
321 * (bug 17832) action=delete returns 'unknownerror' instead of 'permissiondenied' when
322 the user is blocked
323
324 == Compatibility ==
325
326 MediaWiki 1.15 requires PHP 5 (5.2 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer supported.
327
328 PHP 5.0.x fails on 64-bit systems due to serious bugs with array processing:
329 http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=34879
330 Upgrade affected systems to PHP 5.1 or higher.
331
332 MySQL 3.23.x is no longer supported; some older hosts may need to upgrade.
333 At this time we still recommend 4.0, but 4.1/5.0 will work fine in most cases.
334
335
336 == Upgrading ==
337
338 1.15 has several database changes since 1.14, and will not work without schema
339 updates.
340
341 If upgrading from before 1.11, and you are using a wiki as a commons reposito-
342 ry, make sure that it is updated as well. Otherwise, errors may arise due to
343 database schema changes.
344
345 If upgrading from before 1.7, you may want to run refreshLinks.php to ensure
346 new database fields are filled with data.
347
348 If you are upgrading from MediaWiki 1.4.x or earlier, some major database
349 changes are made, and there is a slightly higher chance that things could
350 break. Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading!
351
352 See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions.
353
354
355 === Caveats ===
356
357 Some output, particularly involving user-supplied inline HTML, may not
358 produce 100% valid or well-formed XHTML output. Testers are welcome to
359 set $wgMimeType = "application/xhtml+xml"; to test for remaining problem
360 cases, but this is not recommended on live sites. (This must be set for
361 MathML to display properly in Mozilla.)
362
363 For notes on 1.14.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
364
365
366 === Online documentation ===
367
368 Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is currently being
369 built up on MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation
370 License (except for pages that explicitly state that their contents are in
371 the public domain) :
372
373 http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation
374
375
376 === Mailing list ===
377
378 A MediaWiki-l mailing list has been set up distinct from the Wikipedia
379 wikitech-l list:
380
381 http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
382
383 A low-traffic announcements-only list is also available:
384
385 http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
386
387 It's highly recommended that you sign up for one of these lists if you're
388 going to run a public MediaWiki, so you can be notified of security fixes.
389
390
391 === IRC help ===
392
393 There's usually someone online in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net