-Change notes from older releases. For current info see RELEASE-NOTES-1.20.
+Change notes from older releases. For current info see RELEASE-NOTES-1.21.
== MediaWiki 1.20 ==
-== MediaWiki 1.20 ==
-
-THIS IS NOT A RELEASE YET
-
-MediaWiki 1.20 is an alpha-quality branch and is not recommended for use in
-production.
-
=== PHP 5.3 now required ===
Since 1.20, the lowest supported version of PHP is now 5.3.2. Please
upgrade PHP if you have not done so prior to upgrading MediaWiki.
connections, if either are available for the selected DB type.
* $wgUseCombinedLoginLink now defaults to false, making MediaWiki output separate
login and create account links by default.
-* (bug 29374) $wgVectorUseSimpleSearch is now enabled by default.
=== New features in 1.20 ===
* Added TitleIsAlwaysKnown hook which gets called when determining if a page exists.
* (bug 35685) api.php URL and other entry point URLs are now listed on
Special:Version
* Edit notices can now be translated.
-* jQuery upgraded to 1.8.1
+* jQuery upgraded to 1.8.2.
* jQuery UI upgraded to 1.8.23.
* QUnit upgraded from v1.2.0 to v1.10.0.
* (bug 37604) jquery.cookie upgraded to 2011 version.
* (bug 39273) Added AJAX support for "Show changes" (diff) in LivePreview.
* Added ResourceLoader module "jquery.badge".
* mw.util.$content now points to the overall content area in the skin rather than just
- page text content area. If you need the old behaviour please use $( '#mw-content-text').
+ page text content area. If you need the old behavior please use $( '#mw-content-text').
* jsMessage has been replaced with a floating bubble notification system complete
with auto-hide, multi-message support, and message replacement tags.
* jquery.messageBox which appears to be unused by both core and extensions has
* (bug 40072) Add CSS classes to items in output of ChangesList pages.
* Added $wgCopyUploadProxy global to define which proxy to use for copy
uploads.
+* (bug 40448) mediawiki.legacy.mwsuggest has been replaced with a new module,
+ mediawiki.searchSuggest, based on SimpleSeach from Extension:Vector.
+
+=== Known issues in 1.20.0 ===
+These are issues that we're targeting to be fixed in a later release
+in the 1.20 series. Issues may be added or removed from this list as
+we see fit. For now, it is comprised of those bugs on the 1.20.0
+milestone in Bugzilla.
+
+* (bug 35894): Reports of secret key generation "hanging" on windows
+ This is probably a bug that has been fixed in PHP. If you run
+ into this, try upgrading your PHP.
+* (bug 38334): PHP Notice: Undefined index: href in /www/w/skins/Vector.php on line 416
+ We think this is a problem in some extension. If you see this,
+ try disabling your extensions and check out the logging patch on
+ this bug. Or try this patch:
+ <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/27937/1/skins/Vector.php>
+* (bug 39268): [Regression] Toolbar inserts in main textarea only (instead of the focussed textarea)
+ This should only be an issue if you are using the ProofreadPage
+ extension.
+* (bug 40641): Clicking "others" in Special:Version asks to download a file
+ If you encounter this, you can tell your webserver to serve the
+ CREDITS file with text/plain MIME type to fix it.
=== Bug fixes in 1.20 ===
+* (bug 40939): [Regression] InfoAction: Call to a member function getUserText() on a non-object
+* (bug 40780): searchsuggest-containing line ("containing...") doesn't include the entered text
+* (bug 37714): [Regression] Incomplete log entries
+* (bug 27202): API: Add timestamp sort to list=allimages
* (bug 30245) Use the correct way to construct a log page title.
* (bug 34237) Regenerate an empty user_token and save to the database
when we try to set the user's cookies for login.
* (bug 36812) Special:ActiveUsers "Hide bots" should hide users from any group
having the "bot" user right, instead of just the default "bot" user group.
* (bug 35082) mw.util.addPortletLink incorrectly adds link to mutiple <ul> tags.
-* (bug 36495) Sanitizer::fixDeprecatedAttributes should convert "align"
- attribute to margin or float instead of text-align (for non-table-cells).
* (bug 36991) jquery.tablesorter should extract date sort format from date
string instead of global config. Dates like "April 1 2012" and "1 April 2012"
now sort correctly regardless of the content language's DefaultDateFormat.
* (bug 39635) PostgreSQL LOCK IN SHARE MODE option is a syntax error.
* (bug 36329) Accesskey tooltips for Firefox 14 on Mac should use "ctrl-option-" prefix.
* (bug 32552) Drop unused database field cat_hidden from table category.
+* (bug 24502) Do not allow multiple language links to the same language.
* (bug 40214) Category pages no longer use deprecated "width" HTML attribute.
* (bug 39941) Add missing stylesheets to the installer pages
* In HTML5 mode, allow new input element types values (such as color, range..)
-* (bug 40353) SpecialDoubleRedirect should support interwiki redirects.
-* (bug 40352) fixDoubleRedirects.php should support interwiki redirects.
-* (bug 9237) SpecialBrokenRedirect should not list interwiki redirects.
+* (bug 36151) mw.Title: Don't limit extension in title parsing.
+* (bug 38158) jquery.byteLimit sometimes causes an unexpected 0 maxLength being enforced.
+* (bug 38163) jquery.byteLimit incorrectly limits input when using methods other than
+ basic per-char typing.
+* (bug 34495) patrol log now credit the user patrolling (instead of patrolled
+ user).
+* (bug 31676) ResourceLoader should work around IE stylesheet limit.
+* (bug 40498) ResourceLoader should not output an empty "@media print { }" block.
+* (bug 40500) ResourceLoader should not ignore media-type for urls in debug mode.
+* (bug 40660) ResourceLoaderWikiModule should not convert " " to a space
+ for pages from the MediaWiki-namespace.
+* (bug 40329) (bug 40632) Removed CleanupPresentationalAttributes feature.
=== API changes in 1.20 ===
* (bug 34316) Add ability to retrieve maximum upload size from MediaWiki API.
* (bug 38904) prop=revisions&rvstart=... no longer blows up when continuing.
* (bug 39032) ApiQuery generates help in constructor.
* (bug 11142) Improve file extension blacklist error reporting in API upload.
-* (bug 39665) Cache AllowedGenerator array so it doesn't autoload all query classes
- on every request.
-* (bug 35693) ApiQueryImageInfo now suppresses errors when unserializing metadata.
+* (bug 39665) List of query generators is now not built using reflection, instead it is
+ defined in code.
+* (bug 35993) Deprecated gettoken parameter - support will be removed in 1.22.
=== Languages updated in 1.20 ===
* Live preview functionality has been improved and moved into the
'mediawiki.action.edit.preview' module. The old 'mediawiki.legacy.preview' module
has been removed.
-
+* (bug 40448) Removed mediawiki.legacy.mwsuggest module, and removed the
+ following that has become obsolete:
+ - globals $wgEnableMWSuggest and $wgMWSuggestTemplate.
+ - mw.config.values wgMWSuggestTemplate and wgSearchNamespaces.
+ - method SearchEngine::getMWSuggestTemplate().
== MediaWiki 1.19 ==
* New maintenance script to refresh image metadata (maintenance/refreshImageMetadata.php).
* (bug 16428) Include permalink in printable version.
* (bug 30722) Add an identity collation that sorts things based on what the
- unicode code point is (aka pre-1.17 behaviour).
+ unicode code point is (aka pre-1.17 behavior).
* (bug 30940) Add a hook in User:getDefaultOptions.
To give extensions a better and more flexible way of providing default
values for preferences a hook has been introdiced in User:getDefaultOptions().
make wfTempDir() return a sane value for Windows on worst-case.
* (bug 24824) Support ImageMagick 6.5.6-2+ JPEG decoder size hint, to reduce
memory usage when such an ImageMagick is used for scaling.
-* Disable multithreaded behaviour in recent ImageMagick, to avoid a deadlock
+* Disable multithreaded behavior in recent ImageMagick, to avoid a deadlock
when a resource limit such as $wgMaxShellMemory is hit.
* (bug 24981) Allow extensions to access SpecialUpload variables again.
* (bug 20744) Wiki forgets about an uploaded file.
exist. In that case the URL will get (?|&)wpDestFile=<filename> appended to
it as appropriate.
* If $wgLocaltimezone is null, use the server's timezone as the default for
- signatures. This was always the behaviour documented in DefaultSettings.php
- but has not been the actual behaviour for some time: instead, UTC was used
+ signatures. This was always the behavior documented in DefaultSettings.php
+ but has not been the actual behavior for some time: instead, UTC was used
by default.
* Added $wgExtensionAssetsPath, to decouple assets serving from $wgScriptPath.
If not specified it will default to $wgScriptPath/extensions
* (bug 12644) Template list on edit page now sorted on preview
* (bug 14058) Support pipe trick for namespaces and interwikis with "-"
* Message name filter on Special:Allmessages now case-insensitive
-* (bug 13943) Fix image redirect behaviour on image pages
+* (bug 13943) Fix image redirect behavior on image pages
* (bug 14093) Do 'sysop' => 'protect' magic in Title::isValidMoveOperation
* (bug 14063) Power search form missing <label> for redirects check
* (bug 14111) Similar filename warning links now lead to correct page
to not check and assume they are always up to date)
* The rollback permission can now be rate-limited using the normal mechanism.
* New configuration variable $wgExtraLanguageNames
-* Behaviour of $wgAddGroups and $wgRemoveGroups changed. New behaviour:
+* Behavior of $wgAddGroups and $wgRemoveGroups changed. New behavior:
* * Granting the userrights privilege allows arbitrary changing of rights.
* * Without the userrights privilege, a user will be able to add and/or
remove the groups specified in $wgAddGroups and $wgRemoveGroups for
Message transformation mode has been removed, and replaced with "preprocess"
mode. This means that some MediaWiki namespace messages may need to be updated,
-especially ones which took advantage of the terribly counterintuitive behaviour
+especially ones which took advantage of the terribly counterintuitive behavior
of the former message mode.
The header identification routines for section edit and for numbering section
entry in the TOC, but will not have a section edit link. HTML-style headings
will also not have a section edit link. Valid wikitext headings present in the
template source text will get a template section edit link. This is a major
-break from previous behaviour, but I believe the effects are almost entirely
+break from previous behavior, but I believe the effects are almost entirely
beneficial.
The main motivation for making these changes was performance. The new two-pass
enabled by default.
* Added option to install to MyISAM
* (bug 9250) Remove hardcoded minimum image name length of three characters
-* Fixed DISPLAYTITLE behaviour to reject titles which don't normalise to the
+* Fixed DISPLAYTITLE behavior to reject titles which don't normalise to the
same title as the current page, and enabled per default
* Wrap site CSS and JavaScript in a <pre> tag, like user JS/CSS
* (bug 10196) Add classes and dir="ltr" to the <pre>s on CSS and JS pages (new
* Fix upload form display in right-to-left languages
* Fixed regression in blocking of username '0'
* (bug 9437) Don't overwrite edit form submission handler when setting up
- edit box scroll position preserve/restore behaviour
+ edit box scroll position preserve/restore behavior
* (bug 10805) Fix "undo" link when viewing the diff of the most recent
change to a page using "diff=0"
* (bug 10765) img_auth.php will now refuse logged-out requests where
to image/svg+xml after loading from the database.
* Workaround for djvutoxml bug #1704049 (poor performance). Use djvudump
instead.
-* Fixed odd behaviour in ImagePage on DjVu thumbnailing errors
+* Fixed odd behavior in ImagePage on DjVu thumbnailing errors
* (bug 5439) "Go" title search will now jump to shared/foreign Image: and
MediaWiki: pages that have not been locally edited.
* (bug 9630) Limits links in Whatlinkshere forgot about namespace filter
* New maintenance script to show the cached statistics : showStats.php.
* Count deleted edits when regenerating total edits in maintenance/initStats.php
* (bug 3706) Allow users to be exempted from IP blocks. The ipblock-exempt permission
- key has been added to enable this behaviour, by default assigned to sysops.
+ key has been added to enable this behavior, by default assigned to sysops.
* (bug 7948) importDump.php now warn that Recentchanges need to be rebuild.
* (bug 7667) allow XHTML namespaces customization
* (bug 8531) Correct local name of Lingála (patch by Raymond)
* (bug 6642) Don't offer to unlock the database when it isn't locked
* cleanupTitles.php changed from --dry-run option to --fix, so default
behavior is now a non-invasive check as with namespaceDupes.php
-* (bug 6660) Fix behaviour of EditPage::blockedPage() when the article does
+* (bug 6660) Fix behavior of EditPage::blockedPage() when the article does
not exist; now doesn't show the source box if the user hasn't provided it
(blocked mid-edit) and the page doesn't exist
* Improve default value of "blockedtext"
* (bug 6023) Fixed mismatch of 0/NULL for wl_notificationtimestamp; now notification
mails are working after 'Mark all pages visited' button on Special:Watchlist is clicked
* Made {{INT:}} a core parser function instead of a special case. The syntax
- and behaviour is largely unchanged.
+ and behavior is largely unchanged.
* (bug 7448) Fixing the native name for Ewe (ee)
* (bug 6864) Replace message 'editing' with new message 'editinguser' in Special:Userrights
to allow better localisation
* (bug 1283) Use underlining and borders to highlight additions/deletions
in diff-view
* Use user's local timezone in Special:Log display
-* Show filename for images in gallery by default (restore beta 3 behaviour)
+* Show filename for images in gallery by default (restore beta 3 behavior)
* (bug 1201) Double-escaping in brokenlinks, imagelinks, categorylinks, searchindex
* When using squid reverse proxy, cache the redirect to the Main_Page
* (bug 1302) Fix Norwegian language file