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-== MediaWiki 1.13 ==
+== MediaWiki 1.14 ==
THIS IS NOT A RELEASE YET
Those wishing to use the latest code instead of a branch release can obtain
it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN
-=== Configuration changes in 1.13 ===
-
-* New option $wgFeed can be set false to turn off syndication feeds
-* (bug 5745) Special:Whatlinkshere now shows up to $wgMaxRedirectLinksRetrieved
- links through each redirect instead of hardcoded 500
-* Set $wgUploadSizeWarning to false by default
-* Added $wgLBFactoryConf, for generic configuration of multi-master wiki farms
-* Removed $wgAlternateMaster, use $wgLBFactoryConf
-* (bug 13562) Misspelled option $wgUserNotifedOnAllChanges changed to
- $wgUserNotifiedOnAllChanges
-* (bug 12860) New option $wgSitemapNamespaces allows sitemaps to be generated
- for only some namespaces
-* Removed the emailconfirmed implicit group by default. To re-add it, use:
- $wgAutopromote['emailconfirmed'] = APCOND_EMAILCONFIRMED;
- in your LocalSettings.php.
-* (bug 2396) New shared database configuration variables. $wgSharedPrefix allows
- you to use a shared database with a different prefix. Or you can now use a local
- database and use prefixes to separate wiki and the shared tables. And the new
- $wgSharedTables variable allows you to specify a list of tables to share.
-* Automatic edit summaries can be disabled with $wgUseAutomaticEditSummaries
-* Duplicates of images are now shown on the image page
-* $wgRCFilterByAge allows for the list of dates in recent changes special pages to
- be filtered to only those within the range of $wgRCMaxAge
-* $wgRCLinkLimits and $wgRCLinkDays allow for customization of the list and limits
- displayed on the recent changes special pages
-* The "createpage" permission is no longer required when uploading if the target
- image page already exists
-* $wgMaximumMovedPages restricts the number of pages that can be moved at once
- (default 100) with the new subpage-move functionality of Special:Movepage
-* Hooks display in Special:Version is now disabled by default, use
- $wgSpecialVersionShowHooks = true; to enable it.
-* $wgActiveUserEditCount sets the number of edits that must be performed over
- a certain number of days to be considered active
-* $wgActiveUserDays is that number of days
-* $wgRateLimitsExcludedGroups has been deprecated in favor of
- $wgGroupPermissions[]['noratelimit']. The former still works, however.
-* New $wgGroupPermissions option 'move-subpages' added to control bulk-moving
- subpages along with pages. Assigned to 'user' and 'sysop' by default.
-* New $wgRC2UDPOmitBots allows user to omit bot edits from UDP output.
- Default: false
-* Removed $wgEnableCascadingProtection option. Disabling cascading protection
- is no longer possible.
-* $wgMessageCacheType defines now the type of cache used by the MessageCache class,
- previously it was choosen based on $wgParserCacheType
-* $wgExtensionAliasesFiles option to simplify adding aliases to special pages
- provided by extensions, in a similar way to $wgExtensionMessagesFiles
-* Added $wgXMLMimeTypes, an array of XML mimetypes we can check for
- with MimeMagic.
-* Added $wgDirectoryMode, which allows for setting the default CHMOD value when
- creating new directories.
-* (bug 14843) $wgCookiePrefix can be set by LocalSettings now, false defaults
- current behavior.
-
-=== New features in 1.13 ===
-
-* __HIDDENCAT__ on a category page causes the category to be hidden on the
- article page
-* Do not show edit permissions errors on a red link click, just redirect to the
- article. This is so that readers who don't know what a red link is are not
- confused when they are told they are range-blocked.
-* Add a new hook ImageBeforeProduceHTML to allow extensions to modify wikitext
- image syntax output
-* (bug 13100) Added 'preloadtitle' parameter to action=edit§ion=new that
- pre-fills the section title field
-* (bug 13112) Added Special:RelatedChanges alias to Special:RecentChangesLinked
-* (bug 13130) Moved edit token and autosummary fields above edit tools to
- reduce broken form submissions
-* Add --old-redirects-only option to maintenance/refreshLinks.php, to add old
- redirects to the redirect table
-* Add links to page and file deletion forms to edit predefined delete reasons
-* (bug 13269) Added MediaWiki:Uploadfooter to the bottom of Special:Upload
-* (bug 2815) Search results for media now use thumbnail instead of text extract
-* When a page doesn't exist, the tab should say "create", not "edit"
-* (bug 12882) Added a span with class "patrollink" around "Mark as patrolled"
- link on diffs
-* Magic word formatnum can now take raw suffix to undo formatting
-* Add updatelog table to reliably permit updates that don't change the schema
-* Add category table to allow better tracking of category membership counts
-** (bug 1212) Give correct membership counts on the pages of large categories
-** Use category table for more efficient display of Special:Categories
-* (bug 1459) Search for duplicate files by hash: Special:FileDuplicateSearch
-* (bug 9447) Added hooks for search result headings
-* Image redirects are now enabled by default
-* (bug 13450) Email confirmation can now be canceled before the expiration
-* (bug 13490) Show upload/file size limit on upload form
-* Redesign of Special:UserRights
-* Make rev_deleted log entries more intelligible
-* (bug 6943) Added PAGESINCATEGORY: magic word
-* (bug 13604) Added Special:ListGroupRights
-* (bug 6332, 8617) Added message 'mainpage-description' as duplicate of
- 'mainpage' and added it to message 'sidebar'
-* Automatically add old redirects to the redirect table when needed
-* (bug 6934) Allow inclusions, links, redirects to be separately toggled on or
- off on Special:WhatLinksHere
-* Cache image redirects
-* (bug 10457) Organize Special:SpecialPages into sections
-* Add a new hook EditPageBeforeConflictDiff to allow extensions like FCKeditor
- to modify the output for edit conflicts
-* Add class="nested" for <fieldset>s so fieldsets inside fieldsets get
- a slightly less huge margin and padding
-* (bug 13527) Use sitemaps.org format 0.9 instead of a Google-specific format
-* Allow \C and \Q as TeX commands to match \R, \N, \Z
-* On Special:UserRights, when you can add a group you can't remove or remove
- one you can't add, a notice is printed to warn you
-* (bug 12698) Create PAGESIZE parser function, to return the size of a page
-* Allow the "log in / create account" link in the toolbar to have different
- text from Special:UserLogin title (new message 'nav-login-createaccount')
-* Say "log in / create account" if an anonymous user can create an account,
- otherwise just "log in", consistently across skins
-* Special:Shortpages and Special:Longpages now returns pages in all content
- namespaces, not just NS_MAIN.
-* (bug 889) Improve conflict-handling between shared upload repository
- and local one
-* Update documentation links in auto-generated LocalSettings.php
-* (bug 13584) The new hook SkinTemplateToolboxEnd was added.
-* (bug 709) Cannot rename/move images and other media files [EXPERIMENTAL]
-* Custom rollback summaries now accept the same arguments as the default message
-* (bug 12542) Added hooks for expansion of Special:Listusers
-* Drop-down AJAX search suggestions (turn on $wgEnableMWSuggest)
-* More relevant search snippets (turn on $wgAdvancedSearchHighlighting)
-* (bug 13950) Allow users to watch the user/talk pages of users they block.
-* (bug 13970) Allow MonoBook-based skins to specify their own print stylesheet
-* Show image links on Special:Whatlinkshere
-* Use rel="start", "prev", "next" appropriately on Pager-based pages
-* Add support for SQLite
-* AutoAuthenticate hook renamed to UserLoadFromSession
-* (bug 13232) importScript(), importStylesheet() funcs available to custom JS
-* (bug 13095) Search by first letters or digits in [[Special:Categories]]
-* Users moving a page can now move all subpages automatically as well
-* (bug 14259) Localisation message for upload button on Special:Import is now
- 'import-upload' instead of 'upload'
-* Add information about user group membership to Special:Preferences
-* (bug 14146) Wrap usage section on imagepages into <div>s.
-* New layout for Special:Specialpages. Restricted pages are marked but not separated
- from other pages in their group.
-* (bug 14263) Show a diff of the revert on rollback notification page.
-* (bug 13434) Show a warning when hash identical files exist
-* Sidebar is now cached for all languages
-* The User class now contains a public function called isActiveEditor. Figures
- out if a user is active based on at least $wgActiveUserEditCount number of
- edits in the last $wgActiveUserDays days.
-* SpecialSearchResults hook now passes results by reference, so they can be
- changed by extensions.
-* Add a new hook LinkerMakeExternalLink to allow extensions to modify the output of
- external links.
-* (bug 14132) Allow user to disable bot edits from being output to UDP.
-* (bug 14328) jsMsg() within Wikibits now accepts a DOM object, not just a string
-* (bug 14558) New system message (emailuserfooter) is now added to the footer of
- e-mails sent with Special:Emailuser
-* Add support for Hijri (Islamic) calendar
-* Add a new hook LinkerMakeExternalImage to allow extensions to modify the output
- of external (hotlinked) images.
-* (bug 14604) Introduced the following features for the LanguageConverter:
- Multi-tag support, single conversion flag, remove conversion flag on a single
- page, description flag, variant name, multi-variant fallbacks.
-* Add zh-mo and zh-my variants for the zh language
-* (bugs 4832, 9481, 12890) Special:Recentchangeslinked now has all options that
- are in Special:Recentchanges
-* Allow an $error message to be passed to ArticleDelete hook
-* Allow extensions to modify the user creation form by calling addInputItem();
-* Add meta generator tag to HTML output
-* MediawikiPerformAction hook is now passed the Mediawiki object
-* Added blank special page Special:BlankPage for benchmarking, etc.
-* Foreign repo file descriptions and thumbnails are now cached.
-* (bug 11732) Allow localisation of edit button images
-* Allow the search box, toolbox and languages box in the Monobook sidebar to be
- moved around arbitrarily using special sections in [[MediaWiki:Sidebar]]:
- SEARCH, TOOLBOX and LANGUAGES
-* Add a new hook NormalizeMessageKey to allow extensions to replace messages before
- the database is potentially queried
-* (bug 9736) Redirects on Special:Fewestrevisions are now marked as such.
-* New date/time formats in Cs localization according to ČSN and PČP.
-* (bug 2971) Standardize format of links to hist/diff in Special:Contributions.
-
-=== Bug fixes in 1.13 ===
-
-* (bug 10677) Add link to the file description page on the shared repository
-* (bug 13084) Increase size of source/destination filename fields in upload form
-* (bug 13115) rebuildrecentchanges should print the current value of $wgRCMaxAge
-* (bug 13140) Show parent categories in category namespace
-* (bug 13149) Correctly format 'fileexists' message on Upload page
-* Make the default filepageexists message accurate
-* (bug 12988) $wgMinimalPasswordLength no longer breaks create user by email
-* (bug 13022) Fix upload from URL on PHP 5.0.x
-* (bug 13132) Unable to unprotect pages protected with earlier versions of MediaWiki
-* (bug 12723) OpenSearch description name now uses more compact language code
- to avoid passing the length limit as often, is customizable per site via
- 'opensearch-desc' message.
-* (bug 13135) Special:Userrights now passes IDs through form submission
- to allow functionality on not-quite-right usernames
-* (bug 12575) Prevent duplicate patrol log entries from being created
-* (bug 13174) __HIDDENCAT__ now applies only to category pages
-* (bug 13031) Add links to user pages in e-mail form
-* (bug 13147) Description for categoriespagetext (used in Special:Categories) reworded
-* (bug 11561) Fix fatal error when calling action=revert to non-image page
-* (bug 12430) Fix call to private method LinkFilter::makeRegex fatal error in
- maintenance/cleanupSpam.php
-* All skins should have the "mediawiki" class on the body element
-* (bug 13019) Message cache for some extensions not loaded at time of editing
-* (bug 13247) Prettified ISBN links
-* maintenance/refreshLinks.php did not fix page_id 1 with the --new-only option
-* (bug 13110) Don't show "Permission error" page if the edit is already rolled
- back when using rollback
-* (bug 13012) Use content messages for block options when generating the
- recentchanges entry
-* (bug 13274) Change links for messages to ucfirst
-* (bug 13273) Un-hardcode some punctuation (add new messages colon-separator,
- autocomment-prefix)
-* Parse MediaWiki message translations with a correct language setting on preview
-* (bug 13281) Treat X-Forwarded-For, Client-ip and User-Agent headers as
- case-insensitive names.
-* Adding the fix for lists in RTL wikis to more skins, and fixing the image toc
-* (bug 8157) Remove redirects from Special:Unusedtemplates. Patch by WebBoy.
-* (bug 10721) Duplicate section anchors with differing case now disambiguated
- for Internet Explorer's sake and standards compliance
-* (bug 13298) Tighter limits on Special:Newpages limits when embedding
-* Email subject in content language instead of sending user's UI language
-* (bug 13251) Allow maintenance rebuild scripts to work with Postgres
-* (bug 2084) Fixed incorrect regex to match redirects
-* (bug 3131) Manually-specified upload destination filename is no longer
- overwritten by browsing for a file after you wrote it.
-* (bug 7251) Sidebars generated by MediaWiki:Sidebar now have the class
- 'generated-sidebar'.
-* (bug 13265) Media handler is missing 'image/x-bmp'
-* (bug 13407) MediaWiki:Powersearch is used in two places
-* (bug 13403) Fix cache invalidation of history pages when old revisions change
-* (bug 11563) Deprecated SearchMySQL4 class; merged code to SearchMySQL
-* (bug 12801) Fix link in subtitle message in AJAX search
-* (bug 13428) Fix regression in protection form layout HTML validity
-* (bug 9403) Sanitize newlines from search term input
-* (bug 13429) Separate date and time in message sp-newimages-showfrom
-* (bug 13137) Allow setting 'editprotected' right separately from 'protect',
- so groups may optionally edit protected pages without having 'protect' perms
-* Disallow deletion of big pages by means of moving a page to its title and
- using the "delete and move" option.
-* (bug 13466, 13632) White space differences not shown in diffs
-* (bug 1953) Search form now honors namespace selections more reliably
-* (bug 12294) Namespace class renamed to MWNamespace for PHP 5.3 compatibility
-* PHP 5.3 compatibility fix for wfRunHooks() called with no parameters
-* (bug 6447) Trackbacks now work with transactional tables, if enabled
-* (bug 6892, 7147) Trackback error handling, optional fields more robust
-* (bug 6813) Don't break HTML validator when using trackbacks
-* Fix for size checks on SVG images with global 'stroke-width' attribute
-* (bug 11874) Inline CSS with !important no longer borken
-* (bug 1600) Strip extra == section markup == in new-comment field
-* (bug 11325) Wrapped page titles in MonoBook skin spaced more nicely
-* (bug 12077) Fix HTML nesting for TOC
-* (bug 344) Purge cache for talk/article pages when deleting the other tab
-* (bug 13436) Treat image captions correctly when they include option keywords
- (like ending with "px" or starting with "upright")
-* Trackback display formatting fixed
-* Don't die when single-element arrays are passed to SQL query constructors
- that have an array index other than 0
-* (bug 13522) Fix fatal error in Parser::extractTagsAndParams
-* (bug 13532) Use proper timestamp call when reverting images
-* (bug 13543) Updated FAQ link in the installer sidebar
-* (bug 13540) Date format in confirmation e-mail now matches message language
-* (bug 13554) PHP Notice in old pre-processor when list item is empty.
-* (bug 13556) Don't show a blank form if no image is attached in Special:Upload
-* (bug 13576) maintenance/rebuildrecentchanges.php fails
-* (bug 13441) Allow Special:Recentchanges to show bots only
-* (bug 13431) Show true message source in Special:Allmessages&ot=php / xml
-* (bug 13463) Login successful page doesn't use user's preferred interface language
-* (bug 13630) Fixed warnings for pass by reference at call time in
- Special:Revisiondelete when generating the log entry.
-* (bug 12064) BeforePageDisplay hook is now called for all skins
-* (bug 13624) Fix regression with manual thumb= parameter on images
-* (bug 11039) Add missing labels on protection form
-* (bug 13458) Preview/edit toolbar spacing now works consistently
-* (bug 13433) Fix action=render on Image: pages
-* (bug 13678) Fix CSS validation for Monobook
-* (bug 13684) Links in Special:ListGroupRights should be in content language
-* (bug 13690) Fix PHP notice on accessing some URLs
-* Hide (undo) link if user isn't able to edit page
-* Invalidate cache of pages that includes images via redirects on upload
-* (bug 13705) Don't show rollback link in page history on incorrect revisions
-* (bug 13708) Don't set "Search results" title when loading Special:Search
- without query
-* (bug 13736) Don't show MediaWiki:Anontalkpagetext on non-existant IP addresses
-* (bug 13728) Don't trim initial whitespace during section edits
-* (bug 13727) Don't delete log entries from recentchanges on page deletion
-* (bug 13752) Redirects to sections now work again
-* (bug 13725) Upload form watch checkbox state set correctly with wpDestFile
-* (bug 13756) Don't show the form and navigation links of Special:Newpages if
- the page is included
-* When hiding things on WhatLinksHere, generated URLs should hide them too
-* Properly escape search terms with regex chars so they appear highlighted in
- search results
-* (bug 13768) pt_title field encoding fixed
-* Do not display empty columns on Special:UserRights if all groups are
- changeable or all unchangeable
-* Fix fatal error on calling PAGESINCATEGORY with invalid category name
-* (bug 13793) Special:Whatlinkshere filters wrong - after paginating instead of before
-* (bug 13796) Show links to parent pages even if some of them are missing
-* (bug 13816) Filter by main namespace doesn't work on WhatLinksHere
-* (bug 13822) Fatal error on some pages when calculating subpage subtitle
-* (bug 13824) AJAX search suggestion now works with non-SkinTemplate skins
-* Added 'application/x-dia-diagram' MediaWiki's known MIME types
-* (bug 13866) skins/common/shared.css - invalid attribute fixing
-* Hide edit section links on Special:Undelete
-* (bug 13860) Fix "Justify paragraphs" option for Modern skin
-* (bug 13168) accessibility links in Modern skin link to wrong anchor id
-* (bug 13185) No line break after 'subpages' class in Modern skin
-* (bug 13583) No "poweredby" in Modern skin
-* (bug 13880) "Printable" link in Modern skin now formats as print mode
-* (bug 13885) Bump default $wgSVGMaxSize from 1024 to 2048 pixels
-* (bug 13891) Show categories box even if all categories are hidden and user has
- "show hidden categories" option on
-* (bug 13915) Undefined variable $wltsfield in includes/SpecialWatchlist.php
-* (bug 13913) Special:Whatlinkshere now has correct HTML markup
-* (bug 13905) Blacklist Mac IE from HttpOnly cookies; it eats them sometimes
-* (bug 13922) Fix bad HTML on empty Special:Prefixindex and Special:Allpages
-* (bug 13924) Fix bad HTML on power search form
-* (bug 13820) Fix updater for rev_parent_id population
-* (bug 13925) Fix bad HTML on search results list
-* (bug 13934) Fixing the link to GNU General Public License Version 2
-* Show correct accesskey prefix for Firefox 3 beta (Alt-Shift-, not Alt-)
-* (bug 13949) Special:PrefixIndex/AllPages paging links contain invalid XML
-* (bug 13770) Use Preprocessor_Hash by default to avoid missing DOM module errors
-* (bug 13982) Disable ccmeonemails preference when user-to-user mails disabled
-* (bug 13615) Update case mappings and normalization to Unicode 5.1.0
- Note that case mappings will only be used if mbstring extension is not present.
-* (bug 14044) Don't increment page view counters on views from bot users
-* (bug 14042) Calling Database::limitResult() misplaced the comment in the log file
-* (bug 14047) Fix regression in installer which hid DB-specific options
- Also makes SQLite path configurable in the installer.
-* (bug 13546) Follow image redirects on image page
-* (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 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
-* (bug 14082) Fix for complex text input vs AJAX suggestions on some browsers
-* (bug 13693) Categories sometimes claim to have a negative number of members
-* (bug 1701) Korean Hangul syllables now broken down properly in Category lists
- even if the wiki's overall content language is not Korean
-* (bug 12773) addOnloadHook() now calls functions immediately when scripts are
- loaded after the primary page completion, instead of dropping them
-* (bug 14199) Fix deletion form for image redirect pages
-* (bug 14220) Disabling $wgCheckFileExtensions now works without also
- disabling $wgStrictFileExtensions
-* (bug 14241) Pages can no longer be protected to levels you are not in
-* (bug 14296) Fix local name of ang: (Anglo-Saxon)
-* (bug 4871) Hardcoded superscript in time zone preferences moved to message
-* (bug 6957) E-mail confirmation links now using English special page name
- for better compatibility and keeping the links shorter. Avoids problem
- with corrupt links in Gmail on IE 6.
-* (bug 14273) Fix for HTTP Accept header parsing with spaces as from Konqueror
-* (bug 14312) Update LanguageKaa.php for handling transform issues with i to İ
- and I to ı
-* (bug 13826) MediaWiki:Defaultns accepts Wikicode
-* (bug 14324) Creating an account is again possible with $wgEmailConfirmToEdit
- set to true
-* (bug 13034) Interwiki pages can now be reached using Go search button
-* (bug 14362) Change interwiki names of Erzya and Moksha Wikipedias
-* (bug 14370) When a grouppage-x message does not exist the entry on the
- ListGroupRights special page now links to the project namespace page for it,
- not the main namespace page.
-* (bug 11659) Urldecode image names in galleries
-* (bug 14258, 14368) Fix for subpage renames in replication environments
-* (bug 14367) Failed block no longer adds phantom watchlist entry
-* (bug 14385) "Move subpages" option no longer tries to move to invalid titles
-* (bug 14386) Fix subpage namespace oddity when moving a talk page
-* (bug 11771) Signup form now not shown if in read-only mode.
-* (bug 12859) $wgRateLimitsExcludedGroups has been deprecated in favor of
- $wgGroupPermissions[]['noratelimit'].
-* (Bug 13828) Split parameter $1 of MediaWiki:Missingarticle into $1 (=title)
- and $2 (=revision numbers)
-* (bug 14401) Fix Safari access key tooltips for Windows and >3.1 Mac versions
-* (bug 14432) Fix notice regression in Special:Newpages feed mode
-* (bug 11951) EditPage::getEditToolbar() is now static.
-* (bug 14392) Fix regression breaking table prefix in installer
-* (bug 11084) $wgDBprefix replacement for updater SQL will now work for
- extension tables using uppercase letters or digits in their names.
-* (bug 12311) Fix regression with lists at start of undeletion preview
-* (bug 14496) Fix regression with parseinline on Special:Upload.
-* We no longer just give up on a missing upload base directory; it's now
- created automatically if we have sufficient permissions!
-* (bug 14479) MediaWiki:upload-maxfilesize should have a div id wrapper
-* (bug 14497) Throw visible errors in installer scripts when SQL files
- fail due to database permission or other error
-* (bug 14500) Site feed (Recentchanges) no longer shows up on the actual
- recent changes page.
-* (bug 14511) MediaWiki:Delete-legend is no longer double escaped
-* Generate correct section anchors for numeric headers
-* (bug 14520) Don't load nonexistent CSS files for Chick/Myskin/Simple skins
-* (bug 14551) Cancel upload no longer automatically suppresses warnings
-* (bug 13878) Deprecate Article::getDB() in favor of direct wfGetDB() calls
-* (bug 4977) Fix for possible squid purging errors when using HTTP purges
- and multiple servers
-* (bug 14572) Redirects listed on file links on image pages no longer redirect.
-* (bug 14537) Change interwiki name for Old Church Slavonic (cu)
-* (bug 14583) Fix regression in recent changes "limit to certain categories."
-* (bug 14515) HTML nesting cleanup on edit form
-* (bug 14647) Removed unused 'townBox' CSS classes
-* (bug 14687) OutputPage::addStyle() now adds type="text/css" like it should.
-* OpenSearch cleanup; Firefox now sends you to the search page for empty
- searches instead of the domain root (which may not even be a wiki).
-* (bug 3481) Pages moved shortly after creation are shown at their new title
- on Special:Newpages.
-* (bug 12716) Trying to unprotect a title that isn't protected no longer
- generates a log entry.
-* (bug 14088) Excessively long block expiry times are rejected as invalid,
- keeps the log page from being distorted.
-* (bug 14708) Emulate INSERT...IGNORE with standard SQL for Postgres backend.
-* (bug 14646) Fix some double-escaping of HTML in feed output
-* (bug 14709) Fix login success message formatting when using cookie check
-* (bug 14710) Remove "donate" link from default sidebar
-* (bug 14745) Image moving works on sites that transform thumbnails via 404
-* (bug 2186) Document.write() in wikibits caused failures when using
- application/xhtml+xml. The calls to this have been removed.
-* (bug 14764) Fix regression in from Article::lastModified(), failed to work
- on non-mySQL schemas.
-* (bug 14763) Child classes of Database (DatabasePostgres and DatabaseOracle)
- had stict standards issues with setFakeSlaveLag() and setFakeMaster().
-* (bug 451) Improve the phrase mappings of the Chinese converter arrays.
-* (bug 12487) Rights log is not fully internationalized
-* (bug 10837) Language variants no longer override other languages than base
-* (bug 14778) 'limit' parameter now applies to history feeds as well as
- history pages
-* (bug 14845) Bug in prefs javascript: Calling an array item without checking
- its existance.
-* Accesskeys for minor edit/watch checkboxes on edit now work in Firefox 3
-* (bug 12384) Comments in maintenance/*php
-* (bug 12441) ./maintenance/generateSitemap.php fix -fspath requiring
- a trailing slash.
-* (bug 12568) configuration script now produce valid XHTML.
-* The accesskey to edit a page is now disabled when editing the page, to pre-
- vent conflicts with Safari shortcuts.
-
-=== API changes in 1.13 ===
-
-* Fixing main page display in meta=siteinfo
-* (bug 13128) Added patrolled flag to list=recentchanges
-* Implemented {bl,ei,iu}redirect (lists links through redirects as well)
-* (bug 13154) Introduced subpages flag to meta=siteinfo&siprop=namespaces
-* (bug 13157) Added ucuserprefix parameter to list=usercontibs
-* (bug 12394) Added rctitles parameter to list=recentchanges, making rcid
- retrieval easier
-* (bug 13218) Fix inclusion of " character in hyperlinks
-* Added watch and unwatch parameters to action=delete and action=move
-* Added action=edit
-* (bug 11401) Added xmldoublequote to xml formatter
-* Added rvsection parameter to prop=revisions to allow fetching the content of
- a certain section only
-* Introduced list=allimages
-* (bug 13371) Build page set from image hashes
-* Mark non-existent messages in meta=allmessages as missing
-* (bug 13390) One invalid title no longer kills an entire API query
-* (bug 13419) Fix gblredirect so it actually works
-* (bug 13418) Disable eiredirect because it's useless
-* (bug 13395) list=allcategories should use category table
-* (bug 13442) Missing pages in prop=langlinks and prop=extlinks are now
- handled properly.
-* (bug 13444) Add description to list=watchlist
-* (bug 13482) Disabled search types handled properly
-* Added inprop=talkid,subjectid to prop=info
-* Added help text message that specifies whether a module is POST-only
-* Added createonly parameter to action=edit
-* Replaced $wgAPIUCUserPrefixMinLength by the more generic $wgAPIMaxDBRows
-* (bug 11719) Remove trailing blanks in YAML output.
-* (bug 13541) Added siprop=specialpagealiases to meta=siteinfo
-* Added fallback8bitEncoding and readonly fields to
- meta=siteinfo&siprop=general output
-* (bug 13544) Added prop=revid to action=parse
-* (bug 13603) Added siprop=usergroups to meta=siteinfo
-* Cleaned up redirect resolution
-* Added possibility to obtain all external links through list=exturlusage
-* (bug 13606) Added archivename to iiprop
-* (bug 11633) Explicitly convert redirect titles to strings due to PHP's
- very weak typing on array keys.
-* (bug 12136) Extend allowed characters in JSON callback to ][.'"_A-Za-z0-9
-* (bug 11673) Return error 'unknown_action' in specified format
-* (bug 13618) Added rcprop=redirect and rcshow=redirect to list=recentchanges
-* (bug 13544) Added oldid parameter to action=parse to allow for parsing of old
- revisions
-* (bug 13718) Return the proper continue parameter for cmsort=timestamp
-* action=login now returns the correct waiting time in the details property
-* (bug 13792) Broken titles are now silently skipped in search results.
-* (bug 13819) exturlusage paging skipped an item
-* Fixed handling of usernames containing spaces in list=block
-* (bug 13836) Fixed fatal errors resulting from combining iiprop=metadata with
- format=xml
-* (bug 13735) Added prop=categoryinfo module
-* (bug 13945) Retrieve cascading protection sources via inprop=protection
-* (bug 13965) Hardcoded 51 limit on titles is too limiting
-* (bug 13993) apfrom doesn't work with apdir=descending
-* (bug 14018) Introduced alcontinue to list=alllinks to improve paging
-* (bug 14013) Added rcshow=patrolled to list=recentchanges
-* (bug 14028) Added language attribute to interwiki map in meta=siteinfo
-* (bug 14022) Added usprop=registration and auprop=blockinfo
-* (bug 14021) Removed titles= support from list=backlinks (has been obsolete
- for ages)
-* (bug 13829) Expose parse tree via action=expandtemplates
-* (bug 13606) Allow deletion of images
-* Added iiprop=mime and aiprop=metadata
-* Handled unrecognized values for parameters more gracefully
-* Handled requesting disallowed tokens more gracefully
-* (bug 14140) URL-encoded page titles are now decoded in edit summaries
-* (bug 14243) Only accept post requests in action=edit; patch by HardDisk
-* action=block now returns an ISO8601 timestamp, like all other modules do
-* Added md5 parameter to action=edit
-* (bug 14335) Logging in to unified account using API not possible
-* Added action=emailuser to send an email to a user
-* (bug 14471) Use HTMLTidy and generate limit report in action=parse
-* (bug 14459) Added prependtext and appendtext parameters to action=edit
-* (bug 14526) Unescaped SQL in list=backlinks
-* Added 'hidden' flag to list=allcategories and prop=categoryinfo output
-* Added nocreate parameter to action=edit
-* (bug 14402) Added maxage and smaxage parameters to api.php
-* Added bkip parameter to list=blocks
-* (bug 14651) apprefix and similar parameters are now canonicalized
-* Added clprop=timestamp to prop=categories
-* (bug 14678) API errors now respects $wgShowExceptionDetails and
- $wgShowSQLErrors
-* (bug 14723) Added time zone and writing direction to meta=siteinfo
-* Added APIQueryInfoTokens and APIQueryRevisionsTokens hooks so extensions
- can add their own tokens
-* Added block and unblock tokens to prop=info as well
-* Added paging (limit and continue parameters) to
- prop={links,templatelinks,langlinks,extlinks,categories,images}
-* Added flag "top" to list=usercontribs if the user is the last contributor to
- the page
-* list=exturlusage in "list all links" mode can now filter by protocol
-
-=== Languages updated in 1.13 ===
+=== Configuration changes in 1.14 ===
+
+* $wgExemptFromUserRobotsControl is an array of namespaces to be exempt from
+ the effect of the new __INDEX__/__NOINDEX__ magic words. (Default: null, ex-
+ empt all content namespaces.)
+* $wgForwardSearchUrl has been removed entirely. Documented setting since 1.4
+ has been $wgSearchForwardUrl.
+* (bug 15080) $wgOverrideSiteFeed has been added. Setting either
+ $wgSiteFeed['rss'] or 'atom' to a URL will override the default Recent Changes
+ feed that appears on all pages.
+* $wgSQLiteDataDirMode has been introduced as the default directory mode for
+ SQLite data directories on creation. Note this setting is separate from
+ $wgDirectoryMode, which applies to all normal directories created by MediaWiki.
+* $wgGroupsAddToSelf and $wgGroupsRemoveFromSelf now work more like
+ $wgAddGroups and $wgRemoveGroups, where the user must belong to a specified
+ group in order to add or remove those groups from themselves.
+ Backwards compatibility is maintained.
+* $wgRestrictDisplayTitle controls if the use of the {{DISPLAYTITLE}} magic
+ word is restricted to titles equivalent to the actual page title. This
+ is true per default, but can be set to false to allow any title.
+* $wgSpamRegex may now be an array of multiple regular expressions.
+* $wgAjaxSearch has been removed; use $wgEnableMWSuggest instead.
+* Editing the MediaWiki namespace is now unconditionally restricted to people
+ with the editinterface right, configuring this in $wgNamespaceProtection
+ is not required.
+* $wgAllowExternalImagesFrom may now be an array of multiple strings.
+* Introduced $wgEnableImageWhitelist to toggle the on-wiki external image
+ whitelist on or off.
+* Added $wgRenderHashAppend to append some string to the parser cache and the
+ sitenotice cache keys.
+
+=== New features in 1.14 ===
+
+* New URL syntaxes for Special:ListUsers - 'Special:ListUsers/USER' and
+ 'Special:ListUsers/GROUP/USER', in addition to the older syntax
+ 'Special:ListUsers/GROUP' where GROUP is a valid group name.
+* Configurable per-namespace and per-page notices for the edit form,
+ respectively MediaWiki:Editnotice-# where # is the namespace number, and
+ MediaWiki:Editnotice-#-PAGENAME where # is the page's namespace number and
+ PAGENAME is the page name minus the namespace prefix.
+* (bug 8068) New __INDEX__ and __NOINDEX__ magic words allow user control of
+ search engine indexing on a per-article basis.
+* Handheld stylesheet options
+* Added 'DoEditSectionLink' hook as a cleaner unified version of the old
+ 'EditSectionLink' and 'EditSectionLinkForOther' hooks. Note that the
+ 'EditSectionLinkForOther' hook has been removed, but 'EditSectionLink' is
+ run in all cases instead, so extensions using the old hooks should still work
+ if they ran roughly the same code for both hooks (as is almost certain).
+* Signature (~~~~) "cleaning", i.e. template removal, can be disabled with
+ $wgCleanSignatures=false
+* Extensions can use the SkinBuildSidebar hook to modify the content of the
+ sidebar and add custom portlets to it
+* Added 'MakeGlobalVariablesScript' hook for extensions to be able to add vari-
+ ables into into the output of Skin::makeVariablesScript
+* (bug 13846) Added $wgAddGroups and $wgRemoveGroups display on
+ Special:ListGroupRights
+* (bug 14377) Add a date selector to history pages
+* (bug 15007) New 'pagetitle-view-mainpage' message allows the HTML <title> of
+ the main page to be customized
+* Added $wgDisableTitleConversion to disabling the conversion for all pages on
+ the wiki
+* Added 'noconvertlink' toggle that can be set per user preferences, also
+ added 'convertlink=no|yes' on GET requests whether have the link titles
+ being converted or not
+* (bug 14921) Special:Contributions/: add user name to <title>
+ Patch by Emufarmers
+* Unescape more "safe" characters when producing URLs, for added prettiness
+* Introduced a new hook 'SkinAfterContent' that allows extensions to add text
+ after the page content and article metadata. Updated all skins and skin
+ templates to work with that hook.
+* (bug 14929) removeUnusedAccounts.php now supports 'ignore-touched' and
+ 'ignore-groups'. Patch by Louperivois
+* (bug 15127) Work around minor display glitch in Opera.
+* By default, reject file uploads that look like ZIP files, to avoid the
+ so-called GIFAR vulnerability.
+* (bug 15141) Give ability to only list protected pages with the cascading
+ option enabled on Special:ProtectedPages
+* (bug 15157) Special:Watchlist has the same options as Special:Watchlist:
+ Show/Hide logged in users, Show/Hide anonymous, Invert namespace selection
+* Added hook 'UserrightsChangeableGroups' to allow modification of what
+ groups may be added or removed via the Special:UserRights interface.
+* HTML entities like now work (are not escaped) in edit summaries.
+* (bug 13815) In the comment for page moves, use the colon-separator message
+ instead of a hardcoded colon.
+* Allow <gallery> to accept image names without an Image: prefix
+* Add tooltips to rollback and undo links
+* BMP images are now displayed as PNG
+* (bug 13471) Added NUMBERINGROUP magic word
+* (bug 11884) Now support Flash EXIF attribute
+* Show thumbnails in the file history list, patch by User:Agbad
+* Added support of piped wikilinks using double-width brackets
+* Added an on-wiki external image whitelist. Items in this whitelist are
+ treated as regular expression fragments to match for when possibly
+ displaying an external image inline.
+* (bugs 15405, 15436) Sort more currency types correctly in sortable tables
+* (bug 15422) Sort more different types of numbers in sortable tables
+* (bug 2889) MediaWiki:Print.css applies to the printable version
+* Category counts (e.g. from {{PAGESINCATEGORY:}}) should be more accurate for
+ small categories
+* After logging in, automatically redirect to wherever you logged in from
+* (bug 5619) Break messages used in Special:Statistics down further
+* (bug 11029) Add link to Special:Listusers?group=sysop etc at
+ Special:Statistics
+* (bug 15514) Setting $wgRightsText without $wgRightsUrl now produces a
+ plaintext copyright notice. Patch by Juliano F. Ravasi.
+* (bug 15551) Deletion log excerpt is now shown whenever a user vists a
+ deleted page, even if they are unable to edit it.
+* Added Wantedfiles special pages, allowing users to find image links with no image.
+* (bug 12650) It is now possible to set different expiration times for different
+ restriction types on the protection form.
+* Special:Log/newusers recording new users.was added (was extension Newuserlog)
+* Special:LinkSearch to search for external links was added (was extension
+ LinkSearch)
+
+=== Bug fixes in 1.14 ===
+
+* (bug 14907) DatabasePostgres::fieldType now defined.
+* (bug 14659) Passing the default limit param to Special:Recentchanges no more
+ falls back to the user option
+* (bug 14954) Fix regression in Modern and Simple skins
+* Recursion loop check added to Categoryfinder class
+* Fixed few performance troubles of large job queue processing
+* Not setting various parameters in Foreign Repos now fails more gracefully
+* (bug 2333) Redirects are properly rendered when previewing an edit.
+* (bug 14972) Use localized alias of Special:Search on all search forms
+* (bug 11035) Special:Search should have descriptive <title>
+* Special pages are now not subject to special handling for "self-links"
+* (bug 15053) Syntactically incorrect redirects with another link in them
+ no longer redirect to the second link
+* (bug 15049) Fix for CheckUser extension's log search: usernames containing
+ a "-" were incorrectly turned into bogus IP range searches.
+ Patch by Max Semenik.
+* (bug 15055) Talk page notifications no longer attempt to send mail when
+ user's e-mail address is invalid or unconfirmed
+* (bug 12370) Add throttle on password attempts. Defaults to max 5 attempts in 5
+ minutes.
+* (bug 15016) 'Templates used on this page' list in view source should be
+ wrapped in a div with class "templatesUsed"
+* (bug 14868) Setting $wgFeedDiffCutoff to 0 now disables generation of the diff
+ entirely, not just the display of it.
+* (bug 6387) Introduced new setting $wgCategoryPrefixedDefaultSortkey which
+ allows having the unprefixed page title as the default category sortkey
+* (bug 15079) Add class="ns-talk" / "ns-subject" to <body>. Also added
+ ns-special to special pages.
+* (bug 15052) Skins should add their name as a class in <body>
+* (bug 14165, bug 14294) Wikimedia specific configuration in convertGrammar()
+ for several languages was removed. The settings have been put in extension
+ WikimediaMessages. Patch for Czech by Danny B.
+* (bug 15101) Displaying only bots edits in Special:Recentchanges now works
+ again
+* (bug 13770) Fixed incorrect detection of PHP's DOM module
+* (bug 14790) Export of category pages when using Category: prefix now actually
+ gives results
+* Avoid recursive crazy expansions in section edit comments for pages which
+ contain '/*' in the title
+* Fix excessive memory usage when parsing pages with lots of links
+* $wgSpamRegex now matches the edit summary and page move descriptions in
+ addition to body text.
+* Navigation links to images available from a shared repository (like Commons)
+ from their local talk pages no longer appear as redlinks
+* Action=purge on ForeignApiFiles now works (purges their thumbnails and
+ description pages).
+* (bug 15303) Title conversion for templates wasn't working in some cases.
+* (bug 15264) Underscores in Special:Search/Foo_bar parameters were taken
+ literally; now converting them to spaces per expectation.
+* (bug 15342) "Invert" checkbox now works correctly when selecting main
+ namespace in Special:Watchlist
+* (bug 15172) 'Go' button of Special:Recentchanges now on the same line as the
+ last input element (like Special:Watchlist too)
+* (bug 15351) Fix fatal error for invalid section fragments in autocomments
+* Fixed intermittent deadlock errors involving objectcache table queries.
+ Use a separate database connection for the objectcache table to avoid
+ long-lasting locks on that table.
+* Respect file restrictions in the file history list
+* (bug 15399) Odd/even classes on sortable tables' rows could be slow for large
+ tables, and have been disabled by default.
+* (bug 15482) Special:Recentchangeslinked has no longer two submit buttons
+* (bug 15292) New message notification for unregistred users now works again
+* (bug 14398) mwsuggest.js: Let width of container be configurable
+* (bug 15543) Only include user touched timestamp to generated CSS
+* (bug 15497) Removed encoding attribute from <?xml ?> tag
+* (bug 12284) Special:Preferences now sets a returnto parameter on the link to
+ Special:Userlogin. Patch by Marooned.
+* Fixed the HTTP accept language string detection length in
+ LanguageConverter.php, instead of the fixed length language codes.
+* Special:Recentchangeslinked no longer shows outgoing links for nonexistent pages
+ even if there are broken link records with source article id 0 in the database
+* (bug 15598) Special:Newpages default limit uses user preference for recentchanges
+ limit instead of hardcoded 50.
+* (bug 15617) $wgFeedClassesOutputPage::getHeadLinks() respects $wgFeedClasses,
+ instead of hardcoding rss and atom. Patch by Juliano F. Ravasi.
+* (bug 14638) Special:Blockip now provides a link to the block log if the user
+ has been blocked more than 10 times. Patch by Matt Johnston.
+* (bug 12678) Skins don't show Upload link if the user isn't allowed to upload.
+
+=== API changes in 1.14 ===
+
+* Registration time of users registered before the DB field was created is now
+ shown as empty instead of the current time.
+* API search now falls back to fulltext search by default when using Lucene
+ or other engine which doesn't support a separate title search function.
+ This means you can use API search on Wikipedia without explicitly adding
+ &srwhat=text to the query.
+* Added iiprop=bitdepth to imageinfo and aiprop=bitdepth to allimages
+* (bug 14713) API-specific permissions (such as 'writeapi' and 'apihighlimits'
+ are now listed on action=help
+* (bug 15044) Added requestid parameter to api.php to facilitate distinguishing
+ between requests
+* (bug 15048) Added limit field for multivalue parameters to action=paraminfo
+ output.
+* When the limit on multivalue parameters is exceeded, a warning is issued
+* list=search doesn't list missing pages any more
+* (bug 15178) Added clshow to prop=categories to allow filtering for hidden/
+ non-hidden categories
+* (bug 15228) Combining revids= and redirects now throws a warning instead of an
+ error, and still resolves redirects generated by the generator.
+* list={backlinks,embeddedin,imageusage} now return arrays with keys 0, 1, 2,
+ etc. (AKA lists) instead of arrays with pageIDs as keys (AKA hash tables)
+ for consistency with other list modules.
+* Added action=watch
+* (bug 15275) apprefix and related parameters ignore spaces at the end
+* action=edit no longer throws unknown error 228 when trying to create an empty
+ section with section=new
+* Database replication lag doesn't cause all action=edit requests to return the
+ nochange flag any more
+* (bug 15392) ApiFormatBase::formatHTML now uses $wgUrlProtocols.
+* (bug 15444) action=edit returns "Unknown error: ``AS_END''" where it should
+ return just "Unknown error"
+* (bug 15448) YAML output returns empty values instead of 0
+* (bug 15445) Added action=patrol
+* (bug 15466) Added action=purge
+* (bug 15486) action=block ignores autoblock parameter
+* (bug 15492) added rcprop=loginfo to list=recentchanges
+* (bug 15527) action=rollback can now revert anonymous editors
+* (bug 15535) prop=info&inprop=protection doesn't list pre-1.10 protections
+ if the page is also protected otherwise (1.10+ style or cascading)
+* list=random now has rnredirect parameter, to get random redirects.
+* Added APIAfterExecute, APIQueryAfterExecute and APIQueryGeneratorAfterExecute
+ hooks which allow for extending core modules in a cleaner way
+* action=protect checks for invalid protection types and levels
+
+=== Languages updated in 1.14 ===
MediaWiki supports over 300 languages. Many localisations are updated
regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed.
-* Egyptian Spoken Arabic (arz) (new)
-* Southern Balochi (bcc) (new)
-* Middle Dutch (dum) (removed)
-* British English (en-gb) (new)
-* Fiji Hindi (Latin) (hif-latn) (new)
-* Old Norse (non) (removed)
-* Tarifit (rif) (new)
-* Serbian cyrillic iyekvian (sr-jc) (removed)
-* Serbian latin iyekavian (sr-jl) (removed)
-* Silesian (szl) (new)
-* Tajiki (Cyrllic script) (tg-cyrl) (new)
-* Tajiki (Latin script) (tg-latn) (new)
-* Chinese (Macau) (zh-mo) (new)
-* Chinese (Malaysia) (zh-my) (new)
+* Fiji Hindi (Devanagari script) (hif-deva)
+* Krio (kri)
+* Lezghian (lez)
+* Laz (lzz)
+* Niuean (niu)
+* Oromo (om)
+* Plautdietsch (pdt)
+* Tarantino (roa-tara)
+* Serbo-Croatian (sh)
== Compatibility ==
-MediaWiki 1.13 requires PHP 5 (5.1 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer supported.
+MediaWiki 1.14 requires PHP 5 (5.1 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer supported.
PHP 5.0.x fails on 64-bit systems due to serious bugs with array processing:
http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=34879
== Upgrading ==
-1.13 has several database changes since 1.12, and will not work without schema
+1.14 has several database changes since 1.13, and will not work without schema
updates.
-If upgrading from before 1.7, you may want to run refreshLinks.php to ensure
-new database fields are filled with data.
-
If upgrading from before 1.11, and you are using a wiki as a commons repository,
make sure that it is updated as well. Otherwise, errors may arise due to
database schema changes.
+If upgrading from before 1.7, you may want to run refreshLinks.php to ensure
+new database fields are filled with data.
+
If you are upgrading from MediaWiki 1.4.x or earlier, some major database
changes are made, and there is a slightly higher chance that things could
break. Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading!
cases, but this is not recommended on live sites. (This must be set for
MathML to display properly in Mozilla.)
-For notes on 1.12.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
+For notes on 1.13.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
=== Online documentation ===