- = MediaWiki release notes =
+= MediaWiki release notes =
Security reminder: MediaWiki does not require PHP's register_globals
setting since version 1.2.0. If you have it on, turn it *off* if you can.
"mw-confirmemail-pending"
* Local redirects to foreign images are now displayed on the ImagePage when
viewing on the local wiki.
+* (bug 8249) The magic words for namespaces and pagenames can now be used as
+ parser functions to return the desired namespace or normalized title/title part
+ for a given title.
+* Styled #mw-data-after-content in cologneblue.css to match the rest of the font (bug 17110)
+* (bug 7556) Time zone names in signatures lack i18n
+* (bug 3311) Automatic category redirects
+* (bug 17236) Suppress 'watch user page link' for IP range blocks
=== Bug fixes in 1.15 ===
* (bug 16968) Special:Upload no longer throws useless warnings.
results for category names that include pseudo-namespaces
* (bug 17252) Galician numbering format
* (bug 17146) Fix for UTF-8 and short word search for some possible MySQL configs
+* (bug 7480) Internationalize database error message
+* (bug 16555) Number of links to mediawiki.org scaled back on post-installation
+* (bug 14938) Removing a section no longer leaves excess whitespace
+* (bug 17304) Fixed fatal error when thumbnails couldn't be generated for file
+ history
+* (bug 17283) Remove double URL escaping in show/hide links for log entries
+ and RevisionDeleteForm::__construct.
== API changes in 1.15 ==
* (bug 16858) Revamped list=deletedrevs to make listing deleted contributions
* (bug 15949) Add undo functionality to action=edit
* (bug 16483) Kill filesort in ApiQueryBacklinks caused by missing parentheses.
Building query properly now using makeList()
-* Add "check" parameter to action=email
+* (bug 17182) Fix pretty printer so URLs with parentheses in them are
+ autolinked correctly
+* (bug 17224) Added siprop=rightsinfo to meta=siteinfo
+* (bug 17239) Added prop=displaytitle to action=parse
=== Languages updated in 1.15 ===
MediaWiki supports over 300 languages. Many localisations are updated
-regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed.
+regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
+changes to languages because of MediaZilla reports.
* Austrian German (de-at) (new)
* Swiss Standard German (de-ch) (new)
* Literary Chinese (lzh) (new)
* Võro (vro) (renamed from fiu-vro)
* (bug 17151) Add magic word alias for #redirect for Vietnamese
+* (bug 17288) Messages improved for default language (English)
== Compatibility ==