from rel="nofollow" on external links
* (bug 12970) Added $wgForceClientThumbnails to force client rendering of thumbs,
instead of falling back to GD.
+* Added $wgRedirectOnLogin to allow specifying a specifc page to redirect users
+ to upon logging in (ex: "Main Page")
=== New features in 1.15 ===
of $wgSpamRegex for edit summary checks. Text checks still use $wgSpamRegex.
* New function to convert content text to specified language (only applies on wiki with
LanguageConverter class)
+* (bug 17844) Redirect users to a specific page when they log in, see
+ $wgRedirectOnLogin
+* Added a link to Special:UserRights on Special:Contributions for privileged users
+* (bug 10336) Added new magic word {{REVISIONUSER}}, which displays the editor
+ of the displayed revision's author user name
+* LinkerMakeExternalLink now has an $attribs parameter for link attributes and
+ a $linkType parameter for the type of external link being made
+* (bug 17785) Dynamic dates surrounded with a <span> tag, fixing sortable tables with
+ dynamic dates.
+* (bug 4582) Provide preference-based autoformatting of unlinked dates with the dateformat
+ parser function.
+* (bug 17886) Special:Export now allows you to export a whole namespace (limited to 5000 pages)
+* (bug 17714) Limited TIFF upload support now built in if 'tif' extension is
+ enabled. Image width and height are now recognized, and when using ImageMagick,
+ optional flattening to PNG or JPEG for inline display can be enabled by setting
+ $wgTiffThumbnailType
=== Bug fixes in 1.15 ===
* (bug 16968) Special:Upload no longer throws useless warnings.
* (bug 17799) Special:Random no longer throws a database error when a non-
namespace is given, silently falls back to NS_MAIN
* (bug 17751) The message for bad titles in WantedPages is now localized
+* (bug 17860) Moving a page in the "MediaWiki" namespace using SuppressRedirect
+ no longer corrupts the message cache
+* (bug 17900) Fixed User Groups interface log display after saving groups.
+* (bug 17897) Fixed string offset error in <pre> tags
+* (bug 17778) MediaWiki:Catseparator can now have HTML entities
+* (bug 17676) Error on Special:ListFiles when using Postgres
+* Special:Export doesn't use raw SQL queries anymore
+* (bug 14771) Thumbnail links to individual DjVu pages have two no longer have
+ two "page" parameters
+* (bug 17972) Special:FileDuplicateSearch form now works correctly on wikis that
+ don't use PathInfo or short urls
+* (bug 17990) trackback.php now has a trackback.php5 alias and works with
+ $wgScriptExtension
+* (bug 14990) Parser tests works again with PostgreSQL
+* (bug 11487) Special:Protectedpages doesn't list protections with pr_expiry
+ IS NULL
+* (bug 18018) Deleting a file redirect leaves behind a malfunctioning redirect
+* (bug 17537) Disable bad zlib.output_compression output on HTTP 304 responses
== API changes in 1.15 ==
* (bug 16858) Revamped list=deletedrevs to make listing deleted contributions
conversion rules
* (bug 17795) Don't report views count on meta=siteinfo if $wgDisableCounters
is set
+* (bug 17774) Don't hide read-restricted modules like action=query from users
+ without read rights, but throw an error when they try to use them.
+* Don't hide write modules when $wgEnableWriteAPI is false, but throw an error
+ when someone tries to use them
+* BREAKING CHANGE: action=purge requires write rights and, for anonymous users,
+ a POST request
=== Languages updated in 1.15 ===
* (bug 17288) Messages improved for default language (English)
* (bug 12937) Update native name for Afar
* (bug 16909) 'histlegend' now reuses messages instead of copying them
+* (bug 17832) action=delete returns 'unknownerror' instead of 'permissiondenied' when
+ the user is blocked
+* Simplified Gan Chinese (gan-hans) (new)
+* Traditional Gan Chinese (gan-hant) (new)
+* Traditional/Simplified Gan Chinese conversion support
== Compatibility ==