=== Configuration changes in 1.16 ===
-* $wgEnableFirefogg enable support for firefogg extension, firefogg supports
-in-browser transcoding, chunk uploads and client side hash checking.
+* $wgEnableFirefogg enable support for firefogg extension, firefogg supports
+ in-browser transcoding, chunk uploads and client side hash checking.
* $wgEnableTemporalOggUrls enable oggz_chop support a server side ogg seeking
-helper
+ helper
* $wgEnableScriptLoader if the script-loader shoudl be enabled
* $wgJSAutoloadClasses array of javascript classes to file paths used by
-script-loader to load javascript by class name.
-* $wgEnableJS2system if we should include js2 stuff like jquery,
-mv_embed.js (script-loader helper) and use new interfaces for upload
+ script-loader to load javascript by class name.
+* $wgEnableJS2system if we should include js2 stuff like jquery, mv_embed.js
+ (script-loader helper) and use new interfaces for upload
* $wgEnableScriptLoaderJsFile if we support grabbing js files with the script
-loader. By default we only grab classes in $wgJSAutoloadClasses
+ loader. By default we only grab classes in $wgJSAutoloadClasses
* $wgEnableScriptMinify if you want the script loader to minify js
* $wgEnableScriptLocalization if you want the script loader to do msg lookups
* $wgMwEmbedDirectory the path to MwEmbed Directory (maybe we can depreciate
-this. Was used when mwEmbed was going to be an extension.
+ this. Was used when mwEmbed was going to be an extension.
* $wgDebugJavaScript if we want to enable fresh debug javascript
* $wgPhpCliPath Path to php-cli for spinning up background php processes
* (bug 18222) $wgMinimalPasswordLength default is now 1
* $wgMemoryLimit has been added, default value '50M'
* $wgExtraRandompageSQL is deprecated, the SpecialRandomGetRandomTitle hook
should be used instead
-* (bug 20489) $wgIllegalFileChars added to override the default list of illegal characters in file names.
-* (bug 19646) $wgImgAuthDetails added to display reason access to uploaded file was denied to users(img_auth only)
-* (bug 19646) $wgImgAuthPublicTest added to test to see if img_auth set up correctly (img_auth only)
+* (bug 20489) $wgIllegalFileChars added to override the default list of illegal
+ characters in file names.
+* (bug 19646) $wgImgAuthDetails added to display reason access to uploaded file
+ was denied to users(img_auth only)
+* (bug 19646) $wgImgAuthPublicTest added to test to see if img_auth set up
+ correctly (img_auth only)
=== New features in 1.16 ===
* (bug 14866) Messages 'recentchangeslinked-toolbox' and
'recentchangeslinked-toolbox' were added to allow more fine grained
customisation of the user interface
-* DISPLAYTITLE now accepts a limited amount of wiki markup (the single-quote items)
+* DISPLAYTITLE now accepts a limited amount of wiki markup (the single-quote
+ items)
* Special:Search now could search terms in all variant-forms. ONLY apply on
wikis with LanguageConverter
* Add autopromote condition APCOND_BLOCKED to autopromote blocked users to various
user groups.
-* Add $wgRevokePermissions as a means of restricting a group's rights. The syntax is
- identical to $wgGroupPermissions, but users in these groups will have these rights
- stripped from them.
+* Add $wgRevokePermissions as a means of restricting a group's rights. The
+ syntax is identical to $wgGroupPermissions, but users in these groups will
+ have these rights stripped from them.
* Added a PHP port of CDB (constant database), for improved local caching when
the DBA extension is not available.
* Introduced a new system for localisation caching. The system is based around
* (bug 471) Allow RSS feeds for watchlist, using an opt-in security token
* (bug 10812) Interwiki links can have names and descriptions, fetched from
message 'interwiki-desc-PREFIX', not really used anywhere yet though
-* (bug 9691) Add type (signup or login) parameter to AuthPlugin::ModifyUITemplate()
-* (bug 14454) "Member of group(s)" in Special:Preferences causes language difficulties
-* (bug 16697) Unicode combining characters are difficult to edit in some browsers
+* (bug 9691) Add type (signup or login) parameter to
+ AuthPlugin::ModifyUITemplate()
+* (bug 14454) "Member of group(s)" in Special:Preferences causes language
+ difficulties
+* (bug 16697) Unicode combining characters are difficult to edit in some
+ browsers
* Parser test supports uploading results to remote CodeReview instance
* (bug 20013) Added CSS class "mw-version-ext-version" is wrapped on the
extension version in Special:Version
right name in Special:ListGroupRights
* (bug 12920) New CoreParserFunction {{nse:...}} as an url-friendly equivalent
to {{ns:...}}
-* (bug 16322) Allow maintenance scripts to accept DB user/pass over input or params
+* (bug 16322) Allow maintenance scripts to accept DB user/pass over input or
+ params
* (bug 18566) Maintenance script to un/protect pages
* (bug 671) The HTML <abbr> tag is now permitted.
* RecentChanges now has a legend to explain what the Nmb! flags mean, and the
but before Mediawiki::performRequestForTitle()
* wgMainPageTitle variable now available to JavaScript code to identify the main
page link, so it doesn't have to be extracted from the link URLs.
-* (bug 16836) Display preview of signature in user preferences and describe its use
+* (bug 16836) Display preview of signature in user preferences and describe its
+ use
* The default output format is now HTML 5 instead of XHTML 1.0 Transitional.
This can be disabled by setting $wgHtml5 = false;. Specific features enabled
if HTML 5 is used:
* Show change block / unblock link on Special:Contributions if user is blocked
* Display note on Special:Contributions if the user is blocked, and provide an
excerpt from the block log.
-* (bug 19646) New hook: ImgAuthBeforeStream for tests and functionality before file is streamed to user, but only when using img_auth
+* (bug 19646) New hook: ImgAuthBeforeStream for tests and functionality before
+ file is streamed to user, but only when using img_auth
=== Bug fixes in 1.16 ===
can add/remove *all* groups (have 'userrights' permission).
* (bug 19294) Always show Sp-contributions-footer(-anon)
* Attempts to restrict reading of pages while anonymous viewing is allowed
- via extensions not using the userCan hook and via $wgRevokePermissions now work.
-* (bug 8445) Multiple-character search terms are now handled properly for Chinese
+ via extensions not using the userCan hook and via $wgRevokePermissions now
+ work.
+* (bug 8445) Multiple-character search terms are now handled properly for
+ Chinese
* (bug 19450) Use formatNum for "Number of edits" in Special:Preferences
* (bug 11242) Check for MySQL storage engines during installation now checks
whether the engines are actually available
* (bug 19564) Updated docs/hooks.txt
* (bug 18751) Fix for buggage in profiling setup for some extensions on PHP 5.1
* (bug 17139) ts_resortTable inconsistent trimming makes date sorting fragile
-* (bug 19445) Change oldimage table to use ON UPDATE CASCADE for FK to image table.
+* (bug 19445) Change oldimage table to use ON UPDATE CASCADE for FK to image
+ table.
* (bug 14080) Short notation links to subpages didn't work in edit summaries
* (bug 17374) Special:Export no longer exports multiple copies of pages
* (bug 19818) Edits to user CSS/JS subpages can now be marked as patrolled by
argument
* (bug 20136) Protection form JavaScript now synchronizes the expiry boxes on
any change, in addition to onkeyup.
-* Don't link to "edit this page" on MediaWiki:Noarticletext if user is not allowed
- to create page. Done via new message MediaWiki:Noarticletext-nopermission
-* Improved compatibility between the Vector skin and addPortletLink() from wikibits.js:
- empty portlets are now present but hidden, adding an element to a portlet unhides it
-* (bug 19531) addPortletLink() now wraps inserted labels in a <span> element to be
- compatible with the CSS for the Vector skin
+* Don't link to "edit this page" on MediaWiki:Noarticletext if user is not
+ allowed to create page. Done via new message
+ MediaWiki:Noarticletext-nopermission
+* Improved compatibility between the Vector skin and addPortletLink() from
+ wikibits.js: empty portlets are now present but hidden, adding an element to a
+ portlet unhides it
+* (bug 19531) addPortletLink() now wraps inserted labels in a <span> element to
+ be compatible with the CSS for the Vector skin
* (bug 20578) Wrong localized image metadata - duplicated string?
* (bug 20556) Stub threshold's "other" <input> in Special:Preferences now has a
correct type="text" parameter