RELEASE-NOTES

   1 = MediaWiki release notes =
   2
   3 Security reminder: MediaWiki does not require PHP's register_globals
   4 setting since version 1.2.0. If you have it on, turn it *off* if you can.
   5
   6 == MediaWiki 1.12 ==
   7
   8 THIS IS NOT A RELEASE YET
   9
  10 MediaWiki is now using a "continuous integration" development model with
  11 quarterly snapshot releases. The latest development code is always kept
  12 "ready to run", and in fact runs our own sites on Wikipedia.
  13
  14 Release branches will continue to receive security updates for about a year
  15 from first release, but nonessential bugfixes and feature developments
  16 will be made on the development trunk and appear in the next quarterly release.
  17
  18 Those wishing to use the latest code instead of a branch release can obtain
  19 it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN
  20
  21 === Configuration changes in 1.12 ===
  22
  23 === New features in 1.12 ===
  24 * Add a warning for non-descriptive filenames at Special:Upload
  25 * Add {{filepath:}} parser function to get full path to an uploaded file,
  26   complementing {{fullurl:}} for pages.
  27
  28
  29 === Bug fixes in 1.12 ===
  30
  31 * Subpages are now indexed for searching properly when using PostgreSQL
  32 * (bug 3846) Suppress warnings from, e.g. open_basedir when scanning for
  33   ImageMagick, diff3 et al. during installation [patch by Jan Reininghaus]
  34 * (bug 7027) Shift handling of deletion permissions-checking to
  35   getUserPermissionsErrors.
  36 * Login and signup forms are now more correct for right-to-left languages.
  37 * (bug 5387) Block log items on RecentChanges don't make use of possible
  38   translations
  39 * (bug 11211) Pass, as a parameter to the protectedpagetext interface
  40   message, the level of protection.
  41 * (bug 9611) Supply the blocker and reason for the cantcreateaccounttext
  42   message.
  43 * (bug 8759) Fixed bug where rollback was allowed on protected pages for wikis
  44   where rollback is given to non-sysops.
  45 * (bug 8834) Split off permission for editing user JavaScript and CSS from
  46   editinterface to a new permission key editusercssjs.
  47 * (bug 11266) Set fallback language for Fulfulde (ff) to French
  48 * (bug 11179) Include image version deletion comment in public log
  49 * Fixed notice when accessing special page without read permission and whitelist
  50   is not defined
  51 * (bug 9252) Fix for tidy funkiness when using editintro mode
  52 * (bug 4021) Fix for MySQL wildcard search
  53 * (bug 10699) Fix for MySQL phrase search
  54 * (bug 11321) Fix width of gallerybox when option "width=xxx" is used
  55 * (bug 7890) Special:BrokenRedirects links deleted redirects to a non-existent page
  56 * Fix initial statistics when installing: add correct values
  57 * (bug 11342) Fix several 'returnto' links in permissions/error pages which
  58   linked to the main page instead of targetted page
  59 * Strike the link to the redirect rather than using an asterisk in Special:Listredirects
  60
  61
  62 === API changes in 1.12 ===
  63
  64 Full API documentation is available at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API
  65
  66 * (bug 11275) Enable descending sort in categorymembers
  67 * (bug 11308) Allow the API to output the image metadata
  68
  69 === Languages updated in 1.12 ===
  70
  71 * Arabic (ar)
  72 * Mapudungun (arn) (new)
  73 * Bikol Central (bcl)
  74 * Belarusian Taraskievica orthography (be-tarask)
  75 * Bengali (bn)
  76 * Catalan (ca)
  77 * Czech (cs)
  78 * Cassubian (csb)
  79 * Welsh (cy)
  80 * Danish (da)
  81 * German (de)
  82 * Lower Sorbian (dsb)
  83 * Greek (el)
  84 * Spanish (es)
  85 * Extremaduran (ext)
  86 * Persian (fa)
  87 * Võro (fiu-vro)
  88 * Frisian (fy)
  89 * French (fr)
  90 * Hebrew (he)
  91 * Upper Sorbian (hsb)
  92 * Indonesian (id)
  93 * Icelandic (is)
  94 * Kazakh (kk)
  95 * Korean (ko)
  96 * Low Saxon (nds)
  97 * Dutch (nl)
  98 * Russian (ru)
  99 * Sakha (sah)
 100 * Sicilian (scn)
 101 * Slovak (sk)
 102 * Serbian (Cyrillic) (sr-ec)
 103 * Sundanese (su)
 104 * Tamil (ta)
 105 * Walloon (wa)
 106 * Zhuang (za)
 107 * Zealandic (zea)
 108
 109 == Compatibility ==
 110
 111 MediaWiki 1.12 requires PHP 5 (5.1 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer supported.
 112
 113 PHP 5.0.x fails on 64-bit systems due to serious bugs with array processing:
 114 http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=34879
 115 Upgrade affected systems to PHP 5.1 or higher.
 116
 117 MySQL 3.23.x is no longer supported; some older hosts may need to upgrade.
 118 At this time we still recommend 4.0, but 4.1/5.0 will work fine in most cases.
 119
 120
 121 == Upgrading ==
 122
 123 1.12 has several database changes since 1.11, and will not work without schema
 124 updates.
 125
 126 If upgrading from before 1.7, you may want to run refreshLinks.php to ensure
 127 new database fields are filled with data.
 128
 129 If you are upgrading from MediaWiki 1.4.x or earlier, some major database
 130 changes are made, and there is a slightly higher chance that things could
 131 break. Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading!
 132
 133 See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions.
 134
 135
 136 === Caveats ===
 137
 138 Some output, particularly involving user-supplied inline HTML, may not
 139 produce 100% valid or well-formed XHTML output. Testers are welcome to
 140 set $wgMimeType = "application/xhtml+xml"; to test for remaining problem
 141 cases, but this is not recommended on live sites. (This must be set for
 142 MathML to display properly in Mozilla.)
 143
 144 For notes on 1.11.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
 145
 146
 147 === Online documentation ===
 148
 149 Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is currently being
 150 built up on MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation
 151 License (except for pages that explicitly state that their contents are in
 152 the public domain) :
 153
 154   http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation
 155
 156
 157 === Mailing list ===
 158
 159 A MediaWiki-l mailing list has been set up distinct from the Wikipedia
 160 wikitech-l list:
 161
 162   http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
 163
 164 A low-traffic announcements-only list is also available:
 165
 166   http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
 167
 168 It's highly recommended that you sign up for one of these lists if you're
 169 going to run a public MediaWiki, so you can be notified of security fixes.
 170
 171
 172 === IRC help ===
 173
 174 There's usually someone online in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net