1 = MediaWiki release notes =
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.
8 THIS IS NOT A RELEASE YET
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.
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.
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
21 === Configuration changes in 1.13 ===
23 * New option $wgFeed can be set false to turn off syndication feeds
24 * (bug 5745) Special:Whatlinkshere now shows up to $wgMaxRedirectLinksRetrieved
25 links through each redirect instead of hardcoded 500
26 * Set $wgUploadSizeWarning to false by default
27 * Added $wgLBFactoryConf, for generic configuration of multi-master wiki farms
28 * Removed $wgAlternateMaster, use $wgLBFactoryConf
29 * (bug 13562) Misspelled option $wgUserNotifedOnAllChanges changed to
30 $wgUserNotifiedOnAllChanges
31 * (bug 12860) New option $wgSitemapNamespaces allows sitemaps to be generated
32 for only some namespaces
33 * Removed the emailconfirmed implicit group by default. To re-add it, use:
34 $wgAutopromote['emailconfirmed'] = APCOND_EMAILCONFIRMED;
35 in your LocalSettings.php.
36 * (bug 2396) New shared database configuration variables. $wgSharedPrefix allows
37 you to use a shared database with a different prefix. Or you can now use a local
38 database and use prefixes to separate wiki and the shared tables. And the new
39 $wgSharedTables variable allows you to specify a list of tables to share.
40 * Automatic edit summaries can be disabled with $wgUseAutomaticEditSummaries
41 * Duplicates of images are now shown on the image page
42 * $wgRCFilterByAge allows for the list of dates in recent changes special pages to
43 be filtered to only those within the range of $wgRCMaxAge
44 * $wgRCLinkLimits and $wgRCLinkDays allow for customization of the list and limits
45 displayed on the recent changes special pages
46 * The "createpage" permission is no longer required when uploading if the target
47 image page already exists
48 * $wgMaximumMovedPages restricts the number of pages that can be moved at once
49 (default 100) with the new subpage-move functionality of Special:Movepage
50 * Hooks display in Special:Version is now disabled by default, use
51 $wgSpecialVersionShowHooks = true; to enable it.
52 * $wgActiveUserEditCount sets the number of edits that must be performed over
53 a certain number of days to be considered active
54 * $wgActiveUserDays is that number of days
55 * $wgRateLimitsExcludedGroups has been deprecated in favor of
56 $wgGroupPermissions[]['noratelimit']. The former still works, however.
57 * New $wgGroupPermissions option 'move-subpages' added to control bulk-moving
58 subpages along with pages. Assigned to 'user' and 'sysop' by default.
59 * New $wgRC2UDPOmitBots allows user to omit bot edits from UDP output.
61 * Removed $wgEnableCascadingProtection option. Disabling cascading protection
62 is no longer possible.
63 * $wgMessageCacheType defines now the type of cache used by the MessageCache class,
64 previously it was choosen based on $wgParserCacheType
65 * $wgExtensionAliasesFiles option to simplify adding aliases to special pages
66 provided by extensions, in a similar way to $wgExtensionMessagesFiles
67 * Added $wgXMLMimeTypes, an array of XML mimetypes we can check for
69 * Added $wgDirectoryMode, which allows for setting the default CHMOD value when
70 creating new directories.
71 * (bug 14843) $wgCookiePrefix can be set by LocalSettings now, false defaults
74 === New features in 1.13 ===
76 * __HIDDENCAT__ on a category page causes the category to be hidden on the
78 * Do not show edit permissions errors on a red link click, just redirect to the
79 article. This is so that readers who don't know what a red link is are not
80 confused when they are told they are range-blocked.
81 * Add a new hook ImageBeforeProduceHTML to allow extensions to modify wikitext
83 * (bug 13100) Added 'preloadtitle' parameter to action=edit§ion=new that
84 pre-fills the section title field
85 * (bug 13112) Added Special:RelatedChanges alias to Special:RecentChangesLinked
86 * (bug 13130) Moved edit token and autosummary fields above edit tools to
87 reduce broken form submissions
88 * Add --old-redirects-only option to maintenance/refreshLinks.php, to add old
89 redirects to the redirect table
90 * Add links to page and file deletion forms to edit predefined delete reasons
91 * (bug 13269) Added MediaWiki:Uploadfooter to the bottom of Special:Upload
92 * (bug 2815) Search results for media now use thumbnail instead of text extract
93 * When a page doesn't exist, the tab should say "create", not "edit"
94 * (bug 12882) Added a span with class "patrollink" around "Mark as patrolled"
96 * Magic word formatnum can now take raw suffix to undo formatting
97 * Add updatelog table to reliably permit updates that don't change the schema
98 * Add category table to allow better tracking of category membership counts
99 ** (bug 1212) Give correct membership counts on the pages of large categories
100 ** Use category table for more efficient display of Special:Categories
101 * (bug 1459) Search for duplicate files by hash: Special:FileDuplicateSearch
102 * (bug 9447) Added hooks for search result headings
103 * Image redirects are now enabled by default
104 * (bug 13450) Email confirmation can now be canceled before the expiration
105 * (bug 13490) Show upload/file size limit on upload form
106 * Redesign of Special:UserRights
107 * Make rev_deleted log entries more intelligible
108 * (bug 6943) Added PAGESINCATEGORY: magic word
109 * (bug 13604) Added Special:ListGroupRights
110 * (bug 6332, 8617) Added message 'mainpage-description' as duplicate of
111 'mainpage' and added it to message 'sidebar'
112 * Automatically add old redirects to the redirect table when needed
113 * (bug 6934) Allow inclusions, links, redirects to be separately toggled on or
114 off on Special:WhatLinksHere
115 * Cache image redirects
116 * (bug 10457) Organize Special:SpecialPages into sections
117 * Add a new hook EditPageBeforeConflictDiff to allow extensions like FCKeditor
118 to modify the output for edit conflicts
119 * Add class="nested" for <fieldset>s so fieldsets inside fieldsets get
120 a slightly less huge margin and padding
121 * (bug 13527) Use sitemaps.org format 0.9 instead of a Google-specific format
122 * Allow \C and \Q as TeX commands to match \R, \N, \Z
123 * On Special:UserRights, when you can add a group you can't remove or remove
124 one you can't add, a notice is printed to warn you
125 * (bug 12698) Create PAGESIZE parser function, to return the size of a page
126 * Allow the "log in / create account" link in the toolbar to have different
127 text from Special:UserLogin title (new message 'nav-login-createaccount')
128 * Say "log in / create account" if an anonymous user can create an account,
129 otherwise just "log in", consistently across skins
130 * Special:Shortpages and Special:Longpages now returns pages in all content
131 namespaces, not just NS_MAIN.
132 * (bug 889) Improve conflict-handling between shared upload repository
134 * Update documentation links in auto-generated LocalSettings.php
135 * (bug 13584) The new hook SkinTemplateToolboxEnd was added.
136 * (bug 709) Cannot rename/move images and other media files [EXPERIMENTAL]
137 * Custom rollback summaries now accept the same arguments as the default message
138 * (bug 12542) Added hooks for expansion of Special:Listusers
139 * Drop-down AJAX search suggestions (turn on $wgEnableMWSuggest)
140 * More relevant search snippets (turn on $wgAdvancedSearchHighlighting)
141 * (bug 13950) Allow users to watch the user/talk pages of users they block.
142 * (bug 13970) Allow MonoBook-based skins to specify their own print stylesheet
143 * Show image links on Special:Whatlinkshere
144 * Use rel="start", "prev", "next" appropriately on Pager-based pages
145 * Add support for SQLite
146 * AutoAuthenticate hook renamed to UserLoadFromSession
147 * (bug 13232) importScript(), importStylesheet() funcs available to custom JS
148 * (bug 13095) Search by first letters or digits in [[Special:Categories]]
149 * Users moving a page can now move all subpages automatically as well
150 * (bug 14259) Localisation message for upload button on Special:Import is now
151 'import-upload' instead of 'upload'
152 * Add information about user group membership to Special:Preferences
153 * (bug 14146) Wrap usage section on imagepages into <div>s.
154 * New layout for Special:Specialpages. Restricted pages are marked but not separated
155 from other pages in their group.
156 * (bug 14263) Show a diff of the revert on rollback notification page.
157 * (bug 13434) Show a warning when hash identical files exist
158 * Sidebar is now cached for all languages
159 * The User class now contains a public function called isActiveEditor. Figures
160 out if a user is active based on at least $wgActiveUserEditCount number of
161 edits in the last $wgActiveUserDays days.
162 * SpecialSearchResults hook now passes results by reference, so they can be
163 changed by extensions.
164 * Add a new hook LinkerMakeExternalLink to allow extensions to modify the output of
166 * (bug 14132) Allow user to disable bot edits from being output to UDP.
167 * (bug 14328) jsMsg() within Wikibits now accepts a DOM object, not just a string
168 * (bug 14558) New system message (emailuserfooter) is now added to the footer of
169 e-mails sent with Special:Emailuser
170 * Add support for Hijri (Islamic) calendar
171 * Add a new hook LinkerMakeExternalImage to allow extensions to modify the output
172 of external (hotlinked) images.
173 * (bug 14604) Introduced the following features for the LanguageConverter:
174 Multi-tag support, single conversion flag, remove conversion flag on a single
175 page, description flag, variant name, multi-variant fallbacks.
176 * Add zh-mo and zh-my variants for the zh language
177 * (bugs 4832, 9481, 12890) Special:Recentchangeslinked now has all options that
178 are in Special:Recentchanges
179 * Allow an $error message to be passed to ArticleDelete hook
180 * Allow extensions to modify the user creation form by calling addInputItem();
181 * Add meta generator tag to HTML output
182 * MediawikiPerformAction hook is now passed the Mediawiki object
183 * Added blank special page Special:BlankPage for benchmarking, etc.
184 * Foreign repo file descriptions and thumbnails are now cached.
185 * (bug 11732) Allow localisation of edit button images
186 * Allow the search box, toolbox and languages box in the Monobook sidebar to be
187 moved around arbitrarily using special sections in [[MediaWiki:Sidebar]]:
188 SEARCH, TOOLBOX and LANGUAGES
189 * Add a new hook NormalizeMessageKey to allow extensions to replace messages before
190 the database is potentially queried
191 * (bug 9736) Redirects on Special:Fewestrevisions are now marked as such.
192 * New date/time formats in Cs localization according to ČSN and PČP.
193 * (bug 2971) Standardize format of links to hist/diff in Special:Contributions.
195 === Bug fixes in 1.13 ===
197 * (bug 10677) Add link to the file description page on the shared repository
198 * (bug 13084) Increase size of source/destination filename fields in upload form
199 * (bug 13115) rebuildrecentchanges should print the current value of $wgRCMaxAge
200 * (bug 13140) Show parent categories in category namespace
201 * (bug 13149) Correctly format 'fileexists' message on Upload page
202 * Make the default filepageexists message accurate
203 * (bug 12988) $wgMinimalPasswordLength no longer breaks create user by email
204 * (bug 13022) Fix upload from URL on PHP 5.0.x
205 * (bug 13132) Unable to unprotect pages protected with earlier versions of MediaWiki
206 * (bug 12723) OpenSearch description name now uses more compact language code
207 to avoid passing the length limit as often, is customizable per site via
208 'opensearch-desc' message.
209 * (bug 13135) Special:Userrights now passes IDs through form submission
210 to allow functionality on not-quite-right usernames
211 * (bug 12575) Prevent duplicate patrol log entries from being created
212 * (bug 13174) __HIDDENCAT__ now applies only to category pages
213 * (bug 13031) Add links to user pages in e-mail form
214 * (bug 13147) Description for categoriespagetext (used in Special:Categories) reworded
215 * (bug 11561) Fix fatal error when calling action=revert to non-image page
216 * (bug 12430) Fix call to private method LinkFilter::makeRegex fatal error in
217 maintenance/cleanupSpam.php
218 * All skins should have the "mediawiki" class on the body element
219 * (bug 13019) Message cache for some extensions not loaded at time of editing
220 * (bug 13247) Prettified ISBN links
221 * maintenance/refreshLinks.php did not fix page_id 1 with the --new-only option
222 * (bug 13110) Don't show "Permission error" page if the edit is already rolled
223 back when using rollback
224 * (bug 13012) Use content messages for block options when generating the
226 * (bug 13274) Change links for messages to ucfirst
227 * (bug 13273) Un-hardcode some punctuation (add new messages colon-separator,
229 * Parse MediaWiki message translations with a correct language setting on preview
230 * (bug 13281) Treat X-Forwarded-For, Client-ip and User-Agent headers as
231 case-insensitive names.
232 * Adding the fix for lists in RTL wikis to more skins, and fixing the image toc
233 * (bug 8157) Remove redirects from Special:Unusedtemplates. Patch by WebBoy.
234 * (bug 10721) Duplicate section anchors with differing case now disambiguated
235 for Internet Explorer's sake and standards compliance
236 * (bug 13298) Tighter limits on Special:Newpages limits when embedding
237 * Email subject in content language instead of sending user's UI language
238 * (bug 13251) Allow maintenance rebuild scripts to work with Postgres
239 * (bug 2084) Fixed incorrect regex to match redirects
240 * (bug 3131) Manually-specified upload destination filename is no longer
241 overwritten by browsing for a file after you wrote it.
242 * (bug 7251) Sidebars generated by MediaWiki:Sidebar now have the class
244 * (bug 13265) Media handler is missing 'image/x-bmp'
245 * (bug 13407) MediaWiki:Powersearch is used in two places
246 * (bug 13403) Fix cache invalidation of history pages when old revisions change
247 * (bug 11563) Deprecated SearchMySQL4 class; merged code to SearchMySQL
248 * (bug 12801) Fix link in subtitle message in AJAX search
249 * (bug 13428) Fix regression in protection form layout HTML validity
250 * (bug 9403) Sanitize newlines from search term input
251 * (bug 13429) Separate date and time in message sp-newimages-showfrom
252 * (bug 13137) Allow setting 'editprotected' right separately from 'protect',
253 so groups may optionally edit protected pages without having 'protect' perms
254 * Disallow deletion of big pages by means of moving a page to its title and
255 using the "delete and move" option.
256 * (bug 13466, 13632) White space differences not shown in diffs
257 * (bug 1953) Search form now honors namespace selections more reliably
258 * (bug 12294) Namespace class renamed to MWNamespace for PHP 5.3 compatibility
259 * PHP 5.3 compatibility fix for wfRunHooks() called with no parameters
260 * (bug 6447) Trackbacks now work with transactional tables, if enabled
261 * (bug 6892, 7147) Trackback error handling, optional fields more robust
262 * (bug 6813) Don't break HTML validator when using trackbacks
263 * Fix for size checks on SVG images with global 'stroke-width' attribute
264 * (bug 11874) Inline CSS with !important no longer borken
265 * (bug 1600) Strip extra == section markup == in new-comment field
266 * (bug 11325) Wrapped page titles in MonoBook skin spaced more nicely
267 * (bug 12077) Fix HTML nesting for TOC
268 * (bug 344) Purge cache for talk/article pages when deleting the other tab
269 * (bug 13436) Treat image captions correctly when they include option keywords
270 (like ending with "px" or starting with "upright")
271 * Trackback display formatting fixed
272 * Don't die when single-element arrays are passed to SQL query constructors
273 that have an array index other than 0
274 * (bug 13522) Fix fatal error in Parser::extractTagsAndParams
275 * (bug 13532) Use proper timestamp call when reverting images
276 * (bug 13543) Updated FAQ link in the installer sidebar
277 * (bug 13540) Date format in confirmation e-mail now matches message language
278 * (bug 13554) PHP Notice in old pre-processor when list item is empty.
279 * (bug 13556) Don't show a blank form if no image is attached in Special:Upload
280 * (bug 13576) maintenance/rebuildrecentchanges.php fails
281 * (bug 13441) Allow Special:Recentchanges to show bots only
282 * (bug 13431) Show true message source in Special:Allmessages&ot=php / xml
283 * (bug 13463) Login successful page doesn't use user's preferred interface language
284 * (bug 13630) Fixed warnings for pass by reference at call time in
285 Special:Revisiondelete when generating the log entry.
286 * (bug 12064) BeforePageDisplay hook is now called for all skins
287 * (bug 13624) Fix regression with manual thumb= parameter on images
288 * (bug 11039) Add missing labels on protection form
289 * (bug 13458) Preview/edit toolbar spacing now works consistently
290 * (bug 13433) Fix action=render on Image: pages
291 * (bug 13678) Fix CSS validation for Monobook
292 * (bug 13684) Links in Special:ListGroupRights should be in content language
293 * (bug 13690) Fix PHP notice on accessing some URLs
294 * Hide (undo) link if user isn't able to edit page
295 * Invalidate cache of pages that includes images via redirects on upload
296 * (bug 13705) Don't show rollback link in page history on incorrect revisions
297 * (bug 13708) Don't set "Search results" title when loading Special:Search
299 * (bug 13736) Don't show MediaWiki:Anontalkpagetext on non-existant IP addresses
300 * (bug 13728) Don't trim initial whitespace during section edits
301 * (bug 13727) Don't delete log entries from recentchanges on page deletion
302 * (bug 13752) Redirects to sections now work again
303 * (bug 13725) Upload form watch checkbox state set correctly with wpDestFile
304 * (bug 13756) Don't show the form and navigation links of Special:Newpages if
306 * When hiding things on WhatLinksHere, generated URLs should hide them too
307 * Properly escape search terms with regex chars so they appear highlighted in
309 * (bug 13768) pt_title field encoding fixed
310 * Do not display empty columns on Special:UserRights if all groups are
311 changeable or all unchangeable
312 * Fix fatal error on calling PAGESINCATEGORY with invalid category name
313 * (bug 13793) Special:Whatlinkshere filters wrong - after paginating instead of before
314 * (bug 13796) Show links to parent pages even if some of them are missing
315 * (bug 13816) Filter by main namespace doesn't work on WhatLinksHere
316 * (bug 13822) Fatal error on some pages when calculating subpage subtitle
317 * (bug 13824) AJAX search suggestion now works with non-SkinTemplate skins
318 * Added 'application/x-dia-diagram' MediaWiki's known MIME types
319 * (bug 13866) skins/common/shared.css - invalid attribute fixing
320 * Hide edit section links on Special:Undelete
321 * (bug 13860) Fix "Justify paragraphs" option for Modern skin
322 * (bug 13168) accessibility links in Modern skin link to wrong anchor id
323 * (bug 13185) No line break after 'subpages' class in Modern skin
324 * (bug 13583) No "poweredby" in Modern skin
325 * (bug 13880) "Printable" link in Modern skin now formats as print mode
326 * (bug 13885) Bump default $wgSVGMaxSize from 1024 to 2048 pixels
327 * (bug 13891) Show categories box even if all categories are hidden and user has
328 "show hidden categories" option on
329 * (bug 13915) Undefined variable $wltsfield in includes/SpecialWatchlist.php
330 * (bug 13913) Special:Whatlinkshere now has correct HTML markup
331 * (bug 13905) Blacklist Mac IE from HttpOnly cookies; it eats them sometimes
332 * (bug 13922) Fix bad HTML on empty Special:Prefixindex and Special:Allpages
333 * (bug 13924) Fix bad HTML on power search form
334 * (bug 13820) Fix updater for rev_parent_id population
335 * (bug 13925) Fix bad HTML on search results list
336 * (bug 13934) Fixing the link to GNU General Public License Version 2
337 * Show correct accesskey prefix for Firefox 3 beta (Alt-Shift-, not Alt-)
338 * (bug 13949) Special:PrefixIndex/AllPages paging links contain invalid XML
339 * (bug 13770) Use Preprocessor_Hash by default to avoid missing DOM module errors
340 * (bug 13982) Disable ccmeonemails preference when user-to-user mails disabled
341 * (bug 13615) Update case mappings and normalization to Unicode 5.1.0
342 Note that case mappings will only be used if mbstring extension is not present.
343 * (bug 14044) Don't increment page view counters on views from bot users
344 * (bug 14042) Calling Database::limitResult() misplaced the comment in the log file
345 * (bug 14047) Fix regression in installer which hid DB-specific options
346 Also makes SQLite path configurable in the installer.
347 * (bug 13546) Follow image redirects on image page
348 * (bug 12644) Template list on edit page now sorted on preview
349 * (bug 14058) Support pipe trick for namespaces and interwikis with "-"
350 * Message name filter on Special:Allmessages now case-insensitive
351 * (bug 13943) Fix image redirect behaviour on image pages
352 * (bug 14093) Do 'sysop' => 'protect' magic in Title::isValidMoveOperation
353 * (bug 14063) Power search form missing <label> for redirects check
354 * (bug 14111) Similar filename warning links now lead to correct page
355 * (bug 14082) Fix for complex text input vs AJAX suggestions on some browsers
356 * (bug 13693) Categories sometimes claim to have a negative number of members
357 * (bug 1701) Korean Hangul syllables now broken down properly in Category lists
358 even if the wiki's overall content language is not Korean
359 * (bug 12773) addOnloadHook() now calls functions immediately when scripts are
360 loaded after the primary page completion, instead of dropping them
361 * (bug 14199) Fix deletion form for image redirect pages
362 * (bug 14220) Disabling $wgCheckFileExtensions now works without also
363 disabling $wgStrictFileExtensions
364 * (bug 14241) Pages can no longer be protected to levels you are not in
365 * (bug 14296) Fix local name of ang: (Anglo-Saxon)
366 * (bug 4871) Hardcoded superscript in time zone preferences moved to message
367 * (bug 6957) E-mail confirmation links now using English special page name
368 for better compatibility and keeping the links shorter. Avoids problem
369 with corrupt links in Gmail on IE 6.
370 * (bug 14273) Fix for HTTP Accept header parsing with spaces as from Konqueror
371 * (bug 14312) Update LanguageKaa.php for handling transform issues with i to İ
373 * (bug 13826) MediaWiki:Defaultns accepts Wikicode
374 * (bug 14324) Creating an account is again possible with $wgEmailConfirmToEdit
376 * (bug 13034) Interwiki pages can now be reached using Go search button
377 * (bug 14362) Change interwiki names of Erzya and Moksha Wikipedias
378 * (bug 14370) When a grouppage-x message does not exist the entry on the
379 ListGroupRights special page now links to the project namespace page for it,
380 not the main namespace page.
381 * (bug 11659) Urldecode image names in galleries
382 * (bug 14258, 14368) Fix for subpage renames in replication environments
383 * (bug 14367) Failed block no longer adds phantom watchlist entry
384 * (bug 14385) "Move subpages" option no longer tries to move to invalid titles
385 * (bug 14386) Fix subpage namespace oddity when moving a talk page
386 * (bug 11771) Signup form now not shown if in read-only mode.
387 * (bug 12859) $wgRateLimitsExcludedGroups has been deprecated in favor of
388 $wgGroupPermissions[]['noratelimit'].
389 * (Bug 13828) Split parameter $1 of MediaWiki:Missingarticle into $1 (=title)
390 and $2 (=revision numbers)
391 * (bug 14401) Fix Safari access key tooltips for Windows and >3.1 Mac versions
392 * (bug 14432) Fix notice regression in Special:Newpages feed mode
393 * (bug 11951) EditPage::getEditToolbar() is now static.
394 * (bug 14392) Fix regression breaking table prefix in installer
395 * (bug 11084) $wgDBprefix replacement for updater SQL will now work for
396 extension tables using uppercase letters or digits in their names.
397 * (bug 12311) Fix regression with lists at start of undeletion preview
398 * (bug 14496) Fix regression with parseinline on Special:Upload.
399 * We no longer just give up on a missing upload base directory; it's now
400 created automatically if we have sufficient permissions!
401 * (bug 14479) MediaWiki:upload-maxfilesize should have a div id wrapper
402 * (bug 14497) Throw visible errors in installer scripts when SQL files
403 fail due to database permission or other error
404 * (bug 14500) Site feed (Recentchanges) no longer shows up on the actual
406 * (bug 14511) MediaWiki:Delete-legend is no longer double escaped
407 * Generate correct section anchors for numeric headers
408 * (bug 14520) Don't load nonexistent CSS files for Chick/Myskin/Simple skins
409 * (bug 14551) Cancel upload no longer automatically suppresses warnings
410 * (bug 13878) Deprecate Article::getDB() in favor of direct wfGetDB() calls
411 * (bug 4977) Fix for possible squid purging errors when using HTTP purges
413 * (bug 14572) Redirects listed on file links on image pages no longer redirect.
414 * (bug 14537) Change interwiki name for Old Church Slavonic (cu)
415 * (bug 14583) Fix regression in recent changes "limit to certain categories."
416 * (bug 14515) HTML nesting cleanup on edit form
417 * (bug 14647) Removed unused 'townBox' CSS classes
418 * (bug 14687) OutputPage::addStyle() now adds type="text/css" like it should.
419 * OpenSearch cleanup; Firefox now sends you to the search page for empty
420 searches instead of the domain root (which may not even be a wiki).
421 * (bug 3481) Pages moved shortly after creation are shown at their new title
423 * (bug 12716) Trying to unprotect a title that isn't protected no longer
424 generates a log entry.
425 * (bug 14088) Excessively long block expiry times are rejected as invalid,
426 keeps the log page from being distorted.
427 * (bug 14708) Emulate INSERT...IGNORE with standard SQL for Postgres backend.
428 * (bug 14646) Fix some double-escaping of HTML in feed output
429 * (bug 14709) Fix login success message formatting when using cookie check
430 * (bug 14710) Remove "donate" link from default sidebar
431 * (bug 14745) Image moving works on sites that transform thumbnails via 404
432 * (bug 2186) Document.write() in wikibits caused failures when using
433 application/xhtml+xml. The calls to this have been removed.
434 * (bug 14764) Fix regression in from Article::lastModified(), failed to work
435 on non-mySQL schemas.
436 * (bug 14763) Child classes of Database (DatabasePostgres and DatabaseOracle)
437 had stict standards issues with setFakeSlaveLag() and setFakeMaster().
438 * (bug 451) Improve the phrase mappings of the Chinese converter arrays.
439 * (bug 12487) Rights log is not fully internationalized
440 * (bug 10837) Language variants no longer override other languages than base
441 * (bug 14778) 'limit' parameter now applies to history feeds as well as
443 * (bug 14845) Bug in prefs javascript: Calling an array item without checking
445 * Accesskeys for minor edit/watch checkboxes on edit now work in Firefox 3
446 * (bug 12384) Comments in maintenance/*php
447 * (bug 12441) ./maintenance/generateSitemap.php fix -fspath requiring
449 * (bug 12568) configuration script now produce valid XHTML.
450 * The accesskey to edit a page is now disabled when editing the page, to pre-
451 vent conflicts with Safari shortcuts.
453 === API changes in 1.13 ===
455 * Fixing main page display in meta=siteinfo
456 * (bug 13128) Added patrolled flag to list=recentchanges
457 * Implemented {bl,ei,iu}redirect (lists links through redirects as well)
458 * (bug 13154) Introduced subpages flag to meta=siteinfo&siprop=namespaces
459 * (bug 13157) Added ucuserprefix parameter to list=usercontibs
460 * (bug 12394) Added rctitles parameter to list=recentchanges, making rcid
462 * (bug 13218) Fix inclusion of " character in hyperlinks
463 * Added watch and unwatch parameters to action=delete and action=move
465 * (bug 11401) Added xmldoublequote to xml formatter
466 * Added rvsection parameter to prop=revisions to allow fetching the content of
467 a certain section only
468 * Introduced list=allimages
469 * (bug 13371) Build page set from image hashes
470 * Mark non-existent messages in meta=allmessages as missing
471 * (bug 13390) One invalid title no longer kills an entire API query
472 * (bug 13419) Fix gblredirect so it actually works
473 * (bug 13418) Disable eiredirect because it's useless
474 * (bug 13395) list=allcategories should use category table
475 * (bug 13442) Missing pages in prop=langlinks and prop=extlinks are now
477 * (bug 13444) Add description to list=watchlist
478 * (bug 13482) Disabled search types handled properly
479 * Added inprop=talkid,subjectid to prop=info
480 * Added help text message that specifies whether a module is POST-only
481 * Added createonly parameter to action=edit
482 * Replaced $wgAPIUCUserPrefixMinLength by the more generic $wgAPIMaxDBRows
483 * (bug 11719) Remove trailing blanks in YAML output.
484 * (bug 13541) Added siprop=specialpagealiases to meta=siteinfo
485 * Added fallback8bitEncoding and readonly fields to
486 meta=siteinfo&siprop=general output
487 * (bug 13544) Added prop=revid to action=parse
488 * (bug 13603) Added siprop=usergroups to meta=siteinfo
489 * Cleaned up redirect resolution
490 * Added possibility to obtain all external links through list=exturlusage
491 * (bug 13606) Added archivename to iiprop
492 * (bug 11633) Explicitly convert redirect titles to strings due to PHP's
493 very weak typing on array keys.
494 * (bug 12136) Extend allowed characters in JSON callback to ][.'"_A-Za-z0-9
495 * (bug 11673) Return error 'unknown_action' in specified format
496 * (bug 13618) Added rcprop=redirect and rcshow=redirect to list=recentchanges
497 * (bug 13544) Added oldid parameter to action=parse to allow for parsing of old
499 * (bug 13718) Return the proper continue parameter for cmsort=timestamp
500 * action=login now returns the correct waiting time in the details property
501 * (bug 13792) Broken titles are now silently skipped in search results.
502 * (bug 13819) exturlusage paging skipped an item
503 * Fixed handling of usernames containing spaces in list=block
504 * (bug 13836) Fixed fatal errors resulting from combining iiprop=metadata with
506 * (bug 13735) Added prop=categoryinfo module
507 * (bug 13945) Retrieve cascading protection sources via inprop=protection
508 * (bug 13965) Hardcoded 51 limit on titles is too limiting
509 * (bug 13993) apfrom doesn't work with apdir=descending
510 * (bug 14018) Introduced alcontinue to list=alllinks to improve paging
511 * (bug 14013) Added rcshow=patrolled to list=recentchanges
512 * (bug 14028) Added language attribute to interwiki map in meta=siteinfo
513 * (bug 14022) Added usprop=registration and auprop=blockinfo
514 * (bug 14021) Removed titles= support from list=backlinks (has been obsolete
516 * (bug 13829) Expose parse tree via action=expandtemplates
517 * (bug 13606) Allow deletion of images
518 * Added iiprop=mime and aiprop=metadata
519 * Handled unrecognized values for parameters more gracefully
520 * Handled requesting disallowed tokens more gracefully
521 * (bug 14140) URL-encoded page titles are now decoded in edit summaries
522 * (bug 14243) Only accept post requests in action=edit; patch by HardDisk
523 * action=block now returns an ISO8601 timestamp, like all other modules do
524 * Added md5 parameter to action=edit
525 * (bug 14335) Logging in to unified account using API not possible
526 * Added action=emailuser to send an email to a user
527 * (bug 14471) Use HTMLTidy and generate limit report in action=parse
528 * (bug 14459) Added prependtext and appendtext parameters to action=edit
529 * (bug 14526) Unescaped SQL in list=backlinks
530 * Added 'hidden' flag to list=allcategories and prop=categoryinfo output
531 * Added nocreate parameter to action=edit
532 * (bug 14402) Added maxage and smaxage parameters to api.php
533 * Added bkip parameter to list=blocks
534 * (bug 14651) apprefix and similar parameters are now canonicalized
535 * Added clprop=timestamp to prop=categories
536 * (bug 14678) API errors now respects $wgShowExceptionDetails and
538 * (bug 14723) Added time zone and writing direction to meta=siteinfo
539 * Added APIQueryInfoTokens and APIQueryRevisionsTokens hooks so extensions
540 can add their own tokens
541 * Added block and unblock tokens to prop=info as well
542 * Added paging (limit and continue parameters) to
543 prop={links,templatelinks,langlinks,extlinks,categories,images}
544 * Added flag "top" to list=usercontribs if the user is the last contributor to
546 * list=exturlusage in "list all links" mode can now filter by protocol
548 === Languages updated in 1.13 ===
550 MediaWiki supports over 300 languages. Many localisations are updated
551 regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed.
553 * Egyptian Spoken Arabic (arz) (new)
554 * Southern Balochi (bcc) (new)
555 * Middle Dutch (dum) (removed)
556 * British English (en-gb) (new)
557 * Fiji Hindi (Latin) (hif-latn) (new)
558 * Old Norse (non) (removed)
559 * Tarifit (rif) (new)
560 * Serbian cyrillic iyekvian (sr-jc) (removed)
561 * Serbian latin iyekavian (sr-jl) (removed)
562 * Silesian (szl) (new)
563 * Tajiki (Cyrllic script) (tg-cyrl) (new)
564 * Tajiki (Latin script) (tg-latn) (new)
565 * Chinese (Macau) (zh-mo) (new)
566 * Chinese (Malaysia) (zh-my) (new)
570 MediaWiki 1.13 requires PHP 5 (5.1 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer supported.
572 PHP 5.0.x fails on 64-bit systems due to serious bugs with array processing:
573 http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=34879
574 Upgrade affected systems to PHP 5.1 or higher.
576 MySQL 3.23.x is no longer supported; some older hosts may need to upgrade.
577 At this time we still recommend 4.0, but 4.1/5.0 will work fine in most cases.
582 1.13 has several database changes since 1.12, and will not work without schema
585 If upgrading from before 1.7, you may want to run refreshLinks.php to ensure
586 new database fields are filled with data.
588 If upgrading from before 1.11, and you are using a wiki as a commons repository,
589 make sure that it is updated as well. Otherwise, errors may arise due to
590 database schema changes.
592 If you are upgrading from MediaWiki 1.4.x or earlier, some major database
593 changes are made, and there is a slightly higher chance that things could
594 break. Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading!
596 See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions.
601 Some output, particularly involving user-supplied inline HTML, may not
602 produce 100% valid or well-formed XHTML output. Testers are welcome to
603 set $wgMimeType = "application/xhtml+xml"; to test for remaining problem
604 cases, but this is not recommended on live sites. (This must be set for
605 MathML to display properly in Mozilla.)
607 For notes on 1.12.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
610 === Online documentation ===
612 Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is currently being
613 built up on MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation
614 License (except for pages that explicitly state that their contents are in
617 http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation
622 A MediaWiki-l mailing list has been set up distinct from the Wikipedia
625 http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
627 A low-traffic announcements-only list is also available:
629 http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
631 It's highly recommended that you sign up for one of these lists if you're
632 going to run a public MediaWiki, so you can be notified of security fixes.
637 There's usually someone online in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net