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
70 === New features in 1.13 ===
72 * __HIDDENCAT__ on a category page causes the category to be hidden on the
74 * Do not show edit permissions errors on a red link click, just redirect to the
75 article. This is so that readers who don't know what a red link is are not
76 confused when they are told they are range-blocked.
77 * Add a new hook ImageBeforeProduceHTML to allow extensions to modify wikitext
79 * (bug 13100) Added 'preloadtitle' parameter to action=edit§ion=new that
80 pre-fills the section title field
81 * (bug 13112) Added Special:RelatedChanges alias to Special:RecentChangesLinked
82 * (bug 13130) Moved edit token and autosummary fields above edit tools to
83 reduce broken form submissions
84 * Add --old-redirects-only option to maintenance/refreshLinks.php, to add old
85 redirects to the redirect table
86 * Add links to page and file deletion forms to edit predefined delete reasons
87 * (bug 13269) Added MediaWiki:Uploadfooter to the bottom of Special:Upload
88 * (bug 2815) Search results for media now use thumbnail instead of text extract
89 * When a page doesn't exist, the tab should say "create", not "edit"
90 * (bug 12882) Added a span with class "patrollink" around "Mark as patrolled"
92 * Magic word formatnum can now take raw suffix to undo formatting
93 * Add updatelog table to reliably permit updates that don't change the schema
94 * Add category table to allow better tracking of category membership counts
95 ** (bug 1212) Give correct membership counts on the pages of large categories
96 ** Use category table for more efficient display of Special:Categories
97 * (bug 1459) Search for duplicate files by hash: Special:FileDuplicateSearch
98 * (bug 9447) Added hooks for search result headings
99 * Image redirects are now enabled by default
100 * (bug 13450) Email confirmation can now be canceled before the expiration
101 * (bug 13490) Show upload/file size limit on upload form
102 * Redesign of Special:UserRights
103 * Make rev_deleted log entries more intelligible
104 * (bug 6943) Added PAGESINCATEGORY: magic word
105 * (bug 13604) Added Special:ListGroupRights
106 * (bug 6332, 8617) Added message 'mainpage-description' as duplicate of
107 'mainpage' and added it to message 'sidebar'
108 * Automatically add old redirects to the redirect table when needed
109 * (bug 6934) Allow inclusions, links, redirects to be separately toggled on or
110 off on Special:WhatLinksHere
111 * Cache image redirects
112 * (bug 10457) Organize Special:SpecialPages into sections
113 * Add a new hook EditPageBeforeConflictDiff to allow extensions like FCKeditor
114 to modify the output for edit conflicts
115 * Add class="nested" for <fieldset>s so fieldsets inside fieldsets get
116 a slightly less huge margin and padding
117 * (bug 13527) Use sitemaps.org format 0.9 instead of a Google-specific format
118 * Allow \C and \Q as TeX commands to match \R, \N, \Z
119 * On Special:UserRights, when you can add a group you can't remove or remove
120 one you can't add, a notice is printed to warn you
121 * (bug 12698) Create PAGESIZE parser function, to return the size of a page
122 * Allow the "log in / create account" link in the toolbar to have different
123 text from Special:UserLogin title (new message 'nav-login-createaccount')
124 * Say "log in / create account" if an anonymous user can create an account,
125 otherwise just "log in", consistently across skins
126 * Special:Shortpages and Special:Longpages now returns pages in all content
127 namespaces, not just NS_MAIN.
128 * (bug 889) Improve conflict-handling between shared upload repository
130 * Update documentation links in auto-generated LocalSettings.php
131 * (bug 13584) The new hook SkinTemplateToolboxEnd was added.
132 * (bug 709) Cannot rename/move images and other media files [EXPERIMENTAL]
133 * Custom rollback summaries now accept the same arguments as the default message
134 * (bug 12542) Added hooks for expansion of Special:Listusers
135 * Drop-down AJAX search suggestions (turn on $wgEnableMWSuggest)
136 * More relevant search snippets (turn on $wgAdvancedSearchHighlighting)
137 * (bug 13950) Allow users to watch the user/talk pages of users they block.
138 * (bug 13970) Allow MonoBook-based skins to specify their own print stylesheet
139 * Show image links on Special:Whatlinkshere
140 * Use rel="start", "prev", "next" appropriately on Pager-based pages
141 * Add support for SQLite
142 * AutoAuthenticate hook renamed to UserLoadFromSession
143 * (bug 13232) importScript(), importStylesheet() funcs available to custom JS
144 * (bug 13095) Search by first letters or digits in [[Special:Categories]]
145 * Users moving a page can now move all subpages automatically as well
146 * (bug 14259) Localisation message for upload button on Special:Import is now
147 'import-upload' instead of 'upload'
148 * Add information about user group membership to Special:Preferences
149 * (bug 14146) Wrap usage section on imagepages into <div>s.
150 * New layout for Special:Specialpages. Restricted pages are marked but not separated
151 from other pages in their group.
152 * (bug 14263) Show a diff of the revert on rollback notification page.
153 * (bug 13434) Show a warning when hash identical files exist
154 * Sidebar is now cached for all languages
155 * The User class now contains a public function called isActiveEditor. Figures
156 out if a user is active based on at least $wgActiveUserEditCount number of
157 edits in the last $wgActiveUserDays days.
158 * SpecialSearchResults hook now passes results by reference, so they can be
159 changed by extensions.
160 * Add a new hook LinkerMakeExternalLink to allow extensions to modify the output of
162 * (bug 14132) Allow user to disable bot edits from being output to UDP.
163 * (bug 14328) jsMsg() within Wikibits now accepts a DOM object, not just a string
164 * (bug 14558) New system message (emailuserfooter) is now added to the footer of
165 e-mails sent with Special:Emailuser
166 * Add support for Hijri (Islamic) calendar
167 * Add a new hook LinkerMakeExternalImage to allow extensions to modify the output
168 of external (hotlinked) images.
169 * (bug 14604) Introduced the following features for the LanguageConverter:
170 Multi-tag support, single conversion flag, remove conversion flag on a single
171 page, description flag, variant name, multi-variant fallbacks.
172 * Add zh-mo and zh-my variants for the zh language
173 * (bugs 4832, 9481, 12890) Special:Recentchangeslinked now has all options that
174 are in Special:Recentchanges
175 * Allow an $error message to be passed to ArticleDelete hook
176 * Allow extensions to modify the user creation form by calling addInputItem();
177 * Add meta generator tag to HTML output
178 * MediawikiPerformAction hook is now passed the Mediawiki object
179 * Added blank special page Special:BlankPage for benchmarking, etc.
180 * Foreign repo file descriptions and thumbnails are now cached.
181 * (bug 11732) Allow localisation of edit button images
182 * Allow the search box, toolbox and languages box in the Monobook sidebar to be
183 moved around arbitrarily using special sections in [[MediaWiki:Sidebar]]:
184 SEARCH, TOOLBOX and LANGUAGES
185 * Add a new hook NormalizeMessageKey to allow extensions to replace messages before
186 the database is potentially queried
187 * (bug 9736) Redirects on Special:Fewestrevisions are now marked as such.
188 * (bug 13588) Experimentally track link changes if $wgTrackLinkChanges is set
189 to true. Requires schema change.
191 === Bug fixes in 1.13 ===
193 * (bug 10677) Add link to the file description page on the shared repository
194 * (bug 13084) Increase size of source/destination filename fields in upload form
195 * (bug 13115) rebuildrecentchanges should print the current value of $wgRCMaxAge
196 * (bug 13140) Show parent categories in category namespace
197 * (bug 13149) Correctly format 'fileexists' message on Upload page
198 * Make the default filepageexists message accurate
199 * (bug 12988) $wgMinimalPasswordLength no longer breaks create user by email
200 * (bug 13022) Fix upload from URL on PHP 5.0.x
201 * (bug 13132) Unable to unprotect pages protected with earlier versions of MediaWiki
202 * (bug 12723) OpenSearch description name now uses more compact language code
203 to avoid passing the length limit as often, is customizable per site via
204 'opensearch-desc' message.
205 * (bug 13135) Special:Userrights now passes IDs through form submission
206 to allow functionality on not-quite-right usernames
207 * (bug 12575) Prevent duplicate patrol log entries from being created
208 * (bug 13174) __HIDDENCAT__ now applies only to category pages
209 * (bug 13031) Add links to user pages in e-mail form
210 * (bug 13147) Description for categoriespagetext (used in Special:Categories) reworded
211 * (bug 11561) Fix fatal error when calling action=revert to non-image page
212 * (bug 12430) Fix call to private method LinkFilter::makeRegex fatal error in
213 maintenance/cleanupSpam.php
214 * All skins should have the "mediawiki" class on the body element
215 * (bug 13019) Message cache for some extensions not loaded at time of editing
216 * (bug 13247) Prettified ISBN links
217 * maintenance/refreshLinks.php did not fix page_id 1 with the --new-only option
218 * (bug 13110) Don't show "Permission error" page if the edit is already rolled
219 back when using rollback
220 * (bug 13012) Use content messages for block options when generating the
222 * (bug 13274) Change links for messages to ucfirst
223 * (bug 13273) Un-hardcode some punctuation (add new messages colon-separator,
225 * Parse MediaWiki message translations with a correct language setting on preview
226 * (bug 13281) Treat X-Forwarded-For, Client-ip and User-Agent headers as
227 case-insensitive names.
228 * Adding the fix for lists in RTL wikis to more skins, and fixing the image toc
229 * (bug 8157) Remove redirects from Special:Unusedtemplates. Patch by WebBoy.
230 * (bug 10721) Duplicate section anchors with differing case now disambiguated
231 for Internet Explorer's sake and standards compliance
232 * (bug 13298) Tighter limits on Special:Newpages limits when embedding
233 * Email subject in content language instead of sending user's UI language
234 * (bug 13251) Allow maintenance rebuild scripts to work with Postgres
235 * (bug 2084) Fixed incorrect regex to match redirects
236 * (bug 3131) Manually-specified upload destination filename is no longer
237 overwritten by browsing for a file after you wrote it.
238 * (bug 7251) Sidebars generated by MediaWiki:Sidebar now have the class
240 * (bug 13265) Media handler is missing 'image/x-bmp'
241 * (bug 13407) MediaWiki:Powersearch is used in two places
242 * (bug 13403) Fix cache invalidation of history pages when old revisions change
243 * (bug 11563) Deprecated SearchMySQL4 class; merged code to SearchMySQL
244 * (bug 12801) Fix link in subtitle message in AJAX search
245 * (bug 13428) Fix regression in protection form layout HTML validity
246 * (bug 9403) Sanitize newlines from search term input
247 * (bug 13429) Separate date and time in message sp-newimages-showfrom
248 * (bug 13137) Allow setting 'editprotected' right separately from 'protect',
249 so groups may optionally edit protected pages without having 'protect' perms
250 * Disallow deletion of big pages by means of moving a page to its title and
251 using the "delete and move" option.
252 * (bug 13466, 13632) White space differences not shown in diffs
253 * (bug 1953) Search form now honors namespace selections more reliably
254 * (bug 12294) Namespace class renamed to MWNamespace for PHP 5.3 compatibility
255 * PHP 5.3 compatibility fix for wfRunHooks() called with no parameters
256 * (bug 6447) Trackbacks now work with transactional tables, if enabled
257 * (bug 6892, 7147) Trackback error handling, optional fields more robust
258 * (bug 6813) Don't break HTML validator when using trackbacks
259 * Fix for size checks on SVG images with global 'stroke-width' attribute
260 * (bug 11874) Inline CSS with !important no longer borken
261 * (bug 1600) Strip extra == section markup == in new-comment field
262 * (bug 11325) Wrapped page titles in MonoBook skin spaced more nicely
263 * (bug 12077) Fix HTML nesting for TOC
264 * (bug 344) Purge cache for talk/article pages when deleting the other tab
265 * (bug 13436) Treat image captions correctly when they include option keywords
266 (like ending with "px" or starting with "upright")
267 * Trackback display formatting fixed
268 * Don't die when single-element arrays are passed to SQL query constructors
269 that have an array index other than 0
270 * (bug 13522) Fix fatal error in Parser::extractTagsAndParams
271 * (bug 13532) Use proper timestamp call when reverting images
272 * (bug 13543) Updated FAQ link in the installer sidebar
273 * (bug 13540) Date format in confirmation e-mail now matches message language
274 * (bug 13554) PHP Notice in old pre-processor when list item is empty.
275 * (bug 13556) Don't show a blank form if no image is attached in Special:Upload
276 * (bug 13576) maintenance/rebuildrecentchanges.php fails
277 * (bug 13441) Allow Special:Recentchanges to show bots only
278 * (bug 13431) Show true message source in Special:Allmessages&ot=php / xml
279 * (bug 13463) Login successful page doesn't use user's preferred interface language
280 * (bug 13630) Fixed warnings for pass by reference at call time in
281 Special:Revisiondelete when generating the log entry.
282 * (bug 12064) BeforePageDisplay hook is now called for all skins
283 * (bug 13624) Fix regression with manual thumb= parameter on images
284 * (bug 11039) Add missing labels on protection form
285 * (bug 13458) Preview/edit toolbar spacing now works consistently
286 * (bug 13433) Fix action=render on Image: pages
287 * (bug 13678) Fix CSS validation for Monobook
288 * (bug 13684) Links in Special:ListGroupRights should be in content language
289 * (bug 13690) Fix PHP notice on accessing some URLs
290 * Hide (undo) link if user isn't able to edit page
291 * Invalidate cache of pages that includes images via redirects on upload
292 * (bug 13705) Don't show rollback link in page history on incorrect revisions
293 * (bug 13708) Don't set "Search results" title when loading Special:Search
295 * (bug 13736) Don't show MediaWiki:Anontalkpagetext on non-existant IP addresses
296 * (bug 13728) Don't trim initial whitespace during section edits
297 * (bug 13727) Don't delete log entries from recentchanges on page deletion
298 * (bug 13752) Redirects to sections now work again
299 * (bug 13725) Upload form watch checkbox state set correctly with wpDestFile
300 * (bug 13756) Don't show the form and navigation links of Special:Newpages if
302 * When hiding things on WhatLinksHere, generated URLs should hide them too
303 * Properly escape search terms with regex chars so they appear highlighted in
305 * (bug 13768) pt_title field encoding fixed
306 * Do not display empty columns on Special:UserRights if all groups are
307 changeable or all unchangeable
308 * Fix fatal error on calling PAGESINCATEGORY with invalid category name
309 * (bug 13793) Special:Whatlinkshere filters wrong - after paginating instead of before
310 * (bug 13796) Show links to parent pages even if some of them are missing
311 * (bug 13816) Filter by main namespace doesn't work on WhatLinksHere
312 * (bug 13822) Fatal error on some pages when calculating subpage subtitle
313 * (bug 13824) AJAX search suggestion now works with non-SkinTemplate skins
314 * Added 'application/x-dia-diagram' MediaWiki's known MIME types
315 * (bug 13866) skins/common/shared.css - invalid attribute fixing
316 * Hide edit section links on Special:Undelete
317 * (bug 13860) Fix "Justify paragraphs" option for Modern skin
318 * (bug 13168) accessibility links in Modern skin link to wrong anchor id
319 * (bug 13185) No line break after 'subpages' class in Modern skin
320 * (bug 13583) No "poweredby" in Modern skin
321 * (bug 13880) "Printable" link in Modern skin now formats as print mode
322 * (bug 13885) Bump default $wgSVGMaxSize from 1024 to 2048 pixels
323 * (bug 13891) Show categories box even if all categories are hidden and user has
324 "show hidden categories" option on
325 * (bug 13915) Undefined variable $wltsfield in includes/SpecialWatchlist.php
326 * (bug 13913) Special:Whatlinkshere now has correct HTML markup
327 * (bug 13905) Blacklist Mac IE from HttpOnly cookies; it eats them sometimes
328 * (bug 13922) Fix bad HTML on empty Special:Prefixindex and Special:Allpages
329 * (bug 13924) Fix bad HTML on power search form
330 * (bug 13820) Fix updater for rev_parent_id population
331 * (bug 13925) Fix bad HTML on search results list
332 * (bug 13934) Fixing the link to GNU General Public License Version 2
333 * Show correct accesskey prefix for Firefox 3 beta (Alt-Shift-, not Alt-)
334 * (bug 13949) Special:PrefixIndex/AllPages paging links contain invalid XML
335 * (bug 13770) Use Preprocessor_Hash by default to avoid missing DOM module errors
336 * (bug 13982) Disable ccmeonemails preference when user-to-user mails disabled
337 * (bug 13615) Update case mappings and normalization to Unicode 5.1.0
338 Note that case mappings will only be used if mbstring extension is not present.
339 * (bug 14044) Don't increment page view counters on views from bot users
340 * (bug 14042) Calling Database::limitResult() misplaced the comment in the log file
341 * (bug 14047) Fix regression in installer which hid DB-specific options
342 Also makes SQLite path configurable in the installer.
343 * (bug 13546) Follow image redirects on image page
344 * (bug 12644) Template list on edit page now sorted on preview
345 * (bug 14058) Support pipe trick for namespaces and interwikis with "-"
346 * Message name filter on Special:Allmessages now case-insensitive
347 * (bug 13943) Fix image redirect behaviour on image pages
348 * (bug 14093) Do 'sysop' => 'protect' magic in Title::isValidMoveOperation
349 * (bug 14063) Power search form missing <label> for redirects check
350 * (bug 14111) Similar filename warning links now lead to correct page
351 * (bug 14082) Fix for complex text input vs AJAX suggestions on some browsers
352 * (bug 13693) Categories sometimes claim to have a negative number of members
353 * (bug 1701) Korean Hangul syllables now broken down properly in Category lists
354 even if the wiki's overall content language is not Korean
355 * (bug 12773) addOnloadHook() now calls functions immediately when scripts are
356 loaded after the primary page completion, instead of dropping them
357 * (bug 14199) Fix deletion form for image redirect pages
358 * (bug 14220) Disabling $wgCheckFileExtensions now works without also
359 disabling $wgStrictFileExtensions
360 * (bug 14241) Pages can no longer be protected to levels you are not in
361 * (bug 14296) Fix local name of ang: (Anglo-Saxon)
362 * (bug 4871) Hardcoded superscript in time zone preferences moved to message
363 * (bug 6957) E-mail confirmation links now using English special page name
364 for better compatibility and keeping the links shorter. Avoids problem
365 with corrupt links in Gmail on IE 6.
366 * (bug 14273) Fix for HTTP Accept header parsing with spaces as from Konqueror
367 * (bug 14312) Update LanguageKaa.php for handling transform issues with i to İ
369 * (bug 13826) MediaWiki:Defaultns accepts Wikicode
370 * (bug 14324) Creating an account is again possible with $wgEmailConfirmToEdit
372 * (bug 13034) Interwiki pages can now be reached using Go search button
373 * (bug 14362) Change interwiki names of Erzya and Moksha Wikipedias
374 * (bug 14370) When a grouppage-x message does not exist the entry on the
375 ListGroupRights special page now links to the project namespace page for it,
376 not the main namespace page.
377 * (bug 11659) Urldecode image names in galleries
378 * (bug 14258, 14368) Fix for subpage renames in replication environments
379 * (bug 14367) Failed block no longer adds phantom watchlist entry
380 * (bug 14385) "Move subpages" option no longer tries to move to invalid titles
381 * (bug 14386) Fix subpage namespace oddity when moving a talk page
382 * (bug 11771) Signup form now not shown if in read-only mode.
383 * (bug 12859) $wgRateLimitsExcludedGroups has been deprecated in favor of
384 $wgGroupPermissions[]['noratelimit'].
385 * (Bug 13828) Split parameter $1 of MediaWiki:Missingarticle into $1 (=title)
386 and $2 (=revision numbers)
387 * (bug 14401) Fix Safari access key tooltips for Windows and >3.1 Mac versions
388 * (bug 14432) Fix notice regression in Special:Newpages feed mode
389 * (bug 11951) EditPage::getEditToolbar() is now static.
390 * (bug 14392) Fix regression breaking table prefix in installer
391 * (bug 11084) $wgDBprefix replacement for updater SQL will now work for
392 extension tables using uppercase letters or digits in their names.
393 * (bug 12311) Fix regression with lists at start of undeletion preview
394 * (bug 14496) Fix regression with parseinline on Special:Upload.
395 * We no longer just give up on a missing upload base directory; it's now
396 created automatically if we have sufficient permissions!
397 * (bug 14479) MediaWiki:upload-maxfilesize should have a div id wrapper
398 * (bug 14497) Throw visible errors in installer scripts when SQL files
399 fail due to database permission or other error
400 * (bug 14500) Site feed (Recentchanges) no longer shows up on the actual
402 * (bug 14511) MediaWiki:Delete-legend is no longer double escaped
403 * Generate correct section anchors for numeric headers
404 * (bug 14520) Don't load nonexistent CSS files for Chick/Myskin/Simple skins
405 * (bug 14551) Cancel upload no longer automatically suppresses warnings
406 * (bug 13878) Deprecate Article::getDB() in favor of direct wfGetDB() calls
407 * (bug 4977) Fix for possible squid purging errors when using HTTP purges
409 * (bug 14572) Redirects listed on file links on image pages no longer redirect.
410 * (bug 14537) Change interwiki name for Old Church Slavonic (cu)
411 * (bug 14583) Fix regression in recent changes "limit to certain categories."
412 * (bug 14515) HTML nesting cleanup on edit form
413 * (bug 14647) Removed unused 'townBox' CSS classes
414 * (bug 14687) OutputPage::addStyle() now adds type="text/css" like it should.
415 * OpenSearch cleanup; Firefox now sends you to the search page for empty
416 searches instead of the domain root (which may not even be a wiki).
417 * (bug 3481) Pages moved shortly after creation are shown at their new title
419 * (bug 12716) Trying to unprotect a title that isn't protected no longer
420 generates a log entry.
421 * (bug 14088) Excessively long block expiry times are rejected as invalid,
422 keeps the log page from being distorted.
423 * (bug 14708) Emulate INSERT...IGNORE with standard SQL for Postgres backend.
424 * (bug 14646) Fix some double-escaping of HTML in feed output
425 * (bug 14709) Fix login success message formatting when using cookie check
426 * (bug 14710) Remove "donate" link from default sidebar
427 * (bug 14745) Image moving works on sites that transform thumbnails via 404
428 * (bug 2186) Document.write() in wikibits caused failures when using
429 application/xhtml+xml. The calls to this have been removed.
430 * (bug 14764) Fix regression in from Article::lastModified(), failed to work
431 on non-mySQL schemas.
432 * (bug 14763) Child classes of Database (DatabasePostgres and DatabaseOracle)
433 had stict standards issues with setFakeSlaveLag() and setFakeMaster().
434 * (bug 451) Improve the phrase mappings of the Chinese converter arrays.
435 * (bug 14778) 'limit' parameter now applies to history feeds as well as
438 === API changes in 1.13 ===
440 * Fixing main page display in meta=siteinfo
441 * (bug 13128) Added patrolled flag to list=recentchanges
442 * Implemented {bl,ei,iu}redirect (lists links through redirects as well)
443 * (bug 13154) Introduced subpages flag to meta=siteinfo&siprop=namespaces
444 * (bug 13157) Added ucuserprefix parameter to list=usercontibs
445 * (bug 12394) Added rctitles parameter to list=recentchanges, making rcid
447 * (bug 13218) Fix inclusion of " character in hyperlinks
448 * Added watch and unwatch parameters to action=delete and action=move
450 * (bug 11401) Added xmldoublequote to xml formatter
451 * Added rvsection parameter to prop=revisions to allow fetching the content of
452 a certain section only
453 * Introduced list=allimages
454 * (bug 13371) Build page set from image hashes
455 * Mark non-existent messages in meta=allmessages as missing
456 * (bug 13390) One invalid title no longer kills an entire API query
457 * (bug 13419) Fix gblredirect so it actually works
458 * (bug 13418) Disable eiredirect because it's useless
459 * (bug 13395) list=allcategories should use category table
460 * (bug 13442) Missing pages in prop=langlinks and prop=extlinks are now
462 * (bug 13444) Add description to list=watchlist
463 * (bug 13482) Disabled search types handled properly
464 * Added inprop=talkid,subjectid to prop=info
465 * Added help text message that specifies whether a module is POST-only
466 * Added createonly parameter to action=edit
467 * Replaced $wgAPIUCUserPrefixMinLength by the more generic $wgAPIMaxDBRows
468 * (bug 11719) Remove trailing blanks in YAML output.
469 * (bug 13541) Added siprop=specialpagealiases to meta=siteinfo
470 * Added fallback8bitEncoding and readonly fields to
471 meta=siteinfo&siprop=general output
472 * (bug 13544) Added prop=revid to action=parse
473 * (bug 13603) Added siprop=usergroups to meta=siteinfo
474 * Cleaned up redirect resolution
475 * Added possibility to obtain all external links through list=exturlusage
476 * (bug 13606) Added archivename to iiprop
477 * (bug 11633) Explicitly convert redirect titles to strings due to PHP's
478 very weak typing on array keys.
479 * (bug 12136) Extend allowed characters in JSON callback to ][.'"_A-Za-z0-9
480 * (bug 11673) Return error 'unknown_action' in specified format
481 * (bug 13618) Added rcprop=redirect and rcshow=redirect to list=recentchanges
482 * (bug 13544) Added oldid parameter to action=parse to allow for parsing of old
484 * (bug 13718) Return the proper continue parameter for cmsort=timestamp
485 * action=login now returns the correct waiting time in the details property
486 * (bug 13792) Broken titles are now silently skipped in search results.
487 * (bug 13819) exturlusage paging skipped an item
488 * Fixed handling of usernames containing spaces in list=block
489 * (bug 13836) Fixed fatal errors resulting from combining iiprop=metadata with
491 * (bug 13735) Added prop=categoryinfo module
492 * (bug 13945) Retrieve cascading protection sources via inprop=protection
493 * (bug 13965) Hardcoded 51 limit on titles is too limiting
494 * (bug 13993) apfrom doesn't work with apdir=descending
495 * (bug 14018) Introduced alcontinue to list=alllinks to improve paging
496 * (bug 14013) Added rcshow=patrolled to list=recentchanges
497 * (bug 14028) Added language attribute to interwiki map in meta=siteinfo
498 * (bug 14022) Added usprop=registration and auprop=blockinfo
499 * (bug 14021) Removed titles= support from list=backlinks (has been obsolete
501 * (bug 13829) Expose parse tree via action=expandtemplates
502 * (bug 13606) Allow deletion of images
503 * Added iiprop=mime and aiprop=metadata
504 * Handled unrecognized values for parameters more gracefully
505 * Handled requesting disallowed tokens more gracefully
506 * (bug 14140) URL-encoded page titles are now decoded in edit summaries
507 * (bug 14243) Only accept post requests in action=edit; patch by HardDisk
508 * action=block now returns an ISO8601 timestamp, like all other modules do
509 * Added md5 parameter to action=edit
510 * (bug 14335) Logging in to unified account using API not possible
511 * Added action=emailuser to send an email to a user
512 * (bug 14471) Use HTMLTidy and generate limit report in action=parse
513 * (bug 14459) Added prependtext and appendtext parameters to action=edit
514 * (bug 14526) Unescaped SQL in list=backlinks
515 * Added 'hidden' flag to list=allcategories and prop=categoryinfo output
516 * Added nocreate parameter to action=edit
517 * (bug 14402) Added maxage and smaxage parameters to api.php
518 * Added bkip parameter to list=blocks
519 * (bug 14651) apprefix and similar parameters are now canonicalized
520 * Added clprop=timestamp to prop=categories
521 * (bug 14678) API errors now respects $wgShowExceptionDetails and
523 * (bug 14723) Added time zone and writing direction to meta=siteinfo
524 * Added APIQueryInfoTokens and APIQueryRevisionsTokens hooks so extensions
525 can add their own tokens
526 * Added block and unblock tokens to prop=info as well
527 * Added paging (limit and continue parameters) to
528 prop={links,templatelinks,langlinks,extlinks,categories,images}
529 * Added flag "top" to list=usercontribs if the user is the last contributor to
532 === Languages updated in 1.13 ===
534 MediaWiki supports over 300 languages. Many localisations are updated
535 regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed.
537 * Egyptian Spoken Arabic (arz) (new)
538 * Southern Balochi (bcc) (new)
539 * Middle Dutch (dum) (removed)
540 * British English (en-gb) (new)
541 * Fiji Hindi (Latin) (hif-latn) (new)
542 * Old Norse (non) (removed)
543 * Tarifit (rif) (new)
544 * Serbian cyrillic iyekvian (sr-jc) (removed)
545 * Serbian latin iyekavian (sr-jl) (removed)
546 * Silesian (szl) (new)
547 * Tajiki (Cyrllic script) (tg-cyrl) (new)
548 * Tajiki (Latin script) (tg-latn) (new)
549 * Chinese (Macau) (zh-mo) (new)
550 * Chinese (Malaysia) (zh-my) (new)
554 MediaWiki 1.13 requires PHP 5 (5.1 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer supported.
556 PHP 5.0.x fails on 64-bit systems due to serious bugs with array processing:
557 http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=34879
558 Upgrade affected systems to PHP 5.1 or higher.
560 MySQL 3.23.x is no longer supported; some older hosts may need to upgrade.
561 At this time we still recommend 4.0, but 4.1/5.0 will work fine in most cases.
566 1.13 has several database changes since 1.12, and will not work without schema
569 If upgrading from before 1.7, you may want to run refreshLinks.php to ensure
570 new database fields are filled with data.
572 If upgrading from before 1.11, and you are using a wiki as a commons repository,
573 make sure that it is updated as well. Otherwise, errors may arise due to
574 database schema changes.
576 If you are upgrading from MediaWiki 1.4.x or earlier, some major database
577 changes are made, and there is a slightly higher chance that things could
578 break. Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading!
580 See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions.
585 Some output, particularly involving user-supplied inline HTML, may not
586 produce 100% valid or well-formed XHTML output. Testers are welcome to
587 set $wgMimeType = "application/xhtml+xml"; to test for remaining problem
588 cases, but this is not recommended on live sites. (This must be set for
589 MathML to display properly in Mozilla.)
591 For notes on 1.12.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
594 === Online documentation ===
596 Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is currently being
597 built up on MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation
598 License (except for pages that explicitly state that their contents are in
601 http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation
606 A MediaWiki-l mailing list has been set up distinct from the Wikipedia
609 http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
611 A low-traffic announcements-only list is also available:
613 http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
615 It's highly recommended that you sign up for one of these lists if you're
616 going to run a public MediaWiki, so you can be notified of security fixes.
621 There's usually someone online in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net