= MediaWiki release notes = Security reminder: MediaWiki does not require PHP's register_globals setting since version 1.2.0. If you have it on, turn it *off* if you can. == MediaWiki 1.16 == THIS IS NOT A RELEASE YET MediaWiki is now using a "continuous integration" development model with quarterly snapshot releases. The latest development code is always kept "ready to run", and in fact runs our own sites on Wikipedia. Release branches will continue to receive security updates for about a year from first release, but nonessential bugfixes and feature developments will be made on the development trunk and appear in the next quarterly release. Those wishing to use the latest code instead of a branch release can obtain it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN === Configuration changes in 1.16 === * $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 * $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 * $wgEnableScriptLoaderJsFile if we support grabbing js files with the script 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. * $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 * $wgSessionHandler can be used to configure session.save_handler * $wgLocalFileRepo/$wgForeignFileRepos now have a 'fileMode' parameter to be used when uploading/moving files * (bug 18761) $wgHiddenPrefs is a new array for specifying preferences not to be shown to users * $wgAllowRealName and $wgAllowUserSkin were deprecated in favor of $wgHiddenPrefs[] = 'realname', but the former are still retained for backwards-compatibility * (bug 9257) $wgRCMaxAge now defaults to three months * $wgDevelopmentWarnings can be set to true to show warnings about deprecated functions and other potential errors when developing. * Subpages are now enabled in the MediaWiki namespace by default. This is mainly a cosmetic change, and does not in any way affect the MessageCache, which was already effectively treating the namespace as if it had subpages. * (bug 10837) $wgVariant is a user variant selected in the user's preferences if the $wgContLang does not have variant, then the $wgLang is used instead. * Oracle: maintenance/ora/user.sql script for creating DB user on oracle with appropriate privileges. Creating this user with web-install page requires oci8.privileged_connect set to On in php.ini. * Removed UserrightsChangeableGroups hook introduced in 1.14 * Added $wgCacheDirectory, to replace $wgFileCacheDirectory, $wgLocalMessageCache, and any other local caches which need a place to put files. * $wgFileCacheDirectory is no longer set to anything by default, and so either needs to be set explicitly, or $wgCacheDirectory needs to be set instead. * $wgLocalMessageCache has been removed. Instead, set $wgUseLocalMessageCache to true * Removed $wgEnableSerializedMessages and $wgCheckSerialized. Similar functionality is now available via $wgLocalisationCacheConf. * $wgMessageCache->addMessages() is deprecated. Messages added via this interface will not appear in Special:AllMessages. * $wgRegisterInternalExternals can be used to record external links pointing to same server * $wgSpecialVersionExtended shows the extended version information besides PHP and database version. * $wgSecondaryGoNamespaces allows an arry of namespaces to be checked when the GO button is pressed, in addition to the main namespace. * (bug 19907) $wgCrossSiteAJAXdomains and $wgCrossSiteAJAXdomainsRegex added to control which external domains may access the API via cross-site AJAX. * $wgMaintenanceScripts for extensions to add their scripts to the default list * $wgMemoryLimit has been added, default value '50M' * $wgExtraRandompageSQL is deprecated, the SpecialRandomGetRandomTitle hook should be used instead === New features in 1.16 === * Add CSS defintion of the 'wikitable' class to shared.css * (bug 17163) Added MediaWiki:Talkpageheader which will be displayed when viewing talk pages * Superfluous border="0" removed from images * Added new hook 'MessageCacheReplace' into MessageCache.php. For instance to allow extensions to update caches in similar way as MediaWiki invalidates a cached MonoBook sidebar * Special:AllPages: Move hardcoded styles from code to CSS * (bug 18529) New hook: SoftwareInfo for adding information about the software to Special:Version * Added $wgExtPGAlteredFields to allow extensions to easily alter the data type of columns when using the Postgres backend. * (bug 16950) Show move log when viewing/creating a deleted page * (bug 18242) Show the Subversion revision number per extensions in Special:Version * (bug 18420) Missing file revisions are handled gracefully now * (bug 9219) Auth plugins can control editing RealName/Email/Nick preferences * (bug 18466) Add note or warning when overruling a move (semi-)protection * (bug 18342) insertTags works in edit summary box * (bug 18411) The upload form also checks post_max_size * Watchlist now has a specialized
. * (bug 19576) Moved the id attribues from the anchors accompanying section headers to the elements within the section headers, removing the redundant anchor elements. * Parser::setFunctionTagHook now can be used to add a new tag which is parsed at preprocesor level. * Added $wgShowArchiveThumbnails, allowing sysadmins to disable thumbnail display for old versions of images. * In watchlists and Special:RecentChanges, the difference in page size now appears in dark green if bytes were added and dark red if bytes were removed. * Added FSRepo configuration properties thumbUrl and thumbDir, to allow the thumbnails to be stored in a separate location to the source images. * If config/ directory is not executable, the command to make it executable now asks the user to cd to the correct directory * Add experimental new external authentication framework, ExternalAuth * (bug 14201) Set $wgDBadminuser/$wgDBadminpassword during setup * (bug 18768) Remove AdminSettings requirements. Maintenance environment will still load it if it exists, but it's not required for anything * Added $wgSecondaryGoNamespaces, allowing an array of namespaces to be checked when the Go button is pressed in addition to the main namespace. * (bug 19900) The "listgrouprights-key" message is now wrapped in a div with class "mw-listgrouprights-key" * (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 * 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 * (bug 20014) Added CSS class "mw-listgrouprights-right-name" is wrapped on the 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 18566) Maintenance script to un/protect pages * (bug 671) The HTML tag is now permitted. * RecentChanges now has a legend to explain what the Nmb! flags mean, and the flags have tooltips. * (bug 15209) New hook BeforeInitialize called after everything has been setup 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 * 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: ** New HTML 5 input attributes allow JavaScript-free input validation in some cutting-edge browsers. E.g., some inputs will be autofocused, users will not be allowed to submit forms with certain types of invalid values (like numbers outside the permitted ranges), etc. ** The summary attribute has been removed from tables of contents. summary is obsolete in HTML 5 and wasn't useful here anyway. ** Unnecessary type="" attribute removed for CSS and JS. ** If $wgWellFormedXml is set to false, some bytes will be shaved off of HTML output by omitting some things like quotation marks where HTML 5 allows. * The description message in $wgExtensionCredits can be an array with parameters * New hook SpecialRandomGetRandomTitle allows extensions to modify the selection criteria used by Special:Random and subclasses, or substitute a custom result, deprecating the $wgExtraRandompageSQL config variable === Bug fixes in 1.16 === * (bug 18031) Make namespace selector on Special:Export remember the previous selection * The svn-version version numbers on Special:Version have been removed * (bug 17374) Special:Export no longer exports two copies of the same page * (bug 18190) Proper parsing in MediaWiki:Sharedupload message * (bug 17617) HTML cleanup for ImagePage * (bug 17964) namespaceDupes.php no longer fails on an empty interwiki table * Improved error handling for image moving * (bug 17974) On Special:SpecialPages, restricted special pages are now marked with tags, helps with text-based browsers * (bug 18259) Special:DeletedContributions now also uses MediaWiki:Sp-contributions-logs for the link to Special:Log * Don't add empty title="" attributes to links to anchors on the current page * (bug 18291) rebuildrecentchanges.php failed to add deletion log entries * (bug 18304) rebuildrecentchanges.php got size changes wrong * (bug 18170) Fixed a PHP warning in Parser::preSaveTransform() in PHP 5.3 * (bug 18289) Database connection error page now returns correct HTML * "successbox", "errorbox" and related CSS classes are now available in all skins * (bug 18316) Removed superfluous name="fulltext" from Special:Search * (bug 18331) MediaWiki:Undelete-revision can now have wikitext * The "noautoblock" flag is no longer displayed in the block log when blocking an IP address * (bug 18009) $wgHooks and $wgExtensionFunctions now support closures * (bug 17948) Maintenance scripts now exit(0) or exit(1) as appropriate * (bug 18377) Time in Enhanced ChangesList lacking localisation * (bug 12998) Allow , , etc. in DISPLAYTITLE * (bug 1553) Lowercase navigation headings in German * (bug 7830) Pending transactions failed to commit on loginToUse() error * (bug 11613) session.save_handler being over-ridden * (bug 11381) session.save_handler being set twice (causes error) * (bug 17835) ForeignAPIRepo throwing error on first page load for file * (bug 18115) ForeignAPIRepo cache isn't working * Fixed a bug caused by LanguageConverter.php, which brings an abnormal '}-' after some parsed math syntax. * (bug 18441) rebuildrecentchanges.inc no longer ignores $wgLogRestrictions * (bug 18317) Bolded selections in 1 | 3 | etc days on RecentChanges now use instead of hardcoded styles * (bug 18449) Fixed items number per column on category pages when the total is divisible by 3 * (bug 18121) maintenance/deleteArchivedRevisions.php no longer deletes revisions when --delete is not passed * (bug 13172) GPS coordinates in image Exif data are now actually displayed * Overhaul of preferences system, includes the following bug fixes: * (bug 5363) Changes to default preferences now impact registered users. * (bug 14806) Hook to enable putting preferences in existing tabs. * (bug 17191) Registration date now listed on preferences page. * Note that this change will break some extensions which have not been adapted for it. * (bug 17020) Adding fallback encodings for Traditional and Simplified Chinese languages while the the text is typed as URLs. * (bug 17614) Prev / Next links are not shown if all results are shown * (bug 18207) Strange spacing before [[irc:...]] links * Removed float from the user login form in RTL interface - caused display problems in FF2 * (bug 15008) Redirect images are now subject to Bad image list rules * (bug 6802) profileinfo.php now also work on other database servers than MySQL * (bug 16925) Diffs no longer fail when $wgExternalDiffEngine is set to 'wikidiff' or 'wikidiff2' but extension is not installed * (bug 18326) Chmod errors in file repos have been hidden * (bug 18718) Comma after a } create a error in IE * (bug 18716) Removed redundant class in Modern skin CSS for category links and tweaked spacing. * (bug 18656) Use proper directory separators in wfMkdirParents() * (bug 18549) Make Special:Blockip respect $wgEnableUserEmail and $wgSysopEmailBans * (bug 16912) Tooltips on images with link= disappear * (bug 18389) Localise numbers in EXIF data * (bug 18522) Wrap MediaWiki:Protect-cascadeon in a div for identification * (bug 18438) Tweak HTML for preview bar for consistency and accessibility * (bug 18432) Updated documentation for dumpBackup.php * Fix array logic in Sanitizer::removeHTMLtags so that it doesn't strip good tags that were redundantly defined. * (bug 14118) SpecialPage::getTitleFor does not return a localised name * (bug 18698) Renaming non entry point maintenance scripts from .inc.php to .inc * Deprecated methods Title::getInterwikiLink, Title::userCanCreate(), Title::userCanEdit() and Title::userCanMove() have been removed * Only show upload links on file description if $wgEnableUploads = true and user can upload * Don't say "You need to log in to upload/move", because it's possible that uploading/moving is disabled for registered users as well (e.g. only sysops) * (bug 18943) Handle invalid titles gracefully at Special:Mostlinked * (bug 8873) Enable variant conversion in text on 'alt' and 'title' attributes * (bug 10837) Introducing the StubUserVariant class to determine the variant variable instead of using this to overrules the user language preference. * (bug 19014) If user had deletedhistory right, but not undeleted right, then show "view" instead of "view/restore" on logs. * (bug 19017) TOC level calculation error in an odd case * (bug 18999) CSS update for RTL interwiki links * (bug 18925) history.js removes class names of list elements on initialization * Multiple whitespace in TOC anchors is now stripped, for consistency with the link from the edit comment * (bug 19112) Preferences now respects $wgUseExternalEditor * (bug 18173) MediaWiki now fails when unable to determine a client IP * (bug 19170) Special:Version should follow the content language direction * (bug 19160) maintenance/purgeOldText.inc is now compatible with PostgreSQL * Fixed performance regression in "bad image list" feature * Show user preference 'Use live preview' if $wgLivePreview is enabled only * (bug 17014) Blocked users can no longer use Special:UserRights unless they 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 * (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 19390) Omit the "printable version" link on the printable version * (bug 18394) img_auth.php now respects userCan * (bug 19509) Uploading to a file named '0' previously treated it as null input and attempted to upload with the source name. Now warns about not having an extension (since 0.ext is perfectly valid) * (bug 19468) Enotif preferences are now only displayed when they are turned on * (bug 19442) Show/hide options on watchlist only work once * (bug 19602) PubMed Magic links now use updated NIH url * (bug 19637) externallinks have links to self * Don't load Opera 9.5 RTL fixes for Opera 9.6 * Remove five-year-old KHTMLFixes.css, which is unlikely to be relevant anymore and was causing problems. * Removed repetition of URIs in the title attributes of external links. * (bug 19693) User name is now escaped in "Contributions for ..." link on Special:BlockIP * (bug 19571) Override buildConcat for SQLite. * Log in and log out links no longer return to page view when clicked from history view, edit page, or something similar * (bug 19513) RTL fixes for new Search UI * (bug 16497) Special:Allmessages is paginated * (bug 18708) CSS plainlinks class now available to all skins * (bug 19590) Database error messages no longer have "MySQL" hardcoded as the database type * (bug 19759) successbox on Special:Preferences now correctly aligned on standard, nostalgia and cologneblue skin * (bug 19814) interwiki links from file links ([[File:Foo.jpg|link=de:Test]]) are no longer recorded in the pagelinks table * (bug 19784) date option "ISO 8601" produced illegal id * (bug 19761) Removed autogenerated tag with link data. Keyword set was not useful, and is ignored by modern search engines anway. * (bug 19827) Special:SpecialPages title is "Upload file * (bug 19355) Added .xhtml, .xht to upload file extension blacklist * (bug 19287) Workaround for lag on history page in Firefox 3.5 * (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 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 users who can't edit them * (bug 15745) The edit summary link parser now handles mismatched brackets better * (bug 19839) Comments in log items are no more double escaped * (bug 18161) Fix inconsistent separators in watchlist link toolbars with "enhanced recent changes" * (bug 19857) maintenance/deleteRevision.php on last revision no longer breaks target page * (bug 16877) Moving a page over a redirect no longer leaves an orphan entry in the recentchanges table * (bug 16009) Limit selection forms based on Pager now links to the correct page when using long urls * The display of the language list on the preferences is more comply with the BCP 47 standards. * (bug 19849) Custom X-Vary-Options header now disabled unless $wgUseXVO is set * (bug 19301) Duplicates entries in $wgAddGroups, $wgRemoveGroups, $wgGroupsAddToSelf and $wgGroupsRemoveFromSelf are no more displayed on Special:ListGroupRights * (bug 18799) Special:Userlogin now handles correctly the returnto parameter to not link back to Special:Userlogout when user's language isn't the same as content's language * (bug 19479) Show proper error message when unable to connect to PostgreSQL database with username/password in MediaWiki's setup * (bugs 18407, 18409) Special:Upload is now listed on Special:Specialpages only if uploads are enabled and the user can access it * (bug 17988) Spaces before [[Category:]] links are no longer ignored * (bug 19392) Favicon, apple-touch-icon links matching the defaults are no longer sent * (bug 19957) All known-failing tests now marked disabled; added --run-disabled option to parser test suite to run disabled tests if desired. * (bug 16311) Make recent change flags (n/m/b) s instead of s * (bug 15680) Split the edit tip message of user CSS/JS subpage into "usercssyoucanpreview" and "userjsyoucanpreview" respectively. * (bug 12110) Split the rights for editing users' CSS/JS subpage from "editusercssjs" into "editusercss" and edituserjs" respectively. * (bug 19394) RecentChanges feed URLs for log items with no revisions (eg Newuser, Userrights) are no longer broken * (bug 17395) Remote file descriptions use user language ($wgLang), not wiki language ($wgContLang) * (bug 11867) Lock error on redirect table when running orphans.php * (bug 18930) initStats.php now refreshes active users count * (bug 18699) Using the nosummary URL option no longer triggers the "You have not provided a summary" warning for those who activated it in their preferences * (bug 18855) commandLine.inc and Maintenance.php are now properly included using the full path * (bug 18497) Opera in fullscreen mode doesn't use any style sheets * (bug 16084) Default memory limit has be increased to 50M, see $wgMemoryLimit * (bug 17864/19519) Added proper input normalization in Special:UserRights * (bug 20086) Add Hook to add extra statistics at the end of Special:Statistics * (bug 19289) importDump.php can now handle bzip2 and 7zip * (bug 20131) Fixed a PHP notice for users having the "rollback" right on Special:RecentChangesLinked * Do not transform EXIF fields with pure text to avoid results like foo,bar@example,com * (bug 20176) Fix login/logout links in skin CologneBlue * (bug 20203) "Powered by Mediawiki" now has height/width on image tag * (bug 20273) Fix broken output when no pages are found in the content namespaces * (bug 20265) Make AncientPages and UnusedFiles work on SQLite * Fixed XSS vulnerability for Internet Explorer clients (only pre-release versions of MediaWiki were affected). * (bug 14817) Moving a page to a subpage of itself moves it twice * (bug 20289) $wgMaximumMovedPages should only count pages actually moved == API changes in 1.16 == * Added uiprop=changeablegroups to meta=userinfo * Added usprop=gender to list=users * (bug 18311) action=purge now works for images too * Add parentid to prop=revisions output * (bug 17832) action=delete returns 'unknownerror' instead of 'permissiondenied' when the user is blocked * (bug 18546) Added timestamp of new revision to action=edit output * (bug 18554) Also list hidden revisions in list=usercontribs for privileged users * (bug 13049) "API must be accessed from the primary script entry point" error * (bug 16422) Don't display help for format=jsonfm unless specifically requested * Added PHP and database version to meta=siteinfo output * (bug 18533) Add readonly message to meta=siteinfo output * (bug 18518) Add clprop=hidden to prop=categories * (bug 18710) Fixed internal error with empty parameter in action=paraminfo * (bug 18709) Missing descriptions for some parameters in action=paraminfo output * (bug 18731) Show correct SVN links for extension modules in api.php?version * (bug 18730) Add version information to action=paraminfo output * (bug 18743) Add ucprop=size to list=usercontribs * (bug 18749) Add generator flag to action=paraminfo output * Make action=block respect $wgEnableUserEmail and $wgSysopEmailBans * Made deleting file description pages without files possible * (bug 18773) Add content flag to siprop=namespaces output * (bug 18785) Add siprop=languages to meta=siteinfo * (bug 14200) Added user and excludeuser parameters to list=watchlist and list=recentchanges * Added index, fromtitle and byteoffset fields to action=parse&prop=sections output * (bug 19313) action=rollback returns wrong revid on master/slave setups * (bug 19323) action=parse doesn't return section tree on pages with Cite warnings * (bug 18720) Add anchor field to action=parse&prop=sections output * (bug 19423) The initial file description page used caption in user lang rather than UI lang * (bug 17809) Add number of users in user groups to meta=siteinfo * (bug 18533) Add readonly reason to readonly exception * (bug 19528) Added XSLT parameter to API queries in format=xml * (bug 19040) Fix prependtext and appendtext in combination with section parameter in action=edit * (bug 19090) Added watchlist parameter, deprecated watch and unwatch parameter in action=edit * Added fields to list=search output: size, wordcount, timestamp, snippet * Where supported by backend, list=search adds a 'searchinfo' element with optional info: 'totalhits' count and 'suggestion' alternate query term * (bug 19907) $wgCrossSiteAJAXdomains added to allow specified (or all) external domains to access api.php via AJAX, if the browser supports the Access-Control-Allow-Origin HTTP header * (bug 19004) Added support for tags to the API. === Languages updated in 1.16 === MediaWiki supports over 300 languages. Many localisations are updated regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as changes to languages because of MediaZilla reports. * Lower Silesian (sli) (new) * Picard (pcd) (new) * Uyghur (Arabic script) (ug-arab) (new) * (bug 18474) Sorani (ckb - Central Kurdish) (renamed from ku-arab) * Add PLURAL function for Scots Gaelic (gd) * Add Estonian letters äöõšüž to linktrail (et) * (bug 18776) Native name of Burmese language (my) * (bug 18806) Use correct unicode characters in spelling of native Chuvash (Чӑвашла) * (bug 18864) Updated autonym for Zhuang language * (bug 18308) Updated date formatting in Occitan (oc) * (bug 19080) Added ăâîşţșțĂÂÎŞŢȘȚ to Romanion (ro) linktrail * (bug 19286) Correct commafying function in Polish (pl) * (bug 19441) Updated date formatting for Lithuanian * (bug 19630) Added ÄäÇçĞğŇňÖöŞşÜüÝýŽž to Turkmen (tk) linktrail * (bug 19949) New linktrail for Greek (el) * (bug 19809) Korean (North Korea) (ko-kp) (new) * (bug 19968) Fixed "Project talk" namespace name for Maltese (mt) == Compatibility == MediaWiki 1.16 requires PHP 5 (5.2 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer supported. PHP 5.0.x fails on 64-bit systems due to serious bugs with array processing: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=34879 Upgrade affected systems to PHP 5.1 or higher. MySQL 3.23.x is no longer supported; some older hosts may need to upgrade. At this time we still recommend 4.0, but 4.1/5.0 will work fine in most cases. == Upgrading == 1.16 has several database changes since 1.15, and will not work without schema updates. If upgrading from before 1.11, and you are using a wiki as a commons reposito- ry, make sure that it is updated as well. Otherwise, errors may arise due to database schema changes. If upgrading from before 1.7, you may want to run refreshLinks.php to ensure new database fields are filled with data. If you are upgrading from MediaWiki 1.4.x or earlier, some major database changes are made, and there is a slightly higher chance that things could break. Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading! See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions. === Caveats === Some output, particularly involving user-supplied inline HTML, may not produce 100% valid or well-formed XHTML output. Testers are welcome to set $wgMimeType = "application/xhtml+xml"; to test for remaining problem cases, but this is not recommended on live sites. (This must be set for MathML to display properly in Mozilla.) For notes on 1.15.x and older releases, see HISTORY. === Online documentation === Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is currently being built up on MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation License (except for pages that explicitly state that their contents are in the public domain) : http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation === Mailing list === A MediaWiki-l mailing list has been set up distinct from the Wikipedia wikitech-l list: http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l A low-traffic announcements-only list is also available: http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce It's highly recommended that you sign up for one of these lists if you're going to run a public MediaWiki, so you can be notified of security fixes. === IRC help === There's usually someone online in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net