which causes Vector to render the variants drop-down menu with a label
showing the current variant name. This is off by default, pending further
research into its user experience implications.
-* Added $wgJQueryVersion, $wgJQueryMinified and $wgJQueryOnEveryPage (true by
- default) to configure loading of jQuery by MediaWiki.
* XmlFunctions.php has been removed. Use the Xml or Html classes as appropriate.
* Added $wgSQLMode for setting database SQL modes - either performance (null)
or other reasons (such as enabling stricter checks)
* $wgSecureLogin & $wgSecureLoginStickHTTPS to optionaly login using HTTPS
* (bug 25728) Added $wgPasswordSenderName to allow customise the name associed
with $wgPasswordSender
+* Sysops now have the "suppressredirect" right by default
=== New features in 1.17 ===
* (bug 10183) Users can now add personal styles and scripts to all skins via
[[MediaWiki:Longpage-hint]] (empty per default) can be used instead.
Parameters: $1 shows the formatted textsize in Byte/KB/MB, $2 is the raw
number of the textsize in Byte
+* (bug 3276) Give image <gallery>s fluid width
+* Added uploads link to page subtitle in Special:Contributions
=== Bug fixes in 1.17 ===
* (bug 17560) Half-broken deletion moved image files to deletion archive
* Fixed PHP warnings when updating a broken MySQL database.
* (bug 26023) Corrected deleteBacth.php's documentation
* (bug 25451) Improved datetime representation in 32 bit php >= 5.2.
+* Show "skin does not exist error" only when the skin is inputted in the wrong
+ case.
+* (bug 26164) Potential html injection when the database server isn't available
+* (bug 26160) Upload description set by extensions are not propagated
+* (bug 9675) generateSitemap.php now takes an --urlpath parameter to allow
+ absolute URLs in the sitemap index (as required e.g. by Google)
=== API changes in 1.17 ===
* (bug 22738) Allow filtering by action type on query=logevent.
* (bug 26006) prop=langlinks now allows obtaining full URL
* (bug 26075) ApiDelete.php now calls correctly ArticleDelete hook
* (bug 26089) add block expiration to blockinfo
+* (bug 26125) prop=imageinfo&iiprop=size now returns the page count if the
+ file is a multi-page file
+* (bug 10268) Added linktodiffs parameter on action=feedwatchlist
+* (bug 26219) Show API limits for multi values in description
=== Languages updated in 1.17 ===