From 8e0dba492ff6a3cfded35a058b2f4da7685a946a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sam Reed Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2011 01:28:52 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] alpha -> beta Merge RELEASE-NOTES changes --- RELEASE-NOTES-1.18 | 14 ++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.18 b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.18 index 1652e61548..390b326284 100644 --- a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.18 +++ b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.18 @@ -7,8 +7,9 @@ setting since version 1.2.0. If you have it on, turn it '''off''' if you can. THIS IS NOT A RELEASE YET -MediaWiki 1.18 is an alpha-quality branch and is not recommended for use in -production. +This is a beta release of the MediaWiki 1.17 branch. Please test it and let us +know what you think of it. Beta releases are not recommended for use in +production. === Configuration changes in 1.18 === * The WantedPages::getSQL hook has been removed and replaced with @@ -95,6 +96,8 @@ production. create a page or new section. * (bug 8130) Query pages should limit to content namespaces, not just main namespace. +* Search suggestions (other than in the Vector skin) will now use the HTML5 + datalist feature where supported, currently only Firefox 4. * Special:Contribs now redirects to Special:Contributions. * (bug 6672) Images are now autorotated according to their EXIF orientation. This only affects thumbnails; the source remains unrotated. @@ -212,6 +215,7 @@ production. * Introduced $wgVaryOnXFPForAPI which will cause the API to send Vary: X-Forwarded-Proto headers. * New maintenance script to refresh image metadata (maintenance/refreshImageMetadata.php) +* (bug 16428) Include permalink in printable version * (bug 30722) Add an identity collation that sorts things based on what the unicode code point is (aka pre-1.17 behaviour) * (bug 30940) Add a hook in User:getDefaultOptions. @@ -459,10 +463,16 @@ production. Windows servers. * (bug 30074) Moving user JS subpages resulted in JS errors because #REDIRECT [[Foo]] is invalid JS +* (bug 30335) Fix for HTMLForms using GET breaking when non-friendly URLs + are used +* (bug 30264) Changed installer-generated LocalSettings.php to use require_once() + instead require() for included extensions. * Tracking categories are no longer shown in footer for special pages +* (bug 30684) Fix bad escaping in mw.message for inexistent messages (i.e. ) * $wgOverrideSiteFeed no longer double escapes urls. * The preprocessor no longer fails with a PHP warning about XML_PARSE_HUGE when processing complex pages using newer versions of libxml2. +* (bug 30907) Special:Unusedcategories should sort ascendingly. * (bug 28545) When using the uca-default collation, sortkey's starting with a space (U+20) will sort under an invisible header like in 1.16 rather than a U+6DE * (bug 30192) Thumbnails of archived files are now deleted -- 2.20.1