production.
=== Configuration changes in 1.19 ===
-* Changed LoginAuthenticateAudit hook so that it may be called before a
- valid user is available. In those cases, an anonymouse user object
- will be supplied.
* Removed SkinTemplateSetupPageCss hook; use BeforePageDisplay instead.
* (bug 27132) movefile right granted by default to registered users.
* Default cookie lifetime ($wgCookieExpiration) is increased to 180 days.
* Removed $wgExtensionAliasesFiles. Use wgExtensionMessagesFiles.
=== New features in 1.19 ===
-* (bug 19838) Possibility to get all interwiki prefixes if the interwiki
+* (bug 19838) Add ability to get all interwiki prefixes also if the interwiki
cache is used.
* $wgDnsBlacklistUrls now accepts an array with url and key as the
elements to work with DNSBLs that require keys, such as
localisation.
* (bug 30364) LanguageConverter now depends on the page content language
instead of the wiki content language.
-* Jump links will now be usable in css-capable browsers instead of only
+* Jump links will now be usable in CSS-capable browsers instead of only
in outdated text browsers.
* New common*.css files usable by skins instead of having to copy piles
of generic styles from MonoBook or Vector's css.
-* Some deprecated presentational html attributes will now be automatically
- converted to css.
* (bug 31297) Add support for namespaces in Special:RecentChanges subpage filter
syntax.
* The default user signature now contains a talk link in addition to the user link.
* (bug 25306) Add link of old page title to MediaWiki:Delete_and_move_reason.
* Added hook BitmapHandlerCheckImageArea.
-* (experimental) $wgRealNameInInterface can be enabled to display a user's
- real name in some parts of the interface instead of a username.
* (bug 30062) Add $wgDBprefix option to cli installer.
* getUserPermissionsErrors and getUserPermissionsErrorsExpensive hooks are now
also called when checking for 'read' permission.
* Introduce $wgEnableSearchContributorsByIP which controls whether searching
for an IP address redirects to the contributions list for that IP.
* (bug 8859) Database::update should take array of tables too.
-* (bug 19698) Inverse selection for Special:Contributions.
-* (bug 24037) Add byte length of revision to Special:Contributions.
+* (bug 19698) Add "Inverse namespaces" option to Special:Contributions.
* (bug 1672) Added $wgDisableUploadScriptChecks to allow uploading of files
containing HTML or JS. DISABLING THESE CHECKS IS VERY DANGEROUS.
* New path mappings can be added using the WebRequestPathInfoRouter hook
and adding paths to the PathRouter.
-* (bug 32666) Special:ActiveUsers now allows a subpage to be used as the
- username (eg. Special:ActiveUsers/Username)
+* (bug 32666) Special:ActiveUsers now allows a subpage to be used as value for the
+ "target" query parameter (eg. Special:ActiveUsers/Username)
* New JavaScript variable wgPageContentLanguage
* Added new debugging toolbar, enabled with $wgDebugToolbar
-* Differences in the history page now uses slightly better colors for people
- perceiving colors differently. Colors comes from the French Wikipedia.
+* (bug 11374) Differences in the history page now uses slightly better colors for people
+ perceiving colors differently.
* (bug 32879) Upgrade jQuery to 1.7.1
* jQuery UI upgraded to 1.8.17
* Extensions can use the 'Language::getMessagesFileName' hook to define new
languages using messages files outside of core.
-* (bug 32512) Include 'associated namespace' checkbox on Special:Contributions
+* (bug 32512) Add 'Associated namespace' checkbox to Special:Contributions
* Added $wgSend404Code, true by default, which can be set to false to send a
200 status code instead of 404 for nonexistent articles.
-* (bug 23427) Introduced {{PAGEID}} variable to expose page.page_id
-* (bug 33447) Link to the broken image tracking category from Special:Wantedfiles
+* (bug 33447) Link to the broken image tracking category from Special:Wantedfiles.
+* (bug 27724) Add timestamp to job queue.
+* (bug 30339) Implement SpecialPage for running javascript tests. Disabled by default, due to
+ tests potentially being harmful, not to be run on a production wiki.
+ Enable by setting $wgEnableJavaScriptTest to true.
+* Extensions can use the RequestContextCreateSkin hook to override what skin is
+ loaded in some contexts.
+* (bug 33456) Show $wgQueryCacheLimit on cached query pages.
+* (bug 10574) Add an option to allow all pages to be exported by Special:Export.
+* mediawiki.js Message object constructor is now publicly available as mw.Message.
+* (bug 29309) Allow CSS class per tooltip (tipsy).
+* (bug 33565) Add accesskey/tooltip to submit buttons on Special:EditWatchlist.
+* (bug 17959) Inline rendering/thumbnailing for Gimp XCF images.
+* (bug 27775) Namespace has it's own XML tag in the XML dump file.
+* (bug 30513) Redirect tag is now resolved in XML dump file.
+* sha1 xml tag added to XML dump file.
+* (bug 33646) Badtitle error page now emits a 400 HTTP status.
+* Special:MovePage now has a dropdown menu for namespaces.
+* (bug 34420) Special:Version now shows git HEAD sha1 when available
=== Bug fixes in 1.19 ===
-* $wgUploadNavigationUrl should be used for file redlinks if.
- $wgUploadMissingFileUrl is not set. The first was used for this
- until the second was introduced in 1.17.
-* (bug 25355) Parser generates edit section links for special pages.
+* BREAKING CHANGE: Style rules for wikitable are now more specific and prevent
+ inheritance to nested tables which caused various issues (bug 30485 and bug
+ 33434). If your wiki has overriden rules for ".wikitable", please revise them and
+ adjust where neccecary. For comparison, use the "table.wikitable" section in
+ skins/common/shared.css as base.
+* $wgUploadNavigationUrl is now used for file redlinks if
+ $wgUploadMissingFileUrl is not set. The former was used for this until the
+ second was introduced in 1.17.
* (bug 27894) Move 'editondblclick' event listener down from body to
div#bodyContent.
* (bug 30172) The check for posix_isatty() in maintenance scripts did not detect
require_once() instead require() for included extensions.
* Do not convert text in the user interface language to another script.
* (bug 26283) Previewing user JS/CSS pages didn't load other user JS/CSS pages.
-* (bug 11374) Improved diff readability for colorblind people.
* (bug 26486) ResourceLoader modules with paths to nonexistent files cause PHP
warnings/notices to be thrown.
-* (bug 30335) Fix for HTMLForms using GET breaking when non-friendly URLs are
- used.
-* (bug 28649) Avoiding half truncated multi-byte unicode characters when
+* (bug 30335) Fix for HTMLForms using GET that were breaking when non-friendly
+ URLs are used.
+* (bug 28649) Preventing half truncated multi-byte unicode characters when
truncating log comments.
-* Show --batch-size option in help of maintenance scripts that support it
+* Show --batch-size option in help of maintenance scripts that support it.
* (bug 4381) Magic quotes cleaning was not comprehensive, key strings were not
unescaped.
* (bug 23057) Importers no longer can 'edit' or 'create' a fully-protected page by
* Allow moving the associated talk pages of subpages even if the base page
has no subpage.
* Per page edit-notices now work in namespaces without subpages enabled.
-* (bug 30245) Use the correct way to construct a log page title.
-* (bug 31081) $wgEnotifUseJobQ caused many unnecessary jobs to be queued.
+* (bug 31081) $wgEnotifUseJobQ is no longer unconditionally enqueueing jobs.
* (bug 30202) File names are now restricted on upload to 240 bytes, because of
restrictions on some of the database fields.
* Timezones are now recognised in user preferences when offset is different
due to DST.
-* (bug 31692) "summary" parameter now also work when undoing revisions.
+* (bug 31692) "summary" parameter now also works when undoing revisions.
* (bug 18823) "move succeeded" text displayed bluelinks even when redirect was
- suppressed.
+ suppressed.
* (bug 19186) Special:UserLogin's title on Special:SpecialPages now says
"create account" when the user cannot create an account.
* (bug 31818) 'usercreated' message now supports GENDER.
wgDigitTransformTable depend on page content language so the sort script
sorts correctly more often.
* (bug 32230) Expose wgRedirectedFrom in JavaScript.
-* (bug 31212) History tab not collapsed when the screen is narrow
+* (bug 31212) History tab not collapsed when the screen is narrow.
* (bug 15521) Use new section summary when the action of adding a new section
also happens to create the page.
* (bug 32960) Remove EmailAuthenticationTimestamp from database when a
email address is removed.
* (bug 32414) Empty page get a empty bytes attribute in Export/Dump.
* (bug 33101) Viewing a User or User talk of username resembling IP ending
- with .xxx causes Internal error
+ with .xxx causes Internal error.
* Warning about undefined index in certain situations when $wgLogRestrictions
causes the first log type requested to be removed but not the others
* Use separate message ('prefixindex-namespace') for title of
- Special:PrefixIndex rather then re-using Special:AllPages's allinnamespace
+ Special:PrefixIndex rather then re-using Special:AllPages's allinnamespace.
* (bug 33156) Special:Block now allows you to confirm you want to block yourself
- when using non-normalized username
+ when using non-normalized username.
* (bug 33246) News icon shown for news:// URLs but not for news: URLs
* (bug 33305) Make mw.util.addCSS resistant to IE's @font-face bug by setting
cssText after DOM insertion.
* (bug 30711) When adding a new section to a page with section=new, the text is
- now always added to the current version of the page
+ now always added to the current version of the page.
* (bug 31719) Fix uploads of SVGs exported by Adobe Illustrator by expanding
XML entities correctly.
* (bug 30914) Embeddable ResourceLoader modules (user.options, user.tokens)
- should be loaded in <head> for proper dependency resolution
+ should be loaded in <head> for proper dependency resolution.
* (bug 32702) Removed method Skin::makeGlobalVariablesScript() has been readded
- for backward compatibility
+ for backward compatibility.
* (bug 31469) Make sure tracking category messages expand variables like
{{NAMESPACE}} relative to correct title.
-* (bug 30485 and bug 33434) Style rules for wikitable are now more specific and
- prevent inheritance to nested tables which caused various issues
-* (bug 32686) Tooltip on links to non-existing pages are now always in user's
- language
* (bug 33454) ISO-8601 week-based year number (format character 'o') is now
- calculated correctly with respect to timezone
+ calculated correctly with respect to timezone.
* (bug 32219) InstantCommons now fetches content from Wikimedia Commons using
- HTTPS when the local wiki is served over HTTPS
+ HTTPS when the local wiki is served over HTTPS.
+* (bug 33525) clearTagHooks doesn't clear function hooks.
+* (bug 33523) Function tag hooks don't appear on Special:Version.
+* Files with IPTC blocks we can't read no longer prevent extraction of exif
+ or other metadata.
+* (bug 33587) Remove action "historysubmit" from history pages.
+* (bug 25800) mw.config wgAction should contain the actually performed action instead
+ of whatever the query value contains.
+* (bug 4438) Add CSS hook for current WikiPage action.
+* (bug 33703) Common border-bottom color for <abbr> should inherit default (text) color.
+* (bug 33819) Display file sizes in appropriate units.
+* (bug 32948) {{REVISIONID}} and related variables are no longer blank after doing
+ a null edit.
+* (bug 33880) $wgUsersNotifiedOnAllChanges should not send e-mail to user who made
+ the edit.
+* (bug 33902) Decoding %2B with mw.Uri.decode results in ' ' instead of +
+* (bug 33762) QueryPage-based special pages no longer misses *-summary message.
+* Other sizes links are no longer generated for wikis without a 404 thumbnail handler.
+* (bug 29454) Enforce byteLimit for page title input on Special:MovePage
+* (bug 34114) CSSMin::remap() doesn't respect its $embed parameter
+* Special:Contributions/newbies now shows the contributions for the user "newbies".
+ New user contributions are obtained using the form or using ?contribs=newbie in URL.
+* It is now possible to delete images that have no corresponding description pages.
+* (bug 33165) GlobalFunctions.php line 1312: Call to a member function
+ getText() on a non-object
+* (bug 31676) Group dynamically inserted CSS into a single <style> tag, to work
+ around a bug where not all styles were applied in Internet Explorer
+* (bug 28936, bug 5280) Broken or invalid titles can't be removed from watchlist.
+* (bug 34600) Older skins using useHeadElement=false were broken in 1.18
+* (bug 34604) [mw.config] wgActionPaths should be an object instead of a numeral
+ array.
=== API changes in 1.19 ===
+* Made action=edit less likely to return "unknownerror", by returning the actual error
+ message (which may have come from a hook call or similar)
* (bug 19838) siprop=interwikimap can now use the interwiki cache.
* (bug 29748) Add API search prefix support.
* (bug 29684) Set forgotten parameter types in ApiQueryIWLinks.
* (bug 31759) Undefined property notice in querypages API.
* (bug 32495) API should allow purge by pageids.
* (bug 33147) API examples should explain what they do.
+* (bug 33482) Api incorrectly calls ApiBase::parseMultiValue if allowed
+ values is given as an array.
+* (bug 32948) {{REVISIONID}} and related variables are no longer blank after
+ calling action=purge&forcelinkupdate.
+* (bug 34377) action=watch now parses messages using the correct title instead
+ of "API".
=== Languages updated in 1.19 ===
been removed from wikibits.js
* jquery.mwPrototypes module was renamed to jquery.mwExtension.
* The maintenance script populateSha1.php was renamed to the more concise
- populateImageSha1.php
+ populateImageSha1.php.
* The Client-IP header is no longer checked for when trying to resolve a client's
real IP address.
* (bug 22096) Although IE5.x and below was already unsupported officially, stylesheets
* The $variant argument in the hooks for the Title::get{Local,Full,Link,Canonical}URL
methods have been removed, the variant is now part of the $query argument.
* Removed Title::isValidCssJsSubpage(), deprecated since 1.17 in favor of
- using Title::isCssJsSubpage() or checking Title::isWrongCaseCssJsPage()
+ using Title::isCssJsSubpage() or checking Title::isWrongCaseCssJsPage().
+* Support for the deprecated hook MagicWordMagicWords was removed.
+* The Xml::namespaceSelector method has been deprecated, please use
+ Html::namespaceSelector instead (note that the parameters have changed also).
+* (bug 33746) Preload popular ResourceLoader modules (mediawiki.util) as stop-gap
+ for scripts missing dependencies.
+ New configuration variable $wgPreloadJavaScriptMwUtil has been introduced for this
+ (set to false by default for new installations). Set to true if your wiki has a large
+ amount of user/site scripts that are lacking dependency information. In the short to
+ medium term these user/site scripts should be fixed by adding the used modules to the
+ dependencies in the module registry and/or wrapping them in a callback to mw.loader.using.
== Compatibility ==
MySQL is the recommended DBMS. PostgreSQL or SQLite can also be used, but
support for them is somewhat less mature. There is experimental support for IBM
-DB2 and Microsoft SQL Server.
+DB2 and Oracle.
The supported versions are:
* MySQL 5.0.2 or later
* PostgreSQL 8.3 or later
-* SQLite 3
+* SQLite 3.3.7 or later
* Oracle 9.0.1 or later
== Upgrading ==
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
+ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation
== Mailing list ==
A mailing list is available for MediaWiki user support and discussion:
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
+ https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
A low-traffic announcements-only list is also available:
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
+ https://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.