RELEASE-NOTES

   1 = MediaWiki release notes =
   2
   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.
   5
   6 == MediaWiki 1.13 ==
   7
   8 THIS IS NOT A RELEASE YET
   9
  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.
  13
  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.
  17
  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
  20
  21 === Configuration changes in 1.13 ===
  22
  23 * New option $wgFeed can be set false to turn off syndication feeds
  24
  25 === New features in 1.13 ===
  26
  27 * __HIDDENCAT__ on a category page causes the category to be hidden on the
  28   article page.
  29 * Don't show edit permissions errors on a red link click, just redirect to the
  30   article. This is so that readers who don't know what a red link is aren't
  31   confused when they are told they are range-blocked.
  32 * Add a new hook ImageBeforeProduceHTML to allow extensions to modify wikitext
  33   image syntax output.
  34 * (bug 13100) Added 'preloadtitle' parameter to action=edit&section=new that
  35   pre-fills the section title field.
  36 * (bug 13112) Added Special:RelatedChanges alias to Special:Recentchangeslinked
  37 * (bug 13130) Moved edit token and autosummary fields above edit tools to
  38   reduce broken form submissions
  39 * Add --old-redirects-only option to maintenance/refreshLinks.php, to add old
  40   redirects to the redirect table
  41
  42 === Bug fixes in 1.13 ===
  43
  44 * (bug 10677) Add link to the file description page on the shared repository
  45 * (bug 13084) Increase size of source/destination filename fields in upload form
  46 * (bug 13115) rebuildrecentchanges should print the current value of $wgRCMaxAge
  47 * (bug 13140) Show parent categories in category namespace
  48 * (bug 13149) Correctly format 'fileexists' message on Upload page
  49 * Make the default filepageexists message accurate
  50 * (bug 12988) $wgMinimalPasswordLength no longer breaks create user by email
  51 * (bug 13022) Fix upload from URL on PHP 5.0.x
  52 * (bug 13132) Unable to unprotect pages protected with earlier versions of MediaWiki
  53 * (bug 12723) OpenSearch description name now uses more compact language code
  54   to avoid passing the length limit as often, is customizable per site via
  55   'opensearch-desc' message.
  56 * (bug 13135) Special:Userrights now passes IDs through form submission
  57   to allow functionality on not-quite-right usernames
  58 * (bug 12575) Prevent duplicate patrol log entries from being created
  59 * (bug 13174) __HIDDENCAT__ now applies only to category pages
  60 * (bug 13031) Add links to user pages in e-mail form
  61 * (bug 13147) Description for categoriespagetext (used in Special:Categories) reworded
  62 * (bug 11561) Fix fatal error when calling action=revert to non-image page
  63 * (bug 12430) Fix call to private method LinkFilter::makeRegex fatal error in
  64   maintenance/cleanupSpam.php
  65 * All skins should have the "mediawiki" class on the body element
  66 * (bug 13019) Message cache for some extensions not loaded at time of editing
  67 * (bug 13247) Prettified ISBN links
  68
  69 === API changes in 1.13 ===
  70
  71 * Fixing main page display in meta=siteinfo
  72 * (bug 13128) Added patrolled flag to list=recentchanges
  73 * Implemented {bl,ei,iu}redirect (lists links through redirects as well)
  74 * (bug 13154) Introduced subpages flag to meta=siteinfo&siprop=namespaces
  75 * (bug 13157) Added ucuserprefix parameter to list=usercontibs
  76 * (bug 12394) Added rctitles parameter to list=recentchanges, making rcid retrieval easier
  77 * (bug 13218) Fix inclusion of " character in hyperlinks
  78 * Added watch and unwatch parameters to action=delete and action=move
  79 * Added action=edit
  80 * (bug 11401) Added xmldoublequote to xml formatter
  81
  82 === Languages updated in 1.13 ===
  83
  84 * Afrikaans (af)
  85 * Gheg Albanian (aln)
  86 * Amharic (am)
  87 * Aragonese (an)
  88 * Arabic (ar)
  89 * Asturian (ast)
  90 * Kotava (avk)
  91 * Samogitian (bat-smg)
  92 * Bulgarian (bg)
  93 * Catalan (ca)
  94 * Crimean Turkish (Cyrillic) (crh-cyrl)
  95 * Crimean Turkish (Latin) (crh-latn)
  96 * Czech (cs)
  97 * Welsh (cy)
  98 * Danish (da)
  99 * Lower Sorbian (dsb)
 100 * Greek (el)
 101 * Esperanto (eo)
 102 * Spanish (es)
 103 * Estonian (et)
 104 * Extremaduran (ext)
 105 * Finnish (fi)
 106 * Faroese (fo)
 107 * French (fr)
 108 * Franco-Provençal (frp)
 109 * Friulian (fur)
 110 * Irish (ga)
 111 * Gan (gan)
 112 * Galician (gl)
 113 * Croatian (hr)
 114 * Upper Sorbian (hsb)
 115 * Hungarian (hu)
 116 * Indonesian (id)
 117 * Eastern Canadian (Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics) (ike-cans)
 118 * Icelandic (is)
 119 * Italian (it)
 120 * Japanese (ja)
 121 * Georgian (ka)
 122 * Kalaallisut (kl)
 123 * Khmer (km)
 124 * Latin (la)
 125 * Luxembourgish (lb)
 126 * Limburgish (li)
 127 * Lao (lo)
 128 * Lithuanian (lt)
 129 * Malayalam (ml)
 130 * Moldavian (mo)
 131 * Marathi (mr)
 132 * Low German (nds)
 133 * Dutch (nl)
 134 * Norwegian Nynorsk (nn)
 135 * Norwegian (bokmål)‬ (no)
 136 * Polish (pl)
 137 * Pashto (ps)
 138 * Portuguese (pt)
 139 * Russian (ru)
 140 * Yakut (sah)
 141 * Sassaresu (sdc)
 142 * Slovak (sk)
 143 * Somali (so)
 144 * Albanian (sq)
 145 * Sranan Tongo (srn)
 146 * Seeltersk (stq)
 147 * Swedish (sv)
 148 * Tamil (ta)
 149 * Telugu (te)
 150 * Tajik (tg)
 151 * Thai (th)
 152 * Turkish (tr)
 153 * Tuvinian (tyv)
 154 * Venda (ve)
 155 * Vietnamese (vi)
 156 * Volapük (vo)
 157 * Wolof (wo)
 158 * Mingrelian (xmf)
 159 * Yiddish (yi)
 160
 161 == Compatibility ==
 162
 163 MediaWiki 1.13 requires PHP 5 (5.1 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer supported.
 164
 165 PHP 5.0.x fails on 64-bit systems due to serious bugs with array processing:
 166 http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=34879
 167 Upgrade affected systems to PHP 5.1 or higher.
 168
 169 MySQL 3.23.x is no longer supported; some older hosts may need to upgrade.
 170 At this time we still recommend 4.0, but 4.1/5.0 will work fine in most cases.
 171
 172
 173 == Upgrading ==
 174
 175 1.13 has several database changes since 1.12, and will not work without schema
 176 updates.
 177
 178 If upgrading from before 1.7, you may want to run refreshLinks.php to ensure
 179 new database fields are filled with data.
 180
 181 If upgrading from before 1.11, and you are using a wiki as a commons repository,
 182 make sure that it is updated as well. Otherwise, errors may arise due to
 183 database schema changes.
 184
 185 If you are upgrading from MediaWiki 1.4.x or earlier, some major database
 186 changes are made, and there is a slightly higher chance that things could
 187 break. Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading!
 188
 189 See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions.
 190
 191
 192 === Caveats ===
 193
 194 Some output, particularly involving user-supplied inline HTML, may not
 195 produce 100% valid or well-formed XHTML output. Testers are welcome to
 196 set $wgMimeType = "application/xhtml+xml"; to test for remaining problem
 197 cases, but this is not recommended on live sites. (This must be set for
 198 MathML to display properly in Mozilla.)
 199
 200 For notes on 1.12.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
 201
 202
 203 === Online documentation ===
 204
 205 Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is currently being
 206 built up on MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation
 207 License (except for pages that explicitly state that their contents are in
 208 the public domain) :
 209
 210   http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation
 211
 212
 213 === Mailing list ===
 214
 215 A MediaWiki-l mailing list has been set up distinct from the Wikipedia
 216 wikitech-l list:
 217
 218   http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
 219
 220 A low-traffic announcements-only list is also available:
 221
 222   http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
 223
 224 It's highly recommended that you sign up for one of these lists if you're
 225 going to run a public MediaWiki, so you can be notified of security fixes.
 226
 227
 228 === IRC help ===
 229
 230 There's usually someone online in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net