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 * Add links to page and file deletion forms to edit predefined delete reasons
  42 * (bug 13269) Added MediaWiki:Uploadfooter to the bottom of Special:Upload
  43 * (bug 2815) Search results for media now use thumb instead of text extract
  44 * When a page doesn't exist, the tab should say "create", not "edit"
  45 * (bug 12882) Added a span with class "patrollink" arround "Mark as patrolled"
  46   link on diffs
  47 * Magic word formatnum can now take raw suffix to undo formatting
  48
  49 === Bug fixes in 1.13 ===
  50
  51 * (bug 10677) Add link to the file description page on the shared repository
  52 * (bug 13084) Increase size of source/destination filename fields in upload form
  53 * (bug 13115) rebuildrecentchanges should print the current value of $wgRCMaxAge
  54 * (bug 13140) Show parent categories in category namespace
  55 * (bug 13149) Correctly format 'fileexists' message on Upload page
  56 * Make the default filepageexists message accurate
  57 * (bug 12988) $wgMinimalPasswordLength no longer breaks create user by email
  58 * (bug 13022) Fix upload from URL on PHP 5.0.x
  59 * (bug 13132) Unable to unprotect pages protected with earlier versions of MediaWiki
  60 * (bug 12723) OpenSearch description name now uses more compact language code
  61   to avoid passing the length limit as often, is customizable per site via
  62   'opensearch-desc' message.
  63 * (bug 13135) Special:Userrights now passes IDs through form submission
  64   to allow functionality on not-quite-right usernames
  65 * (bug 12575) Prevent duplicate patrol log entries from being created
  66 * (bug 13174) __HIDDENCAT__ now applies only to category pages
  67 * (bug 13031) Add links to user pages in e-mail form
  68 * (bug 13147) Description for categoriespagetext (used in Special:Categories) reworded
  69 * (bug 11561) Fix fatal error when calling action=revert to non-image page
  70 * (bug 12430) Fix call to private method LinkFilter::makeRegex fatal error in
  71   maintenance/cleanupSpam.php
  72 * All skins should have the "mediawiki" class on the body element
  73 * (bug 13019) Message cache for some extensions not loaded at time of editing
  74 * (bug 13247) Prettified ISBN links
  75 * maintenance/refreshLinks.php did not fix page_id 1 with the --new-only option
  76 * (bug 13110) Don't show "Permission error" page if the edit is already rolled
  77   back when using rollback
  78 * (bug 13012) Use content messages for block options when generating the
  79   recentchanges entry
  80 * (bug 13274) Change links for messages to ucfirst
  81 * (bug 13273) Un-hardcode some punctuation (add new messages colon-separator,
  82   autocomment-prefix)
  83 * Parse MediaWiki message translations with a correct language setting on preview
  84 * (bug 13281) Treat X-Forwarded-For, Client-ip and User-Agent headers as
  85   case-insensitive names.
  86 * Adding the fix for lists in RTL wikis to more skins, and fixing the image toc
  87 * (bug 8157) Remove redirects from Special:Unusedtemplates. Patch by WebBoy.
  88 * (bug 10721) Duplicate section anchors with differing case now disambiguated
  89   for Internet Explorer's sake and standards compliance
  90 * (bug 13298) Tighter limits on Special:Newpages limits when embedding
  91 * Email subject in content language instead of sending user's UI language
  92 * (bug 13251) Allow maintenance rebuild scripts to work with Postgres
  93 * (bug 2084) Fixed incorrect regex to match redirects
  94 * (bug 3131) Manually-specified upload destination filename is no longer
  95   overwritten by browsing for a file after you wrote it.
  96 * (bug 7251) Sidebars generated by MediaWiki:Sidebar now have the class
  97   'generated-sidebar'.
  98
  99 === API changes in 1.13 ===
 100
 101 * Fixing main page display in meta=siteinfo
 102 * (bug 13128) Added patrolled flag to list=recentchanges
 103 * Implemented {bl,ei,iu}redirect (lists links through redirects as well)
 104 * (bug 13154) Introduced subpages flag to meta=siteinfo&siprop=namespaces
 105 * (bug 13157) Added ucuserprefix parameter to list=usercontibs
 106 * (bug 12394) Added rctitles parameter to list=recentchanges, making rcid retrieval easier
 107 * (bug 13218) Fix inclusion of " character in hyperlinks
 108 * Added watch and unwatch parameters to action=delete and action=move
 109 * Added action=edit
 110 * (bug 11401) Added xmldoublequote to xml formatter
 111 * Added rvsection parameter to prop=revisions to allow fetching the content of a certain section only
 112
 113 === Languages updated in 1.13 ===
 114
 115 * Afrikaans (af)
 116 * Gheg Albanian (aln)
 117 * Amharic (am)
 118 * Aragonese (an)
 119 * Arabic (ar)
 120 * Asturian (ast)
 121 * Kotava (avk)
 122 * Samogitian (bat-smg)
 123 * Bulgarian (bg)
 124 * Catalan (ca)
 125 * Crimean Turkish (Cyrillic) (crh-cyrl)
 126 * Crimean Turkish (Latin) (crh-latn)
 127 * Czech (cs)
 128 * Welsh (cy)
 129 * Danish (da)
 130 * Lower Sorbian (dsb)
 131 * Greek (el)
 132 * Esperanto (eo)
 133 * Spanish (es)
 134 * Estonian (et)
 135 * Extremaduran (ext)
 136 * Finnish (fi)
 137 * Faroese (fo)
 138 * French (fr)
 139 * Franco-Provençal (frp)
 140 * Friulian (fur)
 141 * Irish (ga)
 142 * Gan (gan)
 143 * Galician (gl)
 144 * Croatian (hr)
 145 * Upper Sorbian (hsb)
 146 * Hungarian (hu)
 147 * Indonesian (id)
 148 * Eastern Canadian (Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics) (ike-cans)
 149 * Icelandic (is)
 150 * Italian (it)
 151 * Japanese (ja)
 152 * Georgian (ka)
 153 * Kalaallisut (kl)
 154 * Khmer (km)
 155 * Latin (la)
 156 * Luxembourgish (lb)
 157 * Limburgish (li)
 158 * Lao (lo)
 159 * Lithuanian (lt)
 160 * Malayalam (ml)
 161 * Moldavian (mo)
 162 * Marathi (mr)
 163 * Low German (nds)
 164 * Dutch (nl)
 165 * Norwegian Nynorsk (nn)
 166 * Norwegian (bokmål)‬ (no)
 167 * Polish (pl)
 168 * Pashto (ps)
 169 * Portuguese (pt)
 170 * Russian (ru)
 171 * Yakut (sah)
 172 * Sassaresu (sdc)
 173 * Slovak (sk)
 174 * Somali (so)
 175 * Albanian (sq)
 176 * Sranan Tongo (srn)
 177 * Seeltersk (stq)
 178 * Swedish (sv)
 179 * Tamil (ta)
 180 * Telugu (te)
 181 * Tajik (tg)
 182 * Thai (th)
 183 * Turkish (tr)
 184 * Tuvinian (tyv)
 185 * Venda (ve)
 186 * Vietnamese (vi)
 187 * Volapük (vo)
 188 * Wolof (wo)
 189 * Mingrelian (xmf)
 190 * Yiddish (yi)
 191 * Cantonese (yue)
 192 * Old Chinese / Late Time Chinese (zh-classical)
 193 * Chinese (Simplified) (zh-hans)
 194 * Chinese (Traditional) (zh-hant)
 195
 196 == Compatibility ==
 197
 198 MediaWiki 1.13 requires PHP 5 (5.1 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer supported.
 199
 200 PHP 5.0.x fails on 64-bit systems due to serious bugs with array processing:
 201 http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=34879
 202 Upgrade affected systems to PHP 5.1 or higher.
 203
 204 MySQL 3.23.x is no longer supported; some older hosts may need to upgrade.
 205 At this time we still recommend 4.0, but 4.1/5.0 will work fine in most cases.
 206
 207
 208 == Upgrading ==
 209
 210 1.13 has several database changes since 1.12, and will not work without schema
 211 updates.
 212
 213 If upgrading from before 1.7, you may want to run refreshLinks.php to ensure
 214 new database fields are filled with data.
 215
 216 If upgrading from before 1.11, and you are using a wiki as a commons repository,
 217 make sure that it is updated as well. Otherwise, errors may arise due to
 218 database schema changes.
 219
 220 If you are upgrading from MediaWiki 1.4.x or earlier, some major database
 221 changes are made, and there is a slightly higher chance that things could
 222 break. Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading!
 223
 224 See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions.
 225
 226
 227 === Caveats ===
 228
 229 Some output, particularly involving user-supplied inline HTML, may not
 230 produce 100% valid or well-formed XHTML output. Testers are welcome to
 231 set $wgMimeType = "application/xhtml+xml"; to test for remaining problem
 232 cases, but this is not recommended on live sites. (This must be set for
 233 MathML to display properly in Mozilla.)
 234
 235 For notes on 1.12.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
 236
 237
 238 === Online documentation ===
 239
 240 Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is currently being
 241 built up on MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation
 242 License (except for pages that explicitly state that their contents are in
 243 the public domain) :
 244
 245   http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation
 246
 247
 248 === Mailing list ===
 249
 250 A MediaWiki-l mailing list has been set up distinct from the Wikipedia
 251 wikitech-l list:
 252
 253   http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
 254
 255 A low-traffic announcements-only list is also available:
 256
 257   http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
 258
 259 It's highly recommended that you sign up for one of these lists if you're
 260 going to run a public MediaWiki, so you can be notified of security fixes.
 261
 262
 263 === IRC help ===
 264
 265 There's usually someone online in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net