1 = MediaWiki release notes =
3 == Version 1.1.0, 2003-12-08 ==
5 This is the new production release. Any following 1.1.x releases are expected
6 to contain only bug fixes; developments of new features will go towards a 1.2.0
10 * New wiki table syntax:
11 http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_User%27s_Guide:_Using_tables
12 * User-editable interface messages:
13 http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_namespace
14 * XML-wrapped page source export with optional history:
15 http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML_import_and_export
16 (There is not yet an import function!)
20 * linkscc table caches link data for rendering; faster rebuildlinks.php
21 * Numerous bugs in Cologne Blue skin fixed
22 * Login gives warning about missing cookies
23 * Block log, protection log added; deletion log now includes undeletions
24 * Deletion & upload logs now escape comment text properly
25 * Problems with <nowiki> segments in section titles etc mitigated
26 * Contributions offset and minor edit bugs fixed
27 * Whatlinkshere now sorted alphabetically
28 * Various small bugs fixed.
31 * wfQuery has had a second parameter inserted, DB_READ or DB_WRITE. This value
32 is not actually used so far.
33 * Partial code for categories and Smarty template-based skins is in the tree
35 * Parts of Article.php have been moved to EditPage.php and ImagePage.php.
44 === Database changes ===
46 "linkscc" table added. If upgrading manually (rather than with update.php),
47 run maintenance/archives/patch-linkscc.sql to create the table.
49 Older releases were dated snapshots from the old 'stable' branch:
51 == mediawiki-20031118 ==
53 * Image deletion fixed.
54 * Deletion of image old revisions now restricted to sysops
55 (this is an irreversible action and not well logged)
56 * Fixed maintenance scripts broken by last release's security fix
57 * Many errors in rebuildlinks script fixed.
59 == mediawiki-20031117 ==
61 * SECURITY FIX: stricter checking of include path
62 * Fixed user contributions next/prev bug
63 * Login cookies now have the database name prefixed to allow wikis
64 to coexist in the same domain. This will invalidate any old saved
66 * Update cache timestamp when talk pages are created
67 * Saving the login form in Mozilla no longer blanks password in prefs.
68 * Check existence of source page before performing a move.
69 * Detect invalid titles in Special:Allpages
70 * Q-encode headers on outgoing inter-user e-mail
71 * Updates to some translations.
72 * Added table of contents border/bg to Cologne Blue, Nostalgia skins
73 * Protected pages no longer appear unprotected when visited via redirect
74 * Swapped old Wikipedia logo for the MediaWiki sunflower logo
75 * install.php, update.php print warning on old PHP versions,
76 added compatibility functions that might or might not help
78 No database changes since 20031107; upgrading should be clean.
81 == mediawiki-20031107 ==
84 * Some speed improvements from tweaks to the table indexes
85 * Limited support for memcached (see below)
86 * New translations (see below)
87 * Interwiki link data now kept in database for flexibility
88 * Friendlier read-only source view if asked to edit a page when
89 the db is locked or the page is protected.
90 * Normal IP blocks auto-expire after 24 hours
91 * Optional support for blocking usernames
92 * Uploads disabled by default (see below)
97 Uploads are now disabled by default. If you've set up a secure configuration
98 you can reenable uploads by putting:
100 $wgDisableUploads = false;
102 into LocalSettings.php.
104 Earlier versions of MediaWiki included a bug that potentially allows logged-
105 in users to delete arbitrary files in directories writable by the web server
106 user by manually feeding false form data; this is now fixed.
108 As a reminder, disable PHP script execution in the upload directory!
109 You may also wish to serve HTML pages as plaintext to prevent cookie-
110 stealing JavaScript attacks. Example Apache config fragment:
112 <Directory "/Library/MediaWiki/web/upload">
113 # Ignore .htaccess files
116 # Serve HTML as plaintext
117 AddType text/plain .html .htm .shtml
119 # Don't run arbitrary PHP code.
120 php_admin_flag engine off
122 # If you've other scripting languages, disable them too.
126 === Database updates ===
128 If you're using update.php, the necessary database changes should
129 be made automatically.
131 To manually upgrade your database from the 2003-08-29 release, run the
132 following SQL scripts from the maintenance subdirectory:
134 archives/patch-ipblocks.sql
135 archives/patch-interwiki.sql
136 archives/patch-indexes.sql
139 To copy in the Wikipedia language-prefix interwikis as well, add:
141 wikipedia-interwiki.sql
146 New interface localization files are included for:
156 Memcached is a distributed cache system. See http://www.danga.com/memcached/
157 MediaWiki can optionally use memcached to store some data between calls
158 to reduce load on the database. Currently this is limited to user and
159 talk page notification data, interwiki prefix/URL matches, and the
160 UTF-8 conversion tables.
162 MediaWiki includes version 1.0.10 of the (GPL'd) PHP memcached client by
163 Ryan Gilfether; if memcached is disabled it acts as a dummy object with
166 To use memcached you'll need PHP installed with sockets support (this is not
167 in the default configure options). See docs/memcached for some more details.
169 Additionally, you can store login session data in memcached instead of the
170 local filesystem, which can help to enable load-balancing by letting login
171 sessions transparently work on multiple front-end web servers. (The primary
172 other issue is with uploads, which requires some care in handling.)
174 To enable this, set $wgSessionsInMemcached = true; and set $wgCookieDomain
175 appropriately if exposing multiple hostnames. This system is new and may be
176 volatile; login sessions will fail dramatically if memcached is unavailable
177 when this option is turned on.
180 === Online documentation ===
182 Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is currently being
183 built up on Meta-Wikipedia, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation
186 http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_User%27s_Guide
191 A MediaWiki-l mailing list has been set up distinct from the Wikipedia
194 http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
197 === UseModWiki import script ===
199 A stripped-down UseModWiki import script is available in the maintenance
200 subdirectory. It is incomplete and requires a lot of manual clean-up, but
201 does function for the brave and pure of heart.
204 === Test suite removed ===
206 The unmaintained Java-based test suite has been removed from the tarball
207 release. If you really want it you can check it out from CVS.
210 == mediawiki-20030829 ==
212 First release under MediaWiki name.