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 * Add updatelog table to reliably permit updates that don't change the schema
  49 * Add category table to allow better tracking of category membership counts
  50 ** (bug 1212) Give correct membership counts on the pages of large categories
  51
  52 === Bug fixes in 1.13 ===
  53
  54 * (bug 10677) Add link to the file description page on the shared repository
  55 * (bug 13084) Increase size of source/destination filename fields in upload form
  56 * (bug 13115) rebuildrecentchanges should print the current value of $wgRCMaxAge
  57 * (bug 13140) Show parent categories in category namespace
  58 * (bug 13149) Correctly format 'fileexists' message on Upload page
  59 * Make the default filepageexists message accurate
  60 * (bug 12988) $wgMinimalPasswordLength no longer breaks create user by email
  61 * (bug 13022) Fix upload from URL on PHP 5.0.x
  62 * (bug 13132) Unable to unprotect pages protected with earlier versions of MediaWiki
  63 * (bug 12723) OpenSearch description name now uses more compact language code
  64   to avoid passing the length limit as often, is customizable per site via
  65   'opensearch-desc' message.
  66 * (bug 13135) Special:Userrights now passes IDs through form submission
  67   to allow functionality on not-quite-right usernames
  68 * (bug 12575) Prevent duplicate patrol log entries from being created
  69 * (bug 13174) __HIDDENCAT__ now applies only to category pages
  70 * (bug 13031) Add links to user pages in e-mail form
  71 * (bug 13147) Description for categoriespagetext (used in Special:Categories) reworded
  72 * (bug 11561) Fix fatal error when calling action=revert to non-image page
  73 * (bug 12430) Fix call to private method LinkFilter::makeRegex fatal error in
  74   maintenance/cleanupSpam.php
  75 * All skins should have the "mediawiki" class on the body element
  76 * (bug 13019) Message cache for some extensions not loaded at time of editing
  77 * (bug 13247) Prettified ISBN links
  78 * maintenance/refreshLinks.php did not fix page_id 1 with the --new-only option
  79 * (bug 13110) Don't show "Permission error" page if the edit is already rolled
  80   back when using rollback
  81 * (bug 13012) Use content messages for block options when generating the
  82   recentchanges entry
  83 * (bug 13274) Change links for messages to ucfirst
  84 * (bug 13273) Un-hardcode some punctuation (add new messages colon-separator,
  85   autocomment-prefix)
  86 * Parse MediaWiki message translations with a correct language setting on preview
  87 * (bug 13281) Treat X-Forwarded-For, Client-ip and User-Agent headers as
  88   case-insensitive names.
  89 * Adding the fix for lists in RTL wikis to more skins, and fixing the image toc
  90 * (bug 8157) Remove redirects from Special:Unusedtemplates. Patch by WebBoy.
  91 * (bug 10721) Duplicate section anchors with differing case now disambiguated
  92   for Internet Explorer's sake and standards compliance
  93 * (bug 13298) Tighter limits on Special:Newpages limits when embedding
  94 * Email subject in content language instead of sending user's UI language
  95 * (bug 13251) Allow maintenance rebuild scripts to work with Postgres
  96 * (bug 2084) Fixed incorrect regex to match redirects
  97 * (bug 3131) Manually-specified upload destination filename is no longer
  98   overwritten by browsing for a file after you wrote it.
  99 * (bug 7251) Sidebars generated by MediaWiki:Sidebar now have the class
 100   'generated-sidebar'.
 101 * (bug 13265) Media handler is missing 'image/x-bmp'
 102 * (bug 13407) MediaWiki:Powersearch is used in two places
 103 * (bug 13403) Fix cache invalidation of history pages when old revisions change
 104 * (bug 11563) Deprecated SearchMySQL4 class; merged code to SearchMySQL
 105 * (bug 12801) Fix link in subtitle message in AJAX search
 106 * (bug 13428) Fix regression in protection form layout HTML validity
 107 * (bug 9403) Sanitize newlines from search term input
 108 * (bug 13429) Separate date and time in message sp-newimages-showfrom
 109
 110
 111 === API changes in 1.13 ===
 112
 113 * Fixing main page display in meta=siteinfo
 114 * (bug 13128) Added patrolled flag to list=recentchanges
 115 * Implemented {bl,ei,iu}redirect (lists links through redirects as well)
 116 * (bug 13154) Introduced subpages flag to meta=siteinfo&siprop=namespaces
 117 * (bug 13157) Added ucuserprefix parameter to list=usercontibs
 118 * (bug 12394) Added rctitles parameter to list=recentchanges, making rcid
 119   retrieval easier
 120 * (bug 13218) Fix inclusion of " character in hyperlinks
 121 * Added watch and unwatch parameters to action=delete and action=move
 122 * Added action=edit
 123 * (bug 11401) Added xmldoublequote to xml formatter
 124 * Added rvsection parameter to prop=revisions to allow fetching the content of
 125   a certain section only
 126 * Introduced list=allimages
 127 * (bug 13371) Build page set from image hashes
 128 * Mark non-existent messages in meta=allmessages as missing
 129 * (bug 13390) One invalid title no longer kills an entire API query
 130 * (bug 13419) Fix gblredirect so it actually works
 131 * (bug 13418) Disable eiredirect because it's useless
 132 * (bug 13137) Allow setting 'editprotected' right separately from 'protect',
 133   so groups may optionally edit protected pages without having 'protect' perms
 134
 135 === Languages updated in 1.13 ===
 136
 137 * Afrikaans (af)
 138 * Gheg Albanian (aln)
 139 * Amharic (am)
 140 * Aragonese (an)
 141 * Arabic (ar)
 142 * Asturian (ast)
 143 * Kotava (avk)
 144 * Samogitian (bat-smg)
 145 * Bulgarian (bg)
 146 * Catalan (ca)
 147 * Crimean Turkish (Cyrillic) (crh-cyrl)
 148 * Crimean Turkish (Latin) (crh-latn)
 149 * Czech (cs)
 150 * Welsh (cy)
 151 * Danish (da)
 152 * Lower Sorbian (dsb)
 153 * Greek (el)
 154 * Esperanto (eo)
 155 * Spanish (es)
 156 * Estonian (et)
 157 * Extremaduran (ext)
 158 * Finnish (fi)
 159 * Faroese (fo)
 160 * French (fr)
 161 * Franco-Provençal (frp)
 162 * Friulian (fur)
 163 * Irish (ga)
 164 * Gan (gan)
 165 * Galician (gl)
 166 * Croatian (hr)
 167 * Upper Sorbian (hsb)
 168 * Hungarian (hu)
 169 * Indonesian (id)
 170 * Eastern Canadian (Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics) (ike-cans)
 171 * Icelandic (is)
 172 * Italian (it)
 173 * Japanese (ja)
 174 * Georgian (ka)
 175 * Kalaallisut (kl)
 176 * Khmer (km)
 177 * Latin (la)
 178 * Luxembourgish (lb)
 179 * Limburgish (li)
 180 * Lao (lo)
 181 * Lithuanian (lt)
 182 * Malayalam (ml)
 183 * Moldavian (mo)
 184 * Marathi (mr)
 185 * Low German (nds)
 186 * Dutch (nl)
 187 * Norwegian Nynorsk (nn)
 188 * Norwegian (bokmål)‬ (no)
 189 * Polish (pl)
 190 * Pashto (ps)
 191 * Portuguese (pt)
 192 * Russian (ru)
 193 * Yakut (sah)
 194 * Sassaresu (sdc)
 195 * Slovak (sk)
 196 * Somali (so)
 197 * Albanian (sq)
 198 * Sranan Tongo (srn)
 199 * Seeltersk (stq)
 200 * Swedish (sv)
 201 * Tamil (ta)
 202 * Telugu (te)
 203 * Tajik (tg)
 204 * Thai (th)
 205 * Turkish (tr)
 206 * Tuvinian (tyv)
 207 * Venda (ve)
 208 * Vietnamese (vi)
 209 * Volapük (vo)
 210 * Wolof (wo)
 211 * Mingrelian (xmf)
 212 * Yiddish (yi)
 213 * Cantonese (yue)
 214 * Old Chinese / Late Time Chinese (zh-classical)
 215 * Chinese (Simplified) (zh-hans)
 216 * Chinese (Traditional) (zh-hant)
 217
 218 == Compatibility ==
 219
 220 MediaWiki 1.13 requires PHP 5 (5.1 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer supported.
 221
 222 PHP 5.0.x fails on 64-bit systems due to serious bugs with array processing:
 223 http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=34879
 224 Upgrade affected systems to PHP 5.1 or higher.
 225
 226 MySQL 3.23.x is no longer supported; some older hosts may need to upgrade.
 227 At this time we still recommend 4.0, but 4.1/5.0 will work fine in most cases.
 228
 229
 230 == Upgrading ==
 231
 232 1.13 has several database changes since 1.12, and will not work without schema
 233 updates.
 234
 235 If upgrading from before 1.7, you may want to run refreshLinks.php to ensure
 236 new database fields are filled with data.
 237
 238 If upgrading from before 1.11, and you are using a wiki as a commons repository,
 239 make sure that it is updated as well. Otherwise, errors may arise due to
 240 database schema changes.
 241
 242 If you are upgrading from MediaWiki 1.4.x or earlier, some major database
 243 changes are made, and there is a slightly higher chance that things could
 244 break. Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading!
 245
 246 See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions.
 247
 248
 249 === Caveats ===
 250
 251 Some output, particularly involving user-supplied inline HTML, may not
 252 produce 100% valid or well-formed XHTML output. Testers are welcome to
 253 set $wgMimeType = "application/xhtml+xml"; to test for remaining problem
 254 cases, but this is not recommended on live sites. (This must be set for
 255 MathML to display properly in Mozilla.)
 256
 257 For notes on 1.12.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
 258
 259
 260 === Online documentation ===
 261
 262 Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is currently being
 263 built up on MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation
 264 License (except for pages that explicitly state that their contents are in
 265 the public domain) :
 266
 267   http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation
 268
 269
 270 === Mailing list ===
 271
 272 A MediaWiki-l mailing list has been set up distinct from the Wikipedia
 273 wikitech-l list:
 274
 275   http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
 276
 277 A low-traffic announcements-only list is also available:
 278
 279   http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
 280
 281 It's highly recommended that you sign up for one of these lists if you're
 282 going to run a public MediaWiki, so you can be notified of security fixes.
 283
 284
 285 === IRC help ===
 286
 287 There's usually someone online in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net