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