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 * maintenance/refreshLinks.php did not fix page_id 1 with the --new-only option
  69 * (bug 13110) Don't show "Permission error" page if the edit is already rolled
  70   back when using rollback
  71
  72 === API changes in 1.13 ===
  73
  74 * Fixing main page display in meta=siteinfo
  75 * (bug 13128) Added patrolled flag to list=recentchanges
  76 * Implemented {bl,ei,iu}redirect (lists links through redirects as well)
  77 * (bug 13154) Introduced subpages flag to meta=siteinfo&siprop=namespaces
  78 * (bug 13157) Added ucuserprefix parameter to list=usercontibs
  79 * (bug 12394) Added rctitles parameter to list=recentchanges, making rcid retrieval easier
  80 * (bug 13218) Fix inclusion of " character in hyperlinks
  81 * Added watch and unwatch parameters to action=delete and action=move
  82 * Added action=edit
  83 * (bug 11401) Added xmldoublequote to xml formatter
  84
  85 === Languages updated in 1.13 ===
  86
  87 * Afrikaans (af)
  88 * Gheg Albanian (aln)
  89 * Amharic (am)
  90 * Aragonese (an)
  91 * Arabic (ar)
  92 * Asturian (ast)
  93 * Kotava (avk)
  94 * Samogitian (bat-smg)
  95 * Bulgarian (bg)
  96 * Catalan (ca)
  97 * Crimean Turkish (Cyrillic) (crh-cyrl)
  98 * Crimean Turkish (Latin) (crh-latn)
  99 * Czech (cs)
 100 * Welsh (cy)
 101 * Danish (da)
 102 * Lower Sorbian (dsb)
 103 * Greek (el)
 104 * Esperanto (eo)
 105 * Spanish (es)
 106 * Estonian (et)
 107 * Extremaduran (ext)
 108 * Finnish (fi)
 109 * Faroese (fo)
 110 * French (fr)
 111 * Franco-Provençal (frp)
 112 * Friulian (fur)
 113 * Irish (ga)
 114 * Gan (gan)
 115 * Galician (gl)
 116 * Croatian (hr)
 117 * Upper Sorbian (hsb)
 118 * Hungarian (hu)
 119 * Indonesian (id)
 120 * Eastern Canadian (Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics) (ike-cans)
 121 * Icelandic (is)
 122 * Italian (it)
 123 * Japanese (ja)
 124 * Georgian (ka)
 125 * Kalaallisut (kl)
 126 * Khmer (km)
 127 * Latin (la)
 128 * Luxembourgish (lb)
 129 * Limburgish (li)
 130 * Lao (lo)
 131 * Lithuanian (lt)
 132 * Malayalam (ml)
 133 * Moldavian (mo)
 134 * Marathi (mr)
 135 * Low German (nds)
 136 * Dutch (nl)
 137 * Norwegian Nynorsk (nn)
 138 * Norwegian (bokmål)‬ (no)
 139 * Polish (pl)
 140 * Pashto (ps)
 141 * Portuguese (pt)
 142 * Russian (ru)
 143 * Yakut (sah)
 144 * Sassaresu (sdc)
 145 * Slovak (sk)
 146 * Somali (so)
 147 * Albanian (sq)
 148 * Sranan Tongo (srn)
 149 * Seeltersk (stq)
 150 * Swedish (sv)
 151 * Tamil (ta)
 152 * Telugu (te)
 153 * Tajik (tg)
 154 * Thai (th)
 155 * Turkish (tr)
 156 * Tuvinian (tyv)
 157 * Venda (ve)
 158 * Vietnamese (vi)
 159 * Volapük (vo)
 160 * Wolof (wo)
 161 * Mingrelian (xmf)
 162 * Yiddish (yi)
 163
 164 == Compatibility ==
 165
 166 MediaWiki 1.13 requires PHP 5 (5.1 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer supported.
 167
 168 PHP 5.0.x fails on 64-bit systems due to serious bugs with array processing:
 169 http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=34879
 170 Upgrade affected systems to PHP 5.1 or higher.
 171
 172 MySQL 3.23.x is no longer supported; some older hosts may need to upgrade.
 173 At this time we still recommend 4.0, but 4.1/5.0 will work fine in most cases.
 174
 175
 176 == Upgrading ==
 177
 178 1.13 has several database changes since 1.12, and will not work without schema
 179 updates.
 180
 181 If upgrading from before 1.7, you may want to run refreshLinks.php to ensure
 182 new database fields are filled with data.
 183
 184 If upgrading from before 1.11, and you are using a wiki as a commons repository,
 185 make sure that it is updated as well. Otherwise, errors may arise due to
 186 database schema changes.
 187
 188 If you are upgrading from MediaWiki 1.4.x or earlier, some major database
 189 changes are made, and there is a slightly higher chance that things could
 190 break. Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading!
 191
 192 See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions.
 193
 194
 195 === Caveats ===
 196
 197 Some output, particularly involving user-supplied inline HTML, may not
 198 produce 100% valid or well-formed XHTML output. Testers are welcome to
 199 set $wgMimeType = "application/xhtml+xml"; to test for remaining problem
 200 cases, but this is not recommended on live sites. (This must be set for
 201 MathML to display properly in Mozilla.)
 202
 203 For notes on 1.12.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
 204
 205
 206 === Online documentation ===
 207
 208 Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is currently being
 209 built up on MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation
 210 License (except for pages that explicitly state that their contents are in
 211 the public domain) :
 212
 213   http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation
 214
 215
 216 === Mailing list ===
 217
 218 A MediaWiki-l mailing list has been set up distinct from the Wikipedia
 219 wikitech-l list:
 220
 221   http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
 222
 223 A low-traffic announcements-only list is also available:
 224
 225   http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
 226
 227 It's highly recommended that you sign up for one of these lists if you're
 228 going to run a public MediaWiki, so you can be notified of security fixes.
 229
 230
 231 === IRC help ===
 232
 233 There's usually someone online in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net