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 * (bug 1459) Search for duplicate files by hash: Special:FileDuplicateSearch
  52
  53 === Bug fixes in 1.13 ===
  54
  55 * (bug 10677) Add link to the file description page on the shared repository
  56 * (bug 13084) Increase size of source/destination filename fields in upload form
  57 * (bug 13115) rebuildrecentchanges should print the current value of $wgRCMaxAge
  58 * (bug 13140) Show parent categories in category namespace
  59 * (bug 13149) Correctly format 'fileexists' message on Upload page
  60 * Make the default filepageexists message accurate
  61 * (bug 12988) $wgMinimalPasswordLength no longer breaks create user by email
  62 * (bug 13022) Fix upload from URL on PHP 5.0.x
  63 * (bug 13132) Unable to unprotect pages protected with earlier versions of MediaWiki
  64 * (bug 12723) OpenSearch description name now uses more compact language code
  65   to avoid passing the length limit as often, is customizable per site via
  66   'opensearch-desc' message.
  67 * (bug 13135) Special:Userrights now passes IDs through form submission
  68   to allow functionality on not-quite-right usernames
  69 * (bug 12575) Prevent duplicate patrol log entries from being created
  70 * (bug 13174) __HIDDENCAT__ now applies only to category pages
  71 * (bug 13031) Add links to user pages in e-mail form
  72 * (bug 13147) Description for categoriespagetext (used in Special:Categories) reworded
  73 * (bug 11561) Fix fatal error when calling action=revert to non-image page
  74 * (bug 12430) Fix call to private method LinkFilter::makeRegex fatal error in
  75   maintenance/cleanupSpam.php
  76 * All skins should have the "mediawiki" class on the body element
  77 * (bug 13019) Message cache for some extensions not loaded at time of editing
  78 * (bug 13247) Prettified ISBN links
  79 * maintenance/refreshLinks.php did not fix page_id 1 with the --new-only option
  80 * (bug 13110) Don't show "Permission error" page if the edit is already rolled
  81   back when using rollback
  82 * (bug 13012) Use content messages for block options when generating the
  83   recentchanges entry
  84 * (bug 13274) Change links for messages to ucfirst
  85 * (bug 13273) Un-hardcode some punctuation (add new messages colon-separator,
  86   autocomment-prefix)
  87 * Parse MediaWiki message translations with a correct language setting on preview
  88 * (bug 13281) Treat X-Forwarded-For, Client-ip and User-Agent headers as
  89   case-insensitive names.
  90 * Adding the fix for lists in RTL wikis to more skins, and fixing the image toc
  91 * (bug 8157) Remove redirects from Special:Unusedtemplates. Patch by WebBoy.
  92 * (bug 10721) Duplicate section anchors with differing case now disambiguated
  93   for Internet Explorer's sake and standards compliance
  94 * (bug 13298) Tighter limits on Special:Newpages limits when embedding
  95 * Email subject in content language instead of sending user's UI language
  96 * (bug 13251) Allow maintenance rebuild scripts to work with Postgres
  97 * (bug 2084) Fixed incorrect regex to match redirects
  98 * (bug 3131) Manually-specified upload destination filename is no longer
  99   overwritten by browsing for a file after you wrote it.
 100 * (bug 7251) Sidebars generated by MediaWiki:Sidebar now have the class
 101   'generated-sidebar'.
 102 * (bug 13265) Media handler is missing 'image/x-bmp'
 103 * (bug 13407) MediaWiki:Powersearch is used in two places
 104 * (bug 13403) Fix cache invalidation of history pages when old revisions change
 105 * (bug 11563) Deprecated SearchMySQL4 class; merged code to SearchMySQL
 106 * (bug 12801) Fix link in subtitle message in AJAX search
 107 * (bug 13428) Fix regression in protection form layout HTML validity
 108 * (bug 9403) Sanitize newlines from search term input
 109 * (bug 13429) Separate date and time in message sp-newimages-showfrom
 110
 111
 112 === API changes in 1.13 ===
 113
 114 * Fixing main page display in meta=siteinfo
 115 * (bug 13128) Added patrolled flag to list=recentchanges
 116 * Implemented {bl,ei,iu}redirect (lists links through redirects as well)
 117 * (bug 13154) Introduced subpages flag to meta=siteinfo&siprop=namespaces
 118 * (bug 13157) Added ucuserprefix parameter to list=usercontibs
 119 * (bug 12394) Added rctitles parameter to list=recentchanges, making rcid
 120   retrieval easier
 121 * (bug 13218) Fix inclusion of " character in hyperlinks
 122 * Added watch and unwatch parameters to action=delete and action=move
 123 * Added action=edit
 124 * (bug 11401) Added xmldoublequote to xml formatter
 125 * Added rvsection parameter to prop=revisions to allow fetching the content of
 126   a certain section only
 127 * Introduced list=allimages
 128 * (bug 13371) Build page set from image hashes
 129 * Mark non-existent messages in meta=allmessages as missing
 130 * (bug 13390) One invalid title no longer kills an entire API query
 131 * (bug 13419) Fix gblredirect so it actually works
 132 * (bug 13418) Disable eiredirect because it's useless
 133 * (bug 13137) Allow setting 'editprotected' right separately from 'protect',
 134   so groups may optionally edit protected pages without having 'protect' perms
 135
 136 === Languages updated in 1.13 ===
 137
 138 * Afrikaans (af)
 139 * Gheg Albanian (aln)
 140 * Amharic (am)
 141 * Aragonese (an)
 142 * Arabic (ar)
 143 * Asturian (ast)
 144 * Kotava (avk)
 145 * Samogitian (bat-smg)
 146 * Bulgarian (bg)
 147 * Catalan (ca)
 148 * Crimean Turkish (Cyrillic) (crh-cyrl)
 149 * Crimean Turkish (Latin) (crh-latn)
 150 * Czech (cs)
 151 * Welsh (cy)
 152 * Danish (da)
 153 * Lower Sorbian (dsb)
 154 * Greek (el)
 155 * Esperanto (eo)
 156 * Spanish (es)
 157 * Estonian (et)
 158 * Extremaduran (ext)
 159 * Finnish (fi)
 160 * Faroese (fo)
 161 * French (fr)
 162 * Franco-Provençal (frp)
 163 * Friulian (fur)
 164 * Irish (ga)
 165 * Gan (gan)
 166 * Galician (gl)
 167 * Croatian (hr)
 168 * Upper Sorbian (hsb)
 169 * Hungarian (hu)
 170 * Indonesian (id)
 171 * Eastern Canadian (Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics) (ike-cans)
 172 * Icelandic (is)
 173 * Italian (it)
 174 * Japanese (ja)
 175 * Georgian (ka)
 176 * Kalaallisut (kl)
 177 * Khmer (km)
 178 * Latin (la)
 179 * Luxembourgish (lb)
 180 * Limburgish (li)
 181 * Lao (lo)
 182 * Lithuanian (lt)
 183 * Malayalam (ml)
 184 * Moldavian (mo)
 185 * Marathi (mr)
 186 * Low German (nds)
 187 * Dutch (nl)
 188 * Norwegian Nynorsk (nn)
 189 * Norwegian (bokmål)‬ (no)
 190 * Polish (pl)
 191 * Pashto (ps)
 192 * Portuguese (pt)
 193 * Russian (ru)
 194 * Yakut (sah)
 195 * Sassaresu (sdc)
 196 * Slovak (sk)
 197 * Somali (so)
 198 * Albanian (sq)
 199 * Sranan Tongo (srn)
 200 * Seeltersk (stq)
 201 * Swedish (sv)
 202 * Tamil (ta)
 203 * Telugu (te)
 204 * Tajik (tg)
 205 * Thai (th)
 206 * Turkish (tr)
 207 * Tuvinian (tyv)
 208 * Venda (ve)
 209 * Vietnamese (vi)
 210 * Volapük (vo)
 211 * Wolof (wo)
 212 * Mingrelian (xmf)
 213 * Yiddish (yi)
 214 * Cantonese (yue)
 215 * Old Chinese / Late Time Chinese (zh-classical)
 216 * Chinese (Simplified) (zh-hans)
 217 * Chinese (Traditional) (zh-hant)
 218
 219 == Compatibility ==
 220
 221 MediaWiki 1.13 requires PHP 5 (5.1 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer supported.
 222
 223 PHP 5.0.x fails on 64-bit systems due to serious bugs with array processing:
 224 http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=34879
 225 Upgrade affected systems to PHP 5.1 or higher.
 226
 227 MySQL 3.23.x is no longer supported; some older hosts may need to upgrade.
 228 At this time we still recommend 4.0, but 4.1/5.0 will work fine in most cases.
 229
 230
 231 == Upgrading ==
 232
 233 1.13 has several database changes since 1.12, and will not work without schema
 234 updates.
 235
 236 If upgrading from before 1.7, you may want to run refreshLinks.php to ensure
 237 new database fields are filled with data.
 238
 239 If upgrading from before 1.11, and you are using a wiki as a commons repository,
 240 make sure that it is updated as well. Otherwise, errors may arise due to
 241 database schema changes.
 242
 243 If you are upgrading from MediaWiki 1.4.x or earlier, some major database
 244 changes are made, and there is a slightly higher chance that things could
 245 break. Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading!
 246
 247 See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions.
 248
 249
 250 === Caveats ===
 251
 252 Some output, particularly involving user-supplied inline HTML, may not
 253 produce 100% valid or well-formed XHTML output. Testers are welcome to
 254 set $wgMimeType = "application/xhtml+xml"; to test for remaining problem
 255 cases, but this is not recommended on live sites. (This must be set for
 256 MathML to display properly in Mozilla.)
 257
 258 For notes on 1.12.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
 259
 260
 261 === Online documentation ===
 262
 263 Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is currently being
 264 built up on MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation
 265 License (except for pages that explicitly state that their contents are in
 266 the public domain) :
 267
 268   http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation
 269
 270
 271 === Mailing list ===
 272
 273 A MediaWiki-l mailing list has been set up distinct from the Wikipedia
 274 wikitech-l list:
 275
 276   http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
 277
 278 A low-traffic announcements-only list is also available:
 279
 280   http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
 281
 282 It's highly recommended that you sign up for one of these lists if you're
 283 going to run a public MediaWiki, so you can be notified of security fixes.
 284
 285
 286 === IRC help ===
 287
 288 There's usually someone online in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net