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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 1.19 ==
7
8 THIS IS NOT A RELEASE YET
9
10 MediaWiki 1.19 is an alpha-quality branch and is not recommended for use in
11 production.
12
13 === Configuration changes in 1.19 ===
14 * Removed SkinTemplateSetupPageCss hook; use BeforePageDisplay instead.
15 * (bug 27132) movefile right granted by default to registered users.
16 * Default cookie lifetime ($wgCookieExpiration) is increased to 180 days.
17
18 === New features in 1.19 ===
19 * (bug 30497) Add client-nojs and client-js classes on document element
20 to let styles easily hide or show things based on general JS availability
21 * (bug 19838) Possibility to get all interwiki prefixes if the interwiki
22 cache is used.
23 * $wgDnsBlacklistUrls now accepts an array with url and key as the
24 elements to work with DNSBLs that require keys, such as
25 Project Honeypot.
26 * (bug 30022) Add support for custom loadScript sources to ResourceLoader.
27 * (bug 19052) Unicode space separator characters (Zs) now terminates external
28 links and images links.
29 * (bug 30160) Add public method to mw.loader to get module names from registry.
30 * (bug 15558) Parameters to special pages included in wikitext can now be passed
31 as with templates.
32 * Installer now issues a warning if mod_security is present.
33 * (bug 29455) Add support for a filter callback function in jQuery byteLimit
34 plugin.
35 * Extensions can now participate in the extraction of titles from url paths
36 * Added two new GetLocalURL hooks to better serve extensions working on a
37 limited type of titles.
38 * Added a --no-updates flag to importDump.php that skips updating the links
39 tables.
40 * Most presentational html attributes like valign are now converted to inline
41 css style rules. These attributes were removed from html5 and so we clean
42 them up when $wgHtml5 is enabled. This can be disabled using
43 $wgCleanupPresentationalAttributes.
44 * Magic words (time and number-formatting ones, plus DIRECTIONMARK, but not
45 NAMESPACE) now depend on the page content language instead of the site
46 language. In theory this sets the right magic words in system messages,
47 although they are not used there.
48 * (bug 30451) Add page_props to RefreshLinks::deleteLinksFromNonexistent
49 * (bug 30450) Clear page_props table on page deletion
50 * Hook added to check for exempt from account creation throttle
51 * (bug 30344) Add configuration variable for setting custom priorities when
52 generating sitemaps
53 * (bug 16428) Include permalink in printable version
54 * (bug 96170) Add array support for space-separated list attributes (like
55 'class') in the Html helper class.
56 * (bug 26470) Add checkered background image on hover on files pages.
57 * (bug 30774) mediawiki.html: Add support for numbers and booleans in the
58 attribute values and element contents.
59 * Conversion script between Tifinagh and Latin for the Tachelhit language
60 * (bug 16755) Add options 'noreplace' and 'noerror' to {{DEFAULTSORT:...}}
61 to stop it from replace an already existing default sort, and suppress error.
62 * (bug 18578) Rewrote revision delete related messages to allow better
63 localisation
64
65 === Bug fixes in 1.19 ===
66 * $wgUploadNavigationUrl should be used for file redlinks if
67 $wgUploadMissingFileUrl is not set. The first was used for this
68 until the second was introduced in 1.17.
69 * (bug 25355) Parser generates edit section links for special pages.
70 * (bug 27894) Move 'editondblclick' event listener down from body to
71 div#bodyContent.
72 * (bug 30172) The check for posix_isatty() in maintenance scripts did not detect
73 when the function exists but is disabled. Introduced
74 Maintenance::posix_isatty().
75 * (bug 30264) Changed installer-generated LocalSettings.php to use
76 require_once() instead require() for included extensions.
77 * Do not convert text in the user interface language to another script.
78 * (bug 26283) Previewing user JS/CSS pages didn't load other user JS/CSS pages
79 * (bug 11374) Improved diff readability for colorblind people.
80 * (bug 26486) ResourceLoader modules with paths to nonexistent files cause PHP
81 warnings/notices to be thrown.
82 * (bug 30335) Fix for HTMLForms using GET breaking when non-friendly URLs are
83 used
84 * (bug 28649) Avoiding half truncated multi-byte unicode characters when
85 truncating log comments.
86 * Show --batch-size option in help of maintenance scripts that support it
87 * (bug 4381) Magic quotes cleaning was not comprehensive, key strings were not
88 unescaped
89 * (bug 30684) Fix bad escaping in mw.message for inexistent messages (i.e. <key>)
90 * (bug 23057) Importers no longer can 'edit' or 'create' a fully-protected page by
91 importing a new revision into it
92 * Allowing moving the associated talk pages of subpages even if the base page
93 has no subpage.
94 * (bug 30907) Special:Unusedcategories should sort ascendingly.
95 * (bug 18424) Special:Prefixindex and Special:Allpages paging links are
96 really small, and somewhat inconsistent with each other.
97 * Per page edit-notices now work in namespaces without subpages enabled.
98 * (bug 30245) Use the correct way to construct a log page title
99 * (bug 31081) $wgEnotifUseJobQ causes many unnecessary jobs to be queued
100
101 === API changes in 1.19 ===
102 * (bug 19838) siprop=interwikimap can now use the interwiki cache.
103 * (bug 29748) Add API search prefix support.
104 * (bug 29684) Set forgotten parameter types in ApiQueryIWLinks.
105 * (bug 29685) do not output NULL parentid with list=deletedrevs&drprop=parentid.
106 * siprop=interwikimap and siprop=languages can use silanguagecode to have
107 a best effort language name translation. Use CLDR extension for best result.
108 * (bug 30230) action=expandtemplates should not silently override invalid title
109 inputs.
110 * (bug 18634) Create API to fetch MediaWiki's language fallback tree structure.
111 * (bug 26885) Allow show/hide of account blocks, temporary blocks and single IP
112 address blocks for list=blocks.
113 * (bug 30591) Add support to only return keys in ApiAllMessages.
114
115 === Languages updated in 1.19 ===
116
117 MediaWiki supports over 330 languages. Many localisations are updated
118 regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
119 changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
120
121 * Uighur (Latin) (ug-latn) was incorrectly marked as right-to-left language.
122 * (bug 30217) Make pt-br a fallback of pt
123
124 === Other changes in 1.19 ===
125 * jquery.mwPrototypes module was renamed to jquery.mwExtension.
126 * The maintenance script populateSha1.php was renamed to the more concise
127 populateImageSha1.php
128 * The Client-IP header is no longer checked for when trying to resolve a client's
129 real IP address.
130
131 == Compatibility ==
132
133 MediaWiki 1.19 requires PHP 5.2.3. PHP 4 is no longer supported.
134
135 MySQL is the recommended DBMS. PostgreSQL or SQLite can also be used, but
136 support for them is somewhat less mature. There is experimental support for IBM
137 DB2 and Microsoft SQL Server.
138
139 The supported versions are:
140
141 * MySQL 4.0 or later
142 * PostgreSQL 8.3 or later
143 * SQLite 3
144 * Oracle 9.0.1 or later
145
146 == Upgrading ==
147
148 1.19 has several database changes since 1.18, and will not work without schema
149 updates.
150
151 If upgrading from before 1.11, and you are using a wiki as a commons
152 repository, make sure that it is updated as well. Otherwise, errors may arise
153 due to database schema changes.
154
155 If upgrading from before 1.7, you may want to run refreshLinks.php to ensure
156 new database fields are filled with data.
157
158 If you are upgrading from MediaWiki 1.4.x or earlier, some major database
159 changes are made, and there is a slightly higher chance that things could
160 break. Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading!
161
162 See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions.
163
164 For notes on 1.15.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
165
166 == Online documentation ==
167
168 Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is available on
169 MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation License (except
170 for pages that explicitly state that their contents are in the public domain):
171
172 http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation
173
174 == Mailing list ==
175
176 A mailing list is available for MediaWiki user support and discussion:
177
178 http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
179
180 A low-traffic announcements-only list is also available:
181
182 http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
183
184 It's highly recommended that you sign up for one of these lists if you're
185 going to run a public MediaWiki, so you can be notified of security fixes.
186
187 == IRC help ==
188
189 There's usually someone online in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net.