RELEASE-NOTES-1.23

   1 Security reminder: MediaWiki does not require PHP's register_globals. If you
   2 have it on, turn it '''off''' if you can.
   3
   4 == MediaWiki 1.23 ==
   5
   6 THIS IS NOT A RELEASE YET
   7
   8 MediaWiki 1.23 is an alpha-quality branch and is not recommended for use in
   9 production.
  10
  11 === Configuration changes in 1.23 ===
  12 * $wgDebugLogGroups values may be set to an associative array with a
  13   'destination' key specifying the log destination. The array may also contain
  14   a 'sample' key with a positive integer value N indicating that the log group
  15   should be sampled by dispatching one in every N messages on average. The
  16   sampling is random.
  17 * In addition to the current exception log format, MediaWiki now serializes
  18   exception metadata to JSON and logs it to the 'exception-json' log group.
  19   This makes MediaWiki easier to integrate with log aggregation and analysis
  20   tools.
  21 * $wgSquidServersNoPurge now supports the use of Classless Inter-Domain
  22   Routing (CIDR) notation to specify contiguous blocks of IPv4 and/or IPv6
  23   addresses that should be trusted to provide X-Forwarded-For headers.
  24 * Preferences 'watchcreations' and 'watchdefault' ("Add pages I create and files
  25   I upload to my watchlist", "Add pages and files I edit to my watchlist") are
  26   now enabled by default.
  27 * $wgLBFactoryConf: Class names have had underscores removed. The configuration
  28   should be updated if LBFactory_Simple or LBFactory_Multi is configured.
  29 * $wgPasswordSenderName has been deprecated. To set a custom mailer name,
  30   the system message 'emailsender' should be modified (default: "{{SITENAME}}").
  31
  32 === New features in 1.23 ===
  33 * ResourceLoader can utilize the Web Storage API to cache modules client-side.
  34   Compared to the browser cache, caching in Web Storage allows ResourceLoader
  35   to be more granular about evicting stale modules from the cache while
  36   retaining the ability to retrieve multiple modules in a single HTTP request.
  37   This capability can be enabled by setting $wgResourceLoaderStorageEnabled to
  38   true. This feature is currently considered experimental and should only be
  39   enabled with care.
  40 * (bug 6092) Add expensive parser functions {{REVISIONID:}}, {{REVISIONUSER:}}
  41   and {{REVISIONTIMESTAMP:}} (with friends).
  42 * Add "wgRelevantUserName" to mw.config containing the current
  43   Skin::getRelevantUser value.
  44 * (bug 56033) Add content model to the page information.
  45 * Added Article::MissingArticleConditions hook to give extensions a chance to
  46   hide their (unrelated) log entries.
  47 * Added $wgOpenSearchDefaultLimit defining the default number of entries to show
  48   on action=opensearch API call.
  49 * For namespaces with $wgNamespaceProtection (including the MediaWiki
  50   namespace), the "protect" tab will be shown only if there are restriction
  51   levels available that would restrict editing beyond what
  52   $wgNamespaceProtection already applies. The protection form will offer only
  53   those protection levels.
  54 * Added $wgAPIFormatModules, allowing extensions to add additional output
  55   formatting modules for the API.
  56 * (bug 47812) The MediaWiki:Group-user.{css,js} pages can now be used to add
  57   custom CSS or JavaScript enabled only for registered users.
  58 * (bug 52005) Special pages RecentChanges, RecentChangesLinked and Watchlist
  59   now include a legend describing the symbols used in lists of changes.
  60 * Improved the accessibility of the tabs in Special:Preferences.
  61 * Added ApiBeforeMain hook, roughly equivalent to the BeforeInitialize hook:
  62   it's called after everything is set up but before any major processing
  63   happens.
  64
  65 === Bug fixes in 1.23 ===
  66 * (bug 41759) The "updated since last visit" markers (on history pages, recent
  67   changes and watchlist) and the talk page message indicator are now correctly
  68   updated when the user is viewing old revisions of pages, instead of always
  69   acting as if the latest revision was being viewed.
  70 * (bug 56443) Special:ConfirmEmail no longer shows a "Mail a confirmation code"
  71   when the email address is already confirmed. Also, consistently use
  72   "confirmed", rather than "authenticated", when messaging whether or not the
  73   user has confirmed an email address.
  74 * (bug 56912) Show correct link color on cached result of Special:DeadendPages.
  75 * Classes TitleListDependency and TitleDependency have been removed, as they
  76   have been found unused in core and extensions for a long time.
  77 * (bug 57098) SpecialPasswordReset now obeys returnto parameter
  78 * (bug 37812) ResourceLoader will notice when a module's definition changes and
  79   recompile it accordingly.
  80 * (bug 57201) SpecialRecentChangesFilters hook is now executed for feeds.
  81
  82 === API changes in 1.23 ===
  83 * (bug 54884) action=parse&prop=categories now indicates hidden and missing
  84   categories.
  85 * action=query&meta=filerepoinfo now returns additional information for each
  86   repo.
  87 * EditPage::spamPage() was deprecated since 1.17 and has been removed.
  88 * action=parse&prop=languageshtml was deprecated in 1.18 and will be removed in
  89   MediaWiki 1.24.
  90 * action=parse now has disabletoc flag to disable table of contents in output.
  91 * SpecialRecentChanges::feedSetup() was removed.
  92 * (bug 25702) list=allcategories, list=allimages, list=alllinks, list=allpages,
  93   list=deletedrevs and list=filearchive did not handle case-sensitivity
  94   properly for all parameters.
  95 * ApiQueryBase::titlePartToKey allows an extra parameter that indicates the
  96   namespace in order to properly capitalize the title part.
  97 * Renamed classes:
  98   - LBFactory_Fake to LBFactoryFake
  99   - LBFactory_Multi to LBFactoryMulti
 100   - LBFactory_Simple to LBFactorySimple
 101   - LBFactory_Single to LBFactorySingle
 102   - LoadBalancer_Single to LoadBalancerSingle
 103   - LoadMonitor_MySQL to LoadMonitorMySQL
 104   - LoadMonitor_Null to LoadMonitorNull
 105 * Removed methods:
 106   - Exif::getFormattedData() (deprecated in 1.18)
 107   - Exif::makeFormattedData() (deprecated in 1.18)
 108   - Linker::makeBrokenLink() (deprecated in 1.16)
 109   - Linker::makeBrokenLinkObj() (deprecated in 1.16)
 110   - Linker::makeColouredLinkObj() (deprecated in 1.16)
 111   - Linker::makeSizeLinkObj() (deprecated in 1.17)
 112
 113 === Languages updated in 1.23 ===
 114
 115 MediaWiki supports over 350 languages. Many localisations are updated
 116 regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
 117 changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
 118
 119 * Support was added for Northern Luri (lrc)
 120
 121 === Other changes in 1.23 ===
 122 * The rc_type field in the recentchanges table has been superseded by a new
 123   rc_source field.  The rc_source field is a string representation of the
 124   change type where rc_type was a numeric constant.  This field is not yet
 125   queried but will be in a future point release of 1.22.
 126 ** Utilize update.php to create and populate this new field.  On larger wiki's
 127    which do not wish to update recentchanges table in one large update please
 128    review the sql and comments in maintenance/archives/patch-rc_source.sql.
 129 ** The rc_type field of recentchanges will be deprecated in a future point
 130    release.
 131 * The global variable $wgArticle has been removed after a lengthy deprecation.
 132 * The global functions addButton and insertTags (for mw.toolbar.addButton and
 133   mw.toolbar.insertTags) now emits mw.log.warn when accessed.
 134 * User::getPageRenderingHash() was deprecated since 1.17 and has been removed.
 135 * The ExpandTemplates extension has been moved into MediaWiki core.
 136 * (bug 52812) Removed "Disable search suggestions" from Preference.
 137 * (bug 52809) Removed "Disable browser page caching" from Preference.
 138 * Three new modules intended for use by custom skins were added:
 139   'skins.common.elements', 'skins.common.content', and 'skins.common.interface',
 140   representing three levels of standard MediaWiki styling. Previously skin
 141   creators wishing to use them had to refer to the file names of appropriate
 142   files directly, which is now discouraged.
 143 * The modules 'skins.vector' and 'skins.monobook' have been renamed to
 144   'skins.vector.styles' and 'skins.monobook.styles', respectively,
 145   and their definition was changed not to include the common*.css files;
 146   the two skins now load the 'skins.common.interface' module instead.
 147 * A page_links_updated field has been added to the page table.
 148 * SpecialPage::getTitle has been deprecated in favor of
 149   SpecialPage::getPageTitle.
 150
 151 == Compatibility ==
 152
 153 MediaWiki 1.23 requires PHP 5.3.2 or later.
 154
 155 MySQL is the recommended DBMS. PostgreSQL or SQLite can also be used, but
 156 support for them is somewhat less mature. There is experimental support for
 157 Oracle.
 158
 159 The supported versions are:
 160
 161 * MySQL 5.0.2 or later
 162 * PostgreSQL 8.3 or later
 163 * SQLite 3.3.7 or later
 164 * Oracle 9.0.1 or later
 165
 166 == Upgrading ==
 167
 168 1.23 has several database changes since 1.22, and will not work without schema
 169 updates. Note that due to changes to some very large tables like the revision
 170 table, the schema update may take quite long (minutes on a medium sized site,
 171 many hours on a large site).
 172
 173 If upgrading from before 1.11, and you are using a wiki as a commons
 174 repository, make sure that it is updated as well. Otherwise, errors may arise
 175 due to database schema changes.
 176
 177 If upgrading from before 1.7, you may want to run refreshLinks.php to ensure
 178 new database fields are filled with data.
 179
 180 If you are upgrading from MediaWiki 1.4.x or earlier, you should upgrade to
 181 1.5 first. The upgrade script maintenance/upgrade1_5.php has been removed
 182 with MediaWiki 1.21.
 183
 184 Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading!
 185
 186 See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions.
 187
 188 For notes on 1.21.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
 189
 190 == Online documentation ==
 191
 192 Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is available on
 193 MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation License (except
 194 for pages that explicitly state that their contents are in the public domain):
 195
 196         https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation
 197
 198 == Mailing list ==
 199
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 201
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 203
 204 A low-traffic announcements-only list is also available:
 205
 206         https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
 207
 208 It's highly recommended that you sign up for one of these lists if you're
 209 going to run a public MediaWiki, so you can be notified of security fixes.
 210
 211 == IRC help ==
 212
 213 There's usually someone online in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net.