to same server
* $wgSpecialVersionExtended shows the extended version information besides
PHP and database version.
-* $wgSecondaryGoNamespaces allows an arry of namespaces to be checked when the
- GO button is pressed, in addition to the main namespace.
-* (bug 19907) $wgCrossSiteAJAXdomains and $wgCrossSiteAJAXdomainsRegex added
+* (bug 19907) $wgCrossSiteAJAXdomains and $wgCrossSiteAJAXdomainExceptions added
to control which external domains may access the API via cross-site AJAX.
* $wgMaintenanceScripts for extensions to add their scripts to the default list
* $wgMemoryLimit has been added, default value '50M'
-* $wgExtraRandompageSQL is deprecated, the SpecialRandomBeforeSQL hook should
- be used instead
+* $wgExtraRandompageSQL is deprecated, the SpecialRandomGetRandomTitle hook
+ should be used instead
+* (bug 20489) $wgIllegalFileChars added to override the default list of illegal characters in file names.
+* (bug 19646) $wgImgAuthDetails added to display reason access to uploaded file was denied to users(img_auth only)
+* (bug 19646) $wgImgAuthPublicTest added to test to see if img_auth set up correctly (img_auth only)
=== New features in 1.16 ===
Special:Version
* (bug 18420) Missing file revisions are handled gracefully now
* (bug 9219) Auth plugins can control editing RealName/Email/Nick preferences
-* New hook: MessageNotInMwNs to handle localised messages that aren't in the
- Mediawiki Namespace, before checking the message files
* (bug 18466) Add note or warning when overruling a move (semi-)protection
* (bug 18342) insertTags works in edit summary box
* (bug 18411) The upload form also checks post_max_size
* Added a feature to allow per-article process pool size control for the parsing
task, to limit resource usage when the cache for a heavily-viewed article is
invalidated. Requires an external daemon.
-* Leading > is now syntax for <blockquote>.
* (bug 19576) Moved the id attribues from the anchors accompanying section
headers to the <span class="mw-headline"> elements within the section headers,
removing the redundant anchor elements.
* If config/ directory is not executable, the command to make it executable
now asks the user to cd to the correct directory
* Add experimental new external authentication framework, ExternalAuth
-* (bug 14201) Set $wgDBadminuser/$wgDBadminpassword during setup
* (bug 18768) Remove AdminSettings requirements. Maintenance environment
will still load it if it exists, but it's not required for anything
-* Added $wgSecondaryGoNamespaces, allowing an array of namespaces to be checked
- when the Go button is pressed in addition to the main namespace.
* (bug 19900) The "listgrouprights-key" message is now wrapped in a div with
class "mw-listgrouprights-key"
* (bug 471) Allow RSS feeds for watchlist, using an opt-in security token
numbers outside the permitted ranges), etc.
** The summary attribute has been removed from tables of contents. summary is
obsolete in HTML 5 and wasn't useful here anyway.
-* New hook SpecialRandomBeforeSQL allows extensions to modify or replace the SQL
- query used in Special:Random and subclasses, deprecating the $wgExtraRandompageSQL
- config variable
+** Unnecessary type="" attribute removed for CSS and JS.
+** If $wgWellFormedXml is set to false, some bytes will be shaved off of HTML
+ output by omitting some things like quotation marks where HTML 5 allows.
+* The description message in $wgExtensionCredits can be an array with parameters
+* New hook SpecialRandomGetRandomTitle allows extensions to modify the selection
+ criteria used by Special:Random and subclasses, or substitute a custom result,
+ deprecating the $wgExtraRandompageSQL config variable
+* (bug 20318) Distinct CSS classes for ISBN/RFC/PMID special links added
+* (bug 20404) Custom fields in the user creation form template can now have
+ detail labels in prefsectiontip divs.
+* MakeSysop and MakeBot are now aliases for Special:UserRights
+* IndexPager->mLimitsShown can now be an associative array of limit => text-to-
+ display-in-limit-form.
+* (bug 18880) LogEventsList::showLogExtract() can now take a string-by-reference
+ and add its HTML to it, rather than having to go straight to $wgOut.
+* Added $wgShowDBErrorBacktrace, to allow users to easily gather backtraces for
+ database connection and query errors.
+* (bug 19646) New hook: ImgAuthBeforeStream for tests and functionality before file is streamed to user, but only when using img_auth
+* Show change block / unblock link on Special:Contributions if user is blocked
+* Display note on Special:Contributions if the user is blocked, and provide an
+ excerpt from the block log.
=== Bug fixes in 1.16 ===
* (bug 18289) Database connection error page now returns correct HTML
* "successbox", "errorbox" and related CSS classes are now available in all
skins
-* Fixed a PHP notice when $wgEnableSerializedMessages was set to false
* (bug 18316) Removed superfluous name="fulltext" from Special:Search
* (bug 18331) MediaWiki:Undelete-revision can now have wikitext
* The "noautoblock" flag is no longer displayed in the block log when blocking
* (bug 18925) history.js removes class names of list elements on initialization
* Multiple whitespace in TOC anchors is now stripped, for consistency with the
link from the edit comment
-* (bug 19112) Preferences now respects $wgUseExternalEditor, $wgExternalDiffEngine
+* (bug 19112) Preferences now respects $wgUseExternalEditor
* (bug 18173) MediaWiki now fails when unable to determine a client IP
* (bug 19170) Special:Version should follow the content language direction
* (bug 19160) maintenance/purgeOldText.inc is now compatible with PostgreSQL
* (bug 17374) Special:Export no longer exports multiple copies of pages
* (bug 19818) Edits to user CSS/JS subpages can now be marked as patrolled by
users who can't edit them
-* (bug 15745) The edit summary link parser now handles mismatched brackets
- better
* (bug 19839) Comments in log items are no more double escaped
* (bug 18161) Fix inconsistent separators in watchlist link toolbars with
"enhanced recent changes"
-* (bug 19857) maintenance/deleteRevision.php on last revision no longer breaks
- target page
* (bug 16877) Moving a page over a redirect no longer leaves an orphan entry in
the recentchanges table
* (bug 16009) Limit selection forms based on Pager now links to the correct page
* (bugs 18407, 18409) Special:Upload is now listed on Special:Specialpages only
if uploads are enabled and the user can access it
* (bug 17988) Spaces before [[Category:]] links are no longer ignored
-* (bug 19392) Favicon, apple-touch-icon links matching the defaults are no
- longer sent
* (bug 19957) All known-failing tests now marked disabled; added --run-disabled
option to parser test suite to run disabled tests if desired.
* (bug 16311) Make recent change flags (n/m/b) <abbr>s instead of <span>s
preferences
* (bug 18855) commandLine.inc and Maintenance.php are now properly included
using the full path
-* (bug 18497) Opera in fullscreen mode doesn't use any style sheets
+* (bug 18497) Fixed broken style sheets in Opera fullscreen mode
* (bug 16084) Default memory limit has be increased to 50M, see $wgMemoryLimit
* (bug 17864/19519) Added proper input normalization in Special:UserRights
* (bug 20086) Add Hook to add extra statistics at the end of Special:Statistics
* (bug 19289) importDump.php can now handle bzip2 and 7zip
* (bug 20131) Fixed a PHP notice for users having the "rollback" right on
Special:RecentChangesLinked
+* Do not transform EXIF fields with pure text to avoid results like
+ foo,bar@example,com
+* (bug 20176) Fix login/logout links in skin CologneBlue
+* (bug 20203) "Powered by Mediawiki" now has height/width on image tag
+* (bug 20273) Fix broken output when no pages are found in the content
+ namespaces
+* (bug 20265) Make AncientPages and UnusedFiles work on SQLite
+* Fixed XSS vulnerability for Internet Explorer clients (only pre-release
+ versions of MediaWiki were affected).
+* (bug 14817) Moving a page to a subpage of itself moves it twice
+* (bug 20289) $wgMaximumMovedPages should only count pages actually moved
+* (bug 15248) Non-breaking spaces and certain other Unicode space characters
+ are now normalized to ordinary spaces in titles; if your wiki has existing
+ titles with such characters, run cleanupTitles.php and/or cleanupImages.php
+* (bug 11143) Links containing invalid UTF-8 percent-code sequences are now
+ cleanly disabled instead of breaking parsing entirely on PHP 5.2.
+* (bug 20296) Fixed an PHP warning in Language::getMagic() in PHP 5.3
+* When creating accounts, don't prefill name from current username (which
+ presumably is already taken)
+* (bug 15646) Page creation notification email is no longer sent when a
+ watched page is deleted
+* (bug 20358) Unprotect tab was missing accesskey; now same as protect tab.
+* (bug 20317) Cleaned up default main page link accesskey settings
+* (bug 20362) Special:Statistics now produces valid HTML when view counters are
+ enabled
+* (bug 19857) maintenance/deleteRevision.php on last revision no longer breaks
+ target page
+* (bug 20365) Page name with with c/g/h/j/s/u + x are now correctly handled in
+ Special:MovePage with Esperanto as content language
+* (bug 20364) Fixed regression in GIF metadata loading
+* (bug 20299) MediaWiki:Move-subpages and MediaWiki:Move-talk-subpages can now
+ use wikitext
+* (bug 15475) DatabaseBase::setFlag(), DatabaseBase::clearFlag() and
+ DatabaseBase::getFlag() now have documentation
+* (bug 19966) MediaWiki:License-header is now used for the licensing header in
+ the file description page instead of MediaWiki:License
+* (bug 20380) Links to history/deleted edits at the top of
+ Special:RevisionDelete are no more displayed when when doing log suppression
+* (bug 8143) Localised parser function names are now correctly case insensitive
+ if they contain non-ASCII characters
+* (bug 19055) maintenance/rebuildrecentchanges.php now purges
+ Special:Recentchanges's RSS and Atom feed cache
+* The installer will now try to bypass PHP's max_execution_time
+* (bug 20260) SQLite no longer tries to automatically create the database at
+ execution time, this now happens only at install time; if it is not available
+ at script execution, it now throws an exception
+* Fixed EditFilterMerged hook so the hookError parameter serves a purpose
+ (analogous to EditFilter hook)
+* (bug 2257) Tag extensions can expand template parameters provided to the tag,
+ by using a new parameter added to the recursiveTagParse function
+* (bug 14900) __INDEX__ and __NOINDEX__ no longer override site config set in
+ $wgArticleRobotPolicies.
+* (bug 20466) Hidden categories are no more displayed when printing
+* (bug 20446) When changing user rights with User@remotewiki and remotewiki is
+ the local wiki, the user is now treated as the local user
+* (bug 20494) OutputPage::getArticleBodyOnly() no longer requires an useless
+ argument
+* (bug 20136) Protection form JavaScript now synchronizes the expiry boxes on
+ any change, in addition to onkeyup.
+* Don't link to "edit this page" on MediaWiki:Noarticletext if user is not allowed
+ to create page. Done via new message MediaWiki:Noarticletext-nopermission
+* Improved compatibility between the Vector skin and addPortletLink() from wikibits.js:
+ empty portlets are now present but hidden, adding an element to a portlet unhides it
+* (bug 19531) addPortletLink() now wraps inserted labels in a <span> element to be
+ compatible with the CSS for the Vector skin
== API changes in 1.16 ==
* (bug 19907) $wgCrossSiteAJAXdomains added to allow specified (or all)
external domains to access api.php via AJAX, if the browser supports the
Access-Control-Allow-Origin HTTP header
-* (bug 19004) Added support for tags to the API.
+* (bug 19999) Made metadata and properties of search results optional. Added
+ srprop and srinfo.
=== Languages updated in 1.16 ===
* Lower Silesian (sli) (new)
* Picard (pcd) (new)
* Uyghur (Arabic script) (ug-arab) (new)
+* Eastern Yiddish (ydd) (removed)
+* Iriga Bicolano (bto) (removed)
+* Palembang (plm) (removed)
+* Tamazight (tzm) (removed)
* (bug 18474) Sorani (ckb - Central Kurdish) (renamed from ku-arab)
* Add PLURAL function for Scots Gaelic (gd)