uploads in.
* IBM DB2 database no longer uses the db specific $wgDBport_db2 variable but the
normal $wgDBport.
-* The upload link for missing files can now be set separately from the
+* The upload link for missing files can now be set separately from the
navigation link with $wgUploadMissingFileUrl.
* $wgCategoryPrefixedDefaultSortkey was removed and is now always false. This
provides more sensible sorting behavior for categories.
$wgUseMemCached, $wgDisableSearchContext, $wgColorErrors,
$wgUseZhdaemon, $wgZhdaemonHost and $wgZhdaemonPort.
* (bug 24408) The include_path is not modified in the default LocalSettings.php
+* $wgVectorExtraStyles was removed, and is no longer in use.
+* $wgLoadScript was added to specify alternative locations for ResourceLoader
+ requests.
+* $wgResourceLoaderMaxage was added to specify maxage and smaxage times for
+ responses from ResourceLoader based on whether the request's URL contained a
+ version parameter or not.
+* $wgResourceLoaderDebug was added to specify the default state of debug mode;
+ this will still be overridden with the debug URL parameter a la
+ $wgLanguageCode.
+* $wgResourceLoaderInlinePrivateModules was added to specify whether private
+ modules such as user.options should be embedded in the HTML output or
+ delivered through a resource loader request, which bypasses server cache (like
+ squid) and checks the user parameter against $wgUser. The former adds more
+ data to all pages, while the latter adds a request which cannot be cached
+ server side.
+* Removed $wgUpdates for database updates; extension should use
+ DatabaseUpdater::addExtensionUpdate().
+* Removed $wgServerName. It doesn't need to be set anymore and is no longer
+ available as input for other configuration items, either.
=== New features in 1.17 ===
* (bug 10183) Users can now add personal styles and scripts to all skins via
User:<name>/common.css and /common.js (if user css/js is enabled).
* (bug 22748) Add anchors on Special:ListGroupRights.
-* (bug 21981) Add parameter 'showfilename' to <gallery> to automatically
+* (bug 21981) Add parameter 'showfilename' to <gallery> to automatically
apply the names of the individual files within the gallery.
* Future-proof redirection to fragments in Gecko, so things work a little nicer
if they fix <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=516293>.
* Add accesskey 's' and tooltip to 'Save' button at Special:Preferences.
* Add accesskey 'b' and tooltip to the summary field of edit mode.
* (bug 20186) Allow filtering Special:Contributions for RevisionDeleted edits.
-* ajaxwatch now uses the API and JQuery, and can be used to animate arbitrary
+* ajaxwatch now uses the API and JQuery, and can be used to animate arbitrary
watch links, not just to watch the page the link is on.
* (bug 20976) "searchmenu-new-nocreate" message now displayed when when there
is no title match in search and the user has no rights to create pages.
notified about the beginning and finishing of LivePreview actions.
* (bug 21278) Now the sidebar allows inclusion of wiki markup.
* (bug 23733) Add IDs to messages used on CSS/JS pages
-* (bug 21312) RevisionMove allows moving individual revisions of a page to
+* (bug 21312) RevisionMove allows moving individual revisions of a page to
another page. Introducing 'revisionmove' user right; disabled by default;
experimental feature.
* Show validity period of the login cookie in Special:UserLogin and
* (bug 23621) New Special:ComparePages to compare (diff) two articles.
* (bug 4597) Provide support in Special:Contributions to show only "current"
contributions
-* (bug 17857) {{anchorencode}} acts more like how the parser creates section ids.
+* (bug 17857) {{anchorencode}} acts more like how the parser creates section ids
* (bug 21477) \& can now be used in <math>
* (bug 11641) \dotsc \dotsm \dotsi \dotso can now be used in <math>
* (bug 21475) \mathtt and \textsf can now be used in <math>
* ForeignApiRepo uses scriptDirUrl if apiBase not set
* (bug 24212) Added MediaWiki:Filepage.css which is also included on foreign
client wikis.
-* (bug 14685) Double underscore magic word usage is now tracked in the
- page_props table, as well as the behavioral magic words {{DEFAULTSORT}} and
+* (bug 14685) Double underscore magic word usage is now tracked in the
+ page_props table, as well as the behavioral magic words {{DEFAULTSORT}} and
{{DISPLAYTITLE}}
* (bug 24045) MediaWiki:Ipb-needreblock is now wrapped in a div with class
"mw-ipb-needreblock"
because it encourages edits to be marked minor accidentally and it can be
easily replicated by custom user scripts for those who really want it.
* Non-file pages can no longer be moved to the file namespace, nor vice versa.
-* (bug 671) The <dfn> element has been whitelisted in user input.
+* (bug 671) The <dfn>, <kbd> and <samp> elements have been whitelisted in user
+ input
* (bug 24563) Entries on Special:WhatLinksHere now have a link to their history
* (bug 21503) There's now a "reason" field when creating account for other users
* (bug 24418) action=markpatrolled now requires a token
** When several pages are given the same sort key, they sort by their names
instead of randomly.
* (bug 23848) Add {{ARTICLEPATH}} Magic Word.
-* JavaScript-based password complexity checker on account creation and
+* JavaScript-based password complexity checker on account creation and
password change.
* The HTML ID's generated for sections are now much prettier when they contain
punctuation or non-English letters, so a section named "Hello?" will now
result in a URL ending in "#Hello?" rather than "#Hello.3F".
* (bug 8140) Add dedicated CSS classes to Special:Newpages elements
+* (bug 11005) Add CSS class to empty pages in Special:Newpages
+* The parser cache is now shared amongst users whose different settings aren't
+ used in the page.
+* Any attribute beginning with "data-" can now be used in wikitext, per HTML5.
+* (bug 24007) Diff pages now mention the number of users having edited
+ intermediate revisions
+* Added new hook GetIP
+* (bug 16574) Allow administrators to temporarily disable the account creation
+ limit for IP addresses: [[MediaWiki:Ratelimit-excluded-ips]]
+* Special:Version now displays whether a SQLite database supports full-text
+ search.
+* (bug 24343) New parser hook {{linkurl:}}, same as {{localurl:}} with fragment
+* TS_ISO_8691_BASIC was added as a time format, which is used by ResourceLoader
+ for versioning
=== Bug fixes in 1.17 ===
* (bug 17560) Half-broken deletion moved image files to deletion archive
* (bug 22606) The body of e-mail address confirmation message is now different
when the address changed.
* (bug 22664) Special:Userrights now accepts '0' as a valid user name.
-* (bug 5210) Preload parser now parses <noinclude>, <includeonly> and redirects.
+* (bug 5210) Preload parser now parses <noinclude>, <includeonly> and
+ redirects.
* (bug 22709) IIS7 mishandles redirects generated by OutputPage::output() when
the URL contains a colon.
* (bug 22353) Categorised recent changes now works again.
correct link.
* (bug 23284) Times are now rounded correctly.
* (bug 23375) Added ogv, oga, spx as extensions for ogg files.
-* (bug 18408) All required permissions for uploading (upload, edit, create)
+* (bug 18408) All required permissions for uploading (upload, edit, create)
are now checked when loading Special:Upload. Toolbar link for Special:Upload
is no longer shown if the user does not have the required permissions.
* (Bug 23397) texvc in html mode renders \sim as ˜ not ∼
* (bug 23422) mp3 files can now be moved.
* (bug 23448) MediaWiki:Summary-preview is now displayed instead of
MediaWiki:Subject-preview when previewing summary.
-* (bug 23426) The {{REVISIONMONTH}} variable is now zero-padded and added
+* (bug 23426) The {{REVISIONMONTH}} variable is now zero-padded and added
new variable {{REVISIONMONTH1}} when unpadded version is needed.
* Special:Userrights didn't recognize user as changing his/her own rights if
user did not capitalize first letter of username.
* (bug 23507) Add styles for printing wikitables.
-* (bug 19586) Avoid JS errors in mwsuggest when using old browsers such
+* (bug 19586) Avoid JS errors in mwsuggest when using old browsers such
as Opera 8.
-* (bug 23563) Old skins now support $wgUploadNavigationUrl and take into
+* (bug 23563) Old skins now support $wgUploadNavigationUrl and take into
account upload rights.
-* (bug 1347) Render \phi in math using images, in order to create consistent
+* (bug 1347) Render \phi in math using images, in order to create consistent
and correct render results.
-* (bug 16573) Render \epsilon in math using images, in order to create
+* (bug 16573) Render \epsilon in math using images, in order to create
consistent and correct render results.
* (bug 22541) Support image redirects when using ForeignAPIRepo.
-* (bug 22967) Make edit summary length cut-off behave correctly for
+* (bug 22967) Make edit summary length cut-off behave correctly for
multibyte characters.
* (bug 8689) Long numeric lines no longer kill the parser.
* (bug 23740) Article::doRedirect() now use $extraQuery parameter correctly if
* (bug 16356) Repair dumpInterwiki.inc to use proper normalization.
* (bug 24006) deleteArchivedRevisions.php maintenance script now longer throws
a fatal error
-* (bug 23465) Don't ignore the predefined destination filename on
+* (bug 23465) Don't ignore the predefined destination filename on
Special:Upload after following a red link
* Correct the escaping of the autosummary URI fragments.
* (bug 23642) Recognize mime types of MS OpenXML documents.
* (bug 19910) Headings of the form ===+\s+ are now displayed as valid headings
* (bug 24022) Only check file extensions on the uploadpage when needed.
* (bug 24076) Recognize Office 2003 files with OpenXML trailers
-* (bug 24244) Updated comments in DefaultSettings.php to reflect Image: --> File:
- namespace rename.
+* (bug 24244) Updated comments in DefaultSettings.php to reflect
+ Image: --> File: namespace rename.
* Make wfTimestamp recognize negative unix timestamp values.
-* (bug 24401) SimpleSearch: No button/text indicating 'Search' if image is disabled
+* (bug 24401) SimpleSearch: No button/text indicating 'Search' if image is
+ disabled
* (bug 23293) Do not show change tags when special:recentchanges(linked)
or special:newpages is transcluded into another page as it messes up the
page.
throw fatal errors
* (bug 23380) Uploaded files that are larger than allowed by PHP now show a
useful error message.
-* Uploading to a protected title will allow the user to choose a new name
+* Uploading to a protected title will allow the user to choose a new name
instead of showing an error page
-* (bug 24425) Use Database::replace instead of delete/insert in SqlBagOStuff::set
- to avoid query errors about duplicate keynames.
+* (bug 24425) Use Database::replace instead of delete/insert in
+ SqlBagOStuff::set to avoid query errors about duplicate keynames.
* (bug 15470) First letters of filenames are always capitalized by upload JS.
* (bug 21215) NoLocalSettings.php doesn't tolerate rewrite rules
+* (bug 21052) Fix link color for stubs in NewPages
+* (bug 24714) Usage of {{#dateformat: }} in wikis without $wgUseDynamicDates no
+ longer pollutes the parser cache.
+* (bug 17031) Correct which characters the parser allows in tag attributes (a
+ letter, colon or underscore followed by 0 or more letters, numbers, colons,
+ underscores, hyphens, and/or periods).
+* Save 200 useless queries on each category page view
+* Shell commands will now work on Linux in filesystems mounted noexec
+* (bug 24804) Corrected commafying in Polish and Ukrainian
+* "Difference between pages" is now displayed instead of "Difference between
+ revisions" on diffs when appropriate.
+* (bug 23703) ForeignAPIRepo fails on findBySha1() when using a 1.14 install as
+ a repository due to missing 'name' attribute from the API list=allimages
+* (bug 24898) MediaWiki uses /tmp even if a vHost-specific tempdir is set, also
+ make wfTempDir() return a sane value for Windows on worst-case
+* (bug 24824) Support ImageMagick 6.5.6-2+ JPEG decoder size hint, to reduce
+ memory usage when such an ImageMagick is used for scaling.
+* Disable multithreaded behaviour in recent ImageMagick, to avoid a deadlock
+ when a resource limit such as $wgMaxShellMemory is hit.
+* (bug 24981) Allow extensions to access SpecialUpload variables again
+* (bug 20744) Wiki forgets about an uploaded file
+* (bug 17913) Don't show "older edit" when no older edit available
+* (bug 6204) TOC not properly rendered when using $wgMaxTocLevel
+* (bug 24977) The accesskey in history page now lead directly to the diff
+ instead of alterning focus between the two buttons.
+* (bug 24987) Special:ListUsers does not take external groups into account
+* (bug 20633) update.php has mixed language output
+* SQLite system table names are now never prefixed.
+* (bug 25292) SkinSubPageSubtitle hook now passes the Skin object as second
+ parameter
+* (bug 25167) Correctly load JS fixes for IE6 (fixing a regression in 1.16)
+* (bug 25367) wfShellExec() is more explicit when failing due to disabled
+ passthru()
=== API changes in 1.17 ===
* (bug 22738) Allow filtering by action type on query=logevent.
* (bug 22868) don't list infinite block expiry date as "now" in API logevents.
* (bug 22290) prop=revisions now outputs "comment" field even when comment.
is empty, for consistency with list=recentchanges.
-* (bug 19721) API action=help should have a way to just list for a specific module.
+* (bug 19721) API action=help should have a way to just list for a specific
+ module.
* (bug 23458) Add support for pageid parameter to action=parse requests.
* (bug 23460) Parse action should have a section option.
* (bug 21346) Make deleted images searchable by hash.
* (bug 23461) Normalise usage of parameter names in parameter descriptions.
-* (bug 23548) Allow access of another users watchlist through watchlistraw
+* (bug 23548) Allow access of another users watchlist through watchlistraw
using token and username.
-* (bug 23524) Api Modules as followup to bug 14473 (Add iwlinks table to
+* (bug 23524) Api Modules as followup to bug 14473 (Add iwlinks table to
track inline interwiki link usage.
* Add pltitles and tltemplates to prop=links and prop=templates respectively,
similar to prop=categories's clcategorie
* (bug 23835) Need "thumbmime" result in "imageinfo" query
* (bug 23851) Repair diff for file redirect pages
* (bug 24009) Include implicit groups in action=query&list=users&usprop=groups
-* (bug 24016) API: Handle parameters specified in simple string syntax
+* (bug 24016) API: Handle parameters specified in simple string syntax
( 'paramname' => 'defaultval' ) correctly when outputting help
* (bug 24089) Logevents causes PHP Notice if leprop=title isn't supplied
* (bug 23473) Give description of properties on all modules
-* (bug 24136) unknownerror when adding new section without summary, but forceditsummary
-* (bug 16886) Sister projects box moves down the extract of the first result in IE 7.
+* (bug 24136) unknownerror when adding new section without summary, but
+ forceditsummary
+* (bug 16886) Sister projects box moves down the extract of the first result
+ in IE 7.
* (bug 22339) Added srwhat=nearmatch to list=search to get a "go" result
-* (bug 24303) Added new &servedby parameter to all actions which adds the hostname
- that served the request to the result. It is also added unconditionally on error
-* (bug 24185) Titles in the Media and Special namespace are now supported for
+* (bug 24303) Added new &servedby parameter to all actions which adds the
+ hostname that served the request to the result. It is also added
+ unconditionally on error
+* (bug 24185) Titles in the Media and Special namespace are now supported for
title normalization in action=query. Special pages have their name resolved
to the local alias.
-* (bug 24296) Added converttitles parameter to convert titles to their
+* (bug 24296) Added converttitles parameter to convert titles to their
canonical language variant.
-* Fixed "link" parameter in image links with "thumb" parameter.
+* (bug 17398) Fixed "link" parameter in image links with "thumb" or "frame"
+ parameter.
* (bug 23936) Add "displaytitle" to query/info API
-* (bug 24485) Make iwbacklinks a generator, optionally display iwprefix and iwtitle
-* (bug 24564) Fix fatal errors when using list=deletedrevs, prop=revisions or
+* (bug 24485) Make iwbacklinks a generator, optionally display iwprefix and
+ iwtitle
+* (bug 24564) Fix fatal errors when using list=deletedrevs, prop=revisions or
one of the backlinks generators with limit=max.
* (bug 24656) API's parse module needs option to disable PP report
-* PARAM_REQUIRED parameter flag added. If this flag is set, and the end user does not set
- the parameter, the API will automatically throw an error.
-* (bug 24665) When starttimestamp is not specified, fake it by setting it to NOW, not to
- the timestamp of the last edit
-* (bug 24677) axto= parameters added to allcategories, allimages, alllinks, allmessages,
- allpages, and allusers
-* (bug 24236) Add add, remove, add-self, remove-self tags to meta=siteinfo&siprop=usergroups
-* (bug 24484) Add prop=pageprops module
-* (bug 24330) Add &redirect parameter to ?action=edit
-* (bug 24722) For list=allusers&auprop=blockinfo, only show blockedby and blockreason if
- the user is actually blocked.
-* Add format=dump and format=dumpfm, outputs results in PHP's var_dump() format.
+* PARAM_REQUIRED parameter flag added. If this flag is set, and the end user
+ does not set the parameter, the API will automatically throw an error.
+* (bug 24665) When starttimestamp is not specified, fake it by setting it to
+ NOW, not to the timestamp of the last edit
+* (bug 24677) axto= parameters added to allcategories, allimages, alllinks,
+ allmessages, allpages, and allusers
+* (bug 24236) Add add, remove, add-self, remove-self tags to
+ meta=siteinfo&siprop=usergroups
+* (bug 24484) Add prop=pageprops module
+* (bug 24330) Add &redirect parameter to ?action=edit
+* (bug 24722) For list=allusers&auprop=blockinfo, only show blockedby and
+ blockreason if the user is actually blocked.
+* Add format=dump and format=dumpfm, outputs results in PHP's var_dump() format
+* For required string parameters, if '' is provided, this is now classed as
+ missing
+* (bug 24724) list=allusers is out by 1 (shows total users - 1)
+* (bug 24166) API error when using rvprop=tags
+* Introduced "asynchronous download" mode for upload-by-url. Requires
+ $wgAllowAsyncCopyUploads to be true.
+* sinumberingroup correctly gives size of 'user' group, and omits size of
+ implicit groups rather than showing 0.
+* (bug 25248) API: paraminfo errors with certain modules
+* (bug 25303) Fix API parameter integer validation to actually enforce validation
+ on the input values in addition to giving a warning. Also add flag to enforce (die)
+ if integer out of range (breaking change!)
=== Languages updated in 1.17 ===
MediaWiki supports over 330 languages. Many localisations are updated
regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
-changes to languages because of MediaZilla reports.
+changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
* Moroccan Spoken Arabic (ary) (new)
* Banjar (bjn) (new)
+* Danish (dk) (removed deprecated language code)
+* Fiji Hindi (Devangari script) (removed)
* Kabardian (kdb) (new, dummy)
* Kabardian (Cyrillic) (kbd-cyrl) (new)
* Latgalian (ltg) (new)
+* Minangkabau (min) (new)
* Dutch (informal) (nl-informal) (new)
* Rusyn (rue) (new)
* (bug 23156) Commafy and search normalization updated for Belarusian
- (Taraškievica)
-* (bug 23283) Native name for Old English -> Ænglisc
-* (bug 23364) Native name for Azerbaijani -> Azərbaycanca
-* (bug 24593) Native name for Sorani now uses only Arabic script
-* (bug 24628) Generic translations for NS_USER/NS_USER_TALK for Esperanto
+ (Taraškievica).
+* (bug 23283) Native name for Old English -> Ænglisc.
+* (bug 23364) Native name for Azerbaijani -> Azərbaycanca.
+* (bug 24593) Native name for Sorani now uses only Arabic script.
+* (bug 24628) Generic translations for NS_USER/NS_USER_TALK for Esperanto.
+* (bug 24917) Polish as fallback for Kashubia.
+* (bug 24794) Tatar link trail updated.
== Compatibility ==