== Configuration changes ==
-=== $wgCommandLineDarkBg ==
-
-A new switch used by maintenance scripts (parserTests.php). It lets you specify
-if your terminal use a dark background, the colorized output will be made
-lighter making things easier to read.
-
-== Major new features ==
+* A new switch $wgCommandLineDarkBg used by maintenance scripts (parserTests.php).
+ It lets you specify if your terminal use a dark background, the colorized
+ output will be made lighter making things easier to read.
+* The minimum permissions needed to edit a page in each namespace can now be
+ customized via the $wgNamespaceProtection array. By default, editing pages in
+ the MediaWiki namespace requires "editinterface" permission, as before.
+* Allow restriction of autoconfirmed permission by edit count. New global setting
+ $wgAutoConfirmCount (defaulting to zero, naturally).
+* Added rate limiter for Special:Emailuser
+* Private logs can now be created using $wgLogRestrictions
-== Changes since 1.9 ==
+== New features since 1.9 ==
-* (bug 7292) Fix site statistics when moving pages in/out of content namespaces
-* (bug 6937) Introduce "statistics-footer" message, appended to Special:Statistics
-* (bug 8531) Correct local name of Lingála (patch by Raymond)
+* (bug 6937) Introduce "statistics-footer" message, appended to
+ Special:Statistics
* (bug 6638) List block flags in block log entries
-* New script maintenance/language/checkExtensioni18n.php used to check i18n
- progress in the extension repository.
-* Running maintenance/parserTests.php with '--record' option, will now
- automatically attempt to create the required tables
-* Made the PLURAL: parser function return singular on -1 per default
-* Fixed up the AjaxSearch
* (bugs 5051, 5376) Tooltips and accesskeys no longer require JavaScript
* Added SkinTemplateOutputPageBeforeExec hook before SkinTemplate::outputPage()
- starts page output (http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2007-January/028554.html)
-* Fix SpecialVersion->formatCredits input. Version and Url parameters should be
- null to be treated properly with isset.
-* Page restrictions moved into a new, dedicated table
+ starts page output
+ (http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2007-January/028554.html)
* Introduce "cascading protection" -- implicit protection on pages transcluded
into a page protected with this option enabled
-* The minimum permissions needed to edit a page in each namespace can now be
- customized via the $wgNamespaceProtection array. By default, editing pages in
- the MediaWiki namespace requires "editinterface" permission, as before.
* (bug 8567) Added hook RawPageViewBeforeOutput just before the text is blown
out in action=raw, so extensions might influence the output.
-* Correct tooltip accesskey hint for Opera on the Macintosh
- (uses Shift-Esc-, not Ctrl-).
* (bug 3446) Add user preference to hide page content below diffs, can be
overridden by adding diffonly=1 or diffonly=0 to the URL of the diff page
+* Add 'purge' privilege to replace the hardcoded check for login state in
+ determining whether action=purge can be done via GET. Switching the
+ permission on for anons can be helpful for benchmarking.
+* (bug 7842) Link back to deleted revision list from deleted revision preview
+* (bug 8619) Add user-aware "unblock" link to Special:Blockip
+* (bug 8522) Provide a "delete" link on Special:Brokenredirects for users with
+ the appropriate permission
+* (bug 8628) Add user-aware block list link to Special:Blockip
+* (bug 8621) Log revisions marked as patrolled
+* Introduce "BookInformation" hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more details
+* Add title prefix search for Special:Undelete
+* Remove full-archive list from Special:Undelete
+* (bug 8136) Introduce 'ArticleUndelete' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more info
+* (bug 8712) Expose user groups as a JavaScript global
+* Introduce 'CustomEditor' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information
+* New special page, Special:Protectedpages, which shows all protected pages
+ and their protection status (full protection status is not pulled out due
+ to performance considerations, so it just shows "full protected" or
+ "semi protected".
+* (bug 4133) Allow page protections to be made with an expiry date, in the same
+ format as block expiry dates. Existing protections are assumed to be infinite,
+ as are protections made with the new field left blank.
+* (bug 8535) Allow certain vertical alignment attributes to be used as image
+ keywords
+* (bug 6987) Allow perrow, widths, and heights attributes for <gallery>
+* (bug 3678) Allow disabling MediaWiki:Aboutsite in the same way as
+ MediaWiki:Disclaimers; Also means that if any of the footer links are
+ disabled in the wiki's default language (by setting to "-"), they'll also
+ be disabled in other languages too (e.g. if the user specifies uselang=fr).
+* Sort log types in Special:Log
+* Added a classname ("mw-toolbar-editbutton") and unique IDs to the edit
+ toolbar buttons
+* Hide irrelevant block options in Special:Blockip based on whether an
+ IP address/range or username is listed. (Dynamic using JS.)
+* (bug 9032) Make quickbarSettings localizable through Special:Allmessages
+* (bug 7782) Standardisation of file info at image description pages.
+* (bug 1035) View contributions / recentchanges for an IP range.
+* (bug 8747) When unwatching pages from Special:Watchlist/edit, put the
+ confirmation messages in a proper list with a CSS class and id.
+* (bug 9118) Show relevant log fragments on deletion confirmatio page
+* (bug 9009) Add username entry field to Special:Contributions
+* (bug 1723) Article size in history
+* (bug 9223) Disallow magic tilde sequences in page titles and usernames
+* (bug 6997) Link from Special:log/block to unblock form
+* (bug 9117) Link from Special:log/delete to undelete form
+* Link from Special:log/protect to change protection form
+* (bug 1196) Add IPv6 support added to blocks, more consistancy for IPv6 contribs
+* (bug 3984) Searching in logs by title%
+* Show thumbnail of existing image if image exists already under this filename
+* (bug 5546) Watchlist reflects logged actions like move, protection, undelete
+* Support protocols other than HTTP in LinkFilter, use $wgUrlProtocols
+* (bug 3069) Warning on upload of scaled down images
+* Warning on upload of images with uppercase extension if image with lowercase
+ extension exists
+* (bug 4624) Namespace selection for Special:Whatlinkshere
+* Introduce PageHistoryBeforeList and PageHistoryLineEnding hooks; see docs/hooks.txt
+ for more information
+* (bug 9397) Introduce "sp-contributions-footer" and "sp-contributions-footer-anon"
+ messages, shown at the end of Special:Contributions as appropriate for the target
+* (bug 8421) Expose current action in JavaScript globals (as 'wgAction')
+* (bug 9069) Use galleries in query pages dedicated to images
+* (bug 9177) Installer now warns of various conditions affecting session.save_path
+ which can lead to broken session storage
+* (bug 9046) Special page to list pages without language links
+* Predefined block reasons added to Special:Blockip
+* (bug 9508) Special page to list articles with the fewest revisions
+* Introduce 'FileUpload' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information
+* Introduce 'SearchUpdate' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information
+* Introduce 'mywatchlist' message; used on personal menu to link to watchlist page
+
+== Bugfixes since 1.9 ==
+
+* (bug 7292) Fix site statistics when moving pages in/out of content namespaces
+* (bug 8531) Correct local name of Lingála
+* Made the PLURAL: parser function return singular on -1 per default
+* Fixed up the AjaxSearch
+* Fix SpecialVersion->formatCredits input. Version and Url parameters should be
+ null to be treated properly with isset.
+* Page restrictions moved into a new, dedicated table
+* Correct tooltip accesskey hint for Opera on the Macintosh
+ (uses Shift-Esc-, not Ctrl-).
* (bug 8002) Math should render left-to-right even in right-to-left wikis
* Pass e-mail and real name fields to AuthPlugin::addUser, as additional
optional fields, which may be considered useful at registration time.
* (bug 8613) Fix error when viewing "Recent Changes" and using Postgres.
* Initialise site_stats table at upgrade time if data was missing
* (bug 7250) Updated Unicode normalization tables to Unicode 5.0
-* Add 'purge' privilege to replace the hardcoded check for login state in
- determining whether action=purge can be done via GET. Switching the
- permission on for anons can be helpful for benchmarking.
* Unmaintained Oracle support files have been removed.
* Use browser default for printing size, don't force to 11pt
* (bug 8632) Fix regression in page protection null edit update
-* (bug 7842) Link back to deleted revision list from deleted revision preview
-* (bug 8619) Add user-aware "unblock" link to Special:Blockip
* (bug 8407) Disallow indexing of "printable" versions
-* (bug 8522) Provide a "delete" link on Special:Brokenredirects for users with
- the appropriate permission
-* (bug 8628) Add user-aware block list link to Special:Blockip
* (bug 8643) Correctly escape the page-specific CSS class for non-Monobook skins
* (bug 8629) Document $wgFilterCallback
* (bug 1000) Clarify warning about memory_limit in installer
* Suppress PHP warning about set_time_limit in installer when safe mode is on
* (bug 3000) Fall back to SCRIPT_NAME plus QUERY_STRING when REQUEST_URI is
not available, as on IIS with PHP-CGI
-* (bug 8621) Log revisions marked as patrolled
-* Introduce "BookInformation" hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more details
* Missing interwiki row for English Wikipedia restored (as "wikipedia:")
* use configured cache servers for mctest.php
* bucket details in mcc.php
* fix resolveStubs.php for compatibility with older serialized data
* maximum line length for bar graphs in getLagTimes.php
* recognize specieswiki in rebuildInterwiki.inc
-* --purge option to do additional parser-cache purging for purgeList.php
* profile unicode cleanup in Xml
* log slow parses in Article.php
* profile wfMsgReal
* profile AutoLoader
* rebuild empty DjVu metadata containing ''
* security fix for DjVu metadata retrieval
-* Add title prefix search for Special:Undelete
-* Remove full-archive list from Special:Undelete
* Undelete page list can use plural marker
* (bug 8638) Fix update from 1.4 and earlier
-* Allow restriction of autoconfirmed permission by edit count. New global setting
- $wgAutoConfirmCount (defaulting to zero, naturally).
* (bug 8641) Fix order of updates to ipblocks table
* (bug 8678) Fix detection of self-links for numeric titles in Parser
* (bug 6171) Magically close tags in tables when not using Tidy.
-* Fix hardcoded background color in parserTests.php
-* parserTests.php : removed the 'light' option for --color argument, replacing
- it with a new global switch : $wgCommandLineDarkBg
* Sanitizer now correctly escapes lonely '>' occurring before the first wikitag.
* Ignore self closing on closing tags ( '</div />' now gives '</div>')
* (bug 8673) Minor fix for web service API content-type header
* Fix API revision list on PHP 5.2.1; bad reference assignment
-* (bug 8136) Introduce 'ArticleUndelete' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more info
* (bug 8688) Handle underscores/spaces in Special:Blockip and Special:Ipblocklist
in a consistent manner
* (bug 8701) Check database lock status when blocking/unblocking users
* ParserOptions and ParserOutput classes are now in their own files
* (bug 8708) Namespace translations for Zealandic language
* Renamed constructor methods to PHP 5 __construct reserved name
-* (bug 8715) Warn users when editing an interface message whether or not the message page exists
+* (bug 8715) Warn users when editing an interface message whether or not the
+ message page exists
* ar: fix the 'create a new page' on search page when no exact match found
-* (bug 8703) Corrected Talk namespace name for Limburgish (li)
-* (bug 8712) Expose user groups as a JavaScript global
-* Introduce 'CustomEditor' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information
+* (bug 8703) Corrected talk and image namespace name for Limburgish (li)
* (bug 8671) Expose "wpDestFile" as a parameter to "uploadtext"
* (bug 8403) Respect bad image list exceptions in galleries on wiki pages
-* New special page, Special:Protectedpages, which shows all protected pages
- and their protection status (full protection status is not pulled out due
- to performance considerations, so it just shows "full protected" or
- "semi protected".
-* (bug 4133) Allow page protections to be made with an expiry date, in the same format
- as block expiry dates. Existing protections are assumed to be infinite, as are protections
- made with the new field left blank.
* Allow sending per-user contribution requests to "contributions" query group
* (bug 3717) Update user count for AuthPlugin account autocreation
* (bug 8719) Firefox release notes lie! Fix tooltips for Firefox 2 on x11;
* (bug 8751) Set session cookies to HTTPS-only to match other cookies
* (bug 8652) Catch exceptions generated by malformed XML in multipage media
* (bug 8782) Help text in Makefile
-* (bug 8780) Clarify message for command-line scripts if LocalSettings.php exists but is not readable
* (bug 8777) Suppress 'previous' link on Special:Allpages when at first page
* (bug 8774) Fix path for GNU FDL rights icon on new installs
* Fix multipage selector drop-down for DjVu images to work when title
* Fixed bug affecting HTML formatting in sortable table column titles
* Merged table sorting code into wikibits.js
* (bug 8711) Stop floats in previews from spilling into edit area
-* (bug 8535) Allow certain vertical alignment attributes to be used as image
- keywords
-* (bug 6987) Allow perrow, widths, and heights attributes for <gallery>
* (bug 8858) Safer handling when $wgImageLimits is changed. Added a note
in DefaultSettings to make it clear.
* (bug 4268) Fixed data-loss bug in compressOld batch text compression
* Message names changed for AlphabeticPager introduced with r19758
for better localisations.
* (bug 8944) The deprecated is_a() function is used in StubObjects.php
-* (bug 8978) Georgian i18n update
* (bug 8992) Fix a remaining raw use of REQUEST_URI in history
-* (bug 3678) Allow disabling MediaWiki:aboutsite in the same way as
- MediaWiki:Disclaimers; Also means that if any of the footer links are
- disabled in the wiki's default language (by setting to "-"), they'll also
- be disabled in other languages too (e.g. if the user specifies uselang=fr).
* (bug 8999) User.php gives "undefined user editcount" PHP notice.
* (bug 8984) Fix a database error in Special:Recentchangeslinked
when using the Postgres database.
-* Sort log types in Special:Log
-* Added a classname ("mw-toolbar-editbutton") and unique IDs to the edit
- toolbar buttons
-* Moved the main ob_start() from the default LocalSettings.php to WebStart.php.
- The ob_start() section should preferably be removed from older
+* Moved the main ob_start() from the default LocalSettings.php to WebStart.php.
+ The ob_start() section should preferably be removed from older
LocalSettings.php files.
* Give Content-Length header for HTTP/1.0 clients.
-* Partial support for Flash cross-domain-policy filtering.
-* Hide irrelevant block options in Special:Blockip based on whether an
- IP address/range or username is listed. (Dynamic using JS.)
+* Partial support for Flash cross-domain-policy filtering.
* Lazy-initialize site_stats row on load when empty. Somewhat kinder to
dump-based installations, avoiding PHP warnings when NUMBEROFARTICLES
and such are used.
* (bug 8919) Suppress paging links and related messages where there are no
rows to list for query pages
* (bug 9057) Standardize MediaWiki: namespace for oc
-* (bug 9032) Make quickbarSettings localizable through Special:Allmessages
* (bug 8132) Suppress "Pages in this category" heading in categories when
there are none
* (bug 8958) Handle search operators better when using tsearch2 (Postgres)
-* Added rate limiter for Special:Emailuser
-* Have a checkered background on images on the description pages and in
- galeries to make transparency visible (just MonoBook for now, will add the
- rest soon).
-* (bug 7782) Standardisation of file info at image description pages.
* (bug 8799) Use redirect table for Special:BrokenRedirects and
Special:DoubleRedirects
-* (bug 1035) View contributions / recentchanges for an IP range.
* (bug 8918) Enable PLURAL option for MediaWiki:showingresults and
MediaWiki:showingresultsnum
* (bug 9122) Fix minor display issue in RTL with section edit link margin
* (bug 3953) Work around poor display of parenthesis in the in other
languages section of MonoBook skin
* (bug 8539) Enable PLURAL option for another message of recentchanges.
+* (bug 8728) MediaWiki:Badfiletype splitted into 3 messages
+* (bug 9131) Allow SpecialContributions to work with Postgres
+* (bug 9155) Allow footer info to wrap in Monobook
+* (bug 8847) Strip spurious #fragments from request URI to fix redirect
+ loops on some server configurations
+* (bug 9097) column "pr_pagetype" does not exist
+* (bug 9217) Balance wfProfile calls in Skin::outputPage
+* (bug 9222) PostgreSQL updater should not be version-specific
+* Fix fallback implementation of mb_strlen so it works and isn't insanely
+ slow for large strings, since it's used for page edit lengths
+* (bug 8815) Setting password in initUser() breaks LdapAuthentication plugin
+* (bug 9256) Add a quick note to index.php header comments
+* Make Special:Listusers caseinsensitive for first letter
+* Default tidy.conf has been moved from extensions module into includes.
+* Ignore lonely '''''
+* (bug 9244) When calling edit page for nonexistent section, generate error
+ inside of just discarding edits, since edit links sometimes go to the wrong
+ place.
+* (bug 9019) No warning during upload if image description page exists, but no
+ image
+* (bug 8582) Allow thumbnailing when imagesize has a space.
+* (bug 8716) Change math_inputhash and math_outputhash to byte for Postgres
+* (bug 9343) Correct internal name for Wolof language
+* (bug 9363) Fix Postgres error on Recentchangeslinked
+* (bug 5142) Fixed call of hook ArticleViewHeader
+* (bug 4777) Separate prev/next messages for Special:Whatlinkshere
+* Merge approx 15 missing Wikipedia language codes into wikipedia-interwiki.sql
+ based on Jeff Merkey's mediawiki-1.9.3.WG-20070316.tar.gz.bz2 archive.
+* (bug 9411) Fix for shared image descriptions using query-string titles
+* (bug 4756) Add user tool links for self created accounts at special:log
+ instead of sometimes broken block links from newuserlog extension
+* (bug 5817) Special:Recentchangeslinked now shows red link for nonexistent
+ target page instead of silently redirecting
+* (bug 8914) Don't transform colons in {{anchorencode:}}
+* (bug 9241) Handle edit section links and include size links for cached
+ templates the same as the first transclusion.
+* (bug 9466) "Rollback failed" page doesn't format edit comment
+* (bug 9472) Invalid XHTML on cached special pages
+* (bug 9472) Invalid XHTML on Special:Newpages
+* (bug 4764) "My contributions" not bold when viewing own contributions
+* (bug 9194) Add {{PLURAL:...}} to navigation bar of Special:Whatlinkshere
+* (bug 9033) Use a more specific error message when users are not able/allowed
+ to edit page protection levels due to a block, database lock or permissions
+* Fixed $wgFeedLimit
+* (bug 9270) Corrected help namespace name for Dutch Lower Saxon (nds-nl)
+* (bug 929, 4215) Expose "rcdays" user preference in Special:Preferences
+
+== Maintenance ==
+
+* New script maintenance/language/checkExtensioni18n.php used to check i18n
+ progress in the extension repository.
+* Running maintenance/parserTests.php with '--record' option, will now
+ automatically attempt to create the required tables
+* --purge option to do additional parser-cache purging for purgeList.php
+* Fix hardcoded background color in parserTests.php
+* parserTests.php : removed the 'light' option for --color argument, replacing
+ it with a new global switch : $wgCommandLineDarkBg
+* (bug 8780) Clarify message for command-line scripts if LocalSettings.php
+ exists but is not readable
+* dumpBackup / importDump now work with PostgreSQL
+* (bug 8975) Use "Maintenance script" as the default username for importImages.php
+ and importTextFile.php scripts
+* (bug 8933) Fix maintenance/reassignEdits.php script
+* (bug 9440) Added "mediawikiwiki" interwiki prefix to MediaWiki.org
+* (bug 2979) Import now gracefully skips invalid titles with a warning
== Languages updated ==
* Arabic (ar)
* Aramaic (arc)
-* Belarusian (be)
+* Aymara (ay)
+* Belarusian normative (be)
+* Belarusian alternative (be-x-old)
+* Bulgarian (bg)
+* Bihara (bh)
* Breton (br)
* Catalan (ca)
* Czech (cs)
* Finnish (fi)
* French (fr)
* Hebrew (he)
+* Upper Sorbian (hsb)
+* Hungarian (hu)
* Indonesian (id)
* Italian (it)
* Japanese (ja)
* Georgian (ka)
* Kazakh (kk)
* Korean (ko)
+* Kashmiri (ks)
* Ripuarian (ksh)
* Latin (la)
+* Luganda (lg)
* Limburgish (li)
* Lithuanian (lt)
* Marathi (mr)
+* Low Saxon (nds)
+* Dutch Lower Saxon (nds-nl)
+* Nepali (ne)
+* Nepal Bhasa (new)
* Dutch (nl)
+* Occitan (oc)
+* Pali (pi)
* Polish (pl)
+* Romanian (ro)
* Russian (ru)
+* Sanskrit (sa)
* Sicilian (scn)
* Slovak (sk)
+* Sundanese (su)
* Swedish (sv)
+* Tahitian (ty)
* Ukrainian (uk)
+* Urdu (ur)
+* Uzbek (uz)
* Zealandic (zea)
* Cantonese (zh-yue)
== Upgrading ==
-Some minor database changes have been made since 1.7:
-* new fields and indexes on ipblocks
-* index change on recentchanges
+1.10 has several database changes since 1.9, and will not work without schema
+updates.
-Several changes from 1.5 and 1.6 do require updates to be run on upgrade.
-To ensure that these tables are filled with data, run refreshLinks.php after
-the upgrade.
+If upgrading from before 1.7, you may want to run refreshLinks.php to ensure
+new database fields are filled with data.
If you are upgrading from MediaWiki 1.4.x or earlier, some major database
changes are made, and there is a slightly higher chance that things could
See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions.
-
-
=== Caveats ===
Some output, particularly involving user-supplied inline HTML, may not