Those wishing to use the latest code instead of a branch release can obtain
it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN
-=== Configuration changes in 1.16 ===
-
-* $wgEnableFirefogg enable support for firefogg extension, firefogg supports
- in-browser transcoding, chunk uploads and client side hash checking.
-* $wgEnableTemporalOggUrls enable oggz_chop support a server side ogg seeking
- helper
-* $wgEnableScriptLoader if the script-loader shoudl be enabled
-* $wgJSAutoloadClasses array of javascript classes to file paths used by
- script-loader to load javascript by class name.
-* $wgEnableJS2system if we should include js2 stuff like jquery, mv_embed.js
- (script-loader helper) and use new interfaces for upload
-* $wgEnableScriptLoaderJsFile if we support grabbing js files with the script
- loader. By default we only grab classes in $wgJSAutoloadClasses
-* $wgEnableScriptMinify if you want the script loader to minify js
-* $wgEnableScriptLocalization if you want the script loader to do msg lookups
-* $wgMwEmbedDirectory the path to MwEmbed Directory (maybe we can depreciate
- this. Was used when mwEmbed was going to be an extension.
-* $wgDebugJavaScript if we want to enable fresh debug javascript
-* $wgPhpCliPath Path to php-cli for spinning up background php processes
+=== Configuration changes in 1.16 ===
* (bug 18222) $wgMinimalPasswordLength default is now 1
* $wgSessionHandler can be used to configure session.save_handler
* $wgLocalFileRepo/$wgForeignFileRepos now have a 'fileMode' parameter to
appropriate privileges. Creating this user with web-install page requires
oci8.privileged_connect set to On in php.ini.
* Removed UserrightsChangeableGroups hook introduced in 1.14
-* Added $wgCacheDirectory, to replace $wgFileCacheDirectory,
- $wgLocalMessageCache, and any other local caches which need a place to put
- files.
+* Added $wgCacheDirectory, to replace $wgFileCacheDirectory,
+ $wgLocalMessageCache, and any other local caches which need a place to put
+ files.
* $wgFileCacheDirectory is no longer set to anything by default, and so either
- needs to be set explicitly, or $wgCacheDirectory needs to be set instead.
+ needs to be set explicitly, or $wgCacheDirectory needs to be set instead.
* $wgLocalMessageCache has been removed. Instead, set $wgUseLocalMessageCache
to true
-* Removed $wgEnableSerializedMessages and $wgCheckSerialized. Similar
+* Removed $wgEnableSerializedMessages and $wgCheckSerialized. Similar
functionality is now available via $wgLocalisationCacheConf.
-* $wgMessageCache->addMessages() is deprecated. Messages added via this
+* $wgMessageCache->addMessages() is deprecated. Messages added via this
interface will not appear in Special:AllMessages.
-* $wgRegisterInternalExternals can be used to record external links pointing
+* $wgRegisterInternalExternals can be used to record external links pointing
to same server
-* $wgSpecialVersionExtended shows the extended version information besides
- PHP and database version.
-* (bug 19907) $wgCrossSiteAJAXdomains and $wgCrossSiteAJAXdomainExceptions 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 SpecialRandomGetRandomTitle hook
+* $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.
correctly (img_auth only)
* $wgUploadMaintenance added to disable file deletions and restorations during
maintenance
-* UserLoginForm and UserCreateForm hooks, and AuthPlugin::modifyUITemplate, now receive a
- SpecialPage subclass instead of a QuickTemplate subclass. Hence there is no
- $template->set(), etc. The hook has access to most of the stuff that will go into the
- Login/Create form; see the documentation on HTMLForm for syntax for extra fields.
- LoginForm class is deprecated, its state constants are now in the Login class.
+* $wgCapitalLinkOverrides added to configure per-namespace capitalization
+* (bug 21172) $wgSorbsUrl can now be an array with multiple DNSBL and renamed
+ to $wgDnsBlacklistUrls (backward compatibility kept)
+* $wgEnableHtmlDiff has been removed
+* (bug 3340) $wgBlockCIDRLimit added (default: 16) to configure the low end of
+ CIDR ranges for blocking
+* $wgUseInstantCommons added for quick and easy enabling of Commons as a remote
+ file repository
+* $wgDBAhandler added to choose a DBA handler when using CACHE_DBA
+* $wgPreviewOnOpenNamespaces for extensions that create namespaces that behave
+ similarly to the category namespace.
+* $wgEnableSorbs renamed to $wgDnsBlacklistUrls ($wgEnableSorbs kept for
+ backward compatibility)
+* $wgUploadNavigationUrl now also affects images inline images that do not
+ exist. In that case the URL will get (?|&)wpDestFile=<filename> appended to
+ it as appropriate.
+* If $wgLocaltimezone is null, use the server's timezone as the default for
+ signatures. This was always the behaviour documented in DefaultSettings.php
+ but has not been the actual behaviour for some time: instead, UTC was used
+ by default.
+* Added $wgExtensionAssetsPath, to decouple assets serving from $wgScriptPath.
+ If not specified it will default to $wgScriptPath/extensions
+* Added $wgCountTotalSearchHits to make search UI display total number of hits
+ with some search engines.
+* Added $wgAdvertisedFeedTypes to decide what feed types (RSS, Atom, both, or
+ neither) MediaWiki advertises. Default is array( 'atom' ), so RSS is no
+ longer advertised by default (but it still works).
+
=== New features in 1.16 ===
items)
* Special:Search now could search terms in all variant-forms. ONLY apply on
wikis enabled LanguageConverter.
-* Add autopromote condition APCOND_BLOCKED to autopromote blocked users to various
- user groups.
+* Add autopromote condition APCOND_BLOCKED to autopromote blocked users to
+ various user groups.
* Add $wgRevokePermissions as a means of restricting a group's rights. The
syntax is identical to $wgGroupPermissions, but users in these groups will
have these rights stripped from them.
* Added a PHP port of CDB (constant database), for improved local caching when
the DBA extension is not available.
-* Introduced a new system for localisation caching. The system is based around
- fast fetches of individual messages, minimising memory overhead and startup
- time in the typical case. The database backend will be used by default, but
+* Introduced a new system for localisation caching. The system is based around
+ fast fetches of individual messages, minimising memory overhead and startup
+ time in the typical case. The database backend will be used by default, but
set $wgCacheDirectory to get a faster CDB-based implementation.
-* Expanded the number of variables which can be set in the extension messages
+* Expanded the number of variables which can be set in the extension messages
files.
-* Added a feature to allow per-article process pool size control for the parsing
+* 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.
+ invalidated. Requires an external daemon.
* (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.
* Parser::setFunctionTagHook now can be used to add a new tag which is parsed at
preprocesor level.
-* Added $wgShowArchiveThumbnails, allowing sysadmins to disable thumbnail
+* Added $wgShowArchiveThumbnails, allowing sysadmins to disable thumbnail
display for old versions of images.
* In watchlists and Special:RecentChanges, the difference in page size now
appears in dark green if bytes were added and dark red if bytes were removed.
-* Added FSRepo configuration properties thumbUrl and thumbDir, to allow the
+* Added FSRepo configuration properties thumbUrl and thumbDir, to allow the
thumbnails to be stored in a separate location to the source images.
-* If config/ directory is not executable, the command to make it executable
+* 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 18768) Remove AdminSettings requirements. Maintenance environment
* (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
-* (bug 10812) Interwiki links can have names and descriptions, fetched from
+* (bug 10812) Interwiki links can have names and descriptions, fetched from
message 'interwiki-desc-PREFIX', not really used anywhere yet though
* (bug 9691) Add type (signup or login) parameter to
AuthPlugin::ModifyUITemplate()
* (bug 16697) Unicode combining characters are difficult to edit in some
browsers
* Parser test supports uploading results to remote CodeReview instance
-* (bug 20013) Added CSS class "mw-version-ext-version" is wrapped on the
+* (bug 20013) Added CSS class "mw-version-ext-version" is wrapped on the
extension version in Special:Version
* (bug 20014) Added CSS class "mw-listgrouprights-right-name" is wrapped on the
right name in Special:ListGroupRights
** 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.
+** (bug 16921) maxlength enabled for page move comments
* 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,
* Added $wgShowDBErrorBacktrace, to allow users to easily gather backtraces for
database connection and query errors.
* 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
+* Display note on Special:Contributions if the user is blocked, and provide an
excerpt from the block log.
* (bug 19646) New hook: ImgAuthBeforeStream for tests and functionality before
file is streamed to user, but only when using img_auth
* Note on non-existing user and user talk pages if user does not exist
-* New hook ShowMissingArticle so extensions can modify the output for
+* New hook ShowMissingArticle so extensions can modify the output for
non-existent pages.
* Added $wgUseAJAXCategories allow enabling AJAX based categories system.
This works on all namespaces. Enabled namespaces can be reduces using
$wgAJAXCategoriesNamespaces.
-* Admins could disable some variants using $wgDisabledVariants now. ONLY apply on
- wikis enabled LanguageConverter.
-* A new permission, 'root', is created. Analogous to root users on Unix systems,
- the root permission effectively grants all other permissions on a wiki. Useful
- for debugging and administration.
+* Admins could disable some variants using $wgDisabledVariants now. ONLY apply
+ on wikis enabled LanguageConverter.
+* (bug 16310) Credits page now lists IP addresses rather than saying the number
+ of anonymous users that edited the page
+* New permission 'sendemail' added. Default right for all registered users. Can
+ for example be used to prevent new accounts from sending spam.
+* (bug 16979) Tracking categories for __INDEX__ and __NOINDEX__
+* Two new hooks, ConfirmEmailComplete and InvalidateEmailComplete, which are
+ called after a user's email has been successfully confirmed or invalidated.
+* (bug 19741) Moved the XCF files out of the main MediaWiki distribution, for
+ a smaller subversion checkout.
+* (bug 13750) First letter capitalization can now be a per-namespace setting
+* (bug 21073) "User does not exist" message no longer displayed on sub-sub-pages
+ of existing users
+* (bug 21095) Tracking categories produced by the parser (expensive parser
+ function limit exceeded, __NOINDEX__ tracking, etc) can now be disabled by
+ setting the system message ([[MediaWiki:expensive-parserfunction-category]]
+ etc) to "-".
+* Added maintenance script sqlite.php for SQLite-specific maintenance tasks.
+* Rewrote Special:Upload to allow easier extension.
+* Upload errors that can be solved by changing the filename now do not require
+ reuploading.
+* Added $wgRateLimitsExcludedIPs, to allow specific IPs to be whitelisted from
+ rate limits.
+* (bug 21222) When $wgUseTeX is not enabled, <math> is no longer registered with
+ the parser so extensions are free to implement their own <math> tag
+* (bug 21047) Wrap 'cannotdelete' into a div with the generic 'error' class and
+ an own 'mw-error-cannotdelete' class
+* New hook AbortNewAccountAuto, called before account creation from AuthPlugin-
+ or ExtUser-driven requests.
+* (bug 3480) The warning saying that the page has a history when deleting it now
+ contains the number of revisions in the history
+* $wgStylePath and $wgLogo are now set in the default LocalSettings.php file.
+* (bug 20186) Allow filtering history for revision deletion.
+* New hook OtherBlockLogLink, called in Special:IPBlockList and Special:Block
+ to show links to block logs of other blocking extensions, i.e. GlobalBlocking
+* Added search capabilities to SQLite backend
+* rebuildtextindex.php maintenance script now supports databases other than
+ MySQL
+* upgrade1_5.php now requires to be run --update option to prevent confusion
+* (bug 17662) Customizable default preload/editintro for new sections in the
+ respective addsection-preload and addsection-editintro messages
+* Added maintenance script syntaxChecker.php that checks for PHP syntax errors
+ and common coding mistakes
+* Updated Unicode normalization tables
+* (bug 21604) Spellcheck attribute for editsummary
+* New wgCategories JavaScript global variable for userscripts.
+* (bug 20717) Added checkboxes to hide users with bot and/or sysop group
+ membership in SpecialActiveusers
+* Allow \pagecolor and \definecolor in texvc
+* $wgTexvcBackgroundColor contains background color for texvc call
+* (bug 21574) Redirects can now have "303 See Other" HTTP status
+* EditPage refactored to allow extensions to derive new edit modes much easier.
+* (bug 21826) Subsections of Special:Version now also have anchors
+* (bug 19791) Add URL of file source as comment to thumbs (for ImageMagick)
+* (bug 21946) Sorted wikitables do not properly handle minus signs
+* (bug 18885) Red links for media files do not support shared repositories
+* Added $wgFixArchaicUnicode, which, if enabled, converts some deprecated
+ Unicode sequences in Arabic and Malayalam text to their Unicode 5.1
+ equivalents.
+* (bug 22051) Returing false in SpecialContributionsBeforeMainOutput hook now
+ stops normal output
+* Send new password e-mail in users preference language
+* LanguageConverter now support nested using of manual convert syntax like "-{-{}-}-"
+* (bug 16281) Show copyright system message on special pages
+* Upload license preview now uses the API instead of action=ajax
+* (bug 7346) Add <guid> to RSS to avoid duplicates
=== Bug fixes in 1.16 ===
revisions when --delete is not passed
* (bug 13172) GPS coordinates in image Exif data are now actually displayed
* Overhaul of preferences system, includes the following bug fixes:
-* (bug 5363) Changes to default preferences now impact registered users.
-* (bug 14806) Hook to enable putting preferences in existing tabs.
-* (bug 17191) Registration date now listed on preferences page.
-* Note that this change will break some extensions which have not been adapted
- for it.
+** (bug 5363) Changes to default preferences now impact registered users.
+** (bug 14806) Hook to enable putting preferences in existing tabs.
+** (bug 17191) Registration date now listed on preferences page.
+** The user_properties table (now used for storing preferences) has been added
+ to $wgSharedTables.
+** Note that this change will break some extensions which have not been adapted
+ for it.
* (bug 17020) Adding fallback encodings for Traditional and Simplified Chinese
languages while the the text is typed as URLs.
* (bug 17614) Prev / Next links are not shown if all results are shown
* (bug 19513) RTL fixes for new Search UI
* (bug 16497) Special:Allmessages is paginated
* (bug 18708) CSS plainlinks class now available to all skins
-* (bug 19590) Database error messages no longer have "MySQL" hardcoded as the
+* (bug 19590) Database error messages no longer have "MySQL" hardcoded as the
database type
* (bug 19759) successbox on Special:Preferences now correctly aligned on
standard, nostalgia and cologneblue skin
the recentchanges table
* (bug 16009) Limit selection forms based on Pager now links to the correct page
when using long urls
-* The display of the language list on the preferences is more comply with the
+* The display of the language list on the preferences is more comply with the
BCP 47 standards.
* (bug 19849) Custom X-Vary-Options header now disabled unless $wgUseXVO is set
* (bug 19301) Duplicates entries in $wgAddGroups, $wgRemoveGroups,
* (bug 19957) All known-failing tests now marked disabled; added --run-disabled
option to parser test suite to run disabled tests if desired.
* (bug 16311) Make recent change flags (n/m/b) <abbr>s instead of <span>s
-* (bug 15680) Split the edit tip message of user CSS/JS subpage into
+* (bug 15680) Split the edit tip message of user CSS/JS subpage into
"usercssyoucanpreview" and "userjsyoucanpreview" respectively.
-* (bug 12110) Split the rights for editing users' CSS/JS subpage from
+* (bug 12110) Split the rights for editing users' CSS/JS subpage from
"editusercssjs" into "editusercss" and edituserjs" respectively.
-* (bug 19394) RecentChanges feed URLs for log items with no revisions
+* (bug 19394) RecentChanges feed URLs for log items with no revisions
(eg Newuser, Userrights) are no longer broken
* (bug 17395) Remote file descriptions use user language ($wgLang), not wiki
language ($wgContLang)
* (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
+* 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) $wgMaximumMovedPages should only count pages actually moved
Special:Recentchanges's RSS and Atom feed cache
* The installer will now try to bypass PHP's max_execution_time
* (bug 20260) SQLite no longer tries to automatically create the database at
- execution time, this now happens only at install time; if it is not available
+ execution time, this now happens only at install time; if it is not available
at script execution, it now throws an exception
* Fixed EditFilterMerged hook so the hookError parameter serves a purpose
(analogous to EditFilter hook)
* (bug 20634) The installer-created database user will now have all rights on
the database so that upgrades will go more smoothly.
* (bug 18180) Special:Export ignores limit, dir, offset parameters
-* User::getBlockedStatus() works for all kinds of user objects and doesn't
+* User::getBlockedStatus() works for all kinds of user objects and doesn't
assume the user object is equal to the current-user object ($wgUser)
* (bug 20517) Cancel link from edit page now returns to the old version when
editing an old version
-* (bug 16902) Installer no longer shows warnings when exec() has been disabled
+* (bug 16902) Installer no longer shows warnings when exec() has been disabled
by disable_functions
+* (bug 20726) Title::getLatestRevID's documentation now says that the function
+ returns false if the page doesn't exist
+* (bug 20751) ForeignApiRepo now urldecodes filenames when saving to local cache
+* (bug 20730) Fix to Special:Version ViewVC link for branch checkouts
+* (bug 20353) wfShellExec() was adding extra quotes on Windows Vista, causing
+ command line scripts to fail
+* (bug 20702) Parser functions can now be used correctly in
+ MediaWiki:Missing-article
+* (bug 14117) "redirected from" is now also shown on foreign file redirects
+* (bug 17747) Only display thumbnail column in file history if the image can
+ be rendered.
+* (bug 3421) Live preview no longer breaks user CSS/JS previews
+* (bug 11264) The file logo on a file description page for documents (PDF, ...)
+ now links to the file rather than the file description page
+* Password fields built with HTMLForm now still have the type="password"
+ attribute if $wgHtml5=false.
+* (bug 20836) Preload now works for MediaWiki namespace
+* (bug 20885) Search box no longer suggests unavailable special pages
+* (bug 20948) "Create this page" on Special:Search is no longer displayed when
+ searching for special pages
+* (bug 20524) Hideuser: Show nice error when trying to block hidden user without
+ hideuser right
+* (bug 21026) Fixed file redirects on shared repos on non-English client wikis
+* (bug 21030) Fixed schema choices from being overwritten by defining unique
+ field names per driver.
+* (bug 21115) wgCanonicalSpecialPageName javascript variable is now always
+ false on non-special pages
+* (bug 21113) "Other statistics" header on Special:Statistics is no more
+ displayed when there isn't any entry in it
+* (bug 21114) Special:Contributions no longer shows diff links for new
+ revisions
+* (bug 21116) MediaWiki:Templatesused, MediaWiki:Templatesusedpreview and
+ MediaWiki:Templatesusedsection now support plural
+* (bug 21079) There is no more line wrapping between label and field in
+ Special:Log
+* (bug 20256) Fixed SQL errors on Special:Recentchanges and
+ Special:Recentchangeslinked on SQLite backend
+* (bug 20880) Fixed updater failure on SQLite backend
+* (bug 21182) Fixed invalid HTML in Special:Listgrouprights
+* (bug 20242) Installer no longer promts for user credentials for SQLite
+ databases
+* (bug 20911) Installer failed to create a SQLite database
+* (bug 20847) Deprecated deprecated akeytt() removed in wikibits.js leaving
+ dummy
+* (bug 21161) Changing $wgCacheEpoch now always invalidates file cache
+* (bug 20268) Fixed row count estimation on SQLite backend
+* (bug 20275) Fixed LIKE queries on SQLite backend
+* (bug 21234) Moving subpages of titles containing \\ now works properly
+* (bug 21006) maintenance/updateArticleCount.php now works again on PostgreSQL
+* (bug 19319) Add activeusers-intro message at top of SpecialActiveUsers page
+* (bug 21255) Fixed hostname construction for DNSBL checking
+* (bug 18019) Users are now warned when moving a file to a name in use on a
+ shared repository and only users with the 'reupload-shared' permission can
+ complete the move.
+* (bug 18909) Add missing Postgres INSERT SELECT wrapper
+* User::isValidPassword now only returns boolean results,
+ User::getPasswordValidity can be used to get an error message string
+* The error message shown in Special:ChangePassword now parses wiki markup
+* (bug 19859) Removed experimental HTMLDiff feature
+* Removed section edit links in edit conflict form
+* Allow SpecialActiveusers to work on non-MySQL databases
+* (bug 6579) Fixed protecting images from uploading only
+* (bug 18609) Search index was empty for some pages
+* (bug 13453) rebuildrecentchanges maintenance script works on PG again
+* (bug 16583) Reduce false positives when checking for PHP (on upload, etc.)
+* (bug 20112) Bitrotted tests in the t/ directory were failing.
+* (bug 21470) MediaWiki:Sp-contributions-explain is now wrapped in a <p> with
+ id "mw-sp-contributions-explain"
+* (bug 19159) Fixed \overleftrightarrow in texvc
+* (bug 19391) Fix caching for Recent ChangesFeed.
+* (bug 21455) Fixed "Watch this page" checkbox appearing on some special pages
+ even to non-logged in users
+* (bug 21551) Make Squid reponse limit configurable
+* Fixed corruption of long UDP debug log messages by using socket_sendto()
+ instead of fsockopen() with fwrite().
+* (bug 16884) Fixed feed links in sidebar not complying with URL parameters
+ of the displayed page
+* (bug 21403) memcached class renamed to MWMemecached to avoid conflict with
+ PHP's memcached extension
+* (bug 21650) Both calls to SkinTemplateTabs hook are now compatible
+* (bug 21672) Add missing Accept-Language to both Vary and XVO headers
+* (bug 21679) "Edit block reasons" link at the bottom of Special:Blockip is now
+ only displayed to the users that have "editinterface" right
+* (bug 21740) Attempting to protect a page that doesn't exist (salting) returns
+ "unknown error"
+* (bug 18762) both redirects and links get fixed one after another if
+ redirects-only switch is not present
+* (bug 20159) thumbnails rerendered if older that $wgThumbnailEpoch
+* Fixed a bug which in some situations causes the job queue to grow forever,
+ due to an infinite loop of job requeues.
+* (bug 21523) File that can have multiple pages (djvu, pdf, ...) no longer have
+ the page selector when they have only one page
+* (bug 21559) "logempty" message is now wrapped in a div with class
+ "mw-warning-logempty" when used in log extract
+* (bug 20549) Parser tests were broken on SQLite backend
+* (bug 21776) Interwiki urls like http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/cs: should give
+ a redirect instead of a baderror.
+* (bug 21803) Special:MyContributions now keeps the query string parameters
+* Redirecting special pages now keep query string paramters set to "0" (e.g.
+ for namespace)
+* (bug 20765) Special:ListGroupRights no longer misses addables and removables
+ groups if there are duplicate entries
+* (bug 21814) Message shown when rolling back an edit with a deleted username
+ now shows '(username deleted)' instead of broken user tool links
+* (bug 21536) Fixed JavaScript error on Special:Search caused by an incorrect ID
+* (bug 21535) RecentChanges RSS feed now always recognises the namespace filter,
+ previously it sometimes didn't due to caching.
+* (bug 20388) ProfilerSimpleText no longer outputs comment on action=raw
+* refreshLinks.php now purges orphaned redirect table rows
+* (bug 2971) Swap links of hist & diff location on Special:Contributions for
+ consistency with RC/WL
+* (bug 21986) Special page names were are now capitalized by content language
+* If two log type have the same description, they're now both displayed in the
+ type selector on Special:Log
+* (bug 20115) Special:Userlogin title says "Log in / create account" even if the
+ user can't create an account
+* (bug 2658) Don't attempt to set the TZ environment variable.
+* (bug 9794) User rights log entries for foreign user now links to the foreign
+ user's page if possible
+* (bug 14717) Don't load nonexistent CSS fix files for non-Monobook skins
+* (bug 18765) Increased consistency of bold-italic markup for unbalanced quotes.
+ Improved representation of six quotes (may break existing markup).
+* (bug 22034) Use wfClientAcceptsGzip() in wfGzipHandler instead of
+ reimplementing it.
+* (bug 19226) First line renders differently on many UI messages.
+* (bug 21303) Comments are no longer stripped from MediaWiki:Common.js and
+ skin-specific JS pages
== API changes in 1.16 ==
* (bug 17809) Add number of users in user groups to meta=siteinfo
* (bug 18533) Add readonly reason to readonly exception
* (bug 19528) Added XSLT parameter to API queries in format=xml
-* (bug 19040) Fix prependtext and appendtext in combination with section
+* (bug 19040) Fix prependtext and appendtext in combination with section
parameter in action=edit
-* (bug 19090) Added watchlist parameter, deprecated watch and unwatch
+* (bug 19090) Added watchlist parameter, deprecated watch and unwatch
parameter in action=edit
* Added fields to list=search output: size, wordcount, timestamp, snippet
* Where supported by backend, list=search adds a 'searchinfo' element with
optional info: 'totalhits' count and 'suggestion' alternate query term
* (bug 19907) $wgCrossSiteAJAXdomains added to allow specified (or all)
- external domains to access api.php via AJAX, if the browser supports the
+ external domains to access api.php via AJAX, if the browser supports the
Access-Control-Allow-Origin HTTP header
* (bug 19999) Made metadata and properties of search results optional. Added
srprop and srinfo.
* (bug 20700) Add amprop=default to meta=allmessages to list default value for
customized messages
* Don't parse magic words in meta=allmessages, output messages unparsed
+* (bug 21105) list=usercontribs can now list contribs for User:0
+* (bug 21085) list=deletedrevs no longer returns only one revision when
+ drcontinue param is passed
+* (bug 21106) Deprecated parameters now tagged in action=paraminfo
+* (bug 19004) Added support for tags
+* (bug 21083) list=allusers no longer returns current timestamp for users
+ without registration date
+* (bug 20967) action=edit allows creation of invalid titles
+* (bug 19523) Add inprop=watched to prop=info
+* (bug 21589) API: Separate summary and initial page text for uploads
+* (bug 21817) list=usercontribs returns empty result for empty ucuser
+* (bug 21441) meta=userinfo&uiprop=options no longer returns default options
+ for logged-in users under certain circumstances
+* (bug 21945) Add chomp control in YAML
+* Expand the thumburl to an absolute url to make it consistent with url and
+ descriptionurl
+* (bug 20233) ApiLogin::execute() doesn't handle LoginForm :: RESET_PASS
=== Languages updated in 1.16 ===
regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
changes to languages because of MediaZilla reports.
+* Capiznon (cps) (new)
+* North Frisian (frr) (new)
+* Kirmanjki (kiu) (new)
+* Komi-Permyak (koi) (new)
+* Karachay-Balkar (krc) (new)
+* Hill Mari (mrj) (new)
+* Prussian (prg) (new)
+* Romagnol (rgn) (new)
* Lower Silesian (sli) (new)
* Picard (pcd) (new)
* Uyghur (Arabic script) (ug-arab) (new)
+* Votic (vot) (new)
* Eastern Yiddish (ydd) (removed)
* Iriga Bicolano (bto) (removed)
+* Ladin (lld) (removed)
+* Laz (lzz) (removed)
* Palembang (plm) (removed)
+* Megleno-Romanian (Greek script) (ruq-grek) (removed)
* Tamazight (tzm) (removed)
* (bug 18474) Sorani (ckb - Central Kurdish) (renamed from ku-arab)
* (bug 19949) New linktrail for Greek (el)
* (bug 19809) Korean (North Korea) (ko-kp) (new)
* (bug 19968) Fixed "Project talk" namespace name for Maltese (mt)
+* (bug 21168) Added áâãàéêçíóôõúü to Portuguese (pt) linktrail
+* (bug 21596) Change interwiki link for Kurdish (ku)
== Compatibility ==