THIS IS NOT A RELEASE YET
-MediaWiki 1.18 is an alpha-quality branch and is not recommended for use in
+This is a beta release of the MediaWiki 1.18 branch. Please test it and let us
+know what you think of it. Beta releases are not recommended for use in
production.
=== Configuration changes in 1.18 ===
=== New features in 1.18 ===
* BREAKING CHANGE: action=watch / action=unwatch now requires a token.
* (bug 27860) Minor edit after clicking 'new section' tab
-Now the "This is a minor edit" checkbox is not available when you
-create a page or new section.
+ Now the "This is a minor edit" checkbox is not available when you
+ create a page or new section.
* (bug 8130) Query pages should limit to content namespaces, not just main
namespace.
+* Search suggestions (other than in the Vector skin) will now use the HTML5
+ datalist feature where supported, currently only Firefox 4.
* Special:Contribs now redirects to Special:Contributions.
* (bug 6672) Images are now autorotated according to their EXIF orientation.
This only affects thumbnails; the source remains unrotated.
* Introduced $wgVaryOnXFPForAPI which will cause the API to send
Vary: X-Forwarded-Proto headers.
* New maintenance script to refresh image metadata (maintenance/refreshImageMetadata.php)
+* (bug 16428) Include permalink in printable version
* (bug 30722) Add an identity collation that sorts things based on what the
unicode code point is (aka pre-1.17 behaviour)
* (bug 30940) Add a hook in User:getDefaultOptions.
Windows servers.
* (bug 30074) Moving user JS subpages resulted in JS errors because
#REDIRECT [[Foo]] is invalid JS
+* (bug 30335) Fix for HTMLForms using GET breaking when non-friendly URLs
+ are used
+* (bug 30264) Changed installer-generated LocalSettings.php to use require_once()
+ instead require() for included extensions.
* Tracking categories are no longer shown in footer for special pages
+* (bug 30684) Fix bad escaping in mw.message for inexistent messages (i.e. <key>)
* $wgOverrideSiteFeed no longer double escapes urls.
* The preprocessor no longer fails with a PHP warning about XML_PARSE_HUGE when
processing complex pages using newer versions of libxml2.
+* (bug 30907) Special:Unusedcategories should sort ascendingly.
* (bug 28545) When using the uca-default collation, sortkey's starting with a
space (U+20) will sort under an invisible header like in 1.16 rather than a U+6DE
* (bug 30192) Thumbnails of archived files are now deleted
* (bug 32086) Special:PermanentLink now show an error message when no subpage
was specified.
* (bug 31822) Error during upgrade due to output buffer reset in stdout
+* (bug 31913) Special:MostLinkedTemplates had an incorrect GROUP BY clause
+ under Microsoft SQL.
+* (bug 31990) justify paragraphs pref adds extra space to category listing
=== API changes in 1.18 ===
* BREAKING CHANGE: action=watch now requires POST and token.
* (bug 30817) Restored linktrail for kk (Kazakh)
* (bug 27398) Add $wgExtraGenderNamespaces for configured gendered namespaces
* (bug 30846) New LanguageOs class
-* (bug 31913) Special:MostLinkedTemplates had an incorrect GROUP BY clause
- under Microsoft SQL.
=== Other changes in 1.18 ===
* Removed legacy wgAjaxWatch javascript global object, no longer in use.
See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions.
-For notes on 1.15.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
+For notes on 1.17.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
== Online documentation ==