MediaWiki 1.20 is an alpha-quality branch and is not recommended for use in
production.
+=== PHP 5.3 now required ==
+Since 1.20, the lowest supported version of MediaWiki is now 5.3.2. Please
+upgrade PHP if you have not done so prior to upgrading MediaWiki.
+
=== Configuration changes in 1.20 ===
* `$wgUsePathInfo = true;` is no longer needed to make $wgArticlePath work on servers
using like nginx, lighttpd, and apache over fastcgi. MediaWiki now always extracts
* Edit notices can now be translated.
* (bug 22887) Add warning and tracking category for preprocessor errors
* (bug 31704) Allow selection of associated namespace on the watchlist
+* (bug 5445) Now remove autoblocks when a user is unblocked.
=== Bug fixes in 1.20 ===
* (bug 30245) Use the correct way to construct a log page title.
* (bug 35572) Blocks appear to succeed even if query fails due to wrong DB structure
* (bug 31757) Add a word-separator between help-messages in HTMLForm
* (bug 30410) Removed deprecated $wgFilterCallback and the 'filtered' API error.
+* (bug 32604) Some messages needs escaping of wikitext inside username
=== API changes in 1.20 ===
* (bug 34316) Add ability to retrieve maximum upload size from MediaWiki API.
== Compatibility ==
-MediaWiki 1.20 requires PHP 5.2.3. PHP 4 is no longer supported.
+MediaWiki 1.20 requires PHP 5.3.2. PHP 4 is no longer supported.
MySQL is the recommended DBMS. PostgreSQL or SQLite can also be used, but
support for them is somewhat less mature. There is experimental support for IBM