X-Git-Url: https://git.cyclocoop.org/%27.WWW_URL.%27admin/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=HISTORY;h=f98333a72547d76df04c093adf5097620dcc38c0;hb=1590e651ed3fae8768a2dea5a2af2f03abe6426b;hp=0d23ea4b0fb7c68163fae2697b4054a6feb61a31;hpb=4c781a2cbc31d62e41e05e43b8906e9051c51240;p=lhc%2Fweb%2Fwiklou.git diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY index 0d23ea4b0f..f98333a725 100644 --- a/HISTORY +++ b/HISTORY @@ -1,10 +1,2064 @@ Change notes from older releases. For current info see RELEASE-NOTES. +== MediaWiki 1.10 == + +This is the Spring 2007 branch release of MediaWiki. + +MediaWiki is now using a "continuous integration" development model with +quarterly snapshot releases. The latest development code is always kept +"ready to run", and in fact runs our own sites on Wikipedia. + +Release branches will continue to receive security updates for about a year +from first release, but nonessential bugfixes and feature developments +will be made on the development trunk and appear in the next quarterly release. + +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 == + +* 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 $wgLogRestrictions +* (Bug 8590) limited HTML is now always enabled ($wgUserHtml = true). +* Deprecated $wgUseImageResize, thumbnailing will be enabled unconditionally. + +== New features since 1.9 == + +* (bug 6937) Introduce "statistics-footer" message, appended to + Special:Statistics +* (bug 6638) List block flags in block log entries +* (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) +* Introduce "cascading protection" -- implicit protection on pages transcluded + into a page protected with this option enabled +* (bug 8567) Added hook RawPageViewBeforeOutput just before the text is blown + out in action=raw, so extensions might influence the output. +* (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 +* (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 +* (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 +* Introduce magic word {{NUMBEROFEDITS}} +* Introduced media handlers for file-type specific operations. +* Improved error reporting for image thumbnailing +* Added sharpening option for ImageMagick thumbnailing +* (bug 9656) Autosummaries will be generated for deletion of pages longer than + 500 characters +* Predefined block reasons added to Special:Blockip +* (bug 9196) Installer now check that zend.ze1_compatibility_mode is off +* (bug 9697) Introduce 'InternalParseBeforeLinks' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information +* 'contribsub' message changed to 'contribsub2' with two parameters to permit + better localization. Change is reverse-compatible and can be ignored for + most wikis. +* Adding a 'reason' field to Special:Userrights + +== 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. +* PostgreSQL upgrade scripts fixed and updated +* (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 +* 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 8407) Disallow indexing of "printable" versions +* (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 +* Missing interwiki row for English Wikipedia restored (as "wikipedia:") +* use configured cache servers for mctest.php +* bucket details in mcc.php +* fix input validation and remove debugging code in compressOld +* full ID range for moveToExternal +* fix resolveStubs.php for compatibility with older serialized data +* maximum line length for bar graphs in getLagTimes.php +* recognize specieswiki in rebuildInterwiki.inc +* profile unicode cleanup in Xml +* log slow parses in Article.php +* profile wfMsgReal +* log mkdir failures +* profile AutoLoader +* rebuild empty DjVu metadata containing '' +* security fix for DjVu metadata retrieval +* Undelete page list can use plural marker +* (bug 8638) Fix update from 1.4 and earlier +* (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. +* Sanitizer now correctly escapes lonely '>' occurring before the first wikitag. +* Ignore self closing on closing tags ( '' now gives '') +* (bug 8673) Minor fix for web service API content-type header +* Fix API revision list on PHP 5.2.1; bad reference assignment +* (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 +* ar: fix the 'create a new page' on search page when no exact match found +* (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 +* 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; + accesskeys default settings appear to be same as Windows. +* Added an option to make Linker::userToolLinks() show the contribs link + red when the user has no edits. Linker::userToolLinksRedContribs() is an + alias to that which should be used to make it more self documentating. +* (bug 8749) Bring MySQL 5 table defs back into sync +* (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 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 + is passed as a query string parameter; we have to pass the title as + a form parameter or it gets dropped from the form submission URL +* (bug 8819) Fix full path disclosure in with skins dependencies +* 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 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 + affecting pages which had null edits (move, protect, etc) as second + edit in a batch group. Isolated and patched by Travis Derouin. +* Fix for paths in 1.4->1.5 special-case updater script +* (bug 8789) AJAX search: IE users can now use the return key +* (bug 6844) Use and tags to emphase the differences +* (bug 6684) Fix improper javascript array iteration +* (bug 4347) use MailAddress object for reply-to +* Add AlphabeticPager abstract class +* Use faster AlphabeticPager for Special:Categories +* (bug 8875) Show printable link in MonoBook sidebar for locally nonexistent + pages; perhaps useful for categories and shared images +* Clean up session checks to better handle the case where the session was + opened during the current request. May help with some caching corner + cases. +* (bug 8897) Fix whitespace removal for interlanguage links with link prefix +* Add 'ParserTestTables' hook to expand the list of temporary tables copied + by the parser test harness; use for extensions which require the presence + of other tables while they work. +* Message names changed for AlphabeticPager introduced with r19758 + for better localisations. +* (bug 8944) The deprecated is_a() function is used in StubObjects.php +* (bug 8992) Fix a remaining raw use of REQUEST_URI in history +* (bug 8999) User.php gives "undefined user editcount" PHP notice. +* (bug 8984) Fix a database error in Special:Recentchangeslinked + when using the Postgres database. +* 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. +* Lazy-initialize site_stats row on load when empty. Somewhat kinder to + dump-based installations, avoiding PHP warnings when NUMBEROFARTICLES + and such are used. +* Add 'charset' to Content-Type headers on various HTTP error responses + to forestall additional UTF-7-autodetect XSS issues. PHP sends only + 'text/html' by default when the script didn't specify more details, + which some inconsiderate browsers consider a license to autodetect + the deadly, hard-to-escape UTF-7. + This fixes an issue with the Ajax interface error message on MSIE when + $wgUseAjax is enabled (not default configuration); this UTF-7 variant + on a previously fixed attack vector was discovered by Moshe BA from BugSec: + http://www.bugsec.com/articles.php?Security=24 +* Trackback responses now specify XML content type +* (bug 9044) Send a comment with action=raw pages in CSS/JS output mode + to work around IE/Mac bug where empty pages time out verrrrryyyyy slowly, + particularly with new keepalive-friendly HTTP on Wikipedia +* (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 8132) Suppress "Pages in this category" heading in categories when + there are none +* (bug 8958) Handle search operators better when using tsearch2 (Postgres) +* (bug 8799) Use redirect table for Special:BrokenRedirects and + Special:DoubleRedirects +* (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 5805) Enable PLURAL option for some messages of watchlist and statistic +* (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 bytea 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 +* (bug 9554) Extension-provided group name messages not used +* (bug 9565) Translate template namespace name for Hindi (hi) +* (bug 8599) Correct localized names of zh-variants +* (bug 3366) Require skins based on SkinTemplate to override the skinname + property. +* (bug 9220) Removed obsoletes functions in install-utils.inc. +* Removed obsoletes Title::getRelatedCache and Title:touchArray +* (bug 7285) Check MySQL username length during install +* (bug 6910) Correct date/time formats in Vietnamese (vi) +* (bug 9608) Correctly use ORDER BY in dumpLinks.php +* (bug 9609) Correctly use ORDER BY in SpecialWhatlinkshere.php +* Special:Random and Special:Randomredirect now try harder to send the user to + a random page, and will give an error message if none really can be found + instead of sending the user to the main page like they used to +* Fix object variable used for displaying "not-patrolled" CSS class on list +* Fixed interaction of page parameter to ImagePage with the HTML file cache +* Fixed MIME type for SVG files, will be silently changed from image/svg + to image/svg+xml after loading from the database. +* Workaround for djvutoxml bug #1704049 (poor performance). Use djvudump + instead. +* Fixed odd behaviour in ImagePage on DjVu thumbnailing errors +* (bug 5439) "Go" title search will now jump to shared/foreign Image: and + MediaWiki: pages that have not been locally edited. +* (bug 9630) Limits links in Whatlinkshere forgot about namespace filter +* Fixed upgrade for the non-standard MySQL schemas +* Disable MySQL's strict mode at session start for MySQL 4.1+, to avoid the + various problems that occur when it is on. +* (bug 9585) Fix regression in tidy usage in Special:Undelete previews +* (bug 3826) Normalize some invalid cookie name characters when setting + up $wgCookiePrefix. Completes application of patch by Anders Kaseorg. +* (bug 9649) Fix RTL form alignment for Special:Movepage +* (bug 9582) Members of bot group now mark edits patrolled by default +* (bug 9669) Fix limit ordering for rebuildrecentchanges; broken since + converted from 1.4 to 1.5 schema +* (bug 9682) Revert PHP 5.1 dependency on warning suppression for SVN info +* (bug 5959) Anchors dropped from stub links +* (bug 3348) Some additional weak password checks: password which is same + as username will now be rejected. +* (bug 8602) Converted Special:Contributions to use an IndexPager. The + interpretation of the offset parameter has changed, and the go parameter + has been removed. +* (bug 6204) Fixes for indentation with $wgMaxTocLevel: + - don't emit too many list close tags after an invisible header + - don't emit too many final list close tags if last header is invisible + - don't emit TOC when there are no visible headers +* (bug 7629) Fix $wgBrowserBlackList to avoid false positive on MSIE + when certain plugins are present which alter the user agent + + +== 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 +* Restore '--norc' option for maintenance/importTextFile.php +* Help information for maintenance/importTextFile.php now easier to read on + consoles +* Doxygen documentation now show the revision number of each file, generate + graphs using dot and include a search engine. + + +== Languages updated == + +* Arabic (ar) +* Aramaic (arc) +* Aymara (ay) +* Belarusian normative (be) +* Belarusian alternative (be-x-old) +* Bulgarian (bg) +* Bihara (bh) +* Breton (br) +* Catalan (ca) +* Czech (cs) +* Danish (da) +* German (de) +* Greek (el) +* Esperanto (eo) +* Spanish (es) +* Estonian (et) +* Basque (eu) +* Finnish (fi) +* Võro (fiu-vro) +* French (fr) +* Hebrew (he) +* Hindi (hi) +* Upper Sorbian (hsb) +* Hungarian (hu) +* Armenian (hy) +* Indonesian (id) +* Italian (it) +* Japanese (ja) +* Javanese (jv) +* Georgian (ka) +* Kabyle (kab) +* Kazakh (kk) +* Korean (ko) +* Kashmiri (ks) +* Ripuarian (ksh) +* Latin (la) +* Luganda (lg) +* Limburgish (li) +* Lithuanian (lt) +* Latvian (lv) +* 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) +* Vietnamese (vi) +* Zealandic (zea) +* Old Chinese / Late Middle Chinese (zh-classical) +* Chinese (PRC) (zh-cn) +* Chinese (Taiwan) (zh-tw) +* Cantonese (zh-yue) + +== Compatibility == + +MediaWiki 1.10 requires PHP 5 (5.1 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer supported. + +PHP 5.0.x fails on 64-bit systems due to serious bugs with array processing: +http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=34879 +Upgrade affected systems to PHP 5.1 or higher. + +MySQL 3.23.x is no longer supported; some older hosts may need to upgrade. +At this time we still recommend 4.0, but 4.1/5.0 will work fine in most cases. + + +== Upgrading == + +1.10 has several database changes since 1.9, and will not work without schema +updates. + +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 +break. Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading! + +See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions. + = MediaWiki release notes = Security reminder: MediaWiki does not require PHP's register_globals setting since version 1.2.0. If you have it on, turn it *off* if you can. + +== Changes since 1.8 == + +* (bug 8200) Make category lists sorted by name when using Postgres. +* (bug 7841) Support 'IGNORE' inserts for Postgres, fixes watchlist + adding problem. +* (bug 6835) Removing the includes/Parser.php::getTemplateArgs() function, + because it seems to be unused. +* (bug 7139) Increasing the visual width of the edit summary field on larger + screen sizes, for the default monobook skin. +* Fix PHP notice and estimates for dumpBackup.php and friends +* Improved register_globals paranoia checks +* (bug 7545) Fix PHP version check on install +* Disable PHP exception backtrace printing unless $wgShowExceptionDetails + is set. Backtraces may contain sensitive information in function call + parameters. +* (bug 6164) Avoid smashing Cite state if message transformation triggers + during bad image list check, by skipping message transformation. + This isn't a good permanent fix. +* (bug 6918) Stopped borders and backgrounds from showing through floated + tables in Monobook +* (bug 6868) Un-hardcode section edit link style +* (bug 3205) Stop right floats from stacking horizontally in non-Monobook skins +* Added global $wgStyleVersion to centralize bumping CSS and JS file versions + for cache-friendly style and script updating +* (bug 7562) Fix non-ASCII namespaces on Windows/XAMPP servers +* Friendlier check for PHP 5 in command-line scripts; it's common for parallel + PHP 4 and 5 installations to interfere on the command-line. +* Fix regression in autoconfirm permission check +* (bug 3015) Add CSS ids to subcategory and page sections on category pages +* (bug 7587) Fix erroneous id for specialpage tab, enabling informative popup +* (bug 7599) Fix thumbnail purging, PHP notices on HTCP image page purge +* (bug 7581) Update language name for cbk-zam +* (bug 7444) Update namespace translations for Telugu (te), kept old values as + alias for compatibility +* (bug 4525) Move section links down visually to same level as headings + (editsection links are now inside the heading elements) +* Workaround for http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=31892 , PATH_INFO and hence + URLs of the style /index.php/Main_Page were broken on some CGI installations. +* (bug 7623) Validate custom HTML id's correctly in Monobook interface +* (bug 2241) Fix collision of 'w' and 'd' accesskeys +* (bug 5795) CSS class added to body based on page name for page-specific + styling +* (bug 6276) Stopped search field from getting too large in Cologne Blue +* (bug 7644) User creations that are aborted by hooks shouldn't be counted + against account creations per day limit +* (bug 7636) Show Firefox 2 users correct accesskey prefix +* (bug 6427) Block blocked IPs from using the mail password function + to allow blocking of flooders +* Include common.css from classic-style skins in main HTML with the bump URL +* (bug 7607) Add Karakalpak (kaa) to Names.php and stub message file for linktrail +* (bug 7582) Add 'tog-nolangconversion' to MessagesEn.php. + This key is need for languages with variants (zh, sr, kk) +* (bug 7606) MediaWiki messages for "rss" and "atom" missing +* (bug 7609) Add some more '*-summary' messages to MessagesEn.php with empty + strings to allow better localisation via Special:Allmessages. Mark this new + messages as optional for localisation. +* Fix user_newpass upgrade for prefixed tables (reported by Fyren) +* (bug 7663) Include language variant switcher links on Nostalgia skin +* (bug 6531) Fix PHP fatal error on installation page with bad username input. +* (bug 6977) Remove 404 link for autogenerated database documentation. +* (bug 7369) Allow "Show Changes" without requiring edit token. +* (bug 7687) Fix movetalk box checks itself when confirming a delete and move. +* (bug 7684) Obey watchcreated preference for Special:Upload watch checkbox +* (bug 7686) Include id attribute on delete form confirmation button +* Allow compound interwiki prefixes in $wgImportSources +* (bug 7304) Added redirect table to store redirect targets. +* Added querycachetwo table (similar to querycache but has two titles) +* PageArchive can now return a Revision object for more convenient processing + of deleted revision data +* Added 'UndeleteShowRevision' hook in Special:Undelete +* Error message on attempt to view invalid or missing deleted revisions +* Remove unsightly "_" from namespace in Special:Allpages, Special:Prefixindex +* (bug 3224) Allow minor edits by bots to skip new message notification on + user talk pages. This can be disabled by adjusting the 'nominornewtalk' + permission. Patch by Werdna. +* (bug 7741) MATH: fixed broken syntax of underbrace etc. Fixed arrays +* Fix purging for updated SVG files +* (bug 7745) Add id attribute to search button in Monobook +* (bug 7749) MATH: added some more LaTeX symbols, e.g. parallel, diamond, ast, ... +* (bug 7304) Added code in Article.php to keep redirect table up to date. +* Made special page names case-insensitive and localisable. Care has been taken + to maintain backwards compatibility. +* Used special page subpages in a few more places, instead of query parameters. +* (bug 7758) Added wrapper span to "templates used" explanation to allow CSS + styling (class="mw-templatesUsedExplanation"). +* Added {{#special:}} parser function, to give the local default title for + special pages +* (bug 7766) Remove redundant / from AJAX requests, can break some servers +* Add tab links from extensions to classic-based skins (SkinTemplateTab hook) + Provides better cross-skin compatibility for extensions using the modern + skin hooks, such as Oversight +* Moved variant language links on Cologne Blue and Nostalgia to before the + login/logout link +* Fix for parser tests with MySQL 5 in strict mode +* Added block option "enable autoblocks" +* Amend Special:Ipblocklist to note when a block has autoblock DISABLED. +* (bug 7780) Fix regression in editing redirects +* Add whitespace above "templates included on this page" using CSS, not + hardcoded line break. +* Remove entries from redirect table on article deletion +* (bug 7788) Force section headers in new section links for users who have + 'prompt for blank edit summaries' on. +* (bug 1133) Special:Emailuser: add an option to send yourself a copy of your mail. +* (bug 461) Allow "Categories:" link at bottom of pages to be customized via + pagecategorieslink message. +* Sort the list of skins in "My Preferences" -> Skins by alphabetical order. +* (bug 7785) Postgres compatibility for timestamps in RC feeds +* (bug 7550) Normalize user parameter normally on Special:Log +* (bug 7294) Fix PATH search for diff3 on install +* Various fixes related to the blocking change re: autoblocks. On inserting + an IP block, the ipb_enable_autoblock field is now automagically blanked, + because it doesn't make any sense for an IP. Additionally, IP blocks + without the ipb_enable_autoblock option no longer show up as "autoblock + disabled" on Special:Ipblocklist. +* (bug 7774) MATH: aded more amstex functions +* (bug 1182) MATH: fixed inconsistent rendering of upper case Greek letters in TeX +* Fix regression in streaming page dump generation +* (bug 7801) Add support for parser function hooks in parser tests +* checkUsernames.php now uses wfDebugLog instead of hardcoded path to log +* (bug 7810) Update talk namespaces for Occitan +* Allow case-sensitive URLs to be used for uploading from URLs. +* (bug 1109) Correct fix for compressed 304 responses when additional output + buffers have been installed within the compression handler +* (bug 7819) Move automatic redirect edit summary after pre-save transform + to work properly with subst: fun +* (bug 7826) Fix typos in two English messages. +* (bug 5365) Stop users being prompted to enter an edit summary for null edits, + if they have selected that option in preferences. +* (bug 5936) Show an 'm' to the left of the edit summary on diff pages for minor edits. +* (bug 7820) Improve error reporting for uploads via URL. +* (bug 5149) When autoblocks are enabled, retroactively apply an autoblock to the most + recently used IP of a user when they are blocked. +* Add an index on (rc_user_text,rc_timestamp) on the recentchanges table. This will + make CheckUser.php and the new retroactive autoblock functionality faster. +* Fix regression in Special:Undelete for revisions deleted under MediaWiki 1.4 + with compression or legacy encoding +* (bug 6737) Fixes for MySQL 5 schema in strict mode +* Approximate height for client-side scaling fallback instead of passing -1 + into the HTML output. +* Make the DNSBL to check for proxy blocking configurable via $wgSorbsUrl +* Add experimental recording/reporting mode to parser tests runner, to + compare changes against the previous run. + Additional tables 'testrun' and 'testitem' are in maintenance/testRunner.sql, + source this and pass --record option to parserTests.php +* Make the set of default parser test input files extensible via + $wgParserTestFiles. This can now be appended to by extensions or local + configuration files so that extension or custom tests can be automatically + run along with the main batch. +* Run PHP install version checks on update.php so command-line updaters see + new version requirements +* Do a check for the PHP 5.0.x 64-bit bug, since this is much more disruptive + as of MW 1.8 than it used to be. Install or upgrade now aborts with a + warning and a request to upgrade. +* (bug 6440) Updated indexes to improve backlinking queries (links, templates, images) +* Switched 'anon-only' block mode to default for IP blocks +* (bug 3687, 7892) Add distinct heading for media files in category display, + with count. +* (bug 1578) Add different icons for external links to audio, video, or PDF in + Monobook. +* Made autoblocks block account creation if the user block has that option enabled. +* Add auto-summaries to blankings and large removals without summaries. +* (bug 7811) Allow preview of edit summaries. +* (bug 6839) Wikibits.js minor changes to make JS-lint happier. +* (bug 7932) Make sure that edit toolbar clears floats so it appears correctly. +* (bug 6873) When viewing old revisions, add link to diff to current version. +* (bug 3315) Provide rollback link directly on history page. +* Replace 'old-revision-navigation' message with 'revision-info' and + 'revision-nav' messages, wrapped in divs with appropriate id's. +* (bug 4178) MediaWiki:Common.js will now be included for all users if + $wgUseSiteJs is enabled, in addition to (if applicable) MediaWiki:Monobook.js + and user JS subpages. +* (bug 7918) "Templates used on this page" changes during preview to reflect + any added or removed templates, and works as expected for section edits. +* (bug 7919) "Templates used on this page" is now shown for read-only pages. +* (bug 7688) When viewing diff, section anchors in autosummary jump to section + on current page instead of loading the latest version. +* (bug 7970) Use current connection explicitly on Database::getServerVersion +* (bug 2001) Tables with class="sortable" can now be dynamically sorted via + JavaScript. +* Added autosummary for new pages with 500 or less characters, and refactor + the autosummary code so it's all done in one function. doEdit is getting too + big! +* (bug 7554) The correct MIME type for SVG images is now displayed on the + image page (image/svg+xml, not image/svg). +* (bug 7883) Added autoblock whitelisting feature, using which specific ranges + can be protected from autoblocking. These ranges are specified, in list format, + in the autoblock_whitelist system message. +* Added placeholders for text injection by hooks to EditPage.php +* (bug 8009) Automatic edit summary for redirects is not filled for edits in existing pages +* Installer support for experimental MySQL 4.1/5.0 binary-safe schema +* Use INSERT IGNORE for db-based BagOStuff add/insert, for more memcache-like + behavior when keys already exist on add (instead of dying with an error...) +* Add a hook 'UploadForm:initial' before the upload form is generated, and two + member variable for text injection into the form, which can be filled by the hooks. +* (bug 6295) Add a "revision patching" functionality, where an edit can be undone + (with a functionality similar to diff rev1 rev2 | patch -R rev3 -o rev3). + This is triggered by including &undo=revid in an edit URL. A link to a URL + that will undo a given edit is shown on NEW revision headers on diff pages. + The link leads to a "Show Changes" page showing what will be done to undo the + edit. +* Fix display of link in "already rolled back" message for image/category pages +* (bug 6016) Left-aligned images should stack vertically, like right-aligned + images, not horizontally. +* Patch from LeonWP: added UploadForm:BeforeProcessing hook in SpecialUpload.php +* Add AuthPluginSetup hook to override $wgAuth after configuration +* Fix regression in authentication hook auto-creation on login +* (bug 8110) Allow spaces in ISBNs +* (bug 8024) Introduce "send me copies of emails I send to others" preference +* Added 'EditPage::attemptSave' hook before an article is saved. +* (bug 8083) Applied patch for sk localisation +* Add a backslash character to the edit token, to prevent edits via certain + broken proxies that mangle such characters in form submissions +* (bug 7461) Allow overwriting pages using importTextFile.php +* (bug 7946) importTextFile.php doesn't perform pre-save transform +* (bug 8117) {{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}} showed weird default if $wgLocalTZoffset set; + now uses current time for previews and if timestamp can't be loaded from DB +* {{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}} now uses site local timezone instead of user timezone + to ensure consistent behavior +* {{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}} and friends should now work on non-MySQL backends +* (bug 7671) Observe canonical media namespace prefix in Linker::formatComment +* Added js variable wgCurRevisionId to the output +* (bug 8141) Cleanup of Parser::doTableStuff, patch by AzaTht +* (bug 8042) Make miser mode caching limits settable via $wgQueryCacheLimit + instead of hardcoding to 1000 +* Enable QueryPage classes to override list formatting +* (bug 5485) Show number of intervening revisions in diff view +* (bug 8100) Fix XHTML validity in Taiwanese localization +* Added redirect to section feature. Use it wisely. +* Added a configuration variable allowing the "break out of framesets" feature + to be switched on and off ($wgBreakFrames). Off by default. +* Allow Xml::check() $attribs parameter to override 'value' attribute +* DB schema change: added two columns (rc_old_len and rc_new_len) to the recentchanges table to store + the text lengths before and after the edit +* (bug 1085) Made Special:Recentchanges show the character difference between the changed revisions +* Removed a redundant tag from diff pages that was causing display issues for some users +* (bug 8203) The keyboard shortcut for "log out" was removed, because users were pressing it + when they intended to press the shortcut for "preview". +* (bug 8148) Handle non-removable output buffers gracefully when cleaning + buffers for HTTP 304 responses, StreamFile, and Special:Export. + Duplicated code merged into wfResetOutputBuffers() and wfClearOutputBuffers() +* Special:AllPages : 'next page' link now point to the first title of the next + chunk instead of pointing to the last title of current chunk. +* (bug 4673) Special:AllPages : add a 'previous' link (new message 'prevpage') +* (bug 8121) wfRandom() was not between 0 and 1 +* Add static method Parser::createAssocArgs($args), so parser functions can + use the same code to parse arguments as the templates do. +* Change behavior of logins using the temporary e-mailed password (as stored + in user_newpassword hash field). Instead of just logging in silently and + leaving the previous user_password field in place indefinitely, the user + is now prompted to set a new password. + + The password-changing form is at Special:Resetpass; currently it's only + usable for changing from the temporary password during login, but it + could perhaps be generalized, replacing the subform in preferences. + + Once the new password is set successfully, the temporary password is wiped + so it cannot be used to login a second time, and the login process + is completed. +* Suppress 'mail new password' button on login form if $wgAuth forbids + changing user passwords; it wouldn't work very well... +* Consolidate password length checks and $wgAuth manipulation into + User::setPassword() to avoid duplicate code in different places + that set passwords. +* User::setPassword() now throws PasswordError exceptions if the password + is illegal or cannot be set via $wgAuth. These can be caught and a human- + readable error message displayed by UI code. +* Added Title::isSubpage() +* (bug 8241) Don't consider user pages of User:Foo.css to be CSS subpages +* Set an explicit class on framed thumbnail inner divs and images, changed some + CSS to use these instead of using descendent selectors. +* Accept null parameter to User::setPassword() as indicating the password + field should be cleared to an unusable state. Login will only be possible + after the password is reset, for instance by e-mail. +* (bug 6394) Invalidate the password set for "by e-mail" account creations + to avoid accidental empty password creations. +* Made the show change size function work on page moves, page creations, and + log entries. Also fixed it in the javascript recentchanges. +* (bug 8239) correctly get 50 new contributions when clicking '(50 next)' +* (bug 2259) Fix old regression where e-mail addresses were no longer + confirmed on login with mailed password. +* Add a notification about the confirmation mail sent during account + creation, so people don't immediately go off to request a second one. +* Add a warning on Special:Confirmemail if a code was already sent and has + not yet expired. +* Add user_editcount field to provide data for heuristics on account use. + Incremented on edit, with lazy initialization from past revision data. + Can batch-initialize with maintenance/initEditCount.php (not yet friendly + to replication environments, this will do all accounts in one query). +* Allow raw SQL subsections in Database::update() SET portion as well as + for WHERE portion. Handy for increments and such. +* User::getOption now accept a default value to override default user values + this makes it consistent with WebRequest::get* methods. Corrected code in + various places accordingly. +* (bug 8264) Fix JavaScript global vars for XHTML mode +* Make $wgSiteNotice value wikitext again, for consistency with editable + MediaWiki:Sitenotice and MediaWiki:Anonnotice. +* (bug 8044) When redirecting from the canonical name of the special page + to the localised one, parameters/subpages are omitted +* (bug 8164) Special:Booksources should use GET for form submission +* Rewrite Special:Booksources to clean up interface and remove redundant code +* (bug 7925) Change Special:Allmessages message name filter javascript to be + a bit more responsive and easier on the CPU +* (bug 4488) Support watching pages on deletion; introduces new user preference +* Minor restructuring of Special:Preferences; "watch pages I edit" and "watch + pages I create" options now accessible under "Watchlist" options +* (bug 8153) doesn't work in site notice +* (bug 6690) wfMsgNoTrans() transforms messages +* (bug 8274) Wrap edit tools in a
with a specified class +* Detect PHP 5.0.x 64-bit bug and abort in WebStart.php; too many things break + mysteriously otherwise (detection code copied from install-utils.inc) +* (bug 8295) Change handling of
tags in doBlockLevels() to match that + of
+* (bug 8110) Make magic ISBN linking stricter: only match ten-digit sequences + (plus optional ISBN-13 prefix) with no immediately following alphanumeric + character, disallow multiple consecutive internal redirects +* (bug 2785) Accept optional colon prefix in links when formatting comments +* Don't show "you can view and copy the source of this page" message for + pages which don't exist +* (bug 8310) Blank line added to top of 'post' when page is blank +* (bug 8109) Template parameters ignored in "recentchangestext" +* Gracefully skip redirect-to-fragment on WebKit versions less than 420; + it messes up on current versions of Safari but is ok in the latest + nightlies. Checking the version number will allow it to automatically + work when new releases of Safari appear. +* Fix regression in thumb styles; size and padding didn't match with + new arrangement. +* (bug 8333) Fix quick user data update on login password change on + replication database setups. User data is now pulled from master + instead of slave in User::loadFromDatabase, ensuring that it is + fresh and accurate when read and then saved back into cache. + This was breaking with the Special:Rename operation which + automatically logs the user in with the new password after changing + it; pulling from slave meant the record was often not the updated + one. +* (bug 8335) Set image width to the first valid parameter found. +* (bug 8350) Fix watchlist viewing bug when using Postgres. +* (bug 6603) When warning about invalid file extensions, output the bit + of the extension we actually checked +* (bug 7669) Drop defaults on BLOB/TEXT columns for better compatibility + with MySQL's strict mode, often enabled by the Windows installer. + The defaults are ignored anyway when strict mode is off... +* (bug 7685) Use explicit values for ar_text and ar_flags when deleting, + for better compatibility with MySQL's strict mode +* Update default interwiki values to reflect changed location of ursine: +* (bug 5411) Remove autopatrol preference +* Users who have the "autopatrol" permission will have their edits marked as + patrolled automatically +* Users who do not have the "autopatrol" permission will no longer be able + to mark their own edits as patrolled +* Introduce 'PingLimiter' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information +* (bug 532) Tweaked alt text for some interface messages +* (bug 8231) Gave useful alt text to the main on image pages +* (bug 371) Remove alt text for "Enlarge" icon on thumbnails +* Initialize user_editcount to 0 instead of NULL for newly created accounts +* (bug 3696) Strip LRM and RLM characters from titles to work around the + problem some people have where titles cut-and-pasted from lists include + the bidi override characters appended to the lists. + A more thorough blacklist for forbidden and translatable characters would + be wise, though, as might a cleaner method for the lists in the first place. +* Fix regression in email password resets on read-restricted sites +* Set tabindex on fields in deletion form so you don't have to tab through + the links in the sitenotice +* (bug 8271) Show full time and date on viewer for individual deleted + revisions +* (bug 8214) Output file size limit and actual file size in appropriate units + on Special:Upload +* (bug 8016) Purge objectcache table during upgrade processes - use the --nopurge + option to prevent this when running maintenance/update.php +* (bug 7612) Remove superfluous link to Special:Categories from result items + on Special:Mostcategories +* {{PLURAL:}} now handles formatted numbers correctly +* (bug 8331) Added the change size value to watchlists; therefore made + watchlists use RecentChange::newFromRow() instead of newFromCurRow() +* (bug 8351) Fix undo for simple reverts +* (bug 6856) User::clearNotification() does not respect read-only mode +* (bug 6853) Use a checkbox on the installer form to indicate that a superuser + account should be used; this is clearer than the old check which relied on + the password never being an obscure value +* Remove old unused watchlist cache, which was a leftover from the old schema + where watchlists were more expensive to generate +* Minor cosmetic changes to Special:Userrights +* Added wgCanonicalSpecialPageName to JavaScript variables +* Fix image deleting when using Postgres. +* Output both source and destination titles in maintenance/moveBatch.php +* Added basic parser tests for language variants +* Enable selflinks and categories to be written in some of the language variants +* Prevent conversion of JavaScript code in language variants +* Output software version number in maintenance/parserTests.php +* (bug 7169) Use Ajax to watch/unwatch articles if enabled +* Make variant table caching a little more robust, using main language code + in cache key. Probably this is still a bit wonky, though. Was breaking + parser tests when Chinese tables were getting loaded into Serbian code. +* (bug 8380) Be nicer about blank lines in deleteBatch.php +* (bug 8401) Fix regression in SORBS lookup for some DNS setups +* Use raw file descriptor in posix_isatty() check to avoid warning on + Linux systems with at least some versions of PHP +* (bug 5908) Allow overriding the default category sort key for all items on + a page using {{DEFAULTSORT}} +* (bug 6449) Throw a more definitive error message when installation fails + due to an invalid database name +* (bug 5827) Use full text for option link labels on Special:Watchlist +* (bug 8018) Allow hiding minor edits from the watchlist +* (bug 8427) MonoBook RTL IE 7.0 tweaks failed when sidebar's navigation + section is renamed; no longer relies on first section name +* Stabilize client-side table sorting even if the underlying Javascript sort() + implementation is unstable +* Add hook for extensions to add user information to the panel in preferences, + next to the user name and ID. +* (bug 8392) Display protection status of transcluded pages in the edit page + template list. Patch by Fyren, with i18n naming tweak. +* Fix for interwiki transclusion where target wiki uses query string for title +* Resolve namespaces on interwiki Title objects using canonical namespace names + if possible (should not happen, though, outside interwiki transclusion... and + maybe not even then, but it does) +* (bug 8447) Fix SQL typo breaking non-default $wgHitcounterUpdateFreq +* Do not allow previews of deleted images to be cached +* Add global variable $wgDefaultLanguageVariant used to set the default language + variant of a wiki to something different than the main language code +* Add 'variant' option to parserTests - runs test with the given variant as + preferred, utilize it for more parser tests of language variants code +* (bug 6503) Fix bug that stopped certain irrelevant links from being hidden + for printing +* Avoid PHP warning in Creative Commons metadata when a creative commons + license is not actually set up +* (bug 8463) Don't print external link icons for Monobook +* (bug 8461) Support watching pages on move +* (bug 8041) Work around bug with debug_backtrace when Zend Optimizer is + loaded by skipping the function. Use wfDebugBacktrace() wrapper function. +* Reduce config file clutter by setting various script and upload paths + based on $IP or $wgScriptPath in Setup.php. They can still be explicitly + overridden in LocalSettings.php if desired... +* Attempt to detect redirect loops for the canonical title redirect, and + give some hints to the poor confused administrator. +* Introduce new flag 'R' - raw output for language variant escape tags +* Advise users when updates for a query page have been disabled using + $wgDisableQueryPageUpdate +* (bug 8413) Improve comments for $wgNamespaceRobotPolicies +* (bug 8330) Show "bytes" suffix on recent changes diff counter + optionally... if set in rc-changes-size message (default empty for now) +* (bug 8489) Support basic links in caption attribute +* (bug 8485) Correct Lingala number formatting +* The MediaWiki namespace is no longer pre-filled with default messages on + install. All default messages will be removed from the MediaWiki namespace + on upgrade. +* Recentchanges RSS/Atom feeds now use a separate message for the description + to avoid cluttering it with useless wiki formatting +* (bug 8417) Handle EXIF unknown dates +* (bug 8372) Return nothing on empty tags. +* New maintenance script to show the cached statistics : showStats.php. +* Count deleted edits when regenerating total edits in maintenance/initStats.php +* (bug 3706) Allow users to be exempted from IP blocks. The ipblock-exempt permission + key has been added to enable this behaviour, by default assigned to sysops. +* (bug 7948) importDump.php now warn that Recentchanges need to be rebuild. +* (bug 7667) allow XHTML namespaces customization +* (bug 8531) Correct local name of Lingála (patch by Raymond) +* Fix regression with default lock file and cache directories; threw visible + warning with open_basedir + + +== 1.8 Compatibility changes == + +=== Zend Optimizer === + +A bug in some versions of PHP 5 and Zend Optimizer which was triggered under +MediaWiki 1.8.x has been worked around by disabling some internal debugging +features when Zend Optimizer is loaded. This should solve some common +"blank page" problems. + +=== PHP 5.0 64-bit === + +MediaWiki now checks for a condition where PHP 5.0.x corrupts array data +on 64-bit systems and warns you to upgrade PHP to solve the problem. This +bug causes Special: pages to fail on affected systems under MediaWiki 1.8 +and higher, and subtler data corruption on earlier versions. + +The only known workaround is to upgrade PHP to 5.1 or later, which you +probably should do anyway for security reasons! + +=== MySQL 5 === + +MediaWiki should now install and run correctly on MySQL 5.0 and higher when +MySQL's "strict mode" is enabled. (This is now the default for many Windows +installations, though it seems to remain off by default on Unix.) + +This fixes errors about "cannot default default value for BLOB/TEXT fields". + +=== ImageMagick === + +Note that ImageMagick older than 6.x may no longer work for image resizing +due to use of the -thumbnail option. + + +== 1.8 Behavior changes == + +=== Localized special pages === + +The names of Special: pages can now be localized, so links and URLs to them +are more legible in languages that aren't English. + +Not all languages have included localized names yet. + +=== E-mail password === + +Users are now required to set a new password for themselves when they first +log in with a newly generated e-mailed password. + +Requesting passwords frequently is prevented to reduce abusive mailbombing. + +=== Undo revision === + +An "undo" link now appears in diff view for easier reverting of older edits. +When GNU diff3 is available for edit conflict merging, this can make it much +easier to "undo" the changes of an older edit when there are surrounding +changes elsewhere in the page. + +The changes must be manually reviewed and approved, as with conventional +full-revision reverts. + +=== Blocking === + +User blocks can be set to disable the automatic blocking of IP addresses the +account logs in with. + + +== 1.8 Database changes == + +* new 'redirect' table stores data on page redirects +* new 'querycachetwo' table used for some cached special pages +* 'ipblocks' table adds 'ipb_enable_autoblock' +* 'recentchanges' table adds 'rc_old_len', 'rc_new_len' for size tracking +* 'user' table has added 'user_newpass_time' and 'user_editcount' fields +* some indexes have been updated on 'recentchanges' + +== 1.8 Configuration changes == + +Several configuration options have changed since 1.8: + +=== $wgEnableAPI === + +The experimental machine API interface is now enabled by default, read-only. +You can disable it by setting $wgEnableAPI = false; in LocalSettings.php. + +=== $wgPathInfo === + +The use of PATH_INFO (the text after the script name in 'index.php/Blah') +is controlled by the $wgUsePathInfo setting. This is now explicitly disabled +for CGI, apache2filter, and ISAPI configurations of PHP, for more consistency +with the autodetection from the installer. + +In some rarer configurations you may have to switch $wgUsePathInfo from false +to true or, perhaps, from true to false to make things work properly if bad +PATH_INFO data comes through the server. + +The wiki now tries to detect this condition and should show you an error +message describing what to change instead of sending the browser into an +infinite redirect loop. + +=== $wgScript and other path settings === + +The following configuration variables are now automatically set in Setup.php +if they are not overridden in LocalSettings.php: + +from $wgScriptPath: + + $wgScript + | \- $wgArticlePath + + $wgRedirectScript + + $wgStylePath + + $wgUploadPath + \- $wgLogo + + $wgMathPath + +from $IP: + - $wgStyleDirectory + + $wgUploadDirectory + \- $wgMathDirectory + + $wgTmpDirectory + +Newly generated configuration files will by default include only $wgScriptPath +(hardcoded from the installer) and $IP (detected at runtime). + +Old configuration files which specify all these values explicitly should +continue to work just fine, but if you use the defaults you can remove them +to reduce clutter. + +=== $wgGroupPermissions === + +The sysop group now holds the "autopatrol" and "ipblock-exempt" rights by +default. + +"autopatrol" replaces the preference for marking ones own edits patrolled +by default; users holding this permission will automatically have their +edits patrolled, while others cannot mark their own edits as patrolled +even if they have patrolling rights. + +"ipblock-exempt" excludes the user from IP blocks; accounts which are blocked +explicitly by name will still be blocked, however. This is given to sysops +to minimize annoyance from accidental "collateral damage"; remember that a +sysop will be able to lift the block if they desire. + +The bot group now holds the "nominornewtalk" right. A user with this right +will not trigger new message notifications when making minor edits to user +talk pages. This is meant to minimize annoyance from maintenance bot +processes. + +=== $wgUseWatchlistCache === + +Watchlist caching has been removed. The feature was not maintained, and has +been unnecessary since switching to the 'recentchanges' database table +reduced server pressure for Wikipedia's watchlists. + +=== $wgBreakFrames === + +MediaWiki in the past attempted to detect when it was embedded in a frameset +and "break out" of it, assuming it to be hostile. + +This behavior is now disabled by default, but can be reenabled by setting +$wgBreakFrames to true in LocalSettings.php. + + +== 1.8 New settings == + +=== $wgVariantArticlePath === + +For languages with script variant support (Chinese, Serbian, and others), +it's possible to use alternate URL paths to select the variant for article +display, setting $wgVariantArticlePath. + +Documentation for this setting would be useful. + +=== $wgMaxMsgCacheEntrySize === + +The message cache can now skip items larger than a given size; this allows +it to better handle the primary caching case when large CSS and JS blobs are +present. + +=== $wgStyleVersion === + +When making significant changes to skin stylesheets and JavaScript files, +you can append a string to this variable to tweak the generated URLs, +forcing newly rendered pages to bring in a fresh version despite server- +or browser-side caching. + +Normally this will be set in the course of MediaWiki development, but +if doing development on a custom skin you may wish to poke it as well. + +=== $wgRCShowChangedSize === + +Special:Recentchanges and Special:Watchlist now show the number of bytes +added or removed to an article to give an idea of the size of the edit. +This information was previously available only in the IRC update feeds. + +To disable this site-wide, set $wgRCShowChangedSize to false. +(Individual users can suppress the data in custom CSS.) + +Adjust $wgRCChangedSizeThreshold to trigger highlighting of particularly +large changes. + +The formatting of the size figure can be adjusted through the +[[MediaWiki:Rc-change-size]] message. + +=== $wgQueryCacheLimit === + +The number of rows stored for "expensive" special pages in miser mode +can now be adjusted up or down from the default 1000. + +=== $wgDisableQueryPageUpdate === + +Individual "expensive" special pages can be skipped in processing by +updateSpecialPages if added to this list. + +=== $wgSorbsUrl === + +The base hostname for the DNS-based proxy blacklist can now be overridden +when $wgEnableSorbs is set, to use a different blacklist instead of SORBS. +The blacklist would need to respond the same was as SORBS; any positive +response will be taken as a proxy. + +=== $wgAjaxWatch === + +Experimental AJAX mode for the watch/unwatch tabs to execute inline. +Does not include the UI messages describing how to reach the watchlist, +so you may not want it on a general-audience site just yet. + +=== $wgParserTestFiles === + +MediaWiki's parser test suite can now be expanded with additional test +files. Custom extensions can add their test files to this array, and +they will be run along with the main tests by maintenance/parserTests.php + + +== Changes since 1.7 == + +* Introduced AjaxResponse object, superceding AjaxCachePolicy +* Changes to sajax_do_call: optionally accept an element to fill instead of a + callback function; take the target function or element as a third parameter; + pass the full XMLHttpRequest object to the handler function, instead of just + the resultText value; use HTTP response codes to report errors. +* (bug 6562) Removed unmaintained ParserXml.php for now +* History paging overlap bug fixed +* (bug 6586) Regression in "unblocked" subtitle +* Don't put empty-page message into view-source when page text is blank +* (bug 6587) Remove redundant "allnonarticles" message +* Block improvements: Allow blocks on anonymous users only. Optionally allow + or disallow account creation from blocked IP addresses. Prevent duplicate + blocks. Fixed the problem of expiry and unblocking erroneously affecting + multiple blocks. Fixed confusing lack of error message when a blocked user + attempts to create an account. Fixed inefficiency of Special:Ipblocklist in + the presence of large numbers of blocks; added indexes and implemented an + indexed pager. +* (bug 6448) Allow filtering of Special:Newpages according to username +* (bug 6618) Improve permissions/error detection in Special:Lockdb +* Quick hack for extension testing: parser test doesn't create new message + cache object. +* (bug 6299) Maintain parser's revision ID across recursive calls to fix + {{REVISIONID}} when Cite extension is used +* (bug 6622) Removed deprecated function Image::newFromTitle +* (bug 6627) Fix regression in Special:Ipblocklist with table prefix +* Removed forced dereferencements (new() returns a reference in PHP5) +* Note about $wgUploadSizeWarning using byte +* (bug 6592) Add most viewed pages summary to Special:Statistics +* Pre-strip characters ignored in IDNs from URLs so they can't be used + to break the blacklists for regular URLs +* Fix regression in blocking of user accounts +* (bug 6635) Fix regression searching for range blocks on Ipblocklist +* Fix regression searching Ipblocklist with ugly URLs +* (bug 6639) Use a consistent default for upload directories +* Preserve entered reason when reporting unconfirmed lock on Special:Lockdb +* (bug 6642) Don't offer to unlock the database when it isn't locked +* cleanupTitles.php changed from --dry-run option to --fix, so default + behavior is now a non-invasive check as with namespaceDupes.php +* (bug 6660) Fix behaviour of EditPage::blockedPage() when the article does + not exist; now doesn't show the source box if the user hasn't provided it + (blocked mid-edit) and the page doesn't exist +* Improve default value of "blockedtext" +* (bug 6680) Added localisation for Dutch bookstore list (nl) +* Renamed maintainace script redundanttrans.php to unusedMessages.php - clearer usage +* Fix regression which allowed some blocked users to create additional accounts +* (bug 6657) Fix Hungarian linktrail +* (bug 6751) Fix preview of blanked section with edit on first preview option +* (bug 5456) Separate MediaWiki:Search into messages for both noun and verb, + introduced 'MediaWiki:Searchbutton' +* Made lines from initialiseMessages() appear as list items during installation +* Moved the bulk of the localisation data from the Language*.php files to the + Messages*.php files. Deleted most of the Languages*.php files. +* Introduced "stub global" framework to provide deferred initialisation of core + modules. +* Removed placeholder values for $wgTitle and $wgArticle, these variables will + now be null during the initialisation process, until they are set by index.php + or another entry point. +* Added DBA cache type, for BDB-style caches. +* Removed custom date format functions, replacing them with a format string in + the style of PHP's date(). Used string identifiers instead of integer + identifiers, in both the language files and user preferences. Migration should + be transparent in most cases. +* Simplified the initialisation API for LoadBalancer objects. +* Removed the broken altencoding feature. +* Moved default user options and toggles from Language to User. Language objects + are still able to define default preference overrides and extra user toggles, + via a slightly different interface. +* Don't include the date option in the parser cache rendering hash unless + $wgUseDynamicDates is enabled. +* Merged LanguageUtf8 with Language. Removed LanguageUtf8.php. +* Removed inclusion of language files from the bottom of Language.php. This is + now consistently done from Language::factory(). +* Add the name of the executing maintenance script to the debug log. Start the + profiler during maintenance scripts. +* Added "serialized" directory, for storing precompiled data in serialized form. +* Fix regression in auto-set NS_PROJECT_TALK namespace +* Fix regression in ordering of namespaces +* (bug 6806, 6030) Added several global JS variables for article path, user name, + page title, etc. +* hooks registered with addOnloadHook are now called at the one of the html body + by all skins. +* Split ajax aided search from core ajax framework. Use wgUseAjax to enable the + framework and wgAjaxSearch to enable the suggest feature for the search box. +* Added experimental installer for extensions. + See maintenance/installExtension.php +* Added Tajic (tg) language file. +* (bug 6903) Added Cantonese localisation (zh-yue) +* Fix regression in Korean and Japanese date formatting (day of week) +* (bug 6919) Add English alias magic words for Tatar (tt) language file. +* (bug 6753) Fixed broken Kazakh linktrail (kk) +* (bug 6700) Added Kazakh language variants to Names.php +* (bug 6827) some i18n specific maintenance scripts fails after merge of localisation-work branch +* Throwed an exception for the deprecated functions OutputPage::sysopRequired and + OutputPage::developerRequired - use OutputPage::permissionRequired instead. +* Removed the deprecated functions User::isSysop, User::isBureaucrat and User::isDeveloper - + use User::isAllowed instead. +* (bug 769) OutputPage::permissionRequired() should suggest groups with the needed permission +* (bug 6971) Fix regression in Special:Export history view +* Revamped Special:Imagelist +* (bug 7000) updated MessagesPl.php +* (bug 6946) Fix unexpected behavior change with GET hits to Special:Export +* (bug 1866) Improve navigation on Special:Listusers; user now a starting + point as with Special:Allpages, rather than a pure limit. +* Clean up tab order on Special:Blockip +* (bug 5969) Clean up tab order on Special:Userlogin forms +* (bug 3512) namespaceDupes now handles spaces and initial caps properly +* (bug 7037) Fix regression in login tab order +* (bug 7031) Report missing email on 'email password' instead of false success +* (bug 7010) Don't send email notifications for watched talk pages when user + has selected to receive only updates for their own talk page +* Added {{CURRENTHOUR}} +* Added [[:Image:Foo.png]] style links to the pagelinks table +* Avoid duplicate revision imports with Special:Import +* (bug 7054) Validate email address before sending email confirmation message +* (bug 7061) Format title on "from (page)" links on Special:Allpages +* (bug 7044) Introduce "padleft" and "padright" colon functions +* Pass page title as parameters to "linkshere" and "nolinkshere" and update + default message text +* Allows to upload from publicy accessible URL. Set $wgAllowCopyUploads = true ; in LocalSettings.php + Limited to $wgMaxUploadSize (default:100MB); URL upload is limited to sysops by default, and displayed as a second line if appropriate +* (bug 832) Return to user page after emailing a user +* (bug 366) Add local-system-timezone equivalents for date/time variables +* (bug 7109) Fix Atom feed version number in header links +* (bug 7075) List registered parser function hooks on Special:Version +* (bug 7059) Introduce "anchorencode" colon function +* Include SVN revision number in {{CURRENTVERSION}} output, where applicable +* Fix bug in wfRunHooks which caused corruption of objects in the hook list +* (bug 4979) Use simplified email addresses when running on Windows +* (bug 4434) Show block log fragment on Special:Blockip +* [[MediaWiki:Disambiguationspage]] may optionally contain wiki links to any number + of disambiguation templates. +* [[Special:Disambiguations]] now shows pages in NS:0 that link to any pages that embed + any of the templates listed at [[MediaWiki:Disambiguationspage]]. +* Fix formatting of titles on Special:Undelete +* (bug 7026) Fix action=raw&templates=expand +* (bug 6976) Add namespace and direction classes to classic skins +* (bug 7144) Don't "return to main" from OutputPage::loginToUse() if the the user can't + read the main page in the first place +* (bug 7188) Fix minor borkage in HTMLForm +* (bug 6675) Replaced message 'watchthis' with new message 'watchthisupload in Special:Upload +* Add a quickie script dumpSisterSites.php for generating a page list in the + format for WSR-1 SisterSites support +* (bug 7223) Monobook.js is used for site content, should not be localized +* Set default disabled values for DjVu render options +* Added Xml::option() for generating
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    ) +* (bug 5709) Allow customisation of separator for categories +* (bug 5684) Introduce Special:Randomredirect +* (bug 5611) Add a name attribute to the text box containing source text in + read-only pages +* Indicate when a protected page is an interface message ("protectedinterface") +* (bug 4259) Indicate when a protected page being edited is an interface message + ("editinginterface") +* (bug 4834) Fix XHTML output when using $wgMaxTocLevel +* Pass login link to "whitelistedittext" containing 'returnto' parameter +* (bug 5728): mVersion missing from User::__sleep() leading to constant cache + miss +* Updated maintenance/transstat.php so it can show duplicate messages +* Improvements to update scripts; print out the version, check for superuser + credentials before attempting a connection, and produce a friendlier error if + the connection fails +* (bug 5005) Fix XHTML output. +* (bug 5315) "Expires: -1" HTTP header made strictly valid (using 1970 date). +* (bug 4825) note in DefaultSettings.php about 'profiling' table creation +* Remove unneeded extra whitespace at top of Special:Categories +* (bug 5679) time units are now using local numerals +* (bug 5751) Updates to Portuguese localisation files +* (bug 5741) Introduce {{NUMBEROFUSERS}} magic word +* (bug 93) tags and tildes in templates +* The returnto parameter is now actually used by SpecialUserlogin.php +* Parser can now know that it is parsing an interface message +* (bug 4737) MediaWiki:Viewcount supports {{PLURAL}} now +* Fix bug in wfMsgExt under PHP 5.1.2 +* (bug 5761) Project talk namespace broken in Xal, Os, Udm and Cv +* Rewrite reassignEdits script to be more efficient; support optional updates to + recent changes table; add reporting and silent modes +* Cleaned up formatNum usage in langfiles +* (bug 5716) Warn when a user tries to upload a file which was previously + deleted +* (bug 5565) Add a class attribute to the table on Special:Allpages +* "lang=xx" option for parser test cases to set content language +* (bug 5764) Friulian translation updated +* (bug 5757) Fix premature cutoff in LanguageConverter with extra end markers +* (bug 5516) Show appropriate "return to" link on blocked page +* (bug 5377) Do not auto-login when creating an account as another user +* (bug 5284) Special redirect pages should remember parameters +* Suppress 7za output on dumpBackup +* (bug 5338) Reject extra initial colons in title +* (bug 5487) Escape self-closed HTML pair tags +* Add "raw suffix" magic word for some magic words, e.g. {{NUMBEROFUSERS|R}} + will produce a count minus formatting +* Fix Parser::cleanSig() to use Parser::startExternalParse() and choose an + appropriate output format given the scope of the clean +* (bug 5593) Change "bureaucrat log" to "rights log" +* Show a boilerplate "(none)" in place of a blank within the log action text for + user rights +* (bug 137) Commented out translations for copyrightwarning which mention GNU FDL +* (bug 5723) Don't count pages linked to from the MediaWiki namespace as "wanted" +* (bug 5696) Add a third parameter, $3, to "rcnote", passing the current time + formatted according to the current user's settings +* (bug 5780) Thousands and decimal separators for Norwegian +* Updated initStats maintenance script +* (bug 5767) Fix date formats in Vietnamese locale +* (bug 361) URL in URL, they were almost fixed. Now they are. +* (bug 4876) Add __NEWSECTIONLINK__ magic word to force the "new section" link/tab to + show up on specific pages on demand +* Bidi-aid on list pages +* (bug 5782) Allow entries in the bad image list to use canonical namespace names +* (bug 5789) Treat "loginreqpagetext" as wikitext +* Sanitizer: now handles nested
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Disabled by default due to the vast majority of + web servers being hideously misconfigured. See DefaultSettings.php for more details. +* Changed default LocalSettings.php to append the previous include path when setting it +* (bug 5837) Use "members" for the value descriptor in Special:Categories, + Special:Wantedcategories and Special:Mostlinkedcategories. +* (bug 3309) Allow comments when undeleting pages +* Clean up Special:Undelete a bit +* (bug 5805) messages nbytes, ncategories can now use {{plural:}} +* Clean up Special:Imagelist a bit +* (bug 5838) Namespace names for Nds-NL +* (bug 5749) Added Tyvan language files +* (bug 5791) Fix SQL syntax in Special:BrokenRedirects, was causing incorrect data to show +* (bug 5839) Prevent access to Special:Confirmemail for logged-out users +* (bug 5853) Update for Portuguese messages (pt) +* (bug 5851) Use Cyrillic for Kirghiz language name +* (bug 5841) Allow the 'EditFilter' hook to return a non-fatal error message +* (bug 5846) Link to individual group description pages in Special:Listusers +* (bug 5857) Update for German localisation (de) +* (bug 5858) Update for Russian language (ru) +* (bug 5860) Update for Indonesian language (id) +* (bug 1120) Update for Czech language (Cs) +* Added many missing formatNum calls +* Added grammar function to Belarusian (be) +* (bug 5819) Add 'PersonalUrls' hook +* (bug 5862) Update of Belarusian language (be) +* (bug 5886) Update for Portuguese messages (pt) +* (bug 5586) <gallery> treated text as links +* (bug 5878) Update for Indonesian language (id) +* (bug 5697) Update for Malay language (ms) +* (bug 5890) Update for German language (de) +* (bug 5889) Name for Sindhi language should appear as سنڌي +* --force-normal parameter on dump scripts to force check for ICU extension +* (bug 5895) Update for Dutch language (nl) +* (bug 5891) Linktrail for Polish language (pl) +* User::isBureaucrat , User::isDeveloper , User::isSysop deprecated in + v1.6 now die with a backtrace. They will be removed in v1.8 +* dumpTextPass now skips goes to database for entries that were blank in the + previous dump, as this may indicate a broken dump. +* dumpTextPass progress includes percentage of items prefetched +* dumpTextPass can now use 7zip files for prefetch +* (bug 5915) Update to Indonesian localisation (id) +* (bug 5913) Update for German localisation (de) +* (bug 5905) Plural support for Bosnian localisation (bs) +* Groups which won't hit the rate limiter now configurable with + $wgRateLimitsExcludedGroups +* (bug 5806) {{plural:}} support instead of "twin" MediaWiki messages +* (bug 5931) Update for Polish language (pl) +* Ignore the user and user talk namespaces on Special:Wantedpages +* Introduce NUMBEROFPAGES magic word +* (bug 5833) Introduce CURRENTVERSION magic word +* (bug 5370) Allow throttling of password reminder requests with the rate limiter +* (bug 5683) Respect parser output marked as uncacheable when saving +* (bug 5918) Links autonumbering now work for all defined protocols +* (bug 5935) Improvement to German localisation (de) +* (bug 5937) Register links from gallery captions with the parent parser output + object so that link tables receive those updates too +* (bug 5845) Introduce BASEPAGENAME and BASEPAGENAMEE magic words +* (bug 5941) Use content language when getting the administrator page title for + Special:Statistics +* (bug 5949) Update to Indonesian localisation (id) +* (bug 5862) Update of Belarusian translation (be) +* (bug 5950) Improvements to French localisation +* (bug 5805) {{plural:}} support for counters in some special pages +* (bug 5952) Improvement to German localisation (de) +* Rename conflicting metadata help message to "metadata_help" (was "metadata") + and treat it as wiki text +* Improve preferences input filtering +* Maintenance script to import multiple files into the wiki +* (bug 5957) Update for Hebrew language (he) +* (bug 5962) Update for Italian language (it) +* (bug 5961) Update for Portuguese localisation (pt) +* (bug 5849) Remove some hard-coded references to "Wikipedia" in messages +* (bug 5967) Improvement to German localisation (de) +* (bug 5962) Update for Italian language (it) +* Suppress images in galleries which appear on the bad image list (when rendering + for a wiki page; galleries in special pages and categories are unaffected) +* Maintenance script to remove orphaned revisions from the database +* (bug 5991) Update for Russian language (ru) +* (bug 6001) PAGENAMEE and FULLPAGENAMEE don't work in FULLURL and LOCALURL magic + words +* (bug 5958) Switch Uzbek language name to use latin script +* (bug 839) Add URLENCODE magic word +* (bug 6004) Update for Polish language (pl) +* (bug 5971) Improvement to German localisation (de) +* (bug 4873) Don't overwrite the subtitle navigation when viewing a redirect page + that isn't current +* (bug 2203) Namespace updates for Thai +* Fix breakage in parser test suite which caused incorrect reporting of the failure of + {{NUMBEROFFILES}}. Now initialises the site_stats table with some dumb data. Updated + the expected output for {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} to reflect this. +* (bug 6009) Use {{ns:project}} in messages where appropriate +* (bug 6012) Update to Indonesian localisation (id) +* (bug 6017) Update list of bookstores in German localisation files +* (bug 5187) Allow programmatically bypassing username validation, for scripts +* (bug 6025) SpecialImport: wrong message when no file selected +* (bug 6015) EditPage: add spacing in the boxes "edit is minor" and "watch this" +* (bug 6018) Userrights: new message when no user specified ('nouserspecified') +* (bug 2015) Add "\sim" to ~ conversion for HTML rendering +* (bug 6029) Improvement to German localisation (de) +* (bug 5015) Update be: magic words +* (bug 3974) Add parameter for site URL to "passwordremindertext" +* (bug 6039) Update for Portuguese localisation (pt) +* (bug 764) Add CREATE TEMPORARY TABLES to default database permissions +* Big update to Swedish localisation (sv) +* Use appropriate HTML functions to create the tool links on image pages, so they don't + look garbled when tidy isn't on +* (bug 5511) Fix URL-encoding of usernames in links on Special:Ipblocklist +* (bug 6046) Update to Indonesian localisation (id) #15 +* (bug 5523) $wgNoFollowNsExceptions to allow disabling rel="nofollow" in + specially-selected namespaces. +* (bug 6055) Fix for HTML/JS injection bug in variable handler (found by Nick Jenkins) +* Reordered wiki table handling and __TOC__ extraction in the parser to better + handle some overlapping tag cases. +* Only the first __TOC__ is now turned into a TOC +* (bug 4610) Indicate patrolled status on watchlists and allow users to mark + changes as patrolled using the diff links there +* Add 'DiffViewHeader' hook called before diff page output +* (bug 6051) Improvement to German localisation (de) +* (bug 6054) Update to Indonesian localisation (id) #16 +* Add {{CURRENTTIMESTAMP}} magic word +* (bug 6061) Improper escaping in some html forms +* (bug 6065) Remove underscore when using NAMESPACE and TALKSPACE magics. +* (bug 6074) Correct squid purging of offsite upload URLs +* To simplify the lives of extension developers, the logging type arrays + can now be appended to directly by an extension setup function. It is + no longer necessary to write four separate functions just to add a + custom log type. +* (bug 6057) Count "licenses" as a message (and show it in Special:Allmessages) +* Added $wgGrammarForms global +* Fixed hardcoded 'done.' when removing watchlist entries. +* (bug 5962) Update for Italian language (it) +* (bug 6086) Remove vestigial attempt to call Article::validate() +* wfHostname() function for consistent server hostname use in debug messages +* Send thumbnailing error messages to 'thumbnail' log group +* wfShellexec() now accepts an optional parameter to receive the exit code +* Failed, but not zero-length, thumbnail renderings are now removed. + Should help clean up when rsvg fails in weird ways. +* (bug 6081) Change description for Turkmen language +* Increase robustness of parser placeholders; fixes some glitches when + adjacent to identifier-ish constructs such as URLs. +* Shut up the parser test whining about files in a temp directory. +* (bug 6098) Add Aragonese language support (an) +* (bug 6101) Update for Russian language (ru) +* Add $wgIgnoreImageErrors to suppress error messages for thumbnail rendering + problems. If errors are transitory, this should reduce annoying messages + making it into cached display. +* (bug 6103) Wrap self-links in a CSS class ("selflink") +* (bug 6102) For consistency with other markup, normalize all HTML-encoded + character entities in URLs, not just ampersands. This allows use of eg + = when making URLs for template parameters. +* Markup anality: escape </ as <\/ in toolbar javascript for pure correctness + under HTML-compatible browsers. +* (bug 5077) Added hook 'BeforePageDisplay' to SkinTemplate::outputPage +* Replace fatally changed 'uploadnewversion' with 'uploadnewversion-linktext' +* (bug 472) Syndication feeds for the last few edits of page history +* Format edit comments in Recent Changes feed +* Switch incorrectly ordered column headers on Recent Changes feed diffs +* (bug 6117) Use message for history feed description, add German localization +* (bug 1017) fixed thumbnails of animated gifs. +* Add APC as object caching option +* Update to Albanian localization (sq) +* (bug 6099) Introduce {{DIRECTIONMARK}} magic word (with {{DIRMARK}} as an alias) +* Use optimized php5-only microtime() +* Add possibility to store local message cache as PHP executable script +* Fix profiling table definition +* (bug 6040) Run pre-save transform before calculating the diff. when doing a + "show changes" operation in the editor +* (bug 4033) Respect $wgStyleDirectory when checking available skins +* Remove hideous backslashes from MessagesBr.php +* Fix APC object cache issues, add functionality to installer +* (bug 6133) Update strip state as we work. This mostly fixes extensions + used in Cite.php <ref> tags when Tidy is on. +* (bug 6139) Workaround for transclusion oddities in Vietnamese upload text +* (bug 6136) Update to Catalan language (ca) +* Update to Japanese localization (ja) +* Add /usr/local/bin to the diff3 search paths in the installer +* (bug 6106) Update to Indonesian localisation (id) #17 +* (bug 6125) Add links to edit old versions to diff views +* (bug 5127) Auto edit summary when creating/editing redirect page +* (bug 3926) Introduce {{#language:}} magic word +* Fix section links from edit comments for [[:Image:Bla.jpg]] in section titles +* (bug 6126) Allow fallback to customized primary language when user language + message contains '-'; fixes licenses selector on Commons configuration after + recent addition of the message to Messages.php +* (bug 5527) Batch up job queue insertions for, hopefully, better survivability + of lock contention etc. Duplicates are now removed at pop time instead of + at insert time. +* When showing the "blah has been undeleted" page, make sure it's a blue link +* parserTests.php accepts a --file parameter to run an alternate test sutie +* parser tests can now test extensions using !!hooks sections +* Fix oddity with open tag parameters getting stuck on </li> +* (bug 5384) Fix <!-- comments --> in <ref> extension +* Nesting of different tag extensions and comments should now work more + consistently and more safely. A cleaner, one-pass tag strip lets the + 'outer' tag either take source (<nowiki>-style) or pass it down to + further parsing (<ref>-style). There should no longer be surprise + expansion of foreign extensions inside HTML output, or differences + in behavior based on the order tags are loaded. +* (bug 885) Pre-save transform no longer silently appends close tags +* Pre-save transform no longer changes the case of close tags +* (bug 6164) Fix regression with <gallery> resetting <ref> state +* Hackaround for IE 7 wrapping bug in MonoBook footer +* New message sp-newimages-showfrom replaces rclistfrom on special:newimages +* Improve handling of ;: definition list construct with overlapping or + nested HTML tags +* (bug 6171) Fix sanitizing of HTML-elements with an optional closing + tag. The sanitizer still needs to learn how to make well-formed XML + in this case. +* Fix fatal error when specifying illegal name for manual thumbnail +* (bug 6184) Use shinier Linker::userLink() to make user links in + Special:Undelete +* (bug 6170) Update for Kashubian translation (csb) +* (bug 6191) Update to Indonesian translation (id) #18 +* (bug 6114) Update to Walloon localization (wa) +* Added $wgNamespaceRobotPolicies to allow customisation of robot policies on a + per-namespace basis. +* Add <ol> to the list of block elements for doBlockLevels; avoids <p>s being + interspersed into your ordered lists. +* (bug 5021) Transcluding the same special page twice now works +* Add 'SiteNoticeBefore' and 'SiteNoticeAfter' hooks +* (bug 6182) Date passed in "sp-newimages-showfrom" not adjusted to user time + preferences +* (bug 2587) Fix for section editing with comment prefix +* (bug 2607) Fix for section editing with mix of wiki and HTML headings +* (bug 3342) Fix for section editing with headings wrapped in <noinclude> +* (bug 3476) Fix for section editing with faux headings in extensions +* (bug 5272) Fix for section editing with HTML-heading subsections +* Fix for bogus wiki headings improperly detected with following text +* Fix for HTML headings improperly not detected with preceding/following text +* Section extraction and replacement functions merged into one implementation + on the Parser object, so they can't get out of sync with each other. +* Edit security precautions in raw HTML mode, etc +* (bug 6197) Update to Indonesian translation (id) #19 +* (bug 6175) Improvement to German translation (de) +* Redirect Special:Logs to Special:Log +* (bug 6206) Linktrail for Swedish localization (se) +* (bug 3202) Attributes now allowed on <pre> tags +* Sanitizer::validateTagAttributes now available to discard illegal/unsafe + attribute values from an array. +* (bug 3837) Leave <center> as is instead of doing an unsafe text replacement + to <div class="center">. <center> is perfectly valid in the target doctype + (XHTML 1.0 Transitional), while the replacement didn't catch all cases and + could even result in invalid output from valid input. +* (bug 4280) Use 'noindex,nofollow' instead of 'noindex,follow' for default + meta robots tag on diff view and special pages. Should reduce impact of + robots on scrolling special pages, diffs etc on sites where robots.txt + doesn't forbid access. +* Regression fix: suppress warning about session failure when clicking to + edit with 'preview on first edit' enabled. +* (bug 6230) Regression fix: <nowiki> in [URL link text] +* Added AutoLoader.php, which loads classes without need of require_once() +* (bug 5981) Add plural function Slovenian (sl) +* (bug 5945) Introduce {{CONTENTLANGUAGE}} magic word +* {{PLURAL}} can now take up to five forms +* (bug 6243) Fix email for usernames containing dots when using PEAR::Mail +* Remove a number of needless {{ns:project}}-type transforms from messages files. These + usages already have separate label text. Such transforms are wasteful on each page view. +* Update to Yiddish localization (yi) +* (bug 6254) Update to Indonesian translation (id) #20 +* (bug 6255) Fix transclusions starting with "#" or "*" in HTML attributes +* Whitespace now normalized more or less properly in HTML attributes +* Fix regression(?) in behavior of initial-whitespace-pre in <center> +* (bug 6260) Update to Interlingua localization (ia) +* Update to Vlax Romany localization (rmy) +* Update to Latin translation (la) +* Update to Dutch translation (nl) +* Avoid some notices in page history with bad input +* Use double quoted consistently on attributes in linker output; preparing + for new normalization code when tidy not in use +* Replace "nogomatch" with "noexactmatch" and place the magic colon in the messages + themselves. Some minor tweaks to the actual message content. +* Introduce $wgContentNamespaces which allows for articles to exist in namespaces other + than the main namespace, and still be counted as valid content in the site statistics. +* (bug 5932) Introduce {{PAGESINNAMESPACE}} magic word +* Disable $wgAllowExternalImages by default. +* (bug 2700) Nice things like link completion and signatures now work in <gallery> tags. +* Cancel output buffering in StreamFile; when used inside gzip buffering this + could cause funny timeout behavior as the Content-Length was wrong. +* Return correct content-type header with 304 responses for StreamFile; + it confuses Safari if you let it return "text/html". +* (bug 6280) Correct GRAMMAR for Slovenian localisation (sl) +* (bug 6162) Change date format for Dutch Low Saxon (nds-nl) +* (bug 6296) Update to Indonesian localisation (id) #21 +* Introduce EditFormPreloadText hook, see docs/hooks.txt for more information +* (bug 4054) Add "boteditletter" to recent changes flags +* Update to Catalan localization (ca) +* (bug 2099) Deleted image files can now be archived and undeleted. + Set $wgSaveDeletedFiles on and an appropriate directory path in + $wgFileStore['deleted']['directory'] +* (bug 6324) Fix regression in enhanced RC alignment +* Introduce {{NUMBEROFADMINS}} magic word +* Update to Slovak translation (sk) +* Update to Alemannic localization (gsw) +* (bug 6300) Bug fixes for sr: variants +* namespaceDupes.php can now accept an arbitrary prefix, for checking rogue + interwikis and such. Not yet fully automated. +* (bug 6344) Add Special:Uncategorizedimages page +* (bug 6357) Update to Russian translation (ru) +* Workaround possible bug in Firefox nightlies by properly removing the + Content-Encoding header instead of sending explicit 'identity' value + in StreamFile +* (bug 6304) Show timestamp for current revision in diff pages +* Vertically align current version with old version header in diff display +* (bug 6174) Remove redundant "emailforlost" message +* (bug 6189) Show an error to an unprivilleged user trying to create account +* (bug 6365) Show user information in the "old revision" navigation links +* Introduce 'FetchChangesList' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information +* (bug 6345) Update to Indonesian localisation (id) #22 +* (bug 6279) Add genitive month names to Slovenian localisation +* (bug 6351) Update to German translation (de) +* Respect language directionality when displaying arrow in Special:Brokenredirects +* Remove unused "validation" table definitions from the schema files +* (bug 6398) Work around apparent PCRE bug breaking section editing when + massively-indented preformatted text immediately followed a header +* (bug 6392) Fix misbehaving <br /> in preferences form +* Add translated magic words to Hebrew localization +* (bug 6396) Change name for Chuvash language +* Introduce optional (off by default) language selector bar for user login + and registration. Customisable via the "loginlanguagelinks" message, the + links will preserve "returnto" values. If the user creates an account while + using such a link, then the language in use will be saved as their language + preference. +* Make sure '~~~' '~~~~' '~~~~~' are removed in Nickname preference. +* Rename "ipusuccess" to "unblocked", change the format (now wiki text) +* (bug 2316) Add "caption" attribute to <gallery> tag +* Allow setting the skin object that ImageGallery will use; needed during parse + operations (the skin must come from the ParserOptions, not $wgUser) +* Fix notice in MacBinary detection debug data for files of certain lengths +* (bug 6131) Add type detection for DjVu files, allowing them to be uploaded + with validity checking and size detection. No inline thumbnailing yet, + but could be added in the future. +* (bug 6423) Don't update newtalk flag if page content didn't change (null edits + were causing the newtalk flag to trigger inappropriately) +* Parser functions are now set using magic words. +* (bug 6428) Incorrect form action URL on Special:Newimages with hidebots = 0 set +* (bug 4990) Show page source to blocked users on edits, or their modified version + if blocked during an edit +* (bug 5903) When requesting the raw source of a non-existent message page, + return blank content (as opposed to the message key) +* Improve default blank content of MediaWiki:Common.css and MediaWiki:Monobook.css +* (bug 6434) Allow customisation of submit button text on Special:Export +* (bug 6314) Add user tool links on page histories +* Fix display of file-type icons in galleries when $wgIgnoreImageErrors is off +* (bug 6438) Update to Indonesian translation (id) #23 +* Adding the language code parameter to the hook "LanguageGetMagic", to allow + localizble extensions magic words. +* Update to Romanian translation (ro) +* Update to Esperanto translation (eo) +* Check for preg_match() existence when installing and die out whining about PCRE + if it's not there, instead of throwing a fatal error +* (bug 672) Add MathAfterTexvc hook +* Update to Piedmontese localization (pms) +* dumpBackup can optionally compress via dbzip2 +* (bug 2483) Run link updates on change via XML import +* (bug 2481) List imported pages during Special:Import +* (bug 2482) Log and RC entries for Special:Import events +* Allow fetching all revisions from transwiki Special:Import +* Allow fetching all revisions from Special:Export GET request +* Disable output buffering on Special:Export; should help with streaming + large numbers of history items. +* Allow setting a maximum number of revisions for history Special:Export; + pages with more than $wgExportMaxHistory revisions are excluded from + export when history is requested. +* Fix transwiki import of pages with space in name +* Save null edit when importing pages through Special:Import +* Update to Korean translation (ko) +* Show a more specific message when an anonymous user tries to access Special:Watchlist +* (bug 3278) Paging links in Special:Prefixindex +* Added Latvian localization (lv) +* (bug 6472) Fix regression in Special:Export with multiple pages +* Update to Macedonian translation (mk) +* Allow page moves over historyless self-redirects. Such are usually created + as part of namespace rearrangements, and it's easier to clean them up if + we can move over them. +* Show some error results in moveBatch.php +* (bug 6479) Allow specification of the skin to use during HTML dumps +* (bug 6461) Link to page histories in Special:Newpages +* (bug 6484) Don't do message transformations when preloading messages for editing +* (bug 6201) Treat spaces as underscores in parameters to {{ns:}} +* (bug 6006) Allow hiding the password change fields using an authentication plugin +* (bug 6489) Use appropriate link colour on Special:Shortpages +* Added formatnum magic word +* Added Javanese localization (jv) +* (bug 6491) Apply bad image list in category galleries +* (bug 6488) Show relevant log fragment in Special:Movepage +* Fix potential PHP notice in Special:Blockme when $wgBlockOpenProxies is true +* Use mysql_real_escape_string instead of addslashes for string escaping in + the MySQL Database class. This may fix some rare breakage with binary fields. + Note that MediaWiki does not support the multibyte character sets where a + "dumb" byte replacement can be actively dangerous; UTF-8 is always safe + in this regard due to the bit patterns which make head and tail bytes + distinct. +* (bug 6497) Use $wgMetaNamespaceTalk for Esperanto if set +* (bug 6498) Use localized forms for image size in Special:Undelete +* (bug 6485) Update to Indonesian translation (id) #24 +* Extension messages translation is now possible. +* Add target namespace override selector for transwiki imports. + $wgImportTargetNamespace specifies the default, to be used for + Wiktionary's 'Transwiki:' namespace etc. +* (bug 6506) Update to German localisation (de) +* (bug 502) Avoid silly tabs on bad title by using virtual special page +* (bug 6511) Add diff links to old revision navigation bar +* (bug 6511) Replace 'oldrevisionnavigation' message with 'old-revision-navigation' +* Fix regression in Polish genitive month forms +* (bug 4037) Make input handling in Special:Allpages and Special:Prefixindex + more consistent: Accept just a namespace prefix and a colon, reject input + with interwiki prefixes, otherwise do what Title::makeTitleSafe() does. +* (bug 6516) Update to Russian translation +* New 'allpagesbadtitle' message for Special:Allpages, based on 'badtitletext'. +* Rename "searchquery" to "searchsubtitle" and support wiki text in it +* Introduce updateArticleCount maintenance script which uses a better check that + reflects what Article::isCountable() tests for +* Introduce 'BadImage' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information +* Add "searchsubtitleinvalid" message for searches that are not valid titles. +* (bug 5962) Update to Italian localisation +* (bug 6530) Update to Indonesian localisation (id) #25 +* (bug 6523) Fix SVG issue in rebuildImages.php +* (bug 6512) Link to page-specific logs on page histories +* (bug 6504) Allow configuring session name with $wgSessionName +* (bug 6185) Add standard user tool links to log page views +* Update to Venetian translation (vec) +* Update to Slovenian translation (sl) +* Add standard user tool links to deleted revision list +* Separate out EditPage's getContent bits from regular Article getContent. + Cleans up read-only-mode warning on empty pages and neats up some code. +* (bug 6565) Strict JavaScript writing +* (bug 6570) Update to Indonesian localisation (id) #26 +* Added Telugu translation (te) +* Update to Catalan translation (ca) +* (bug 6560) Avoid PHP notice when trimming ISBN whitespace +* Added namespace translation to Kannada (ka) +* (bug 6566) Improve input validation on timestamp conversion +* Implicit group "emailconfirmed" for all users whose email addresses are confirmed +* (bug 6577) Avoid multiline parser breakage on <pre> with newline in attribute +* (bug 6771) Make old revisions of MediaWiki pages available with action=raw + == Changes since 1.5 == * (bug 2885) More PHP 5.1 fixes: skin, search, log, undelete @@ -287,6 +2341,8 @@ Parser: * (bug 1850) Image link to nonexistent file fixed. * (bug 5167) Add {{SUBPAGENAME}} and {{SUBPAGENAMEE}} variables * (bug 4949) Missing : in "addedwatchtext" for English and Spanish +* Allow user-defined functions, which work in a similar way to {{GRAMMAR:}} + etc. Registered via an interface similar to tag hooks. Upload: * (bug 2527) Always set destination filename when new file is selected