X-Git-Url: https://git.cyclocoop.org/%27.WWW_URL.%27admin/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=RELEASE-NOTES;h=992794d8a5a78a2e01911518dd51549d2294b4f8;hb=f0b39b40d290c357cbd5717428280650dc88de9e;hp=d804e1a0c156e65aa7e2ec8cde9ae7e9ed18faf6;hpb=9661f21b821b41feef22ca598fbf915248d088a9;p=lhc%2Fweb%2Fwiklou.git diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES index d804e1a0c1..992794d8a5 100644 --- a/RELEASE-NOTES +++ b/RELEASE-NOTES @@ -18,15 +18,15 @@ 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 in 1.16 === +=== Configuration changes in 1.16 === * $wgEnableFirefogg enable support for firefogg extension, firefogg supports - in-browser transcoding, chunk uploads and client side hash checking. + in-browser transcoding, chunk uploads and client side hash checking. * $wgEnableTemporalOggUrls enable oggz_chop support a server side ogg seeking - helper + helper * $wgEnableScriptLoader if the script-loader shoudl be enabled * $wgJSAutoloadClasses array of javascript classes to file paths used by - script-loader to load javascript by class name. + script-loader to load javascript by class name. * $wgEnableJS2system if we should include js2 stuff like jquery, mv_embed.js (script-loader helper) and use new interfaces for upload * $wgEnableScriptLoaderJsFile if we support grabbing js files with the script @@ -34,8 +34,8 @@ it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN * $wgEnableScriptMinify if you want the script loader to minify js * $wgEnableScriptLocalization if you want the script loader to do msg lookups * $wgMwEmbedDirectory the path to MwEmbed Directory (maybe we can depreciate - this. Was used when mwEmbed was going to be an extension. -* $wgDebugJavaScript if we want to enable fresh debug javascript + this. Was used when mwEmbed was going to be an extension. +* $wgDebugJavaScript if we want to enable fresh debug javascript * $wgPhpCliPath Path to php-cli for spinning up background php processes * (bug 18222) $wgMinimalPasswordLength default is now 1 * $wgSessionHandler can be used to configure session.save_handler @@ -58,26 +58,26 @@ it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN appropriate privileges. Creating this user with web-install page requires oci8.privileged_connect set to On in php.ini. * Removed UserrightsChangeableGroups hook introduced in 1.14 -* Added $wgCacheDirectory, to replace $wgFileCacheDirectory, - $wgLocalMessageCache, and any other local caches which need a place to put - files. +* Added $wgCacheDirectory, to replace $wgFileCacheDirectory, + $wgLocalMessageCache, and any other local caches which need a place to put + files. * $wgFileCacheDirectory is no longer set to anything by default, and so either - needs to be set explicitly, or $wgCacheDirectory needs to be set instead. + needs to be set explicitly, or $wgCacheDirectory needs to be set instead. * $wgLocalMessageCache has been removed. Instead, set $wgUseLocalMessageCache to true -* Removed $wgEnableSerializedMessages and $wgCheckSerialized. Similar +* Removed $wgEnableSerializedMessages and $wgCheckSerialized. Similar functionality is now available via $wgLocalisationCacheConf. -* $wgMessageCache->addMessages() is deprecated. Messages added via this +* $wgMessageCache->addMessages() is deprecated. Messages added via this interface will not appear in Special:AllMessages. -* $wgRegisterInternalExternals can be used to record external links pointing +* $wgRegisterInternalExternals can be used to record external links pointing to same server -* $wgSpecialVersionExtended shows the extended version information besides +* $wgSpecialVersionExtended shows the extended version information besides PHP and database version. -* (bug 19907) $wgCrossSiteAJAXdomains and $wgCrossSiteAJAXdomainExceptions added +* (bug 19907) $wgCrossSiteAJAXdomains and $wgCrossSiteAJAXdomainExceptions added to control which external domains may access the API via cross-site AJAX. * $wgMaintenanceScripts for extensions to add their scripts to the default list * $wgMemoryLimit has been added, default value '50M' -* $wgExtraRandompageSQL is deprecated, the SpecialRandomGetRandomTitle hook +* $wgExtraRandompageSQL is deprecated, the SpecialRandomGetRandomTitle hook should be used instead * (bug 20489) $wgIllegalFileChars added to override the default list of illegal characters in file names. @@ -87,6 +87,8 @@ it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN correctly (img_auth only) * $wgUploadMaintenance added to disable file deletions and restorations during maintenance +* New hook AbortNewAccountAuto, called before account creation from AuthPlugin- + or ExtUser-driven requests. === New features in 1.16 === @@ -136,27 +138,27 @@ it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN have these rights stripped from them. * Added a PHP port of CDB (constant database), for improved local caching when the DBA extension is not available. -* Introduced a new system for localisation caching. The system is based around - fast fetches of individual messages, minimising memory overhead and startup - time in the typical case. The database backend will be used by default, but +* Introduced a new system for localisation caching. The system is based around + fast fetches of individual messages, minimising memory overhead and startup + time in the typical case. The database backend will be used by default, but set $wgCacheDirectory to get a faster CDB-based implementation. -* Expanded the number of variables which can be set in the extension messages +* Expanded the number of variables which can be set in the extension messages files. -* Added a feature to allow per-article process pool size control for the parsing +* Added a feature to allow per-article process pool size control for the parsing task, to limit resource usage when the cache for a heavily-viewed article is - invalidated. Requires an external daemon. + invalidated. Requires an external daemon. * (bug 19576) Moved the id attribues from the anchors accompanying section headers to the elements within the section headers, removing the redundant anchor elements. * Parser::setFunctionTagHook now can be used to add a new tag which is parsed at preprocesor level. -* Added $wgShowArchiveThumbnails, allowing sysadmins to disable thumbnail +* Added $wgShowArchiveThumbnails, allowing sysadmins to disable thumbnail display for old versions of images. * In watchlists and Special:RecentChanges, the difference in page size now appears in dark green if bytes were added and dark red if bytes were removed. -* Added FSRepo configuration properties thumbUrl and thumbDir, to allow the +* Added FSRepo configuration properties thumbUrl and thumbDir, to allow the thumbnails to be stored in a separate location to the source images. -* If config/ directory is not executable, the command to make it executable +* If config/ directory is not executable, the command to make it executable now asks the user to cd to the correct directory * Add experimental new external authentication framework, ExternalAuth * (bug 18768) Remove AdminSettings requirements. Maintenance environment @@ -164,7 +166,7 @@ it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN * (bug 19900) The "listgrouprights-key" message is now wrapped in a div with class "mw-listgrouprights-key" * (bug 471) Allow RSS feeds for watchlist, using an opt-in security token -* (bug 10812) Interwiki links can have names and descriptions, fetched from +* (bug 10812) Interwiki links can have names and descriptions, fetched from message 'interwiki-desc-PREFIX', not really used anywhere yet though * (bug 9691) Add type (signup or login) parameter to AuthPlugin::ModifyUITemplate() @@ -173,7 +175,7 @@ it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN * (bug 16697) Unicode combining characters are difficult to edit in some browsers * Parser test supports uploading results to remote CodeReview instance -* (bug 20013) Added CSS class "mw-version-ext-version" is wrapped on the +* (bug 20013) Added CSS class "mw-version-ext-version" is wrapped on the extension version in Special:Version * (bug 20014) Added CSS class "mw-listgrouprights-right-name" is wrapped on the right name in Special:ListGroupRights @@ -218,18 +220,23 @@ it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN * Added $wgShowDBErrorBacktrace, to allow users to easily gather backtraces for database connection and query errors. * Show change block / unblock link on Special:Contributions if user is blocked -* Display note on Special:Contributions if the user is blocked, and provide an +* Display note on Special:Contributions if the user is blocked, and provide an excerpt from the block log. * (bug 19646) New hook: ImgAuthBeforeStream for tests and functionality before file is streamed to user, but only when using img_auth * Note on non-existing user and user talk pages if user does not exist -* New hook ShowMissingArticle so extensions can modify the output for +* New hook ShowMissingArticle so extensions can modify the output for non-existent pages. * Added $wgUseAJAXCategories allow enabling AJAX based categories system. This works on all namespaces. Enabled namespaces can be reduces using $wgAJAXCategoriesNamespaces. -* Admins could disable some variants using $wgDisabledVariants now. ONLY apply on - wikis enabled LanguageConverter. +* Admins could disable some variants using $wgDisabledVariants now. ONLY apply + on wikis enabled LanguageConverter. +* (bug 16310) Credits page now lists IP addresses rather than saying the number + of anonymous users that edited the page +* New permission 'sendemail' added. Default right for all registered users. Can + for example be used to prevent new accounts from sending spam. +* (bug 16979) Tracking categories for __INDEX__ and __NOINDEX__ === Bug fixes in 1.16 === @@ -277,11 +284,13 @@ it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN revisions when --delete is not passed * (bug 13172) GPS coordinates in image Exif data are now actually displayed * Overhaul of preferences system, includes the following bug fixes: -* (bug 5363) Changes to default preferences now impact registered users. -* (bug 14806) Hook to enable putting preferences in existing tabs. -* (bug 17191) Registration date now listed on preferences page. -* Note that this change will break some extensions which have not been adapted - for it. +** (bug 5363) Changes to default preferences now impact registered users. +** (bug 14806) Hook to enable putting preferences in existing tabs. +** (bug 17191) Registration date now listed on preferences page. +** The user_properties table (now used for storing preferences) has been added to + $wgSharedTables. +** Note that this change will break some extensions which have not been adapted + for it. * (bug 17020) Adding fallback encodings for Traditional and Simplified Chinese languages while the the text is typed as URLs. * (bug 17614) Prev / Next links are not shown if all results are shown @@ -364,7 +373,7 @@ it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN * (bug 19513) RTL fixes for new Search UI * (bug 16497) Special:Allmessages is paginated * (bug 18708) CSS plainlinks class now available to all skins -* (bug 19590) Database error messages no longer have "MySQL" hardcoded as the +* (bug 19590) Database error messages no longer have "MySQL" hardcoded as the database type * (bug 19759) successbox on Special:Preferences now correctly aligned on standard, nostalgia and cologneblue skin @@ -392,7 +401,7 @@ it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN the recentchanges table * (bug 16009) Limit selection forms based on Pager now links to the correct page when using long urls -* The display of the language list on the preferences is more comply with the +* The display of the language list on the preferences is more comply with the BCP 47 standards. * (bug 19849) Custom X-Vary-Options header now disabled unless $wgUseXVO is set * (bug 19301) Duplicates entries in $wgAddGroups, $wgRemoveGroups, @@ -409,11 +418,11 @@ it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN * (bug 19957) All known-failing tests now marked disabled; added --run-disabled option to parser test suite to run disabled tests if desired. * (bug 16311) Make recent change flags (n/m/b) s instead of s -* (bug 15680) Split the edit tip message of user CSS/JS subpage into +* (bug 15680) Split the edit tip message of user CSS/JS subpage into "usercssyoucanpreview" and "userjsyoucanpreview" respectively. -* (bug 12110) Split the rights for editing users' CSS/JS subpage from +* (bug 12110) Split the rights for editing users' CSS/JS subpage from "editusercssjs" into "editusercss" and edituserjs" respectively. -* (bug 19394) RecentChanges feed URLs for log items with no revisions +* (bug 19394) RecentChanges feed URLs for log items with no revisions (eg Newuser, Userrights) are no longer broken * (bug 17395) Remote file descriptions use user language ($wgLang), not wiki language ($wgContLang) @@ -438,7 +447,7 @@ it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN * (bug 20273) Fix broken output when no pages are found in the content namespaces * (bug 20265) Make AncientPages and UnusedFiles work on SQLite -* Fixed XSS vulnerability for Internet Explorer clients (only pre-release +* Fixed XSS vulnerability for Internet Explorer clients (only pre-release versions of MediaWiki were affected). * (bug 14817) Moving a page to a subpage of itself moves it twice * (bug 20289) $wgMaximumMovedPages should only count pages actually moved @@ -471,7 +480,7 @@ it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN Special:Recentchanges's RSS and Atom feed cache * The installer will now try to bypass PHP's max_execution_time * (bug 20260) SQLite no longer tries to automatically create the database at - execution time, this now happens only at install time; if it is not available + execution time, this now happens only at install time; if it is not available at script execution, it now throws an exception * Fixed EditFilterMerged hook so the hookError parameter serves a purpose (analogous to EditFilter hook) @@ -503,10 +512,29 @@ it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN * (bug 20634) The installer-created database user will now have all rights on the database so that upgrades will go more smoothly. * (bug 18180) Special:Export ignores limit, dir, offset parameters -* User::getBlockedStatus() works for all kinds of user objects and doesn't +* User::getBlockedStatus() works for all kinds of user objects and doesn't assume the user object is equal to the current-user object ($wgUser) * (bug 20517) Cancel link from edit page now returns to the old version when editing an old version +* (bug 16902) Installer no longer shows warnings when exec() has been disabled + by disable_functions +* (bug 20726) Title::getLatestRevID's documentation now says that the function + returns false if the page doesn't exist +* (bug 20751) ForeignApiRepo now urldecodes filenames when saving to local cache +* (bug 20730) Fix to Special:Version ViewVC link for branch checkouts +* (bug 20353) wfShellExec() was adding extra quotes on Windows Vista, causing + command line scripts to fail +* (bug 20702) Parser functions can now be used correctly in + MediaWiki:Missing-article +* (bug 14117) "redirected from" is now also shown on foreign file redirects +* (bug 17747) Only display thumbnail column in file history if the image can + be rendered. +* (bug 3421) Live preview no longer breaks user CSS/JS previews +* (bug 11264) The file logo on a file description page for documents (PDF, ...) + now links to the file rather than the file description page +* Password fields built with HTMLForm now still have the type="password" attribute + if $wgHtml5=false. +* (bug 20836) Preload now works for MediaWiki namespace == API changes in 1.16 == @@ -548,15 +576,15 @@ it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN * (bug 17809) Add number of users in user groups to meta=siteinfo * (bug 18533) Add readonly reason to readonly exception * (bug 19528) Added XSLT parameter to API queries in format=xml -* (bug 19040) Fix prependtext and appendtext in combination with section +* (bug 19040) Fix prependtext and appendtext in combination with section parameter in action=edit -* (bug 19090) Added watchlist parameter, deprecated watch and unwatch +* (bug 19090) Added watchlist parameter, deprecated watch and unwatch parameter in action=edit * Added fields to list=search output: size, wordcount, timestamp, snippet * Where supported by backend, list=search adds a 'searchinfo' element with optional info: 'totalhits' count and 'suggestion' alternate query term * (bug 19907) $wgCrossSiteAJAXdomains added to allow specified (or all) - external domains to access api.php via AJAX, if the browser supports the + external domains to access api.php via AJAX, if the browser supports the Access-Control-Allow-Origin HTTP header * (bug 19999) Made metadata and properties of search results optional. Added srprop and srinfo. @@ -570,12 +598,16 @@ MediaWiki supports over 300 languages. Many localisations are updated regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as changes to languages because of MediaZilla reports. +* Kirmanjki (kiu) (new) * Lower Silesian (sli) (new) * Picard (pcd) (new) * Uyghur (Arabic script) (ug-arab) (new) * Eastern Yiddish (ydd) (removed) * Iriga Bicolano (bto) (removed) +* Ladin (lld) (removed) +* Laz (lzz) (removed) * Palembang (plm) (removed) +* Megleno-Romanian (Greek script) (ruq-grek) (removed) * Tamazight (tzm) (removed) * (bug 18474) Sorani (ckb - Central Kurdish) (renamed from ku-arab)