X-Git-Url: https://git.cyclocoop.org/%27.WWW_URL.%27admin/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=RELEASE-NOTES;h=e5cee933cd2073cd123ad3289473b22d6caf9f25;hb=d732e4df25af8df7e01cbb9fcebfeb7d5ccd6fcb;hp=349a4a10c0ab86bff7b07858f2c8a0df7e4ef953;hpb=da6c7bdeb84e2a90011dd8ebaf4c6435a976cdf7;p=lhc%2Fweb%2Fwiklou.git diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES index 349a4a10c0..e5cee933cd 100644 --- a/RELEASE-NOTES +++ b/RELEASE-NOTES @@ -75,20 +75,31 @@ it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN CIDR ranges for blocking * $wgUseInstantCommons added for quick and easy enabling of Commons as a remote file repository -* $wgWikiId added to override default output of wfWikiId() * $wgDBAhandler added to choose a DBA handler when using CACHE_DBA * $wgPreviewOnOpenNamespaces for extensions that create namespaces that behave similarly to the category namespace. * $wgEnableSorbs renamed to $wgDnsBlacklistUrls ($wgEnableSorbs kept for backward compatibility) -* $wgUploadNavigationUrl now also affects images inline images that do not - exist. In that case the URL will get (?|&)wpDestFile= appended to +* $wgUploadNavigationUrl now also affects images inline images that do not + exist. In that case the URL will get (?|&)wpDestFile= appended to it as appropriate. * If $wgLocaltimezone is null, use the server's timezone as the default for signatures. This was always the behaviour documented in DefaultSettings.php - but has not been the actual behaviour for some time: instead, UTC was used + but has not been the actual behaviour for some time: instead, UTC was used by default. - +* Added $wgExtensionAssetsPath, to decouple assets serving from $wgScriptPath. + If not specified it will default to $wgScriptPath/extensions +* Added $wgCountTotalSearchHits to make search UI display total number of hits + with some search engines. +* Added $wgAdvertisedFeedTypes to decide what feed types (RSS, Atom, both, or + neither) MediaWiki advertises. Default is array( 'atom' ), so RSS is no + longer advertised by default (but it still works). +* Added $wgMemCachedTimeout, controls how long to wait for data from the + memcached servers. +* New configuration variables $wgDebugTimestamps and $wgDebugPrintHttpHeaders + for controlling debug output. +* New $wgBlockDisablesLogin when set to true disallows blocked users from + logging in. === New features in 1.16 === @@ -271,8 +282,8 @@ it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN * rebuildtextindex.php maintenance script now supports databases other than MySQL * upgrade1_5.php now requires to be run --update option to prevent confusion -* (bug 17662) Customizable default preload/editintro in add-new-section link - for Talk page +* (bug 17662) Customizable default preload/editintro for new sections in the + respective addsection-preload and addsection-editintro messages * Added maintenance script syntaxChecker.php that checks for PHP syntax errors and common coding mistakes * Updated Unicode normalization tables @@ -288,11 +299,25 @@ it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN * (bug 19791) Add URL of file source as comment to thumbs (for ImageMagick) * (bug 21946) Sorted wikitables do not properly handle minus signs * (bug 18885) Red links for media files do not support shared repositories -* Added $wgFixArchaicUnicode, which, if enabled, converts some deprecated - Unicode sequences in Arabic and Malayalam text to their Unicode 5.1 +* Added $wgFixArabicUnicode, to convert deprecated presentation forms in + Arabic text to their modern equivalents, and $wgFixMalayalamUnicode, to + convert ZWJ-based chillu sequences in Malayalam text to their Unicode 5.1 equivalents. * (bug 22051) Returing false in SpecialContributionsBeforeMainOutput hook now stops normal output +* Send new password e-mail in users preference language +* LanguageConverter now support nested using of manual convert syntax like + "-{-{}-}-" +* Upload license preview now uses the API instead of action=ajax +* (bug 7346) Add to RSS to avoid duplicates +* (bug 19996) Added new hooks for Special:Search, which allow to further + restrict/expand it. +* (bug 21936) When a revision has been patrolled, there's now a link back to the + article +* (bug 22315) SpecialRecentChangesQuery hook now pass $query_options and checks + the return value +* Separate unit test suites under t/ and tests/ were merged and moved to + maintenance/tests/. === Bug fixes in 1.16 === @@ -659,10 +684,10 @@ it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN only displayed to the users that have "editinterface" right * (bug 21740) Attempting to protect a page that doesn't exist (salting) returns "unknown error" -* (bug 18762) both redirects and links get fixed one after another if +* (bug 18762) both redirects and links get fixed one after another if redirects-only switch is not present * (bug 20159) thumbnails rerendered if older that $wgThumbnailEpoch -* Fixed a bug which in some situations causes the job queue to grow forever, +* Fixed a bug which in some situations causes the job queue to grow forever, due to an infinite loop of job requeues. * (bug 21523) File that can have multiple pages (djvu, pdf, ...) no longer have the page selector when they have only one page @@ -691,6 +716,27 @@ it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN * (bug 20115) Special:Userlogin title says "Log in / create account" even if the user can't create an account * (bug 2658) Don't attempt to set the TZ environment variable. +* (bug 9794) User rights log entries for foreign user now links to the foreign + user's page if possible +* (bug 14717) Don't load nonexistent CSS fix files for non-Monobook skins +* (bug 22034) Use wfClientAcceptsGzip() in wfGzipHandler instead of + reimplementing it. +* (bug 19226) First line renders differently on many UI messages. +* (bug 21303) Comments are no longer stripped from MediaWiki:Common.js and + skin-specific JS pages +* (bug 5061) Use the more precise thumbcaption thumbimage and thumbinner classes + for image divs. +* (bug 22096) IE50Fixes.css and IE55Fixes.css have been dropped from the Monobook + and Chick skins +* Fixed bug involving unclosed "-{" markup in the language converter +* (bug 21870) No longer include Google logo from an external server on wiki error. +* (bug 22181) Do not truncate if the ellipsis actually make the string longer +* (bug 16039) Text disappearing after a bad image +* (bug 18784) Internal links like [[File:Foo|caption]] should read 'caption', + not 'File:Foo' when Foo is not an image +* (bug 21518) Special:UserRights no longer displays the user name box for users + that can only change their rights +* (bug 21593) Special:UserRights now lists automatic groups membership == API changes in 1.16 == @@ -761,9 +807,20 @@ it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN * (bug 21441) meta=userinfo&uiprop=options no longer returns default options for logged-in users under certain circumstances * (bug 21945) Add chomp control in YAML -* Expand the thumburl to an absolute url to make it consistent with url and - descriptionurl +* Expand the thumburl to an absolute url to make it consistent with url and + descriptionurl * (bug 20233) ApiLogin::execute() doesn't handle LoginForm :: RESET_PASS +* (bug 22061) API: add prop=headitems to action=parse +* (bug 22240) API: include time in siteinfo +* (bug 22241) Quick edit is still using the deprecated watch parameter (API: Setting default for watch/unwatch wrongly set) +* (bug 22245) blfilterredirect=nonredirects in blredirect mode wrongly filtering +* (bug 22248) Output extension URLs in meta=siteinfo&siprop=extensions +* Support key-params arrays in 'descriptionmsg' in meta=siteinfo&siprop=extensions +* (bug 21922) YAML output should quote asterisk when used as key +* (bug 22297) safesubst: to allow substitution without breaking transclusion +* (bug 18758) API read of watchlist's wl_notificationtimestamp +* (bug 20809) Expose EditFormPreloadText via the API +* (bug 18427) Comment (edit summary) parser option for API === Languages updated in 1.16 === @@ -771,6 +828,7 @@ 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. +* Capiznon (cps) (new) * North Frisian (frr) (new) * Kirmanjki (kiu) (new) * Komi-Permyak (koi) (new) @@ -781,6 +839,7 @@ changes to languages because of MediaZilla reports. * Lower Silesian (sli) (new) * Picard (pcd) (new) * Uyghur (Arabic script) (ug-arab) (new) +* Upper Franconian (vmf) (new) * Votic (vot) (new) * Eastern Yiddish (ydd) (removed) * Iriga Bicolano (bto) (removed) @@ -810,11 +869,7 @@ changes to languages because of MediaZilla reports. == Compatibility == -MediaWiki 1.16 requires PHP 5 (5.2 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. +MediaWiki 1.16 requires PHP 5.1 (5.2 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer supported. 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.