RELEASE-NOTES

   1 = MediaWiki release notes =
   2
   3 Security reminder: MediaWiki does not require PHP's register_globals
   4 setting since version 1.2.0. If you have it on, turn it *off* if you can.
   5
   6 == MediaWiki 1.12 ==
   7
   8 THIS IS NOT A RELEASE YET
   9
  10 MediaWiki is now using a "continuous integration" development model with
  11 quarterly snapshot releases. The latest development code is always kept
  12 "ready to run", and in fact runs our own sites on Wikipedia.
  13
  14 Release branches will continue to receive security updates for about a year
  15 from first release, but nonessential bugfixes and feature developments
  16 will be made on the development trunk and appear in the next quarterly release.
  17
  18 Those wishing to use the latest code instead of a branch release can obtain
  19 it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN
  20
  21 === Configuration changes in 1.12 ===
  22
  23 === New features in 1.12 ===
  24 * (bug 10735) Add a warning for non-descriptive filenames at Special:Upload
  25 * Add {{filepath:}} parser function to get full path to an uploaded file,
  26   complementing {{fullurl:}} for pages.
  27 * (bug 11136) If using Postgres, search path is explicitly set if wgDBmwschema is
  28   not set to 'mediawiki', allowing multiple mediawiki instances per user.
  29 * (bug 11151) Add descriptive <title> to revision history page
  30 * (bug 5412) Add feed links for the site to all pages
  31 * (bug 11353) Add ability to retrieve raw section content via action=raw
  32 * Show relevant deletion log lines when uploading a previously deleted file
  33
  34 === Bug fixes in 1.12 ===
  35
  36 * Subpages are now indexed for searching properly when using PostgreSQL
  37 * (bug 3846) Suppress warnings from, e.g. open_basedir when scanning for
  38   ImageMagick, diff3 et al. during installation [patch by Jan Reininghaus]
  39 * (bug 7027) Shift handling of deletion permissions-checking to
  40   getUserPermissionsErrors.
  41 * Login and signup forms are now more correct for right-to-left languages.
  42 * (bug 5387) Block log items on RecentChanges don't make use of possible
  43   translations
  44 * (bug 11211) Pass, as a parameter to the protectedpagetext interface
  45   message, the level of protection.
  46 * (bug 9611) Supply the blocker and reason for the cantcreateaccounttext
  47   message.
  48 * (bug 8759) Fixed bug where rollback was allowed on protected pages for wikis
  49   where rollback is given to non-sysops.
  50 * (bug 8834) Split off permission for editing user JavaScript and CSS from
  51   editinterface to a new permission key editusercssjs.
  52 * (bug 11266) Set fallback language for Fulfulde (ff) to French
  53 * (bug 11179) Include image version deletion comment in public log
  54 * Fixed notice when accessing special page without read permission and whitelist
  55   is not defined
  56 * (bug 9252) Fix for tidy funkiness when using editintro mode
  57 * (bug 4021) Fix for MySQL wildcard search
  58 * (bug 10699) Fix for MySQL phrase search
  59 * (bug 11321) Fix width of gallerybox when option "width=xxx" is used
  60 * (bug 7890) Special:BrokenRedirects links deleted redirects to a non-existent page
  61 * Fix initial statistics when installing: add correct values
  62 * (bug 11342) Fix several 'returnto' links in permissions/error pages which
  63   linked to the main page instead of targetted page
  64 * Strike the link to the redirect rather than using an asterisk in Special:Listredirects
  65 * (bug 11355) Fix false positives in Safe Mode and other config detection
  66   when boolean settings are disabled with 'Off' via php_admin_value/php_value
  67 * (bug 11292) Fixed unserialize errors with Postgres by creating special Blob object.
  68 * (bug 11363) Make all metadata fields bytea when using Postgres.
  69 * (bug 11331) Add buildConcat() and use CASE not IF for DB compatibility. Make oldimage
  70   cascade delete via image table for Postgres, change fa_storage_key TEXT.
  71 * (bug 11438) Live Preview chops returned text
  72 * Show the right message on account creation when the user is blocked
  73 * (bug 11450) Fix creation of objectcache table on upgrade
  74 * Fix namespace selection after submit of Special:Newpages
  75 * Make input form of Special:Newpages nicer for RTL wikis
  76 * (bug 11462) Fix typo in LanguageGetSpecialPageAliases hook name
  77
  78
  79 === API changes in 1.12 ===
  80
  81 Full API documentation is available at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API
  82
  83 * (bug 11275) Enable descending sort in categorymembers
  84 * (bug 11308) Allow the API to output the image metadata
  85 * (bug 11296) Temporary fix for escaping of ampersands inside links in pretty-printed
  86   help document.
  87 * (bug 11405) Expand templates implementation in the API
  88 * (bug 11218) Add option to feedwatchlist to display multiple revisions for each page.
  89 * (bug 11404) Provide name of exception caught in error code field of internal api
  90   error messages.
  91
  92 === Languages updated in 1.12 ===
  93
  94 * Amharic (am) (new)
  95 * Arabic (ar)
  96 * Mapudungun (arn) (new)
  97 * Asturian (ast)
  98 * Samogitian (bat-smg)
  99 * Bikol Central (bcl)
 100 * Belarusian Taraskievica orthography (be-tarask)
 101 * Bulgarian (bg)
 102 * Bislama (bi) (new)
 103 * Bengali (bn)
 104 * Bishnupriya Manipuri (bpy)
 105 * Catalan (ca)
 106 * Breton (br)
 107 * Czech (cs)
 108 * Cassubian (csb)
 109 * Welsh (cy)
 110 * Danish (da)
 111 * German (de)
 112 * Lower Sorbian (dsb) (new)
 113 * Ewe (ee) (new)
 114 * Greek (el)
 115 * Spanish (es)
 116 * Extremaduran (ext)
 117 * Finnish (fi)
 118 * Persian (fa)
 119 * Võro (fiu-vro)
 120 * Faroese (fo)
 121 * Frisian (fy)
 122 * French (fr)
 123 * Cajun French (frc)
 124 * Franco-Provençal (frp)
 125 * Irish (ga)
 126 * Gön-gnŷ (gan) (new)
 127 * Galician (gl)
 128 * Ancient Greek (grc) (new)
 129 * Hakka (hak)
 130 * Hebrew (he)
 131 * Upper Sorbian (hsb)
 132 * Indonesian (id)
 133 * Icelandic (is)
 134 * Italian (it)
 135 * Japanese (ja)
 136 * Kazakh (kk)
 137 * Korean (ko)
 138 * Latin (la)
 139 * Limbugian (li)
 140 * Malay (ms)
 141 * Low Saxon (nds)
 142 * Dutch (nl)
 143 * Norwegian (no)
 144 * Portugese (pt)
 145 * Russian (ru)
 146 * Sakha (sah)
 147 * Sicilian (scn)
 148 * Sassarese (sdc) (new)
 149 * Seri (sei) (new)
 150 * Slovak (sk)
 151 * Serbian (Cyrillic) (sr-ec)
 152 * Sundanese (su)
 153 * Tamil (ta)
 154 * Tetun (tet) (new)
 155 * Walloon (wa)
 156 * Yiddish (yi)
 157 * Cantonese (yue)
 158 * Zhuang (za)
 159 * Zealandic (zea)
 160 * Old Chinese/Late Time Chinese (zh-classical)
 161 * Chinese (Simplified) (zh-hans)
 162 * Chinese (Traditional) (zh-hant)
 163
 164 == Compatibility ==
 165
 166 MediaWiki 1.12 requires PHP 5 (5.1 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer supported.
 167
 168 PHP 5.0.x fails on 64-bit systems due to serious bugs with array processing:
 169 http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=34879
 170 Upgrade affected systems to PHP 5.1 or higher.
 171
 172 MySQL 3.23.x is no longer supported; some older hosts may need to upgrade.
 173 At this time we still recommend 4.0, but 4.1/5.0 will work fine in most cases.
 174
 175
 176 == Upgrading ==
 177
 178 1.12 has several database changes since 1.11, and will not work without schema
 179 updates.
 180
 181 If upgrading from before 1.7, you may want to run refreshLinks.php to ensure
 182 new database fields are filled with data.
 183
 184 If you are upgrading from MediaWiki 1.4.x or earlier, some major database
 185 changes are made, and there is a slightly higher chance that things could
 186 break. Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading!
 187
 188 See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions.
 189
 190
 191 === Caveats ===
 192
 193 Some output, particularly involving user-supplied inline HTML, may not
 194 produce 100% valid or well-formed XHTML output. Testers are welcome to
 195 set $wgMimeType = "application/xhtml+xml"; to test for remaining problem
 196 cases, but this is not recommended on live sites. (This must be set for
 197 MathML to display properly in Mozilla.)
 198
 199 For notes on 1.11.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
 200
 201
 202 === Online documentation ===
 203
 204 Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is currently being
 205 built up on MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation
 206 License (except for pages that explicitly state that their contents are in
 207 the public domain) :
 208
 209   http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation
 210
 211
 212 === Mailing list ===
 213
 214 A MediaWiki-l mailing list has been set up distinct from the Wikipedia
 215 wikitech-l list:
 216
 217   http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
 218
 219 A low-traffic announcements-only list is also available:
 220
 221   http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
 222
 223 It's highly recommended that you sign up for one of these lists if you're
 224 going to run a public MediaWiki, so you can be notified of security fixes.
 225
 226
 227 === IRC help ===
 228
 229 There's usually someone online in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net