RELEASE-NOTES-1.20

   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 1.20 ==
   7
   8 THIS IS NOT A RELEASE YET
   9
  10 MediaWiki 1.20 is an alpha-quality branch and is not recommended for use in
  11 production.
  12
  13 === PHP 5.3 now required ===
  14 Since 1.20, the lowest supported version of PHP is now 5.3.2. Please
  15 upgrade PHP if you have not done so prior to upgrading MediaWiki.
  16
  17 === Configuration changes in 1.20 ===
  18 * $wgGitRepositoryViewers defines a mapping from Git remote repository to the
  19   Gitweb instance URL used in Special:Version
  20 * `$wgUsePathInfo = true;` is no longer needed to make $wgArticlePath work on servers
  21   using like nginx, lighttpd, and apache over fastcgi. MediaWiki now always extracts
  22   path info from REQUEST_URI if it's available.
  23
  24 === New features in 1.20 ===
  25 * Added TitleIsAlwaysKnown hook which gets called when determining if a page exists.
  26 * Added NamespaceIsMovable hook which gets called when determining if pages in a
  27   certain namespace can be moved.
  28 * (bug 32341) Add upload by URL domain limitation.
  29 * &useskin=default will now always display the default skin. Useful for users with a
  30   preference for the non-default skin to look at something using the default skin.
  31 * (bug 27619) Remove preference option to display broken links as link?
  32 * (bug 34896) Update jQuery JSON plugin to v2.3 (2011-09-17).
  33 * (bug 34302) Add CSS classes to email fields in user preferences.
  34 * Introduced $wgDebugDBTransactions to trace transaction status (currently PostgreSQL only).
  35 * (bug 23795) Add parser itself to ParserMakeImageParams hook.
  36 * Introduce a cryptographic random number generator source api for use when
  37   generating various tokens.
  38 * (bug 30963) Option on Special:Prefixindex and Special:Allpages to not show redirects.
  39 * (bug 18062) new message when edit or create the local page of a shared file.
  40 * (bug 22870) Separate interface message when creating a page.
  41 * (bug 17615) nosummary option should be reassigned on preview/captcha.
  42 * (bug 34355) add a variable and parser function for the namespace number.
  43 * (bug 35649) Special:Version now shows hashes of extensions checked out from git.
  44 * (bug 35728) Git revisions are now linked on Special:Version.
  45 * "Show Changes" on default messages shows now diff against default message text
  46 * (bug 23006) create #speciale parser function.
  47 * generateSitemap can now optionally skip redirect pages.
  48 * (bug 27757) new API command just for retrieving tokens (not page-based)
  49 * Added GitViewers hook for extensions using external git repositories to have a web-based
  50   repository viewer linked to from Special:Version.
  51 * Memcached debug logs can now be sent to their own file logs by setting
  52   $wgDebugLogFile['memcached'] to some filepath.
  53 * (bug 35685) api.php URL and other entry point URLs are now listed on
  54   Special:Version
  55 * Edit notices can now be translated.
  56 * (bug 35680) jQuery upgraded to 1.7.2.
  57 * jQuery UI upgraded to 1.8.19.
  58 * (bug 22887) Add warning and tracking category for preprocessor errors
  59 * (bug 31704) Allow selection of associated namespace on the watchlist
  60 * (bug 5445) Now remove autoblocks when a user is unblocked.
  61 * Added $wgLogExceptionBacktrace, on by default, to allow logging of exception
  62   backtraces.
  63 * Added device detection for determining device capabilities.
  64 * QUnit.newMwEnvironment now supports passing a custom setup and/or teardown function.
  65   Arguments signature has changed. First arguments is now an options object of which
  66   'config' can be a property. Previously 'config' itself was the first and only argument.
  67 * New getCreator and getOldestRevision methods added to WikiPage class
  68 * (bug 4220) the XML dump format schema now have unique identity constraints
  69   for page and revision identifiers. Patch by Elvis Stansvik.
  70 * (bug 35705) QUnit upgraded from 1.2.0 to 1.7.0
  71 * cleanupSpam.php now can delete spam pages if --delete was specified instead of blanking
  72   them.
  73
  74 === Bug fixes in 1.20 ===
  75 * (bug 30245) Use the correct way to construct a log page title.
  76 * (bug 34237) Regenerate an empty user_token and save to the database
  77   when we try to set the user's cookies for login.
  78 * (bug 32210) New edit emails for watched pages always provide a link to the
  79   edit which triggered the mail.
  80 * (bug 12021) Added user talk link on Special:Listusers.
  81 * (bug 34445) section edit and TOC hide/show links are excluded from selection and
  82   copy/paste on supporting browsers.
  83 * (bug 34428) Fixed incorrect hash mismatch errors in the DiffHistoryBlob
  84   history compression method.
  85 * (bug 34702) Localised parentheses are now used in more special pages.
  86 * (bug 34723) When editing a script page on a RTL wiki the textbox should be LTR.
  87 * (bug 34762) Calling close() on a DatabaseBase object now clears the connection.
  88 * (bug 34863) Show deletion log extract on non-existent file pages if applicable.
  89 * (bug 28019) Let ?preloadtitle=foo be passed on to target of
  90   Special:MyPage and Special:MyTalk.
  91 * (bug 34929) Show the correct diff when a section edit is rejected by the spam
  92   filter.
  93 * (bug 15816) Add a switch for SETting the search_path (Postgres).
  94 * (bug 34521) Returning to the previous page after logging in loses any array-
  95   valued parameters in the query string.
  96 * (bug 34735) Updated compressOld.php documentation to mention the different
  97   usages of -s and -n parameters depending on compression type.
  98 * (bug 13896) Rendering of devanagari numbers in automatic '#' number lists.
  99 * (bug 33689) Upgrade to 1.19 on Postgres fails due to incomplete query when.
 100   trying to defer foreign key for externallinks.
 101 * (bug 32748) Printer friendly version of article decode Unicode chars as a
 102   pretty IRI in footer.
 103 * Removed white border around thumbnails in galleries.
 104 * (bug 31236) "Next" and "Previous" buttons are shown incorrectly in
 105   an RTL environment.
 106 * (bug 35749) Updated maintenance/checkSyntax.php to use Git instead of
 107   Subversion when invoked with the --modified option.
 108 * (bug 35069) On history pages, the " . . " separator after the number of
 109   characters changed in a revision is now suppressed if no text would follow.
 110 * (bug 18704) Add a unique CSS class or ID to the tagfilter table row at RecentChanges
 111 * (bug 33564) transwiki import sometimes result in invalid title.
 112 * (bug 35572) Blocks appear to succeed even if query fails due to wrong DB structure
 113 * (bug 31757) Add a word-separator between help-messages in HTMLForm
 114 * (bug 30410) Removed deprecated $wgFilterCallback and the 'filtered' API error.
 115 * (bug 32604) Some messages needs escaping of wikitext inside username
 116 * (bug 36537) Rename wfArrayToCGI to wfArrayToCgi for consistency with wfCgiToArray.
 117 * (bug 25946) The message on the top of Special:RecentChanges is now displayed
 118   in user language instead of content language
 119 * (bug 35264) Wrong type used for <ns> in export.xsd
 120 * (bug 24985) Use $wgTmpDirectory as the default temp directory so that people
 121   who don't have access to /tmp can specify an alternative.
 122
 123 === API changes in 1.20 ===
 124 * (bug 34316) Add ability to retrieve maximum upload size from MediaWiki API.
 125 * (bug 34313) MediaWiki API intro message about "HTML format" should mention
 126   the format parameter.
 127 * (bug 32384) Allow descending order for list=watchlistraw.
 128 * (bug 31883) Limit of bkusers of list=blocks and titles of action=query is not documented in API help.
 129 * (bug 32492) API now allows editing using pageid
 130 * (bug 32497) API now allows changing of protection level using pageid
 131 * (bug 32498) API now allows comparing pages using pageids
 132 * (bug 30975) API import of pages with invalid characters in this wiki leads to Fatal Error
 133 * (bug 30488) API now allows listing of backlinks/embeddedin/imageusage per pageid
 134 * (bug 34927) Output media_type for list=filearchive
 135 * (bug 28814) add properties to output of action=parse
 136 * (bug 33224) add variants of content language to meta=siteinfo
 137 * (bug 36761) "Mark pages as visited" now submits previously established filter options
 138 * (bug 32643) action=purge with forcelinkupdate no longer crashes when ratelimit is reached
 139 * The paraminfo module now also contains result properties for most modules
 140
 141 === Languages updated in 1.20 ===
 142
 143 MediaWiki supports over 350 languages. Many localisations are updated
 144 regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
 145 changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
 146
 147 * Tornedalen Finnish (fit) added.
 148 * Mizo (lus) added.
 149 * Santali (sat) added.
 150 * (bug 34192) Namespace gender aliases for Albanian languages (sq & aln).
 151 * (bug 35541) Namespace gender aliases for Croatian (hr).
 152 * (bug 36012) Space in $separatorTransformTable should be non-breaking in
 153   Portuguese, Esperanto and Udmurt.
 154
 155 === Other changes in 1.20 ===
 156 * The user_token field is now left empty until a user attempts to login and
 157   cookies need to be set. It is also now possible to reset every user's
 158   user_token simply by clearing the values in the user_token column.
 159 * Removed ./tests/qunit/index.html from core. It wasn't actively maintained and
 160   has been made obsolete when [[Special:JavaScriptTest/qunit]] was introduced,
 161   which actually uses ResourceLoader, LocalSettings and the Skin.
 162
 163 == Compatibility ==
 164
 165 MediaWiki 1.20 requires PHP 5.3.2. PHP 4 is no longer supported.
 166
 167 MySQL is the recommended DBMS. PostgreSQL or SQLite can also be used, but
 168 support for them is somewhat less mature. There is experimental support for IBM
 169 DB2 and Oracle.
 170
 171 The supported versions are:
 172
 173 * MySQL 5.0.2 or later
 174 * PostgreSQL 8.3 or later
 175 * SQLite 3.3.7 or later
 176 * Oracle 9.0.1 or later
 177
 178 == Upgrading ==
 179
 180 1.20 has several database changes since 1.19, and will not work without schema
 181 updates.
 182
 183 If upgrading from before 1.11, and you are using a wiki as a commons
 184 repository, make sure that it is updated as well. Otherwise, errors may arise
 185 due to database schema changes.
 186
 187 If upgrading from before 1.7, you may want to run refreshLinks.php to ensure
 188 new database fields are filled with data.
 189
 190 If you are upgrading from MediaWiki 1.4.x or earlier, some major database
 191 changes are made, and there is a slightly higher chance that things could
 192 break. Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading!
 193
 194 See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions.
 195
 196 For notes on 1.19.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
 197
 198 == Online documentation ==
 199
 200 Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is available on
 201 MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation License (except
 202 for pages that explicitly state that their contents are in the public domain):
 203
 204         https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation
 205
 206 == Mailing list ==
 207
 208 A mailing list is available for MediaWiki user support and discussion:
 209
 210         https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
 211
 212 A low-traffic announcements-only list is also available:
 213
 214         https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
 215
 216 It's highly recommended that you sign up for one of these lists if you're
 217 going to run a public MediaWiki, so you can be notified of security fixes.
 218
 219 == IRC help ==
 220
 221 There's usually someone online in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net.