-=== Configuration changes in 1.12 ===
-* Marking edits as bot edits with Special:Contributions?bot=1 now requires the
- markbotedit permission, rather than the rollback permission previously used.
- This permission is assigned by default to the sysop group.
-* MediaWiki now checks if serialized files are out of date. New configuration
- variable $wgCheckSerialized can be set to false to enable old behavior (i.e.
- to not check and assume they are always up to date)
-* The rollback permission can now be rate-limited using the normal mechanism.
-* New configuration variable $wgExtraLanguageNames
-* Behaviour of $wgAddGroups and $wgRemoveGroups changed. New behaviour:
-* * Granting the userrights privilege allows arbitrary changing of rights.
-* * Without the userrights privilege, a user will be able to add and/or
- remove the groups specified in $wgAddGroups and $wgRemoveGroups for
- any groups they are in.
-* New permission userrights-interwiki for changing user rights on foreign wikis.
-* $wgImplictGroups for groups that are hidden from Special:Listusers, etc.
-* $wgAutopromote: automatically promote users who match specified criteria
-* $wgGroupsAddToSelf, $wgGroupsRemoveFromSelf: allow users to add or remove
- themselves from specified groups via Special:Userrights.
-* When $wgUseTidy has been enabled, PHP's Tidy module is now used if it is
- present, in preference to an external Tidy executable which may or may not
- be present. To force use of external Tidy even when the PHP module is
- available, set $wgTidyInternal to false.
-
-
-=== New features in 1.12 ===
-* (bug 10735) Add a warning for non-descriptive filenames at Special:Upload
-* Add {{filepath:}} parser function to get full path to an uploaded file,
- complementing {{fullurl:}} for pages.
-* (bug 11136) If using Postgres, search path is explicitly set if wgDBmwschema
- is not set to 'mediawiki', allowing multiple mediawiki instances per user.
-* (bug 11151) Add descriptive <title> to revision history page
-* (bug 5412) Add feed links for the site to all pages
-* (bug 11353) Add ability to retrieve raw section content via action=raw
-* (bug 6909) Show relevant deletion log lines when uploading a previously
- deleted file
-* On SkinTemplate based skins (like MonoBook), omit confusing "edit"/"view
- source" tab entirely if the page doesn't exist and the user isn't allowed to
- create it
-* Clarify instructions given when an exception is thrown
-* AuthPlugin added strictUserAuth() method to allow per-user override
- of the strict() authentication behavior.
-* (bug 7872) Deleted revisions can now be viewed as diffs showing changes
- against the previous revision, whether currently deleted or live.
-* Added tooltips for the "Go" and "Search" buttons
-* (bug 11649) Show input form when Special:Whatlinkshere has no parameters
-* isValidEmailAddr hook added to User method of that name, to allow, e.g., re-
- stricting e-mail addresses to a specific domain
-* Removed "Clear" link in watchlist editor tools, as people were afraid to
- click it. Existing clear links will fall back to the raw editor, which is
- very easy to clear your watchlist with.
-* (bug 1405) Add wgUseNPPatrol option to control patroling for new articles
- on Special:Newpages
-* LogLine hook added to allow formatting custom entries in Special:Log.
-* Support for Iranian calendar
-* (bug 1401) Allow hiding logged-in users, bots and patrolled pages on
- Special:Newpages
-* ChangesListInsertArticleLink hook added for adding extra article info to RC.
-* MediaWikiPerformAction hook added for diverting control after the main
- globals have been set up but before any actions have been taken.
-* BeforeWatchlist hook added for filtering or replacing watchlist.
-* SkinTemplateTabAction hook added for altering the properties of tab links.
-* OutputPage::getRedirect public method added.
-* (bug 11848, 12506) Allow URL parameters 'section', 'editintro' and 'preload'
- in Special:Mypage and Special:Mytalk
-* Add ot=raw to Special:Allmessages
-* Support for Hebrew calendar
-* Support for Hebrew numerals in dates and times
-* (bug 11315) Signatures can be configured in [[MediaWiki:Signature]] and
- [[MediaWiki:Signature-anon]]
-* Signatures for anonymous users link to Special:Contributions page rather than
- user page
-* Added --override switch for disabled pages in updateSpecialPages.php
-* Provide a unique message (ipb_blocked_as_range) if unblock of a single IP
- fails
- because it is part of a blocked range.
-* (bug 3973) Use a separate message for the email content when an account is
- created by another user
-* dumpTextPass.php can spawn fetchText.php as a subprocess, which should restart
- cleanly if database connections fail unpleasantly.
-* (bug 12028) Add Special:Listbots as shortcut for Special:Listusers/bot
-* (bug 9633) Add a predefined list of delete reasons to the deletion form
-* Show a warning message when creating/editing a user (talk) page but the user
- does not exists
-* (bug 8396) Ignore out-of-date serialised message caches
-* (bug 12195) Undeleting pages now requires 'undelete' permission
-* (bug 11810) Localize displayed semicolons
-* (bug 11657) Support for Thai solar calendar
-* (bug 943) RSS feed for Recentchangeslinked
-* Introduced AbortMove hook
-* (bug 2919) Protection of nonexistent pages with regular protection interface.
-* Special:Upload now lists permitted/prohibited file extensions.
-* Split ambiguous filetype-badtype message into two new messages,
- filetype-unwanted-type and filetype-banned-type.
-* Added link to the old title in Special:Movepage
-* On Special:Movepage, errors are now more noticeable.
-* It is now possible to change rights on other local wikis without the MakeSysop
- extension
-* Add HTML ID's mw-read-only-warning and mw-anon-edit-warning to warnings when
- editing to allow CSS styling.
-* Parser now returns list of sections
-* When a user is prohibited from creating a page, a title of "View source"
- makes no sense, and there should be no "Return to [[Page]]" link.
-* (bug 12486) Protected titles now give a warning for privileged editors.
-* (bug 9939) Special:Search now sets focus to search input box when no existing
- search is active
-* For Special:Userrights, use GET instead of POST to search for users.
-* Allow subpage syntax for Special:Userrights, i.e., Special:Userrights/Name.
-* When submitting changes on Special:Userrights, show the full form again, not
- just the search box.
-* Added exception hooks
-* (bug 12574) Allow bots to specify whether an edit should be marked as a bot
- edit, via the parameter 'bot'. (Default: '1')
-* (bug 12536) User should be able to get MediaWiki version from any page
-* (bug 12622) A JavaScript constant to declare whether api.php is available
-* Add caching to the AJAX search
-* Add APCOND_INGROUPS
-* Add DBA caching to installer
-* (bug 18585) Added a bunch of parameters to the revertpage message
-* Support redirects in image namespace
-* (bug 10049) Prefix index search and namespaces in Special:Withoutinterwiki
-* (bug 12668) Support for custom iPhone bookmark icon via $wgAppleTouchIcon
-* Add option to include templates in Special:Export.
-* (bug 12655) Added $wgUserEmailUseReplyTo config option to put sender
- address in Reply-To instead of From for user-to-user emails.
- This protects against SPF problems and privacy-leaking bounce messages
- when using mailers that set the envelope sender to the From header value.
-* (bug 11897) Add alias [[Special:CreateAccount]] & [[Special:Userlogin/signup]]
- for Special:Userlogin?type=signup
-* (bug 12214) Add a predefined list of delete reasons to the file deletion form
-* Merged backends for OpenSearch suggestions and AJAX search.
- Both now accept namespace prefixes, handle 'Media:' and 'Special:' pages,
- and reject interwiki prefixes. PrefixSearch class centralizes this code,
- and the backend part can be overridden by the PrefixSearchBackend hook.
-* (bug 10365) Localization of Special:Version
-* When installing using Postgres, the Pl/Pgsql language is now checked for
- and installed when at the superuser level.
-* The default robot policy for the entire wiki is now configurable via the
- $wgDefaultRobotPolicy setting.
-* (bug 12239) Use different separators for autocomments
-* (bug 12857) Patrol link on new pages should clear floats
-* (bug 12968) Render redirect wikilinks in a redirect class for customization
- via user/site CSS.
-* EditPageBeforeEditButtons hook added for altering the edit buttons below the edit box
-
-=== Bug fixes in 1.12 ===
-
-* Subpages are now indexed for searching properly when using PostgreSQL
-* (bug 3846) Suppress warnings from, e.g. open_basedir when scanning for
- ImageMagick, diff3 et al. during installation [patch by Jan Reininghaus]
-* (bug 7027) Shift handling of deletion permissions-checking to
- getUserPermissionsErrors.
-* Login and signup forms are now more correct for right-to-left languages.
-* (bug 5387) Block log items on RecentChanges don't make use of possible
- translations
-* (bug 11211) Pass, as a parameter to the protectedpagetext interface
- message, the level of protection.
-* (bug 9611) Supply the blocker and reason for the cantcreateaccounttext
- message.
-* (bug 8759) Fixed bug where rollback was allowed on protected pages for wikis
- where rollback is given to non-sysops.
-* (bug 8834) Split off permission for editing user JavaScript and CSS from
- editinterface to a new permission key editusercssjs.
-* (bug 11266) Set fallback language for Fulfulde (ff) to French
-* (bug 11179) Include image version deletion comment in public log
-* Fixed notice when accessing special page without read permission and whitelist
- is not defined
-* (bug 9252) Fix for tidy funkiness when using editintro mode
-* (bug 4021) Fix for MySQL wildcard search
-* (bug 10699) Fix for MySQL phrase search
-* (bug 11321) Fix width of gallerybox when option "width=xxx" is used
-* (bug 7890) Special:BrokenRedirects links deleted redirects to a non-existent
- page
-* Fix initial statistics when installing: add correct values
-* (bug 11342) Fix several 'returnto' links in permissions/error pages which
- linked to the main page instead of targetted page
-* Strike the link to the redirect rather than using an asterisk in
- Special:Listredirects
-* (bug 11355) Fix false positives in Safe Mode and other config detection
- when boolean settings are disabled with 'Off' via php_admin_value/php_value
-* (bug 11292) Fixed unserialize errors with Postgres by creating special Blob
- object.
-* (bug 11363) Make all metadata fields bytea when using Postgres.
-* (bug 11331) Add buildConcat() and use CASE not IF for DB compatibility. Make
- oldimage cascade delete via image table for Postgres, change fa_storage_key
- TEXT.
-* (bug 11438) Live Preview chops returned text
-* Show the right message on account creation when the user is blocked
-* (bug 11450) Fix creation of objectcache table on upgrade
-* Fix namespace selection after submit of Special:Newpages
-* Make input form of Special:Newpages nicer for RTL wikis
-* (bug 11462) Fix typo in LanguageGetSpecialPageAliases hook name
-* (bug 11474) Fix unintentional fall-through in math error handling
-* (bug 11478) Fix undefined method call in file deletion interface
-* (bug 278) Search results no longer highlight incorrect partial word matches
-* Compatibility with incorrectly detected old-style DJVU mime types
-* (bug 11560) Fix broken HTML output from weird link nesting in edit comments.
- Nested links (as in image caption text) still don't work _right_ but they're
- less wrong
-* (bug 9718) Remove unnecessary css from main.css causing spacing issues on
- some browsers.
-* (bug 11574) Add an interface message loginstart, which, similarly to loginend,
- appears just before the login form. Patch by MinuteElectron.
-* Do not cache category pages if using 'from' or 'until'
-* Created new hook getUserPermissionsErrors, to go with userCan changes.
-* Diff pages did not properly display css/js pages.
-* (bug 11620) Add call to User::isValidEmailAddr during accout creation.
-* (bug 11629) If $wgEmailConfirmToEdit is true, require people to supply an
- email address when registering.
-* (bug 11612) Days to show in recent changes cannot be larger than 7
-* (bug 11131) Change filearchive width/height columns to int for Postgres
-* Support plural in undeleted{revisions,revisions-files,files}
-* (bug 11343) If the database is read-only, ensure that undelete fails.
-* (bug 11690) Show revert link for page moves in Special:Log to allowed users
- only
-* Initial-lowercase prefix checks in namespaceDupes.php now actually work.
-* Fix regression in LinkBatch.php breaking PHP 5.0
-* (bug 11452) wfMsgExt uses sometimes wrong language object for parsing magic
- words when called with options ''parsemag'' or ''content''.
-* (bug 11727) Support plural in 'historysize' message
-* (bug 11744) Incorrect return value from Title::getParentCategories()
-* (bug 11762) Fix native language name of Akan (ak)
-* (bug 11722) Fix inconsistent case in unprotect tabs
-* (bug 11795) Be more paranoid about confirming accept-encoding header is
- present
-* (bug 11809) Use formatNum() for more numbers
-* (bug 11818) Fix native language name of Inuktitut (iu)
-* Remove all commas when parsing float numbers in sorted tables
-* Limit text field of deletion, protection and user rights changes reasons to
- 255 characters (already restricted in the database)
-* In the deletion default reasons, calculate how much text to get from the
- article text, rather than getting 150 characters (which may be too much)
-* Add two messages for Special:Blockme which were used but undefined
-* (bug 11921) Support plural in message number_of_watching_users_pageview
-* If an IP address is blocked as part of a rangeblock, attempting to unblock
- the single IP should not unblock the entire range.
-* (bug 6695) Fix native language name of Southern Sotho (Sesotho) (st)
-* Make action=render follow redirects by default
-* If restricted read access was enabled, whitelist didn't work with special
- pages which had spaces in theirs names
-* If restricted read access was enabled, requests for non-existing special pages
- threw an exception
-* Feeds for recent changes now provide correct URLs for the change, not just
- the page
-* Check for if IP is blocked as part of a range when unblocking (see above bug-
- fix) was faulty. Now fixed.
-* Fixed wpReason URL parameter to action=delete.
-* Do not force a password for account creation by email
-* Ensure that rate-limiting is applied to rollbacks.
-* Make a better rate-limiting error message (i.e. a normal MW error,
- rather than an "Internal Server Error").
-* Do not present an image bigger than the source when 'frameless' option is used
- (to be consistent with the 'thumb' option now)
-* Support {{PLURAL}} for import log
-* Make sure that the correct log entries are shown on Special:Userrights even
- for users with special characters in their names
-* The number of watching users in watchlists was always reported as 1
-* namespaceDupes.php no longer dies when coming across an illegal title
-* (bug 12143) Do not show a link to patrol new pages for non existent pages
-* (bug 12166) Fix XHTML validity for Special:Emailuser
-* (bug 11346) Users who cannot edit a page can now no longer unprotect it.
-* (bug 451) Add a generic Traditional / Simplified Chinese conversion table,
- instead of a Traditional conversion with Taiwan variant, and a Simplified
- conversion with China variant.
-* (bug 12178) Fix wpReason parameter to action=delete, again.
-* Graceful behavior for updateRestrictions.php if a page already has records
- in the page_restrictions matching its old page_restrictions field.
- May help with odd upgrade issues or race condition.
-* (bug 11993) Remove contentsub "revision history"
-* (bug 11952) Ensure we quote_ident() all schema names as needed
- inside of the DatabasePostgres.php file.
-* (bug 12184) Exceptions now sent to stderr instead of stdout for command-line
- scripts, making for cleaner reporting during batch jobs. PHP errors will also
- be redirected in most cases on PHP 5.2.4 and later, switching 'display_errors'
- to 'stderr' at runtime.
-* (bug 12148) Text highlight wasn't applied to cleanly deleted and added
- lines in diff output
-* (bug 10166) Fix a PHP warning in Language::getMagic
-* Only mark rollback edits as minor if the user can normally mark edits minor
-* Escape page names in the move successful page (e.g. for pages with two
- apostrophes).
-* (bug 12145) Add localized names of kk-variants
-* (bug 12259) Localize the numbers in deleted pages on the sysop view
-* Set proper page title for successful file deletion
-* (bug 11221) Do not show 'Compare selected versions' button for a history page
- with one revision only
-* (bug 12267) Set the default date format to Thai solar calender for the Thai
- language
-* (bug 10184) Extensions' stylesheets and scripts should be loaded before
- user-customized ones (like Common.css, Common.js)
-* (bug 12283) Special:Newpages forgets parameters
-* (bug 12031) All namespaces doesn't work in Special:Newpages
-* (bug 585) Only create searchindex replica table for parser tests if db is
- MySQL
-* Allow --record option if parserTests.php to work when using Postgres
-* (bug 12296) Simplify cache epoch in default LocalSettings.php
-* (bug 12346) XML fix when body double-click and click handlers are present
-* Fix regression -- missing feed links in sidebar on Special:Recentchanges
-* (bug 12371) Handle more namespace case variants in namespaceDupes.php
-* (bug 12380) Bot-friendly EditPage::spamPage
-* (bug 8066) Spaces can't be entered in special page aliases
-* Hide undo link if user can't edit article
-* (bug 12416) Fix password setting for createAndPromote.php
-* (bug 3097) Inconsistently usable titles containing HTML character entities
- are now forbidden. A run of cleanupTitles.php will fix up existing pages.
-* (bug 12446) Permissions check fix for undelete link
-* (bug 12451) AJAX title normalization tweaks
-* When a user creating a page is not allowed to either create the page nor edit
- it, all applicable reasons are now shown.
-* (bug 11428) Allow $wgScript inside $wgArticlePath when emulating PATH_INFO
- Fixes 'root'-style rewrite configurations
-* (bug 12493) Removed hardcoded MAX_FILE_SIZE from Special:Import upload form
-* (bug 12489) Special:Userrights listed in restricted section again
-* (bug 12553) Fixed invalid XHTML in edit conflict screen
-* (bug 12505) Fixed section=0 with action=raw
-* (bug 12614) Do not log user rights change that didn't change anything
-* (bug 12584) Don't reset cl_timestamp when auto-updating sort key on move
-* (bug 12588) Fix selection in namespace selector on Special:Newpages
-* Use only default options when generating RSS and Atom syndication links.
- This should help prevent infinite link loops that some software may follow,
- and will generally keep feed behavior cleaner.
-* (bug 12608) Unifying the spelling of getDBkey() in the code.
-* (bug 12611) Bot flag ignored in recent changes
-* (bug 12617) Decimal and thousands separators for Romanian
-* (bug 12567) Fix for misformatted read-only messages on edit, protect.
- Also added proper read-only checks to several special pages.
- Have removed read-only checks from the general user permission framework.
-* Creating a site with a name containing '#' is no longer permitted, since the
- name will not work (but $wgSiteName is not checked if manually set).
-* (bug 12695) Suppress dvips verbiage from web server error log
-* (bug 12716) Unprotecting a non-protected page leaves a log entry
-* Log username blocks with canonical form of name instead of input form
-* (bug 11593, 12719) Fixes for overzealous invocation of thumb.php.
- Non-image handlers and full-size images may now decline it, fixing
- mystery failures when using $wgThumbnailScriptPath.
-* (bug 12327) Comma in username no longer disrupts mail headers
-* (bug 6436) Localization of Special:Import XML parser Error message(s).
-* Security fix for API on MSIE
-* (bug 12768) Database query syntax error in maintenance/storage/compressOld.inc
-* (bug 12753) Empty captions in MediaWiki:Sidebar result in PHP errors
-* (bug 12790) Page protection is not logged when edit-protection is used
- and move-protection is not
-* (bug 12793) Fix for restricted namespaces/pages in Special:Export
-* Fix for Special:Export so it doesn't ignore the page named '0'
-* Don't display rollback link if the user doesn't have all required permissions
-* The comment of a time-limited protection now contains the date in the default
- format
-* (bug 12880) wfLoadExtensionMessages does not use $fallback from MessagesXx.php
-* (bug 12885) Correction for Russian convertPlural function
-* (bug 12768) Make DatabasePostgres->hasContraint() schema aware.
-* (bug 12735) Truncate usernames in comments using mb_ functions.
-* (bug 12892) Poor tab indexing on "delete file" form
-* (bug 12660) When creating an account by e-mail, do not send the creator's IP
- address
-* (bug 12931) Fix wrong global variable in SpecialVersion
-* (bug 12919) Use 'deletedrevision' message as content when deleting an old file
- version
-* (bug 12952) Using Nosuchusershort instead of Nosuchuser when account creation
- is disabled
-* (bug 12869) Magnify icon alignment should be adjusted using linked CSS
-* Fixing message cache updates for MediaWiki messages moves
-* (bug 12815) Signature timestamps were always in UTC, even if the timezone code
- in parentheses after them claimed otherwise
-* (bug 12732) Fix installer and searching to handle built-in tsearch2 for Postgres.
-* (bug 12784) Change "bool" types to smallint to handle Postgres 8.3 strictness.
-* (bug 12301) Allow maintenance/findhooks.php to search hooks in multiple directories.
-* (bug 7681, 11559) Cookie values no longer override GET and POST variables.
-* (bug 5262) Fully-qualified $wgStylePath no longer corrupted on XML feeds
-* (bug 3269) Inaccessible titles ending in '/.' or '/..' now forbidden.
-* (bug 12935, 12981) Fully-qualify archive URLs in delete, revert messages
-* (bug 12938) Fix template expansion and 404 returns for action=raw with section
-* (bug 11567) Fix error checking for PEAR::Mail. UserMailer::send() now returns
- true-or-WikiError, which seems to be the calling convention expected by half
- its callers already
-* (bug 12846) IE rtl.css issue in RTL wikis special:Preferences when selecting an
- LTR user language
-* (bug 13005) DISPLAYTITLE does not work on preview
-* (bug 13004) Fix error on Postgres searches that return too many results.
-* (bug 10677) Add link to the file description page on the shared repository