* `$wgUsePathInfo = true;` is no longer needed to make $wgArticlePath work on servers
using like nginx, lighttpd, and apache over fastcgi. MediaWiki now always extracts
path info from REQUEST_URI if it's available.
+* The user right 'upload_by_url' is no longer given to sysops by default.
+ This only affects installations which have $wgAllowCopyUploads set to true.
=== New features in 1.20 ===
* Added TitleIsAlwaysKnown hook which gets called when determining if a page exists.
* Added new function getDomain to AuthPlugin for getting a user's domain
* (bug 23427) New magic word {{PAGEID}} which gives the current page ID.
Will be null on previewing a page being created.
+* (bug 37627) UserNotLoggedIn() exception to show a generic error page whenever
+ a user is not logged in.
+* Watched status in changes lists are no longer indicated by <strong></strong>
+ tags with class "mw-watched". Instead, each line now has a class
+ "mw-changeslist-line-watched" or "mw-changeslist-line-not-watched", and the
+ title itself is surrounded by <span></span> tags with class "mw-title".
=== Bug fixes in 1.20 ===
* (bug 30245) Use the correct way to construct a log page title.
* (bug 35572) Blocks appear to succeed even if query fails due to wrong DB structure
* (bug 31757) Add a word-separator between help-messages in HTMLForm
* (bug 30410) Removed deprecated $wgFilterCallback and the 'filtered' API error.
-* (bug 32604) Some messages needs escaping of wikitext inside username
+* (bug 32604) Some messages needs escaping of wikitext inside username.
* (bug 36537) Rename wfArrayToCGI to wfArrayToCgi for consistency with wfCgiToArray.
-* (bug 25946) The message on the top of Special:RecentChanges is now displayed
+* (bug 25946) The message on the top of Special:RecentChanges is now displayed.
in user language instead of content language.
* (bug 35264) Wrong type used for <ns> in export.xsd
* (bug 24985) Use $wgTmpDirectory as the default temp directory so that people
* (bug 27283) SqlBagOStuff breaks PostgreSQL transactions.
* (bug 35727) mw.Api ajax() should put token parameter last.
* (bug 37708) mw.Uri.clone() should make a deep copy.
+* (bug 38024) ResourceLoader should not create empty stylesheets for modules
+ that don't have stylesheets.
+* (bug 36812) Special:ActiveUsers "Hide bots" should hide users from any group
+ having the "bot" user right, instead of just the default "bot" user group.
+* (bug 35082) mw.util.addPortletLink incorrectly adds link to mutiple <ul> tags.
+* (bug 36495) Sanitizer::fixDeprecatedAttributes should convert "align"
+ attribute to margin or float instead of text-align (for non-table-cells).
=== API changes in 1.20 ===
* (bug 34316) Add ability to retrieve maximum upload size from MediaWiki API.
* (bug 36761) "Mark pages as visited" now submits previously established filter options
* (bug 32643) action=purge with forcelinkupdate no longer crashes when ratelimit is reached
* The paraminfo module now also contains result properties for most modules
+* (bug 32348) Allow descending order for list=alllinks
+* (bug 31777) Upload unknown error ``fileexists-forbidden''
=== Languages updated in 1.20 ===
regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
+* Emilian (egl) added.
* Tornedalen Finnish (fit) added.
* Mizo (lus) added.
* Santali (sat) added.