X-Git-Url: https://git.cyclocoop.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;ds=sidebyside;f=RELEASE-NOTES;h=103b8f4b8738fefbd473c400ec049ac57553fcd2;hb=d136cf390f109095b0a10b4fc33f50d5e46ce7d9;hp=8ad826ba9d1a672e57300ada8f3b9c0756950dbc;hpb=d5c8171a3157337557bc54ecb730d7dd35778ca3;p=lhc%2Fweb%2Fwiklou.git diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES index 8ad826ba9d..103b8f4b87 100644 --- a/RELEASE-NOTES +++ b/RELEASE-NOTES @@ -1,55 +1,171 @@ = MediaWiki release notes = -== Version 1.3.0beta1, 2004-05-21 == - -**** THIS IS A BETA AND MAY STUNT YOUR GROWTH OR KILL YOUR PETS **** - -Look & layout: -* New default layout 'MonoBook' -* Print stylesheet now built-in to every page -* More or less correct XHTML 1.0 (served as text/html by default) - -Wiki features: -* Image captions can now include links and other basic formatting -* Image bounding box can be specified instead of width, e.g. as - 100x100px, making the image not wider than 100px and not higher - than 100px, keeping aspect ratio. -* Templates have been expanded with parameters, and separated from - the MediaWiki: localization scheme. -* Categories more or less work - -Editing: -* Automatic merging of edit conflicts that don't directly interfere -* Edit summaries can now include basic formatting and links - -Metadata and output: -* Linked Creative Commons copyright metadata (optional) -* RSS 2.0 feeds for Recent Changes, New Pages - -Optional modules: -* WikiHiero hieroglyphic module can be added (separate download) -* Timeline module can be added (separate download). - Requires ploticus. -* TeX now has an experimental MathML output mode (incomplete) - -Installation and upgrading: -* The old install.php and update.php have been removed. In-place - installation introduced in 1.2 is now the standard installation - and upgrade method, see INSTALL for directions. - -Database: -* The links table has been changed to use a cur_id for l_from. - The link tables must be converted on upgrade, which may entail - some downtime. - -Code and compatibility: -* Should now run clean with error reporting set to E_ALL. -* register_globals hack from 1.2 has been replaced with safer code -* Bundled PHPTAL 0.7.0 from http://phptal.sourceforge.net/ - (with some patches) -* Most image-related code moved to Image.php -* More fixes for PHP 4.1.2 (thanks to Asheesh Laroia) -* URL encoding fix for anchors +Security reminder: MediaWiki does not require PHP's register_globals +setting since version 1.2.0. If you have it on, turn it *off* if you can. + +** NOTE TO COMMITTERS: Before 1.5.0 release, rearrange these nicely +** and move 1.4 stuff to HISTORY. + +== MediaWiki 1.5 == + +New exciting things! Need further work and testing... +* user groups/permissions scheme +* e-mail change notifications +* 'live preview' reduces preview reload burden on supported browsers +* Schema reworking: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposed_Database_Schema_Changes/October_2004 +* New WikiSyntax: -- turns into — or – depending on context +* (bug 15) Allow editors to view diff of their change before actually submitting an edit +* (bug 190) Hide your own edits on the watchlist +* (bug 1015) support for the full wikisyntax in captions. +* (bug 1662) A new magicword, {{CURRENTMONTHABBREV}} returns the abbreviation of the current month +* (bug 1668) 'Date format' supported for other languages than English, see: + http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2005-March/028364.html +* (bug 1739) A new magicword, {{REVISIONID}} give you the article or diff database + revision id, useful for proper citation. +* It's now possible to invert the namespace selection at Special:Allpages and Special:Contributions +* ...and more! + +Need to merge: +* stuff + + +== Version Enotif+Eauthent EN+EA v2.00/CVS, 14.12.2004 == +written by Thomas Gries, Berlin and Markus Arndt, Munich + +Executive summary for the impatient reader: + +Enotif adds e-mail notification to MediaWiki and sends e-mails +to watching users when a watch-listed page or user_talk page is changed +http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=454 +Visit the complete documentation on http://meta.wikipedia.org/Enotif + +Eauthent is a mechanism to use a temporary one-time password cycle +to check whether the email address a user has entered is a valid one. +http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=866 +Visit the complete documentation on http://meta.wikipedia.org/Eauthent + +The current patch has only been checked for (see DefaultSettings.php): + +- php mail() + ( = not using PEAR:Mail() module --- I do not know anyone who uses that) + $wgSMTP = false; +- MySQL database + ( = not using PostgreSQL --- I do not know anyone who uses that) + $wgDBtype = "mysql"; + $wgSearchType = "MyISAM"; + +- STILL TODO: + NEW (newpageletter) and CORR (minoreditletter) markers needs + corresponding "spacers" + +- table user_newtalk dropped; changes on usertalk pages and their + notifications are now fully handled via existing table watchlist + The user interface and behavious is unchanged to previous version. +- updaters.inc for compatibility with older mediawiki tables: + the conversion script converts existing user_newtalk entries + watchlist table entries + (user_newtalk) id ==> (watchlist) NS_USER_TALK:namefromId(id) timestamp=1 +- minor bug fixes: + updated marker now correctly shown on watchlist page + watching users number display with enhanced RC view + RCUseModStyle +- wfUrlencode() instead of rawurlencode() in enotif mails +- duplicate enotif code moved from UserTalkUpdate.php and + merged into UserMailer.php and using usermailer() solely +- fixed an enotif mail text error for user names with spaces +- fixed missing part for suppressing watching user number + +v1.36: +magic watchlist shows and counts now only the content page, notwithstanding +the content and talk page are stored separately in watchlist. +* bug fixed: rawurlencode for pagetitles in enotif mails +* bug fixed: link to userpages of anonymous user are correct now + +* Enotif v1.34 + bugs fixed regarding missing $oldid parameter + +* v1.33 +* Details: + Implements almost all enotif options as user preferences. + These are only shown on the user preference page, if they are globally + enabled by the corresponding admin option in DefaultSettings.php. + Added admin feature to let enotifs appear to come from the page editor. + This facilitates automatic mail sorting and anti-spam filtering; feature was + originally proposed by Nick Triantos, thank you ! + Page editor's email address is however only shown, if this user enabled + the option "reveal my email address" in user preferences. Otherwise, + the enotifs appear to come from WikiAdmin as usual (tricky to program, + but simply trust the algorithm. or look into UserMailer.php and + UserTalkPage.php). + +* Changes from previous enotif versions +* v1.31 is an improved version with many security and also cosmetic changes + applied after two first reviews by Brion Vibber. v1.31 is basically the same as + the older Enotif v1.30 and v1.22 versions. + + Added UseMod style for recent changes view so that only the most recent + change of any page is listed. The (diff) and (hist) still allow to retrieve the + older versions at users' discretion, but the RC view is much cleaner for + trusted environments such as medium-size companies or family wikis. + +* Enotif v1.30 redesign after review by Brion Vibber 25.10.2003 + +* v1.22 "updated (since my last visit)" also shown for users without stored + email address in preferences, so that they can see, what watched pages + have changed. +* show "updated (since my last visit)" markers in RC, history and watchlist +* Systemvariables to suppress updated marker in all views +* show number of watching users in RC and on bottom of articles in + classic skin and in monobook skin +* Systemvariables in DefaultSettings.php to enable or disable features +* v1.21 now suppresses displaying the marker "updated (since my last visit)" + in recent changes view for the older (already visited) versions of watched + pages - i.e. page versions before the enotif was sent do not bear that + marker any longer. +* enotif mails come with a link to the diff view between current and last + visited version of the watching user. +*database structure is changed automatically when installing via the + recommended way (starting index.php and re-using the old database name). + run php /maintenance/update.php + OR see /maintenance/archives/patch-email-notification.sql and apply the + command + ALTER TABLE watchlist + ADD (wl_notificationtimestamp varchar(14) binary NOT NULL default '0'); + manually to your database, which does not harm the non notification versions + +*adding a page x to the watchlist does automatically add a watch + for the accompanying talk_page talk:x and vice versa; + +== MediaWiki 1.4 BETA == + +[Not everything is 100% working in beta yet, the installer needs fixes still.] + +Major changes from 1.3.x: +* Support for table prefixes for better sharing with other web apps +* (?) PostgreSQL support +* Optional article validation voting features +* 'Recentchanges Patrol' to mark new edits that haven't yet been viewed +* Support for faster C++ diff module (WikiDiff extension) +* More scary link caching modes +* Old manually maintained log pages replaced with searchable Special:Log +* Skins system more modular: templates and CSS are now in /skins/ +* New user preference for limitting the image size for images on image description + pages +* Error pages no more offer edit / talk / watch links (bug #502) +* Allow user to preview article on first edit (bug #530) +* New dark background skin named Amethyst (thanks Sorwena and Sorkhiri) +* [[RFC 1234]] will now make an internal link (bug #479) +* PhpTal skins shown bogus 'What links here' etc on special pages (bug #511) +* Experimental code to manage user and group rights (Special:Userlevels) +* UI language switching +* Adding filter and username exact search match for Special:Listusers (bug #770) +* Special:Listadmins outdated, use Special:Listusers instead (bug #857) +* Traditional/Simplified Chinese conversion +* New tag "" to generate a table of image thumbnails +* Installer die if it can not write LocalSettings.php (bug #733) +* Various special pages no more show the rss/atom feed links (bug #705) +* Support for external authentication plug-ins +* (bug 114) use category backlinks in Special:Recentchangeslinked +* ... and more! === Caveats === @@ -59,279 +175,12 @@ set $wgMimeType = "application/xhtml+xml"; to test for remaining problem cases, but this is not recommended on live sites. (This must be set for MathML to display properly in Mozilla.) +The new 'MonoBook' skin is not compatible with PHP 5 due to bugs in the +underlying PHPTAL library. It will be automatically disabled when running +on PHP5; the older look and feel will be used instead. -== Version 1.2.5, 2004-05-01 == -* Fixed install problem with blank root password -* Fixed Special:Emailuser/Username links -* Fixed main-page edit links on fuzzy search results -* Fixed wikipedia-interwiki.sql -* Fixed install with apache2filter (ugly URLs) -* IP in 'go' search brings up contributions -* Switch from broken & to ? on top-level wiki URL hack - -== Version 1.2.4, 2004-04-13 == - -* Fixed edit toolbar in Mozilla -* Diff links in Contributions for 'top' edits -* Fixed Nostalgia skin drop-down for register_globals off -* Backported optional open proxy blocker -* Backported $wgWhitelistRead -* $wgCapitalLinks option to force full case sensitivity in titles -* Cleaned up error handling when can't talk to database -* Disabled unsafe command-line installer (remove the "die()" call to use) - -== Version 1.2.3, 2004-04-02 == - -* Fixed an in-place install bug with non-root MySQL user -* Fixed history diff checkboxes bug on titles with ampersands -* Fixed printable link bug on special pages with parameters -* Fixed bug that broke IP blocking w/o memcached -* Turns off E_NOTICE warnings if PHP settings have them on - (you can grope in and turn this off if you like to debug) - -== Version 1.2.2, 2004-03-28 == - -* Fixed an upgrade bug introduced in 1.2.1. -* Disabled $wgUseCategoryMagic, which feature is incomplete broken - -== Version 1.2.1, 2004-03-27 == - -Installation, compatibility, security fixlets: -* Detect use of PHP as CGI and disable index.php/Title URLs -* Try to auto-create math tmp & output directories if not present -* Disable Asksql in default install ($wgAllowSysopQueries) -* Better handling of get_magic_quotes_gpc (apostrophe problems) -* French localisation no longer hard-codes "Wikipedia" name - -== Version 1.2.0 == - -New features in 1.2: -* Image resizing/thumbnail generation -* Stricter upload file extension blacklist and whitelist options -* More flexible blocking system; time period may be set -* Handier sysop account management. An account marked "bureaucrat" - may assign sysop access to other accounts via Special:Makesysop. - (The exact details of this may change in the future) -* Support for a squid cache with explicit purging of cached anon pages -* Optional compression of old revision text (requires zlib support) -* Fuzzy title search (experimental, requires memcached) -* Page rendering cache (experimental) -* Editing toolbar to demonstrate wiki syntax to newbies - (off by default in user preferences) -* Support for authenticated SMTP outgoing e-mail (experimental) -* It's now possible to assign sysop accounts from within the wiki. - An account with this ability must be labeled with the "bureaucrat" - privilege, such as the 'Developer' account created by the install. - -Fixes and tweaks: -* Now works with register_globals off! -* Works with short tags disabled. -* Should work out of the box on MySQL 3.2.x again. On 4.x set - $wgEnablePersistentLC = true; to turn on the link cache table - for a slight rendering speed boost. -* rebuildMessages.php can now selectively update new messages, or - overwrite everything. -* Various bug fixes. -* Other stuff we forgot. -* Documentation more out of date than ever before! - -=== Behavior changes === - -* wiki.phtml and redirect.phtml are now renamed to index.php and redirect.php - The old names are provided too for compatibility, but make sure they don't - conflict if you've been putting other files in your wiki. -* Uploaded filenames are more strictly checked than before. See bits in - DefaultSettings.php to tweak this behavior to your needs. -* Database messages are now enabled by default, so the interface messages can - be tweaked through the wiki with a sysop account. Disable this if you - don't want the performance hit. - -=== Database changes === - -An index was added to recentchanges table to speed up Newpages -(patch-rc-newindex.sql for manual updaters). - -Expiration date field has been added to ipblocks table -(patch-ipb_expiry.sql for manual updaters). - - -== Version 1.1.0, 2003-12-08 == - -This is the new production release. Any following 1.1.x releases are expected -to contain only bug fixes; developments of new features will go towards a 1.2.0 -release. - -New features in 1.1: -* New wiki table syntax: - http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_User%27s_Guide:_Using_tables -* User-editable interface messages: - http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_namespace -* XML-wrapped page source export with optional history: - http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML_import_and_export - (There is not yet an import function!) -* "Magic words" - -Fixes and tweaks: -* linkscc table caches link data for rendering; faster rebuildlinks.php -* Numerous bugs in Cologne Blue skin fixed -* Login gives warning about missing cookies -* Block log, protection log added; deletion log now includes undeletions -* Deletion & upload logs now escape comment text properly -* Problems with segments in section titles etc mitigated -* Contributions offset and minor edit bugs fixed -* Whatlinkshere now sorted alphabetically -* Various exciting new profiling options. -* Debug log is off by default. -* Various small bugs fixed. - -Internal changes: -* wfQuery has had a second parameter inserted, DB_READ or DB_WRITE. This value - is not actually used so far. -* Partial code for categories and Smarty template-based skins is in the tree - but disabled. -* Parts of Article.php have been moved to EditPage.php and ImagePage.php. - -New translations: -* fi - Finnish -* ia - Interlingua -* no - Norwegian -* sk - Slovak -* ta - Tamil - -=== Database changes === - -"linkscc" table added. If upgrading manually (rather than with update.php), -run maintenance/archives/patch-linkscc.sql to create the table. - -Older releases were dated snapshots from the old 'stable' branch: - -== mediawiki-20031118 == - -* Image deletion fixed. -* Deletion of image old revisions now restricted to sysops - (this is an irreversible action and not well logged) -* Fixed maintenance scripts broken by last release's security fix -* Many errors in rebuildlinks script fixed. - -== mediawiki-20031117 == - -* SECURITY FIX: stricter checking of include path -* Fixed user contributions next/prev bug -* Login cookies now have the database name prefixed to allow wikis - to coexist in the same domain. This will invalidate any old saved - password cookies. -* Update cache timestamp when talk pages are created -* Saving the login form in Mozilla no longer blanks password in prefs. -* Check existence of source page before performing a move. -* Detect invalid titles in Special:Allpages -* Q-encode headers on outgoing inter-user e-mail -* Updates to some translations. -* Added table of contents border/bg to Cologne Blue, Nostalgia skins -* Protected pages no longer appear unprotected when visited via redirect -* Swapped old Wikipedia logo for the MediaWiki sunflower logo -* install.php, update.php print warning on old PHP versions, - added compatibility functions that might or might not help - -No database changes since 20031107; upgrading should be clean. - -== mediawiki-20031107 == - -* Fixed various bugs! -* Some speed improvements from tweaks to the table indexes -* Limited support for memcached (see below) -* New translations (see below) -* Interwiki link data now kept in database for flexibility -* Friendlier read-only source view if asked to edit a page when - the db is locked or the page is protected. -* Normal IP blocks auto-expire after 24 hours -* Optional support for blocking usernames -* Uploads disabled by default (see below) - - -=== Security note === - -Uploads are now disabled by default. If you've set up a secure configuration -you can reenable uploads by putting: - - $wgDisableUploads = false; - -into LocalSettings.php. - -Earlier versions of MediaWiki included a bug that potentially allows logged- -in users to delete arbitrary files in directories writable by the web server -user by manually feeding false form data; this is now fixed. - -As a reminder, disable PHP script execution in the upload directory! -You may also wish to serve HTML pages as plaintext to prevent cookie- -stealing JavaScript attacks. Example Apache config fragment: - - - # Ignore .htaccess files - AllowOverride None - - # Serve HTML as plaintext - AddType text/plain .html .htm .shtml - - # Don't run arbitrary PHP code. - php_admin_flag engine off - - # If you've other scripting languages, disable them too. - - - -=== Database updates === - -If you're using update.php, the necessary database changes should -be made automatically. - -To manually upgrade your database from the 2003-08-29 release, run the -following SQL scripts from the maintenance subdirectory: - - archives/patch-ipblocks.sql - archives/patch-interwiki.sql - archives/patch-indexes.sql - interwiki.sql - -To copy in the Wikipedia language-prefix interwikis as well, add: - - wikipedia-interwiki.sql - - -=== Translations === - -New interface localization files are included for: - fy Frisian - ro Romanian - sl Slovene - sq Albanian - sr Serbian - - -=== Memcached === - -Memcached is a distributed cache system. See http://www.danga.com/memcached/ -MediaWiki can optionally use memcached to store some data between calls -to reduce load on the database. Currently this is limited to user and -talk page notification data, interwiki prefix/URL matches, and the -UTF-8 conversion tables. - -MediaWiki includes version 1.0.10 of the (GPL'd) PHP memcached client by -Ryan Gilfether; if memcached is disabled it acts as a dummy object with -minimal overhead. - -To use memcached you'll need PHP installed with sockets support (this is not -in the default configure options). See docs/memcached for some more details. - -Additionally, you can store login session data in memcached instead of the -local filesystem, which can help to enable load-balancing by letting login -sessions transparently work on multiple front-end web servers. (The primary -other issue is with uploads, which requires some care in handling.) - -To enable this, set $wgSessionsInMemcached = true; and set $wgCookieDomain -appropriately if exposing multiple hostnames. This system is new and may be -volatile; login sessions will fail dramatically if memcached is unavailable -when this option is turned on. +For notes on 1.3.x and older releases, see HISTORY. === Online documentation === @@ -340,7 +189,7 @@ Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is currently being built up on Meta-Wikipedia, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation License: - http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_User%27s_Guide + http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents === Mailing list === @@ -351,19 +200,6 @@ wikitech-l list: http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l -=== UseModWiki import script === - -A stripped-down UseModWiki import script is available in the maintenance -subdirectory. It is incomplete and requires a lot of manual clean-up, but -does function for the brave and pure of heart. - - -=== Test suite removed === - -The unmaintained Java-based test suite has been removed from the tarball -release. If you really want it you can check it out from CVS. - - -== mediawiki-20030829 == +=== IRC help === -First release under MediaWiki name. +There's usually someone online in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net