X-Git-Url: https://git.cyclocoop.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=HISTORY;h=5e559b949edfd4676b3f41ef6ad2a63f2ad3e024;hb=9463b17980147e7e99a6488d6111cb9d1a52f951;hp=302f9b0f87943516475cb7b0b7e60da56f5038ec;hpb=e0e615d635468486b5746d75b573c55cd0c3ab91;p=lhc%2Fweb%2Fwiklou.git diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY index 302f9b0f87..5e559b949e 100644 --- a/HISTORY +++ b/HISTORY @@ -1,10 +1,2331 @@ -Change notes from older releases. For current info see RELEASE-NOTES. +Change notes from older releases. For current info see RELEASE-NOTES. + +== MediaWiki 1.12 == + +This is the Winter 2007 quarterly release. + +MediaWiki is now using a "continuous integration" development model with +quarterly snapshot releases. The latest development code is always kept +"ready to run", and in fact runs our own sites on Wikipedia. + +Release branches will continue to receive security updates for about a year +from first release, but nonessential bugfixes and feature developments +will be made on the development trunk and appear in the next quarterly release. + +Those wishing to use the latest code instead of a branch release can obtain +it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN + +=== 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 +* MediaWiki now checks if serialized files are out of date.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 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. + +== Parser changes in 1.12 == + +For help with migration to the MediaWiki 1.12 parser, please visit: + +http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Migration_to_the_new_preprocessor + +The parser pass order has changed from + + * Extension tag strip and render + * HTML normalisation and security + * Template expansion + * Main section... + +to + + * Template and extension tag parse to intermediate representation + * Template expansion and extension rendering + * HTML normalisation and security + * Main section... + +The main effect of this for the user is that the rules for uncovered syntax +have changed. + +Uncovered main-pass syntax, such as HTML tags, are now generally valid, whereas +previously in some cases they were escaped. For example, you could have "<ta" in +one template, and "ble>" in another template, and put them together to make a +valid <table> tag. Previously the result would have been "<table>". + +Uncovered preprocessor syntax is generally not recognised. For example, if you +have "{{a" in Template:A and "b}}" in Template:B, then "{{a}}{{b}}" will be +converted to a literal "{{ab}}" rather than the contents of Template:Ab. This +was the case previously in HTML output mode, and is now uniformly the case in +the other modes as well. HTML-style comments uncovered by template expansion +will not be recognised by the preprocessor and hence will not prevent template +expansion within them, but they will be stripped by the following HTML security +pass. + +Bug 5678 has been fixed. This has a number of user-visible effects related to +the removal of this double-parse. Please see the wiki page for examples. + +Message transformation mode has been removed, and replaced with "preprocess" +mode. This means that some MediaWiki namespace messages may need to be updated, +especially ones which took advantage of the terribly counterintuitive behaviour +of the former message mode. + +The header identification routines for section edit and for numbering section +edit links have been merged. This removes a significant failure mode and fixes a +whole category of bugs (tracked by bug #4899). Wikitext headings uncovered by +template expansion will still be rendered into a heading tag, and will get an +entry in the TOC, but will not have a section edit link. HTML-style headings +will also not have a section edit link. Valid wikitext headings present in the +template source text will get a template section edit link. This is a major +break from previous behaviour, but I believe the effects are almost entirely +beneficial. + +The main motivation for making these changes was performance. The new two-pass +preprocessor can skip "dead branches" in template expansion, such as unfollowed +#switch cases and unused defaults for template arguments. This provides a +significant performance improvement in template-heavy test cases taken from +Wikipedia. Parser function hooks can participate in this performance improvement +by using the new SFH_OBJECT_ARGS flag during registration. + +The pre-expand include size limit has been removed, since there's no efficient +way to calculate such a figure, and it would now be meaningless for performance +anyway. The "preprocessor node count" takes its place, with a generous default +limit. + +The context in which XML-style extension tags are called has changed, so +extensions which make use of the parser state may need compatibility changes. + +The new preprocessor syntax has been documented in Backus-Naur Form at: + +http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Preprocessor_ABNF + +The ExpandTemplates extension now has the ability to generate an XML parse +tree from wikitext source. This parse tree corresponds closely to the grammar +documented on that page. + +=== API changes in 1.12 === + +Full API documentation is available at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API + +* (bug 11275) Enable descending sort in categorymembers +* (bug 11308) Allow the API to output the image metadata +* (bug 11296) Temporary fix for escaping of ampersands inside links in + pretty-printed + help document. +* (bug 11405) Expand templates implementation in the API +* (bug 11218) Add option to feedwatchlist to display multiple revisions for each + page. +* (bug 11404) Provide name of exception caught in error code field of internal + api error messages. +* (bug 11534) rvendid doesn't work +* Fixed rvlimit of the revisions query to only enforce the lower query limit if + revision content is requested. +* Include svn revision number (if install is checked-out from svn) in siteinfo + query. +* (bug 11173) Allow limited wikicode rendering via api.php +* (bug 11572) API should provide interface for expanding templates +* (bug 11569) Login should return the cookie prefix +* (bug 11632) Breaking change: Specify the type of a change in the recentchanges + list as 'edit', 'new', 'log' instead of 0, 1, 2, respectively. +* Compatibility fix for PHP 5.0.x. +* Add rctype parameter to list=recentchanges that filters by type +* Add apprtype and apprlevel parameters to filter list=allpages by protection + types and levels +* Add apdir parameter to enable listing all pages from Z to A +* (bug 11721) Use a different title for results than for the help page. +* (bug 11562) Added a user_registration parameter/field to the list=allusers + query. +* (bug 11588) Preserve document structure for empty dataset in backlinks query. +* Outputting list of all user preferences rather than having to request them by + name +* (bug 11206) api.php should honor maxlag +* Make prop=info check for restrictions in the old format too. +* Add apihighlimits permission, default for sysops and bots +* Add limit=max to use maximal limit +* Add action=parse to render parser output. Use it instead of action=render + which has been removed +* Add rvtoken=rollback to prop=revisions +* Add meta=allmessages to get messages from site's messages cache. +* Use bold and italics highlighting only in API help +* Added action={block,delete,move,protect,rollback,unblock,undelete} and + list={blocks,deletedrevs} +* Fixed sessionid attribute in action=login +* Standardized limits. Revisions and Deletedrevisions formerly using + 200 / 10000, now 500 / 5000, in line with other modules. +* Added list=allcategories module +* (bug 12321) API list=blocks reveals private data +* Fix output of wfSajaxSearch +* (bug 12413) meta=userinfo missing <query> tag +* Add list of sections to action=parse output +* Added action=logout +* Added cascade flag to prop=info&inprop=protections +* Added wlshow parameter to list=watchlist, similar to rcshow + (list=recentchanges) +* Added support for image thumbnailing to prop=imageinfo +* action={login,block,delete,move,protect,rollback,unblock,undelete} now must be + POSTed +* prop=imageinfo interface changed: iihistory replaced by iilimit, iistart and + iiend parameters +* Added amlang parameter to meta=allmessages +* Added apfilterlanglinks parameter to list=allpages, replacing + query.php?what=nolanglinks +* (bug 12718) Added action=paraminfo module that provides information about API + modules and their parameters +* Added iiurlwidth and iiurlheight parameters to prop=imageinfo +* Added format=txt and format=dbg, imported from query.php +* Added uiprop=editcount to meta=userinfo +* Added list=users which fetches user information +* Added list=random which fetches a list of random pages +* Added page parameter to action=parse to facilitate parsing of existing pages +* Added uiprop=ratelimits to meta=userinfo +* Added siprop=namespacealiases to meta=siteinfo +* Made multiple values for ucuser possible in list=usercontribs +* (bug 12944) Added cmstart and cmend parameters to list=categorymembers +* Allow queries to have a where range that does not match the range field + +== MediaWiki 1.11 == + +This is the Summer 2007 branch release of MediaWiki. + +MediaWiki is now using a "continuous integration" development model with +quarterly snapshot releases. The latest development code is always kept +"ready to run", and in fact runs our own sites on Wikipedia. + +Release branches will continue to receive security updates for about a year +from first release, but nonessential bugfixes and feature developments +will be made on the development trunk and appear in the next quarterly release. + +Those wishing to use the latest code instead of a branch release can obtain +it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN + +== Configuration changes since 1.10 == + +* $wgThumbUpright - Adjust width of upright images when parameter 'upright' is + used +* $wgAddGroups, $wgRemoveGroups - Finer control over who can assign which + usergroups +* $wgEnotifImpersonal, $wgEnotifUseJobQ - Bulk mail options for large sites +* $wgShowHostnames - Expose server host names through the API and HTML comments +* $wgSaveDeletedFiles has been removed, the feature is now enabled unconditionally + +== New features since 1.10 == + +* (bug 8868) Separate "blocked" message for autoblocks +* Adding expiry of block to block messages +* Links to redirect pages in categories are wrapped in + <span class="redirect-in-category"></span> +* Introduced 'ImageOpenShowImageInlineBefore' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for + more information +* (bug 9628) Show warnings about slave lag on Special:Contributions, + Special:Watchlist +* (bug 8818) Expose "wpDestFile" as parameter $1 to "uploaddisabledtext" +* Introducing new image keyword 'upright' and corresponding variable + $wgThumbUpright. This allows better proportional view of upright images + related to landscape images on a page without nailing the width of upright + images to a fix value which makes views for anon unproportional and user + preferences useless +* (bug 6072) Introducing 'border' keyword to the [[Image:]] syntax +* Introducing 'frameless' keyword to [[Image:]] syntax which respects the + user preferences for image width like 'thumb' but without a frame. +* (bug 7960) Link to "what links here" for each "what links here" entry +* Added support for configuration of an arbitrary number of commons-style + file repositories. +* Added a Content-Disposition header to thumb.php output +* Improved thumb.php error handling +* Display file history on local image description pages of shared images +* Added $wgArticleRobotPolicies +* (bug 10076) Additional parameter $7 added to MediaWiki:Blockedtext + containing, the ip, ip range, or username whose block is affecting the +* (bug 7691) Show relevant lines from the deletion log when re-creating a + previously deleted article +* Added variables 'wgRestrictionEdit' and 'wgRestrictionMove' for JS to header +* (bug 9898) Allow viewing all namespaces in Special:Newpages +* (bug 10139) Introduce 'EditSectionLink' and 'EditSectionLinkForOther' hooks; + see docs/hooks.txt for details +* (bug 9769) Provide "watch this page" toggle on protection form +* (bug 9886) Provide clear example "stub link" in Special:Preferences +* (bug 10055) Populate email address and real name properties of User objects + passed to the 'AbortNewAccount' hook +* Show result of Special:Booksources in wiki content language always, it's + normally better maintained than the generic list from the standard message + files +* (bug 7997) Allow users to be blocked from using Special:Emailuser +* (bug 8989) Blacklist 'mhtml' and 'mht' files from upload +* (bug 8760) Allow wiki links in "protectexpiry" message +* (bug 5908) Add "DEFAULTSORTKEY" and "DEFAULTCATEGORYSORT" aliases for + "DEFAULTSORT" magic word +* (bug 10181) Support the XCache object caching mechanism +* (bug 9058) Introduce '--aconf' option for all maintenance scripts, to provide + a path to the AdminSettings.php file +* (bug 8781) Remind users to check file permissions for LocalSettings.php + post-installation +* Use shared.css for all skins and oldshared.css in place of common.css for + pre-Monobook skins. As always, modifications should go in-wiki to MediaWiki: + Common.css and MediaWiki:Monobook.css. +* (bug 8869) Introduce Special:Uncategorizedtemplates +* (bug 8734) Different log message when article protection level is changed +* (bug 8458, 10338) Limit custom signature length to $wgMaxSigChars Unicode + characters +* (bug 10096) Added an ability to query interwiki map table +* On reupload, add a null revision to the image description page +* Group log output by date +* Kurdish interface latin/arabic writing system with transliteration +* Support wiki text in all query page headers +* Add 'Orphanedpages' as an alias to Special:Lonelypages +* (bug 9328) Use "revision-info-current" message in place of "revision-info" + when viewing the current revision of a page, if available +* (bug 8890) Enable wiki text for "license" message +* Throw a showstopper exception when a hook function fails to return a value. + Forgetting to give a 'true' return value is a very common error which tends + to cause hard-to-track-down interactions between extensions. +* Use $wgJobClasses to determine the correct Job to instantiate for a particular + queued task; allows extensions to introduce custom jobs +* (bug 10326) AJAX-based page watching and unwatching has been cleaned up and + enabled by default. +* Added option to install to MyISAM +* (bug 9250) Remove hardcoded minimum image name length of three characters +* Fixed DISPLAYTITLE behaviour to reject titles which don't normalise to the + same title as the current page, and enabled per default +* Wrap site CSS and JavaScript in a <pre> tag, like user JS/CSS +* (bug 10196) Add classes and dir="ltr" to the <pre>s on CSS and JS pages (new + classes: mw-code, mw-css, mw-js) +* (bug 6711) Add $wgAddGroups and $wgRemoveGroups to allow finer control over + usergroup assignment. +* Introduce 'UserEffectiveGroups' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information +* (bug 10387) Detect and handle '.php5' extension environments at install time +* Introduce 'ShowRawCssJs' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information +* (bug 10404) Show rights log for the selected user in Special:Userrights +* New javascript for upload page that will show a warning if a file with the + "destination filename" already exists. +* Add 'editsection-brackets' message to allow localization (or removal) of the + brackets in the "[edit]" link for sections +* (bug 10437) Move texvc styling to shared.css +* Introduce "raw editing" mode for the watchlist, to allow bulk additions, + removals, and convenient exporting of watchlist contents +* Show "undo" links in page histories +* Option to jump to specified time period in user contributions +* Improved feedback on "rollback success" page +* Show distinct 'namespaceprotected' message to users when namespace protection + prevents page editing +* (bug 9936) Per-edit suppression of preview-on-first edit with "preview=no" +* Allow showing a one-off preview on first edit with "preview=yes" +* (bug 9151) Remove timed redirects on "Return to X" pages for accessibility. +* Link to user logs in toolbox when viewing a user page +* (bug 10508) Allow HTML attributes on <gallery> +* (bug 1962) Allow HTML attributes on <math> +* (bug 10530) Introduce optional "sp-contributions-explain" message for + additional explanation in Special:Contributions +* (bug 10520) Preview licences during upload via AJAX (toggle with + $wgAjaxLicensePreview) +* New Parser::setTransparentTagHook for parser extension and template + compatibility +* Introduced 'ContributionsToolLinks' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more + information +* Add a message if category is empty +* Add CSS compatibility for Opera 9.5 +* Remove largely untested handheld stylesheet, which was causing more trouble + than good. Proper handheld support will be added at a future date. For now, + display should be acceptable either with CSS turned off or when using a so- + phisticated handheld browser. +* (bug 3173) Option to offer exported pages as a download, rather than displaying + inline, as in most browsers +* Pass the user as an argument to 'isValidPassword' hook callbacks; see + docs/hooks.txt for more information +* Introduce 'UserGetRights' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information +* (bug 9595) Pass new Revision to the 'ArticleInsertComplete' and + 'ArticleSaveComplete' hooks; see docs/hooks.txt for more information +* (bug 9575) Accept upload description from GET parameters +* Skip the difference engine cache when 'action=purge' is used while requesting + a difference page, to allow refreshing the cache in case of errors +* (bug 10701) Link to Special:Listusers in default Special:Statistics messages +* Improved file history presentation +* (bug 10739) Users can now enter comments when reverting files +* Improved handling of permissions errors +* (bug 10793) "Mark patrolled" links will now be shown for users with + patrol permissions on all eligible diff pages +* (bug 10655) Show standard tool links for blocked users in block log messages +* Show standard tool links for blocked users in Special:Ipblocklist +* Miscellaneous aesthetic improvements to Special:Ipblocklist +* (bug 10826) Added link trail with Cyrillic characters for Mongolian language +* (bug 10859) Introduce 'UserGetImplicitGroups' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for + more information +* (bug 10832) Include user information when viewing a deleted revision +* (bug 10872) Fall back to sane defaults when generating protection selector + labels for custom restriction levels +* Show edit count in user preferences +* Improved support for audio/video extensions +* (bug 10937) Distinguish overwritten files in upload log +* Introduce 'ArticleUpdateBeforeRedirect' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more + information +* Confirmation is now required when deleting old versions of files +* (bug 7535) Users can now enter comments when deleting old versions of files +* (bug 11001) Submit Special:Newpages as a GET, rather than a POST request +* The <strong></strong> around links to watched pages in change lists now + has a class - "mw-watched" +* (bug 9002) Provide a "view/restore deleted edits" link on Special:Upload + when a destination filename is provided that corresponds with previous + deleted files +* Make the "invalid special page" message clearer +* Add accesskey 's' and tooltip to 'upload file' button at Special:Upload +* Introduced 'SkinAfterBottomScripts' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for + more information +* (bug 11095) Honour "preview on first edit" preference when preloading + text for a non-existent page +* (bug 11022) Use a more accurate page title for Special:Whatlinkshere and + Special:Recentchangeslinked +* Add link to user contributions in normal watchlist edit mode +* (bug 9426) Add 'newsectionheaderdefaultlevel' message to allow + modification of the heading formatting for new sections when section=new + argument is supplied +* (bug 10836) Add 'newsectionsummary' message to allow modification of the + text that prefixes a new section link in Recent Changes + +== Bugfixes since 1.10 == + +* (bug 9712) Use Arabic comma in date/time formats for Arabic and Farsi +* (bug 9670) Follow redirects when render edit section links to transcluded + templates. +* (bug 6204) Fix incorrect unindentation with $wgMaxTocLevel +* (bug 3431) Suppress "next page" link in Special:Search at end of results +* Don't show unblock form if the user doesn't have permission to use it + (cosmetic change, no vulnerabilities existed) +* Subtitle success message when unblocking a block ID instead of a pseudo link + like [[User:#123|#123]] +* Use the standard HTTP fetch functions when retrieving remote wiki pages + through transwiki, so we can take advantage of cURL goodies if available +* Disable user JavaScript on Special:Userlogin, Special:Resetpass and + Special:Preferences, to avoid a compromised script sniffing passwords, etc. +* (bug 9854, 3770) Clip overflow text in gallery boxes for visual cleanliness + instead of letting it flow outside the box or trigger ugly scroll bars. +* Tooltips for print version and permalink +* Links to the MediaWiki namespace for system messages having their default + values are no longer shown as nonexistent (e.g., in red) +* Special:Ipblocklist differentiates between empty list and no search results. +* (bug 5375) profiling does not respect read-only mode. +* (bug 7070) monobook/user.gif has antialias artifacts +* (bug 9123) Safer way when applying $wgLocalTZoffset +* (bug 9896) Documentation for $wgSquidServers and X-FORWARDED-FOR +* (bug 9417) Uploading new versions of images when using Postgres no longer + throws warnings. +* (bug 9908) Using tsearch2 with Postgres 8.1 no longer gives an error. +* (bug 1438) Fix for diff table layout on very wide lines. + Diff style rules have been broken out to common/diff.css, + and the dupes removed from the default skin files. + Skins can still override the default rules. +* (bug 1229) Balance columns in diff display evenly +* Right-align diff line numbers in RTL language display +* (bug 9332) Fix instructions in tests/README +* (bug 9813) Reject usernames containing '#' to avoid silent truncation + of fragments during the normalisation process +* (bug 7989) RSS feeds content now use black text when using white background. +* (bug 9971) Typo in a french language message. +* (bug 9973) Changed size was shown in advanced recentchanges collapsible items + with $wgRCShowChangedSized = false. +* Fix PHP strict standards warning in enhanced recent changes. +* (bug 5850) Added hexadecimal html entities comments for $digitTransformTable + entries. +* (bug 7432) Change language name for Aromanian (roa-rup) +* (bug 908) Unexistent special pages now generate a red link. +* (bug 7899) Added \hline and \vline to the list of allowed TeX commands +* (bug 7993) support mathematical symbol classes +* (bug 10007) Allow Block IP to work with Postgrs again. +* Add Google Wireless Transcoder to the Unicode editing blacklist +* (bug 10083) Fix for Special:Version breakage on PHP 5.2 with some hooks +* (bug 3624) TeX: \ker, \hom, \arg, \dim treated like \sin & \cos +* (bug 10132, 10134) Restore back-compatibility Image::imageUrl() function +* (bug 10113) Fix double-click for view source on protected pages +* (bug 10117) Special:Wantedpages doesn't handle invalid titles in result + set [now prints out a warning] +* (bug 10118) Introduced Special:Mostlinkedtemplates, report which lists + templates with a high number of inclusion links +* (bug 10104) Fixed Database::getLag() for PostgreSQL and Oracle +* (bug 9820) session.save_path check no longer halts installation, but + warns of possible bad values +* (bug 9978) Fixed session.save_path validation when using extended + configuration format, e.g. "5;/tmp" +* Don't generate a diff link in the patrol log if the page doesn't exist +* (bug 10067) Translations for former skins removed from message files +* (bug 9993) Force $wgShowExceptionDetails on during installation +* (bug 9980) Validate administrator username and password during + installation +* (bug 9383) Don't set a default value for BLOB column in rc-deleted + database patch +* (bug 10149) Don't show full template list on section-0 edit +* (bug 9909) Ensure access to binary fields in the math table use encodeBlob() + and decodeBlob() +* (bug 6743) Don't link broken image links to the upload form when uploads + are disabled +* (bug 9679) Improve documentation for $wgSiteNotice +* (bug 10215) Show custom editing introduction when editing existing pages +* (bug 10223) Fix edit link in noarticletext localizations for fr, oc +* (bug 10247) Fix IP address regex to avoid false positive IPv6 matches +* (bug 9948) Workaround for diff regression with old Mozilla versions +* (bug 10265) Fix regression in category image gallery paging +* (bug 8577) Fix some weird misapplications of time zones. + {{CURRENT*}} functions now consistently use UTC as intended, while + {{LOCAL*}} functions return local time per server config or $wgLocaltimezone. + Signature dates for Japanese and other languages including weekday now show + the correct day to match the rest of the time in local time. +* Escape the output of magic variables that return page name or part of it +* (bug 10309) Initialise parser state properly in extractSections(), fixes + some cases where section edits broke because tags were improperly stripped +* Avoid PHP notice errors when doing HTTP proxy purges for an empty list +* As intended, *skip* the HTTP proxy purges when doing HTCP purges +* (bug 9696) Fix handling of brace transformations in "pagemovedtext" +* (bug 10325) Fix regression in form action on Special:Listusers +* Fixed installation on MyISAM or old InnoDB with charset=utf8, was giving + overlong key errors. +* Fixed zero-padding issues with MySQL 5 binary schema +* (bug 10344) Don't follow a redirect after changing its protection level +* (bug 10333) Correct date format in Slovenian +* (bug 10160) Show error message for unknown namespace on Special:Allpages and + Special:Prefixindex; making forms prettier for RTL wikis. +* (bug 10334) Replace normal spaces before percent (%) signs with non-breaking + spaces +* (bug 10372) namespaceDupes.php no longer ignores namespace aliases +* (bug 10198) namespaceDupes.php no longer ignores interwiki prefixes +* namespaceDupes.php should work better for initial-lowercase wikis +* (bug 10377) "Permanent links" to revisions still work if the page is moved + and the redirect deleted +* (bug 7071) Properly handle an 'oldid' passed to view or edit that doesn't + match the given title. Fixes inconsistencies with talk, history, edit links. +* (bug 10397) Fix AJAX watch error fallback when we receive a bogus result +* (bug 10396) Fix AJAX error when $wgScriptPath/index.php is not valid; + using $wgScript now included in JS info +* Use native XMLHttpRequest class in preference to ActiveX on IE 7; this + avoids the "ActiveX "Do you want to allow ActiveX?" prompt when something + security settings are cranked this way and AJAX-y gets used. +* Delay AJAX watch initialization until click so IE 6 with ugly security + settings doesn't prompt you until you use the link. +* (bug 10401) Provide non-redirecting link to original title in Special:Movepage +* Fix broken handling of log views for page titles consisting of one + or more zeros, e.g. "0", "00" etc. +* Fix read permission check for special pages with subpage parameters, e.g. + Special:Confirmemail +* Fix read permission check for unreadable page titles which are numerically + equivalent to a whitelisted title +* '?>' closing tag removed from all files to help avoid problems with extraneous + whitespace (broken XML feeds, etc.) +* Don't use garbled parser cache output when viewing custom CSS or JavaScript + pages +* (bug 10406) Fix Special:Listusers filter form for non-ASCII localizations +* Fix empty message checks for message names containing & + This corrects some odd behavior with sidebar items and custom namespaces + containing ampersands. +* (bug 10375) Change thousands separator character to   for Latin (la) +* (bug 10477) Fix AJAX watch for Farsi on Firefox: JavaScript encoding tweak +* (bug 10496) Fix broken DISTINCT option logic in database backend +* Fix CSS media declaration for "screen, projection"; was causing some + validation issues +* (bug 10495) $wgMemcachedDebug set twice in includes/DefaultSettings.php +* (bug 10316) Prevent inconsistent cached skin settings in gen=js by setting + the intended skin directly in the URL. +* (bug 9903) Don't mark redirects in categories as stubs +* (bug 6965) Cannot include "Template:R" with {{R}} (magic word conflict) +* Padding parser functions now work with strings like '0' that evaluate to false +* (bug 10332) Title->userCan( 'edit' ) may return false positive +* Fix bug with <nowiki> in front of links for wikis where linkPrefixExtension is true +* (bug 10552) Suppress rollback link in history for single-revision pages +* (bug 10538) Gracefully handle invalid input on move success page +* Fix for Esperanto double-x-encoding in move success page +* (bug 10526) Fix toolbar/insertTags behavior for IE 6/7 and Opera (8+) + Now matches the selection behavior on Mozilla / Safari. + Patch by Alex Smotrov. +* Don't show non-functional toolbar buttons on Opera 7 anymore +* (bug 9151) Fix relative subpage links with section fragments +* (bug 10560) Adding a space between category letter heading and "continues" +* (bug 4650) Keep impossibly large/small counts off Special:Statistics +* (bug 10608) PHP notice when installing with PostgreSQL +* (bug 10615) Fix for transwiki import when CURL not available +* (bug 8054) Return search page for empty search requests with ugly URLs +* (bug 10572) Force refresh after clearing visitation timestamps on watchlist +* (bug 10631) Warn when illegal characters are removed from filename at upload +* Fix several JavaScript bugs under MSIE 5/Macintosh +* (bug 10591) Use Arabic numerals (0,1,2...) for the Malayam language +* (bug 10642) Fix shift-click checkbox behavior for Opera 9.0+ and 6.0 +* Work around Safari bug with pages ending in ".gz" or ".tgz" +* Removed obsolete maintenance/changeuser.sql script; use RenameUser extension +* (bug 2735) "Preview" shown in title bar for action=submit on special pages +* Removed "restore" links from the deletion log embedded in Special:Undelete +* Improved error reporting and robustness for file delete/undelete. +* Improved speed of file delete by storing the SHA-1 hash in image/oldimage +* Fixed leading zero in base 36 SHA-1 hash +* Protection form no longer produces JavaScript errors +* (bug 10741) File histories show "delete" links for non-sysops +* (bug 10744) Treat "noarticletext" and "noarticletextanon" as wiki text when + used on a non-existent page with "action=info" +* Fix escaping of raw message text when used on a non-existent page with + "action=info" +* (bug 10683) Fix inconsistent handling of URL-encoded titles in links + used in redirects (i.e. they now work) +* (bug 8878) Changes to $dateFormats in German localization (removing unused, + nonexistent formats, putting time after date) +* (bug 10769) Database::update() should return boolean result +* Fix preference checkbox display for right-to-left languages which caused + them to be hidden in IE in some cases +* Fix upload form display in right-to-left languages +* Fixed regression in blocking of username '0' +* (bug 9437) Don't overwrite edit form submission handler when setting up + edit box scroll position preserve/restore behaviour +* (bug 10805) Fix "undo" link when viewing the diff of the most recent + change to a page using "diff=0" +* (bug 10765) img_auth.php will now refuse logged-out requests where + $wgWhitelistRead is undefined, instead of (incorrectly) honouring them +* Fixed img_auth.php file name extraction for whitelist checking +* Tweak spacing of email preference display +* Table sorting JavaScript prefers textContent over innerText to allow hidden + sort keys to work on Safari +* (bug 4530) Fix local name of Kurdish language +* (bug 10830) Fix local name of Haitian Creole language +* Fix invalid XHTML in Special:Protectedpages +* Fix comments in contributions and log pages for right-to-left languages +* Make installer include_path-independent, so it should work on hosts which + disable user setting of PHP include_path setting +* glob() is horribly unreliable and doesn't work on some systems, including + free.fr shared hosting. No longer using it in Language::getLanguageNames() +* (bug 10763) Fix multi-insert logic for PostgreSQL +* Fix invalid XHTML when viewing a deleted revision +* Fix syntax error in translations of magic words in Romanian language +* (bug 8737) Fix warnings caused by incorrect use of `/dev/null` when piping + process error output under Windows +* (bug 7890) Don't list redirects to special pages in Special:BrokenRedirects +* (bug 10783) Resizing PNG-24 images with GD no longer causes all alpha + channel transparency to be lost and transparent pixels to be turned black +* (bug 9339) General error pages were transforming messages and their parameters + in the wrong order +* (bug 9026) Incorrect heading numbering when viewing Special:Statistics with + "auto-numbered headings" enabled +* Fixed invalid XHTML in Special:Upload +* (bug 11013) Make sure dl() is available before attempting to use it to check + available databases in installer +* Resizing transparent GIF images with GD now retains transparency by skipping + resampling +* (bug 11065) Fix regression in handling of wiki-formatted EXIF metadata +* Double encoding broke Special:Newpages for some languages +* Adding a newline before the statistics footer, to prevent parsing problems +* Preventing the TOC from appearing in Special:Statistics +* (bug 11082) Fix check for fully-specced table names in Database::tableName +* (bug 11067) Fix regression in upload conflict thumbnail display +* (bug 10985) Resolved cached entries on Special:DoubleRedirects were being + supressed, breaking paging - now strikes out "fixed" results +* (bug 8393) <sup> and <sub> need to be preserved (without attributes) for + entries in the table of contents +* (bug 11114) Fix regression in read-only mode error display during editing +* Force non-MySQL databases to use an ORDER BY in SpecialAllpages to ensure + that the first page_title is truly the first page title. +* (bug 10836) Change the summary on creating of new section +* Inclusion of Special:Wantedpages now works again + +== API changes since 1.10 == + +Full API documentation is available at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API + +* New properties: links, templates, images, langlinks, categories, external + links +* Breaking Change: imagelinks renamed into imageusage (il->iu) +* Bug fix: incorrect generator behavior in some cases +* JSON format allows an optional callback function to wrap the result. +* Login module disabled until a more secure solution can be implemented +* (bug 9938) Querying by revision identifier returns the most recent revision + for the corresponding page, rather than the requested revision +* (bug 8772) Filter page revision queries by user +* (bug 9927) User contributions queries do not accept IP addresses +* Watchlist feed now reports a proper feed item when the user is not logged in +* Watchlist feed date bug fixed - automatically shows one last day +* Watchlist feed now allows to specify number of hours to monitor +* list=allpages now returns a list instead of a map in JSON format +* Breaking Change: in json, revisions are now returned as a list, not as a map. +* Add: prop=info can show page is new flag, current page length, and visit + counter. +* Change: Query watchlist now shows flags only when explicitly requested with + wlparam=flags +* rc_this_oldid (textid) is no longer accessible from query watchlist +* action=usercontribs: additional filtering by ucshow=; selection of needed + fields with ucprop=; the textid (rev_text_id) is no longer being exposed +* (bug 9970) Breaking Change: backlinks, embeddedin and imageusage now return + lists in JSON instead of a map, and do not return anything when titles do + not exist +* (bug 9121) Introduced indexpageids query parameter to list the page_id + values of all returned page items +* (bug 10147) Now interwiki titles are not processed but added to a separate + "interwiki" section of the output. +* Added categorymembers list to query for pages in a category. +* (bug 10260) Show page protection status +* (bug 10392) Include MediaWiki version details in version output +* (bug 10411) Site language in meta=siteinfo +* (bug 10391) action=help doesn't return help if format is fancy markup +* backlinks, embeddedin and imageusage lists should use (bl|ei|iu)title parameter + instead of titles. Titles for these lists is obsolete and might stop working soon. +* Added prop=imageinfo - gets image properties and upload history +* (bug 10211) Added db server replication lag information in meta=siteinfo +* Added external url search within wiki pages (list=exturlusage) +* Added link enumeration (list=alllinks) +* Added registered users enumeration (list=allusers) +* Added full text search in titles and content (list=search) +* (bug 10684) Expanded list=allusers functionality +* Possible breaking change: prop=revisions no longer includes pageid for rvprop=ids +* Added rvprop=size to prop=revisions (The size will not be shown if it is NULL in the database) +* list=allpages now allows to filter by article min/max size and protection status +* Added site statistics (siprop=statistics for meta=siteinfo) +* (bug 10902) Unable to fetch user contributions from IP addresses +* `list=usercontribs` no longer requires that the user exist +* (bug 10971) `aufrom` parameter doesn't work with spaces +* Fix username handling issue with `auprefix` parameter +* Treat underscores as spaces for `aufrom` and `auprefix` parameters +* Added edit/delete/... token retrieval to prop=info +* Added meta=userinfo - logged-in user information, group membership, rights +* (bug 11072) Fix regression in API image history query +* (bug 11115) Adding SHA1 hash to imageinfo query +* (bug 10898) API does not return an edit token for non-existent pages +* (bug 10890) Timestamp support for categorymembers query +* (bug 10980) Add exclude redirects on backlinks +* IPv6 titles in User namespace are normalized (run cleanupTitles.php to fix any old stray pages) + +== Maintenance script changes since 1.10 == + +* Add support for wgMaxTocLevel option in parserTests +* (bug 6823) Disable article view counter in maintenance/dumpHTML.php +* Fix maintenance/importImages.php so it doesn't barf PHP errors when no + suitable files are found, and make the list of extensions an option (defaults + to $wgFileExtensions) +* Add option to maintenance/createAndPromote.php to give the user bureaucrat + permissions (--bureaucrat) +* Allow overwriting existing files with a conflicting name using + maintenance/importImages.php +* (bug 10266) Use native newlines when rebuilding a messages file. + +== Languages updated since 1.10 == + +* Afrikaans (af) +* Arabic (ar) +* Bikol (bcl) +* Bulgarian (bg) +* Catalan (ca) +* Danish (da) +* German (de) +* Greek (el) +* Esperanto (eo) +* Spanish (es) +* Estonian (et) +* Extremaduran (ext) +* Farsi (fa) +* Finnish (fi) +* Vöro (fiu-vro) +* French (fr) +* Français Cadien (frc) (new) +* Franco-Provençal/Arpetan (frp) +* Galician (gl) +* Hakka (hak) +* Hebrew (he) +* Upper Sorbian (hsb) +* Haitian (ht) +* Indonesian (id) +* Icelandic (is) +* Italian (it) +* Japanese (ja) +* Georgian (ka) +* Kabyle (kab) +* Kazakh (kk) +* Korean (ko) +* Kinaray-a (krj) (new) +* Kurdish (ku) +* Latin (la) +* Lao (lo) +* Lithuanian (lt) +* LatvieÅ¡u (lv) +* Malayalam (ml) +* Bahasa Melayu (ms) +* Burmese (my) +* Low German (nds) +* Dutch (nl) +* Norwegian (no) +* Occitan (oc) +* Punjabi (Gurmukhi) (pa) +* Polish (pl) +* Piedmontese (pms) +* Portuguese (pt) +* Romani (rmy) +* Romanian (ro) +* Aromanian (roa-rup) +* Russian (ru) +* Sakha (sah) +* Sango (se) (new) +* Slovak (sk) +* Slovenian (sl) +* Shona (sn) +* Somali (so) +* Albanian (sq) +* Sundanese (su) +* Swedish (sv) +* Tamil (ta) +* Thai (th) +* Tigrinya (ti) +* Setswana (tn) +* Tok Pisin (tpi) +* Uyghur (ug) +* Volapük (vo) +* Winaray (war) (new) +* Yiddish (yi) +* Old Chinese / Late Middle Chinese (zh-classical) +* Chinese (PRC) (zh-cn) +* Chinese (Taiwan) (zh-tw) +* Cantonese (zh-yue) + +== MediaWiki 1.10 == + +This is the Spring 2007 branch release of MediaWiki. + +MediaWiki is now using a "continuous integration" development model with +quarterly snapshot releases. The latest development code is always kept +"ready to run", and in fact runs our own sites on Wikipedia. + +Release branches will continue to receive security updates for about a year +from first release, but nonessential bugfixes and feature developments +will be made on the development trunk and appear in the next quarterly release. + +Those wishing to use the latest code instead of a branch release can obtain +it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN + +== Configuration changes == + +* A new switch $wgCommandLineDarkBg used by maintenance scripts (parserTests.php). + It lets you specify if your terminal use a dark background, the colorized + output will be made lighter making things easier to read. +* The minimum permissions needed to edit a page in each namespace can now be + customized via the $wgNamespaceProtection array. By default, editing pages in + the MediaWiki namespace requires "editinterface" permission, as before. +* Allow restriction of autoconfirmed permission by edit count. New global setting + $wgAutoConfirmCount (defaulting to zero, naturally). +* Added rate limiter for Special:Emailuser +* Private logs can now be created using $wgLogRestrictions +* (Bug 8590) limited HTML is now always enabled ($wgUserHtml = true). +* Deprecated $wgUseImageResize, thumbnailing will be enabled unconditionally. + +== New features since 1.9 == + +* (bug 6937) Introduce "statistics-footer" message, appended to + Special:Statistics +* (bug 6638) List block flags in block log entries +* (bugs 5051, 5376) Tooltips and accesskeys no longer require JavaScript +* Added SkinTemplateOutputPageBeforeExec hook before SkinTemplate::outputPage() + starts page output + (http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2007-January/028554.html) +* Introduce "cascading protection" -- implicit protection on pages transcluded + into a page protected with this option enabled +* (bug 8567) Added hook RawPageViewBeforeOutput just before the text is blown + out in action=raw, so extensions might influence the output. +* (bug 3446) Add user preference to hide page content below diffs, can be + overridden by adding diffonly=1 or diffonly=0 to the URL of the diff page +* Add 'purge' privilege to replace the hardcoded check for login state in + determining whether action=purge can be done via GET. Switching the + permission on for anons can be helpful for benchmarking. +* (bug 7842) Link back to deleted revision list from deleted revision preview +* (bug 8619) Add user-aware "unblock" link to Special:Blockip +* (bug 8522) Provide a "delete" link on Special:Brokenredirects for users with + the appropriate permission +* (bug 8628) Add user-aware block list link to Special:Blockip +* (bug 8621) Log revisions marked as patrolled +* Introduce "BookInformation" hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more details +* Add title prefix search for Special:Undelete +* Remove full-archive list from Special:Undelete +* (bug 8136) Introduce 'ArticleUndelete' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more info +* (bug 8712) Expose user groups as a JavaScript global +* Introduce 'CustomEditor' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information +* New special page, Special:Protectedpages, which shows all protected pages + and their protection status (full protection status is not pulled out due + to performance considerations, so it just shows "full protected" or + "semi protected". +* (bug 4133) Allow page protections to be made with an expiry date, in the same + format as block expiry dates. Existing protections are assumed to be infinite, + as are protections made with the new field left blank. +* (bug 8535) Allow certain vertical alignment attributes to be used as image + keywords +* (bug 6987) Allow perrow, widths, and heights attributes for <gallery> +* (bug 3678) Allow disabling MediaWiki:Aboutsite in the same way as + MediaWiki:Disclaimers; Also means that if any of the footer links are + disabled in the wiki's default language (by setting to "-"), they'll also + be disabled in other languages too (e.g. if the user specifies uselang=fr). +* Sort log types in Special:Log +* Added a classname ("mw-toolbar-editbutton") and unique IDs to the edit + toolbar buttons +* Hide irrelevant block options in Special:Blockip based on whether an + IP address/range or username is listed. (Dynamic using JS.) +* (bug 9032) Make quickbarSettings localizable through Special:Allmessages +* (bug 7782) Standardisation of file info at image description pages. +* (bug 1035) View contributions / recentchanges for an IP range. +* (bug 8747) When unwatching pages from Special:Watchlist/edit, put the + confirmation messages in a proper list with a CSS class and id. +* (bug 9118) Show relevant log fragments on deletion confirmatio page +* (bug 9009) Add username entry field to Special:Contributions +* (bug 1723) Article size in history +* (bug 9223) Disallow magic tilde sequences in page titles and usernames +* (bug 6997) Link from Special:log/block to unblock form +* (bug 9117) Link from Special:log/delete to undelete form +* Link from Special:log/protect to change protection form +* (bug 1196) Add IPv6 support added to blocks, more consistancy for IPv6 contribs +* (bug 3984) Searching in logs by title% +* Show thumbnail of existing image if image exists already under this filename +* (bug 5546) Watchlist reflects logged actions like move, protection, undelete +* Support protocols other than HTTP in LinkFilter, use $wgUrlProtocols +* (bug 3069) Warning on upload of scaled down images +* Warning on upload of images with uppercase extension if image with lowercase + extension exists +* (bug 4624) Namespace selection for Special:Whatlinkshere +* Introduce PageHistoryBeforeList and PageHistoryLineEnding hooks; see docs/hooks.txt + for more information +* (bug 9397) Introduce "sp-contributions-footer" and "sp-contributions-footer-anon" + messages, shown at the end of Special:Contributions as appropriate for the target +* (bug 8421) Expose current action in JavaScript globals (as 'wgAction') +* (bug 9069) Use galleries in query pages dedicated to images +* (bug 9177) Installer now warns of various conditions affecting session.save_path + which can lead to broken session storage +* (bug 9046) Special page to list pages without language links +* (bug 9508) Special page to list articles with the fewest revisions +* Introduce 'FileUpload' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information +* Introduce 'SearchUpdate' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information +* Introduce 'mywatchlist' message; used on personal menu to link to watchlist page +* Introduce magic word {{NUMBEROFEDITS}} +* Introduced media handlers for file-type specific operations. +* Improved error reporting for image thumbnailing +* Added sharpening option for ImageMagick thumbnailing +* (bug 9656) Autosummaries will be generated for deletion of pages longer than + 500 characters +* Predefined block reasons added to Special:Blockip +* (bug 9196) Installer now check that zend.ze1_compatibility_mode is off +* (bug 9697) Introduce 'InternalParseBeforeLinks' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information +* 'contribsub' message changed to 'contribsub2' with two parameters to permit + better localization. Change is reverse-compatible and can be ignored for + most wikis. +* Adding a 'reason' field to Special:Userrights + +== Bugfixes since 1.9 == + +* (bug 7292) Fix site statistics when moving pages in/out of content namespaces +* (bug 8531) Correct local name of Lingála +* Made the PLURAL: parser function return singular on -1 per default +* Fixed up the AjaxSearch +* Fix SpecialVersion->formatCredits input. Version and Url parameters should be + null to be treated properly with isset. +* Page restrictions moved into a new, dedicated table +* Correct tooltip accesskey hint for Opera on the Macintosh + (uses Shift-Esc-, not Ctrl-). +* (bug 8002) Math should render left-to-right even in right-to-left wikis +* Pass e-mail and real name fields to AuthPlugin::addUser, as additional + optional fields, which may be considered useful at registration time. +* PostgreSQL upgrade scripts fixed and updated +* (bug 8613) Fix error when viewing "Recent Changes" and using Postgres. +* Initialise site_stats table at upgrade time if data was missing +* (bug 7250) Updated Unicode normalization tables to Unicode 5.0 +* Unmaintained Oracle support files have been removed. +* Use browser default for printing size, don't force to 11pt +* (bug 8632) Fix regression in page protection null edit update +* (bug 8407) Disallow indexing of "printable" versions +* (bug 8643) Correctly escape the page-specific CSS class for non-Monobook skins +* (bug 8629) Document $wgFilterCallback +* (bug 1000) Clarify warning about memory_limit in installer +* Suppress PHP warning about set_time_limit in installer when safe mode is on +* (bug 3000) Fall back to SCRIPT_NAME plus QUERY_STRING when REQUEST_URI is + not available, as on IIS with PHP-CGI +* Missing interwiki row for English Wikipedia restored (as "wikipedia:") +* use configured cache servers for mctest.php +* bucket details in mcc.php +* fix input validation and remove debugging code in compressOld +* full ID range for moveToExternal +* fix resolveStubs.php for compatibility with older serialized data +* maximum line length for bar graphs in getLagTimes.php +* recognize specieswiki in rebuildInterwiki.inc +* profile unicode cleanup in Xml +* log slow parses in Article.php +* profile wfMsgReal +* log mkdir failures +* profile AutoLoader +* rebuild empty DjVu metadata containing '' +* security fix for DjVu metadata retrieval +* Undelete page list can use plural marker +* (bug 8638) Fix update from 1.4 and earlier +* (bug 8641) Fix order of updates to ipblocks table +* (bug 8678) Fix detection of self-links for numeric titles in Parser +* (bug 6171) Magically close tags in tables when not using Tidy. +* Sanitizer now correctly escapes lonely '>' occurring before the first wikitag. +* Ignore self closing on closing tags ( '</div />' now gives '</div>') +* (bug 8673) Minor fix for web service API content-type header +* Fix API revision list on PHP 5.2.1; bad reference assignment +* (bug 8688) Handle underscores/spaces in Special:Blockip and Special:Ipblocklist + in a consistent manner +* (bug 8701) Check database lock status when blocking/unblocking users +* ParserOptions and ParserOutput classes are now in their own files +* (bug 8708) Namespace translations for Zealandic language +* Renamed constructor methods to PHP 5 __construct reserved name +* (bug 8715) Warn users when editing an interface message whether or not the + message page exists +* ar: fix the 'create a new page' on search page when no exact match found +* (bug 8703) Corrected talk and image namespace name for Limburgish (li) +* (bug 8671) Expose "wpDestFile" as a parameter to "uploadtext" +* (bug 8403) Respect bad image list exceptions in galleries on wiki pages +* Allow sending per-user contribution requests to "contributions" query group +* (bug 3717) Update user count for AuthPlugin account autocreation +* (bug 8719) Firefox release notes lie! Fix tooltips for Firefox 2 on x11; + accesskeys default settings appear to be same as Windows. +* Added an option to make Linker::userToolLinks() show the contribs link + red when the user has no edits. Linker::userToolLinksRedContribs() is an + alias to that which should be used to make it more self documentating. +* (bug 8749) Bring MySQL 5 table defs back into sync +* (bug 8751) Set session cookies to HTTPS-only to match other cookies +* (bug 8652) Catch exceptions generated by malformed XML in multipage media +* (bug 8782) Help text in Makefile +* (bug 8777) Suppress 'previous' link on Special:Allpages when at first page +* (bug 8774) Fix path for GNU FDL rights icon on new installs +* Fix multipage selector drop-down for DjVu images to work when title + is passed as a query string parameter; we have to pass the title as + a form parameter or it gets dropped from the form submission URL +* (bug 8819) Fix full path disclosure in with skins dependencies +* Fixed bug affecting HTML formatting in sortable table column titles +* Merged table sorting code into wikibits.js +* (bug 8711) Stop floats in previews from spilling into edit area +* (bug 8858) Safer handling when $wgImageLimits is changed. Added a note + in DefaultSettings to make it clear. +* (bug 4268) Fixed data-loss bug in compressOld batch text compression + affecting pages which had null edits (move, protect, etc) as second + edit in a batch group. Isolated and patched by Travis Derouin. +* Fix for paths in 1.4->1.5 special-case updater script +* (bug 8789) AJAX search: IE users can now use the return key +* (bug 6844) Use <ins> and <del> tags to emphase the differences +* (bug 6684) Fix improper javascript array iteration +* (bug 4347) use MailAddress object for reply-to +* Add AlphabeticPager abstract class +* Use faster AlphabeticPager for Special:Categories +* (bug 8875) Show printable link in MonoBook sidebar for locally nonexistent + pages; perhaps useful for categories and shared images +* Clean up session checks to better handle the case where the session was + opened during the current request. May help with some caching corner + cases. +* (bug 8897) Fix whitespace removal for interlanguage links with link prefix +* Add 'ParserTestTables' hook to expand the list of temporary tables copied + by the parser test harness; use for extensions which require the presence + of other tables while they work. +* Message names changed for AlphabeticPager introduced with r19758 + for better localisations. +* (bug 8944) The deprecated is_a() function is used in StubObjects.php +* (bug 8992) Fix a remaining raw use of REQUEST_URI in history +* (bug 8999) User.php gives "undefined user editcount" PHP notice. +* (bug 8984) Fix a database error in Special:Recentchangeslinked + when using the Postgres database. +* Moved the main ob_start() from the default LocalSettings.php to WebStart.php. + The ob_start() section should preferably be removed from older + LocalSettings.php files. +* Give Content-Length header for HTTP/1.0 clients. +* Partial support for Flash cross-domain-policy filtering. +* Lazy-initialize site_stats row on load when empty. Somewhat kinder to + dump-based installations, avoiding PHP warnings when NUMBEROFARTICLES + and such are used. +* Add 'charset' to Content-Type headers on various HTTP error responses + to forestall additional UTF-7-autodetect XSS issues. PHP sends only + 'text/html' by default when the script didn't specify more details, + which some inconsiderate browsers consider a license to autodetect + the deadly, hard-to-escape UTF-7. + This fixes an issue with the Ajax interface error message on MSIE when + $wgUseAjax is enabled (not default configuration); this UTF-7 variant + on a previously fixed attack vector was discovered by Moshe BA from BugSec: + http://www.bugsec.com/articles.php?Security=24 +* Trackback responses now specify XML content type +* (bug 9044) Send a comment with action=raw pages in CSS/JS output mode + to work around IE/Mac bug where empty pages time out verrrrryyyyy slowly, + particularly with new keepalive-friendly HTTP on Wikipedia +* (bug 8919) Suppress paging links and related messages where there are no + rows to list for query pages +* (bug 9057) Standardize MediaWiki: namespace for oc +* (bug 8132) Suppress "Pages in this category" heading in categories when + there are none +* (bug 8958) Handle search operators better when using tsearch2 (Postgres) +* (bug 8799) Use redirect table for Special:BrokenRedirects and + Special:DoubleRedirects +* (bug 8918) Enable PLURAL option for MediaWiki:showingresults and + MediaWiki:showingresultsnum +* (bug 9122) Fix minor display issue in RTL with section edit link margin +* (bug 5805) Enable PLURAL option for some messages of watchlist and statistic +* (bug 3953) Work around poor display of parenthesis in the in other + languages section of MonoBook skin +* (bug 8539) Enable PLURAL option for another message of recentchanges. +* (bug 8728) MediaWiki:Badfiletype splitted into 3 messages +* (bug 9131) Allow SpecialContributions to work with Postgres +* (bug 9155) Allow footer info to wrap in Monobook +* (bug 8847) Strip spurious #fragments from request URI to fix redirect + loops on some server configurations +* (bug 9097) column "pr_pagetype" does not exist +* (bug 9217) Balance wfProfile calls in Skin::outputPage +* (bug 9222) PostgreSQL updater should not be version-specific +* Fix fallback implementation of mb_strlen so it works and isn't insanely + slow for large strings, since it's used for page edit lengths +* (bug 8815) Setting password in initUser() breaks LdapAuthentication plugin +* (bug 9256) Add a quick note to index.php header comments +* Make Special:Listusers caseinsensitive for first letter +* Default tidy.conf has been moved from extensions module into includes. +* Ignore lonely ''''' +* (bug 9244) When calling edit page for nonexistent section, generate error + inside of just discarding edits, since edit links sometimes go to the wrong + place. +* (bug 9019) No warning during upload if image description page exists, but no + image +* (bug 8582) Allow thumbnailing when imagesize has a space. +* (bug 8716) Change math_inputhash and math_outputhash to bytea for Postgres +* (bug 9343) Correct internal name for Wolof language +* (bug 9363) Fix Postgres error on Recentchangeslinked +* (bug 5142) Fixed call of hook ArticleViewHeader +* (bug 4777) Separate prev/next messages for Special:Whatlinkshere +* Merge approx 15 missing Wikipedia language codes into wikipedia-interwiki.sql + based on Jeff Merkey's mediawiki-1.9.3.WG-20070316.tar.gz.bz2 archive. +* (bug 9411) Fix for shared image descriptions using query-string titles +* (bug 4756) Add user tool links for self created accounts at special:log + instead of sometimes broken block links from newuserlog extension +* (bug 5817) Special:Recentchangeslinked now shows red link for nonexistent + target page instead of silently redirecting +* (bug 8914) Don't transform colons in {{anchorencode:}} +* (bug 9241) Handle edit section links and include size links for cached + templates the same as the first transclusion. +* (bug 9466) "Rollback failed" page doesn't format edit comment +* (bug 9472) Invalid XHTML on cached special pages +* (bug 9472) Invalid XHTML on Special:Newpages +* (bug 4764) "My contributions" not bold when viewing own contributions +* (bug 9194) Add {{PLURAL:...}} to navigation bar of Special:Whatlinkshere +* (bug 9033) Use a more specific error message when users are not able/allowed + to edit page protection levels due to a block, database lock or permissions +* Fixed $wgFeedLimit +* (bug 9270) Corrected help namespace name for Dutch Lower Saxon (nds-nl) +* (bug 929, 4215) Expose "rcdays" user preference in Special:Preferences +* (bug 9554) Extension-provided group name messages not used +* (bug 9565) Translate template namespace name for Hindi (hi) +* (bug 8599) Correct localized names of zh-variants +* (bug 3366) Require skins based on SkinTemplate to override the skinname + property. +* (bug 9220) Removed obsoletes functions in install-utils.inc. +* Removed obsoletes Title::getRelatedCache and Title:touchArray +* (bug 7285) Check MySQL username length during install +* (bug 6910) Correct date/time formats in Vietnamese (vi) +* (bug 9608) Correctly use ORDER BY in dumpLinks.php +* (bug 9609) Correctly use ORDER BY in SpecialWhatlinkshere.php +* Special:Random and Special:Randomredirect now try harder to send the user to + a random page, and will give an error message if none really can be found + instead of sending the user to the main page like they used to +* Fix object variable used for displaying "not-patrolled" CSS class on list +* Fixed interaction of page parameter to ImagePage with the HTML file cache +* Fixed MIME type for SVG files, will be silently changed from image/svg + to image/svg+xml after loading from the database. +* Workaround for djvutoxml bug #1704049 (poor performance). Use djvudump + instead. +* Fixed odd behaviour in ImagePage on DjVu thumbnailing errors +* (bug 5439) "Go" title search will now jump to shared/foreign Image: and + MediaWiki: pages that have not been locally edited. +* (bug 9630) Limits links in Whatlinkshere forgot about namespace filter +* Fixed upgrade for the non-standard MySQL schemas +* Disable MySQL's strict mode at session start for MySQL 4.1+, to avoid the + various problems that occur when it is on. +* (bug 9585) Fix regression in tidy usage in Special:Undelete previews +* (bug 3826) Normalize some invalid cookie name characters when setting + up $wgCookiePrefix. Completes application of patch by Anders Kaseorg. +* (bug 9649) Fix RTL form alignment for Special:Movepage +* (bug 9582) Members of bot group now mark edits patrolled by default +* (bug 9669) Fix limit ordering for rebuildrecentchanges; broken since + converted from 1.4 to 1.5 schema +* (bug 9682) Revert PHP 5.1 dependency on warning suppression for SVN info +* (bug 5959) Anchors dropped from stub links +* (bug 3348) Some additional weak password checks: password which is same + as username will now be rejected. +* (bug 8602) Converted Special:Contributions to use an IndexPager. The + interpretation of the offset parameter has changed, and the go parameter + has been removed. +* (bug 6204) Fixes for indentation with $wgMaxTocLevel: + - don't emit too many list close tags after an invisible header + - don't emit too many final list close tags if last header is invisible + - don't emit TOC when there are no visible headers +* (bug 7629) Fix $wgBrowserBlackList to avoid false positive on MSIE + when certain plugins are present which alter the user agent + + +== Maintenance == + +* New script maintenance/language/checkExtensioni18n.php used to check i18n + progress in the extension repository. +* Running maintenance/parserTests.php with '--record' option, will now + automatically attempt to create the required tables +* --purge option to do additional parser-cache purging for purgeList.php +* Fix hardcoded background color in parserTests.php +* parserTests.php : removed the 'light' option for --color argument, replacing + it with a new global switch : $wgCommandLineDarkBg +* (bug 8780) Clarify message for command-line scripts if LocalSettings.php + exists but is not readable +* dumpBackup / importDump now work with PostgreSQL +* (bug 8975) Use "Maintenance script" as the default username for importImages.php + and importTextFile.php scripts +* (bug 8933) Fix maintenance/reassignEdits.php script +* (bug 9440) Added "mediawikiwiki" interwiki prefix to MediaWiki.org +* (bug 2979) Import now gracefully skips invalid titles with a warning +* Restore '--norc' option for maintenance/importTextFile.php +* Help information for maintenance/importTextFile.php now easier to read on + consoles +* Doxygen documentation now show the revision number of each file, generate + graphs using dot and include a search engine. + + +== Languages updated == + +* Arabic (ar) +* Aramaic (arc) +* Aymara (ay) +* Belarusian normative (be) +* Belarusian alternative (be-x-old) +* Bulgarian (bg) +* Bihara (bh) +* Breton (br) +* Catalan (ca) +* Czech (cs) +* Danish (da) +* German (de) +* Greek (el) +* Esperanto (eo) +* Spanish (es) +* Estonian (et) +* Basque (eu) +* Finnish (fi) +* Võro (fiu-vro) +* French (fr) +* Hebrew (he) +* Hindi (hi) +* Upper Sorbian (hsb) +* Hungarian (hu) +* Armenian (hy) +* Indonesian (id) +* Italian (it) +* Japanese (ja) +* Javanese (jv) +* Georgian (ka) +* Kabyle (kab) +* Kazakh (kk) +* Korean (ko) +* Kashmiri (ks) +* Ripuarian (ksh) +* Latin (la) +* Luganda (lg) +* Limburgish (li) +* Lithuanian (lt) +* Latvian (lv) +* Marathi (mr) +* Low Saxon (nds) +* Dutch Lower Saxon (nds-nl) +* Nepali (ne) +* Nepal Bhasa (new) +* Dutch (nl) +* Occitan (oc) +* Pali (pi) +* Polish (pl) +* Romanian (ro) +* Russian (ru) +* Sanskrit (sa) +* Sicilian (scn) +* Slovak (sk) +* Sundanese (su) +* Swedish (sv) +* Tahitian (ty) +* Ukrainian (uk) +* Urdu (ur) +* Uzbek (uz) +* Vietnamese (vi) +* Zealandic (zea) +* Old Chinese / Late Middle Chinese (zh-classical) +* Chinese (PRC) (zh-cn) +* Chinese (Taiwan) (zh-tw) +* Cantonese (zh-yue) + +== Compatibility == + +MediaWiki 1.10 requires PHP 5 (5.1 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer supported. + +PHP 5.0.x fails on 64-bit systems due to serious bugs with array processing: +http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=34879 +Upgrade affected systems to PHP 5.1 or higher. + +MySQL 3.23.x is no longer supported; some older hosts may need to upgrade. +At this time we still recommend 4.0, but 4.1/5.0 will work fine in most cases. + + +== Upgrading == + +1.10 has several database changes since 1.9, and will not work without schema +updates. + +If upgrading from before 1.7, you may want to run refreshLinks.php to ensure +new database fields are filled with data. + +If you are upgrading from MediaWiki 1.4.x or earlier, some major database +changes are made, and there is a slightly higher chance that things could +break. Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading! + +See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions. = MediaWiki release notes = 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. + +== Changes since 1.8 == + +* (bug 8200) Make category lists sorted by name when using Postgres. +* (bug 7841) Support 'IGNORE' inserts for Postgres, fixes watchlist + adding problem. +* (bug 6835) Removing the includes/Parser.php::getTemplateArgs() function, + because it seems to be unused. +* (bug 7139) Increasing the visual width of the edit summary field on larger + screen sizes, for the default monobook skin. +* Fix PHP notice and estimates for dumpBackup.php and friends +* Improved register_globals paranoia checks +* (bug 7545) Fix PHP version check on install +* Disable PHP exception backtrace printing unless $wgShowExceptionDetails + is set. Backtraces may contain sensitive information in function call + parameters. +* (bug 6164) Avoid smashing Cite state if message transformation triggers + during bad image list check, by skipping message transformation. + This isn't a good permanent fix. +* (bug 6918) Stopped borders and backgrounds from showing through floated + tables in Monobook +* (bug 6868) Un-hardcode section edit link style +* (bug 3205) Stop right floats from stacking horizontally in non-Monobook skins +* Added global $wgStyleVersion to centralize bumping CSS and JS file versions + for cache-friendly style and script updating +* (bug 7562) Fix non-ASCII namespaces on Windows/XAMPP servers +* Friendlier check for PHP 5 in command-line scripts; it's common for parallel + PHP 4 and 5 installations to interfere on the command-line. +* Fix regression in autoconfirm permission check +* (bug 3015) Add CSS ids to subcategory and page sections on category pages +* (bug 7587) Fix erroneous id for specialpage tab, enabling informative popup +* (bug 7599) Fix thumbnail purging, PHP notices on HTCP image page purge +* (bug 7581) Update language name for cbk-zam +* (bug 7444) Update namespace translations for Telugu (te), kept old values as + alias for compatibility +* (bug 4525) Move section links down visually to same level as headings + (editsection links are now inside the heading elements) +* Workaround for http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=31892 , PATH_INFO and hence + URLs of the style /index.php/Main_Page were broken on some CGI installations. +* (bug 7623) Validate custom HTML id's correctly in Monobook interface +* (bug 2241) Fix collision of 'w' and 'd' accesskeys +* (bug 5795) CSS class added to body based on page name for page-specific + styling +* (bug 6276) Stopped search field from getting too large in Cologne Blue +* (bug 7644) User creations that are aborted by hooks shouldn't be counted + against account creations per day limit +* (bug 7636) Show Firefox 2 users correct accesskey prefix +* (bug 6427) Block blocked IPs from using the mail password function + to allow blocking of flooders +* Include common.css from classic-style skins in main HTML with the bump URL +* (bug 7607) Add Karakalpak (kaa) to Names.php and stub message file for linktrail +* (bug 7582) Add 'tog-nolangconversion' to MessagesEn.php. + This key is need for languages with variants (zh, sr, kk) +* (bug 7606) MediaWiki messages for "rss" and "atom" missing +* (bug 7609) Add some more '*-summary' messages to MessagesEn.php with empty + strings to allow better localisation via Special:Allmessages. Mark this new + messages as optional for localisation. +* Fix user_newpass upgrade for prefixed tables (reported by Fyren) +* (bug 7663) Include language variant switcher links on Nostalgia skin +* (bug 6531) Fix PHP fatal error on installation page with bad username input. +* (bug 6977) Remove 404 link for autogenerated database documentation. +* (bug 7369) Allow "Show Changes" without requiring edit token. +* (bug 7687) Fix movetalk box checks itself when confirming a delete and move. +* (bug 7684) Obey watchcreated preference for Special:Upload watch checkbox +* (bug 7686) Include id attribute on delete form confirmation button +* Allow compound interwiki prefixes in $wgImportSources +* (bug 7304) Added redirect table to store redirect targets. +* Added querycachetwo table (similar to querycache but has two titles) +* PageArchive can now return a Revision object for more convenient processing + of deleted revision data +* Added 'UndeleteShowRevision' hook in Special:Undelete +* Error message on attempt to view invalid or missing deleted revisions +* Remove unsightly "_" from namespace in Special:Allpages, Special:Prefixindex +* (bug 3224) Allow minor edits by bots to skip new message notification on + user talk pages. This can be disabled by adjusting the 'nominornewtalk' + permission. Patch by Werdna. +* (bug 7741) MATH: fixed broken syntax of underbrace etc. Fixed arrays +* Fix purging for updated SVG files +* (bug 7745) Add id attribute to search button in Monobook +* (bug 7749) MATH: added some more LaTeX symbols, e.g. parallel, diamond, ast, ... +* (bug 7304) Added code in Article.php to keep redirect table up to date. +* Made special page names case-insensitive and localisable. Care has been taken + to maintain backwards compatibility. +* Used special page subpages in a few more places, instead of query parameters. +* (bug 7758) Added wrapper span to "templates used" explanation to allow CSS + styling (class="mw-templatesUsedExplanation"). +* Added {{#special:}} parser function, to give the local default title for + special pages +* (bug 7766) Remove redundant / from AJAX requests, can break some servers +* Add tab links from extensions to classic-based skins (SkinTemplateTab hook) + Provides better cross-skin compatibility for extensions using the modern + skin hooks, such as Oversight +* Moved variant language links on Cologne Blue and Nostalgia to before the + login/logout link +* Fix for parser tests with MySQL 5 in strict mode +* Added block option "enable autoblocks" +* Amend Special:Ipblocklist to note when a block has autoblock DISABLED. +* (bug 7780) Fix regression in editing redirects +* Add whitespace above "templates included on this page" using CSS, not + hardcoded line break. +* Remove entries from redirect table on article deletion +* (bug 7788) Force section headers in new section links for users who have + 'prompt for blank edit summaries' on. +* (bug 1133) Special:Emailuser: add an option to send yourself a copy of your mail. +* (bug 461) Allow "Categories:" link at bottom of pages to be customized via + pagecategorieslink message. +* Sort the list of skins in "My Preferences" -> Skins by alphabetical order. +* (bug 7785) Postgres compatibility for timestamps in RC feeds +* (bug 7550) Normalize user parameter normally on Special:Log +* (bug 7294) Fix PATH search for diff3 on install +* Various fixes related to the blocking change re: autoblocks. On inserting + an IP block, the ipb_enable_autoblock field is now automagically blanked, + because it doesn't make any sense for an IP. Additionally, IP blocks + without the ipb_enable_autoblock option no longer show up as "autoblock + disabled" on Special:Ipblocklist. +* (bug 7774) MATH: aded more amstex functions +* (bug 1182) MATH: fixed inconsistent rendering of upper case Greek letters in TeX +* Fix regression in streaming page dump generation +* (bug 7801) Add support for parser function hooks in parser tests +* checkUsernames.php now uses wfDebugLog instead of hardcoded path to log +* (bug 7810) Update talk namespaces for Occitan +* Allow case-sensitive URLs to be used for uploading from URLs. +* (bug 1109) Correct fix for compressed 304 responses when additional output + buffers have been installed within the compression handler +* (bug 7819) Move automatic redirect edit summary after pre-save transform + to work properly with subst: fun +* (bug 7826) Fix typos in two English messages. +* (bug 5365) Stop users being prompted to enter an edit summary for null edits, + if they have selected that option in preferences. +* (bug 5936) Show an 'm' to the left of the edit summary on diff pages for minor edits. +* (bug 7820) Improve error reporting for uploads via URL. +* (bug 5149) When autoblocks are enabled, retroactively apply an autoblock to the most + recently used IP of a user when they are blocked. +* Add an index on (rc_user_text,rc_timestamp) on the recentchanges table. This will + make CheckUser.php and the new retroactive autoblock functionality faster. +* Fix regression in Special:Undelete for revisions deleted under MediaWiki 1.4 + with compression or legacy encoding +* (bug 6737) Fixes for MySQL 5 schema in strict mode +* Approximate height for client-side scaling fallback instead of passing -1 + into the HTML output. +* Make the DNSBL to check for proxy blocking configurable via $wgSorbsUrl +* Add experimental recording/reporting mode to parser tests runner, to + compare changes against the previous run. + Additional tables 'testrun' and 'testitem' are in maintenance/testRunner.sql, + source this and pass --record option to parserTests.php +* Make the set of default parser test input files extensible via + $wgParserTestFiles. This can now be appended to by extensions or local + configuration files so that extension or custom tests can be automatically + run along with the main batch. +* Run PHP install version checks on update.php so command-line updaters see + new version requirements +* Do a check for the PHP 5.0.x 64-bit bug, since this is much more disruptive + as of MW 1.8 than it used to be. Install or upgrade now aborts with a + warning and a request to upgrade. +* (bug 6440) Updated indexes to improve backlinking queries (links, templates, images) +* Switched 'anon-only' block mode to default for IP blocks +* (bug 3687, 7892) Add distinct heading for media files in category display, + with count. +* (bug 1578) Add different icons for external links to audio, video, or PDF in + Monobook. +* Made autoblocks block account creation if the user block has that option enabled. +* Add auto-summaries to blankings and large removals without summaries. +* (bug 7811) Allow preview of edit summaries. +* (bug 6839) Wikibits.js minor changes to make JS-lint happier. +* (bug 7932) Make sure that edit toolbar clears floats so it appears correctly. +* (bug 6873) When viewing old revisions, add link to diff to current version. +* (bug 3315) Provide rollback link directly on history page. +* Replace 'old-revision-navigation' message with 'revision-info' and + 'revision-nav' messages, wrapped in divs with appropriate id's. +* (bug 4178) MediaWiki:Common.js will now be included for all users if + $wgUseSiteJs is enabled, in addition to (if applicable) MediaWiki:Monobook.js + and user JS subpages. +* (bug 7918) "Templates used on this page" changes during preview to reflect + any added or removed templates, and works as expected for section edits. +* (bug 7919) "Templates used on this page" is now shown for read-only pages. +* (bug 7688) When viewing diff, section anchors in autosummary jump to section + on current page instead of loading the latest version. +* (bug 7970) Use current connection explicitly on Database::getServerVersion +* (bug 2001) Tables with class="sortable" can now be dynamically sorted via + JavaScript. +* Added autosummary for new pages with 500 or less characters, and refactor + the autosummary code so it's all done in one function. doEdit is getting too + big! +* (bug 7554) The correct MIME type for SVG images is now displayed on the + image page (image/svg+xml, not image/svg). +* (bug 7883) Added autoblock whitelisting feature, using which specific ranges + can be protected from autoblocking. These ranges are specified, in list format, + in the autoblock_whitelist system message. +* Added placeholders for text injection by hooks to EditPage.php +* (bug 8009) Automatic edit summary for redirects is not filled for edits in existing pages +* Installer support for experimental MySQL 4.1/5.0 binary-safe schema +* Use INSERT IGNORE for db-based BagOStuff add/insert, for more memcache-like + behavior when keys already exist on add (instead of dying with an error...) +* Add a hook 'UploadForm:initial' before the upload form is generated, and two + member variable for text injection into the form, which can be filled by the hooks. +* (bug 6295) Add a "revision patching" functionality, where an edit can be undone + (with a functionality similar to diff rev1 rev2 | patch -R rev3 -o rev3). + This is triggered by including &undo=revid in an edit URL. A link to a URL + that will undo a given edit is shown on NEW revision headers on diff pages. + The link leads to a "Show Changes" page showing what will be done to undo the + edit. +* Fix display of link in "already rolled back" message for image/category pages +* (bug 6016) Left-aligned images should stack vertically, like right-aligned + images, not horizontally. +* Patch from LeonWP: added UploadForm:BeforeProcessing hook in SpecialUpload.php +* Add AuthPluginSetup hook to override $wgAuth after configuration +* Fix regression in authentication hook auto-creation on login +* (bug 8110) Allow spaces in ISBNs +* (bug 8024) Introduce "send me copies of emails I send to others" preference +* Added 'EditPage::attemptSave' hook before an article is saved. +* (bug 8083) Applied patch for sk localisation +* Add a backslash character to the edit token, to prevent edits via certain + broken proxies that mangle such characters in form submissions +* (bug 7461) Allow overwriting pages using importTextFile.php +* (bug 7946) importTextFile.php doesn't perform pre-save transform +* (bug 8117) {{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}} showed weird default if $wgLocalTZoffset set; + now uses current time for previews and if timestamp can't be loaded from DB +* {{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}} now uses site local timezone instead of user timezone + to ensure consistent behavior +* {{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}} and friends should now work on non-MySQL backends +* (bug 7671) Observe canonical media namespace prefix in Linker::formatComment +* Added js variable wgCurRevisionId to the output +* (bug 8141) Cleanup of Parser::doTableStuff, patch by AzaTht +* (bug 8042) Make miser mode caching limits settable via $wgQueryCacheLimit + instead of hardcoding to 1000 +* Enable QueryPage classes to override list formatting +* (bug 5485) Show number of intervening revisions in diff view +* (bug 8100) Fix XHTML validity in Taiwanese localization +* Added redirect to section feature. Use it wisely. +* Added a configuration variable allowing the "break out of framesets" feature + to be switched on and off ($wgBreakFrames). Off by default. +* Allow Xml::check() $attribs parameter to override 'value' attribute +* DB schema change: added two columns (rc_old_len and rc_new_len) to the recentchanges table to store + the text lengths before and after the edit +* (bug 1085) Made Special:Recentchanges show the character difference between the changed revisions +* Removed a redundant <strong> tag from diff pages that was causing display issues for some users +* (bug 8203) The keyboard shortcut for "log out" was removed, because users were pressing it + when they intended to press the shortcut for "preview". +* (bug 8148) Handle non-removable output buffers gracefully when cleaning + buffers for HTTP 304 responses, StreamFile, and Special:Export. + Duplicated code merged into wfResetOutputBuffers() and wfClearOutputBuffers() +* Special:AllPages : 'next page' link now point to the first title of the next + chunk instead of pointing to the last title of current chunk. +* (bug 4673) Special:AllPages : add a 'previous' link (new message 'prevpage') +* (bug 8121) wfRandom() was not between 0 and 1 +* Add static method Parser::createAssocArgs($args), so parser functions can + use the same code to parse arguments as the templates do. +* Change behavior of logins using the temporary e-mailed password (as stored + in user_newpassword hash field). Instead of just logging in silently and + leaving the previous user_password field in place indefinitely, the user + is now prompted to set a new password. + + The password-changing form is at Special:Resetpass; currently it's only + usable for changing from the temporary password during login, but it + could perhaps be generalized, replacing the subform in preferences. + + Once the new password is set successfully, the temporary password is wiped + so it cannot be used to login a second time, and the login process + is completed. +* Suppress 'mail new password' button on login form if $wgAuth forbids + changing user passwords; it wouldn't work very well... +* Consolidate password length checks and $wgAuth manipulation into + User::setPassword() to avoid duplicate code in different places + that set passwords. +* User::setPassword() now throws PasswordError exceptions if the password + is illegal or cannot be set via $wgAuth. These can be caught and a human- + readable error message displayed by UI code. +* Added Title::isSubpage() +* (bug 8241) Don't consider user pages of User:Foo.css to be CSS subpages +* Set an explicit class on framed thumbnail inner divs and images, changed some + CSS to use these instead of using descendent selectors. +* Accept null parameter to User::setPassword() as indicating the password + field should be cleared to an unusable state. Login will only be possible + after the password is reset, for instance by e-mail. +* (bug 6394) Invalidate the password set for "by e-mail" account creations + to avoid accidental empty password creations. +* Made the show change size function work on page moves, page creations, and + log entries. Also fixed it in the javascript recentchanges. +* (bug 8239) correctly get 50 new contributions when clicking '(50 next)' +* (bug 2259) Fix old regression where e-mail addresses were no longer + confirmed on login with mailed password. +* Add a notification about the confirmation mail sent during account + creation, so people don't immediately go off to request a second one. +* Add a warning on Special:Confirmemail if a code was already sent and has + not yet expired. +* Add user_editcount field to provide data for heuristics on account use. + Incremented on edit, with lazy initialization from past revision data. + Can batch-initialize with maintenance/initEditCount.php (not yet friendly + to replication environments, this will do all accounts in one query). +* Allow raw SQL subsections in Database::update() SET portion as well as + for WHERE portion. Handy for increments and such. +* User::getOption now accept a default value to override default user values + this makes it consistent with WebRequest::get* methods. Corrected code in + various places accordingly. +* (bug 8264) Fix JavaScript global vars for XHTML mode +* Make $wgSiteNotice value wikitext again, for consistency with editable + MediaWiki:Sitenotice and MediaWiki:Anonnotice. +* (bug 8044) When redirecting from the canonical name of the special page + to the localised one, parameters/subpages are omitted +* (bug 8164) Special:Booksources should use GET for form submission +* Rewrite Special:Booksources to clean up interface and remove redundant code +* (bug 7925) Change Special:Allmessages message name filter javascript to be + a bit more responsive and easier on the CPU +* (bug 4488) Support watching pages on deletion; introduces new user preference +* Minor restructuring of Special:Preferences; "watch pages I edit" and "watch + pages I create" options now accessible under "Watchlist" options +* (bug 8153) <nowiki> doesn't work in site notice +* (bug 6690) wfMsgNoTrans() transforms messages +* (bug 8274) Wrap edit tools in a <div> with a specified class +* Detect PHP 5.0.x 64-bit bug and abort in WebStart.php; too many things break + mysteriously otherwise (detection code copied from install-utils.inc) +* (bug 8295) Change handling of <center> tags in doBlockLevels() to match that + of <div> +* (bug 8110) Make magic ISBN linking stricter: only match ten-digit sequences + (plus optional ISBN-13 prefix) with no immediately following alphanumeric + character, disallow multiple consecutive internal redirects +* (bug 2785) Accept optional colon prefix in links when formatting comments +* Don't show "you can view and copy the source of this page" message for + pages which don't exist +* (bug 8310) Blank line added to top of 'post' when page is blank +* (bug 8109) Template parameters ignored in "recentchangestext" +* Gracefully skip redirect-to-fragment on WebKit versions less than 420; + it messes up on current versions of Safari but is ok in the latest + nightlies. Checking the version number will allow it to automatically + work when new releases of Safari appear. +* Fix regression in thumb styles; size and padding didn't match with + new arrangement. +* (bug 8333) Fix quick user data update on login password change on + replication database setups. User data is now pulled from master + instead of slave in User::loadFromDatabase, ensuring that it is + fresh and accurate when read and then saved back into cache. + This was breaking with the Special:Rename operation which + automatically logs the user in with the new password after changing + it; pulling from slave meant the record was often not the updated + one. +* (bug 8335) Set image width to the first valid parameter found. +* (bug 8350) Fix watchlist viewing bug when using Postgres. +* (bug 6603) When warning about invalid file extensions, output the bit + of the extension we actually checked +* (bug 7669) Drop defaults on BLOB/TEXT columns for better compatibility + with MySQL's strict mode, often enabled by the Windows installer. + The defaults are ignored anyway when strict mode is off... +* (bug 7685) Use explicit values for ar_text and ar_flags when deleting, + for better compatibility with MySQL's strict mode +* Update default interwiki values to reflect changed location of ursine: +* (bug 5411) Remove autopatrol preference +* Users who have the "autopatrol" permission will have their edits marked as + patrolled automatically +* Users who do not have the "autopatrol" permission will no longer be able + to mark their own edits as patrolled +* Introduce 'PingLimiter' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information +* (bug 532) Tweaked alt text for some interface messages +* (bug 8231) Gave useful alt text to the main <img> on image pages +* (bug 371) Remove alt text for "Enlarge" icon on thumbnails +* Initialize user_editcount to 0 instead of NULL for newly created accounts +* (bug 3696) Strip LRM and RLM characters from titles to work around the + problem some people have where titles cut-and-pasted from lists include + the bidi override characters appended to the lists. + A more thorough blacklist for forbidden and translatable characters would + be wise, though, as might a cleaner method for the lists in the first place. +* Fix regression in email password resets on read-restricted sites +* Set tabindex on fields in deletion form so you don't have to tab through + the links in the sitenotice +* (bug 8271) Show full time and date on viewer for individual deleted + revisions +* (bug 8214) Output file size limit and actual file size in appropriate units + on Special:Upload +* (bug 8016) Purge objectcache table during upgrade processes - use the --nopurge + option to prevent this when running maintenance/update.php +* (bug 7612) Remove superfluous link to Special:Categories from result items + on Special:Mostcategories +* {{PLURAL:}} now handles formatted numbers correctly +* (bug 8331) Added the change size value to watchlists; therefore made + watchlists use RecentChange::newFromRow() instead of newFromCurRow() +* (bug 8351) Fix undo for simple reverts +* (bug 6856) User::clearNotification() does not respect read-only mode +* (bug 6853) Use a checkbox on the installer form to indicate that a superuser + account should be used; this is clearer than the old check which relied on + the password never being an obscure value +* Remove old unused watchlist cache, which was a leftover from the old schema + where watchlists were more expensive to generate +* Minor cosmetic changes to Special:Userrights +* Added wgCanonicalSpecialPageName to JavaScript variables +* Fix image deleting when using Postgres. +* Output both source and destination titles in maintenance/moveBatch.php +* Added basic parser tests for language variants +* Enable selflinks and categories to be written in some of the language variants +* Prevent conversion of JavaScript code in language variants +* Output software version number in maintenance/parserTests.php +* (bug 7169) Use Ajax to watch/unwatch articles if enabled +* Make variant table caching a little more robust, using main language code + in cache key. Probably this is still a bit wonky, though. Was breaking + parser tests when Chinese tables were getting loaded into Serbian code. +* (bug 8380) Be nicer about blank lines in deleteBatch.php +* (bug 8401) Fix regression in SORBS lookup for some DNS setups +* Use raw file descriptor in posix_isatty() check to avoid warning on + Linux systems with at least some versions of PHP +* (bug 5908) Allow overriding the default category sort key for all items on + a page using {{DEFAULTSORT}} +* (bug 6449) Throw a more definitive error message when installation fails + due to an invalid database name +* (bug 5827) Use full text for option link labels on Special:Watchlist +* (bug 8018) Allow hiding minor edits from the watchlist +* (bug 8427) MonoBook RTL IE 7.0 tweaks failed when sidebar's navigation + section is renamed; no longer relies on first section name +* Stabilize client-side table sorting even if the underlying Javascript sort() + implementation is unstable +* Add hook for extensions to add user information to the panel in preferences, + next to the user name and ID. +* (bug 8392) Display protection status of transcluded pages in the edit page + template list. Patch by Fyren, with i18n naming tweak. +* Fix for interwiki transclusion where target wiki uses query string for title +* Resolve namespaces on interwiki Title objects using canonical namespace names + if possible (should not happen, though, outside interwiki transclusion... and + maybe not even then, but it does) +* (bug 8447) Fix SQL typo breaking non-default $wgHitcounterUpdateFreq +* Do not allow previews of deleted images to be cached +* Add global variable $wgDefaultLanguageVariant used to set the default language + variant of a wiki to something different than the main language code +* Add 'variant' option to parserTests - runs test with the given variant as + preferred, utilize it for more parser tests of language variants code +* (bug 6503) Fix bug that stopped certain irrelevant links from being hidden + for printing +* Avoid PHP warning in Creative Commons metadata when a creative commons + license is not actually set up +* (bug 8463) Don't print external link icons for Monobook +* (bug 8461) Support watching pages on move +* (bug 8041) Work around bug with debug_backtrace when Zend Optimizer is + loaded by skipping the function. Use wfDebugBacktrace() wrapper function. +* Reduce config file clutter by setting various script and upload paths + based on $IP or $wgScriptPath in Setup.php. They can still be explicitly + overridden in LocalSettings.php if desired... +* Attempt to detect redirect loops for the canonical title redirect, and + give some hints to the poor confused administrator. +* Introduce new flag 'R' - raw output for language variant escape tags +* Advise users when updates for a query page have been disabled using + $wgDisableQueryPageUpdate +* (bug 8413) Improve comments for $wgNamespaceRobotPolicies +* (bug 8330) Show "bytes" suffix on recent changes diff counter + optionally... if set in rc-changes-size message (default empty for now) +* (bug 8489) Support basic links in <gallery> caption attribute +* (bug 8485) Correct Lingala number formatting +* The MediaWiki namespace is no longer pre-filled with default messages on + install. All default messages will be removed from the MediaWiki namespace + on upgrade. +* Recentchanges RSS/Atom feeds now use a separate message for the description + to avoid cluttering it with useless wiki formatting +* (bug 8417) Handle EXIF unknown dates +* (bug 8372) Return nothing on empty <math> tags. +* New maintenance script to show the cached statistics : showStats.php. +* Count deleted edits when regenerating total edits in maintenance/initStats.php +* (bug 3706) Allow users to be exempted from IP blocks. The ipblock-exempt permission + key has been added to enable this behaviour, by default assigned to sysops. +* (bug 7948) importDump.php now warn that Recentchanges need to be rebuild. +* (bug 7667) allow XHTML namespaces customization +* (bug 8531) Correct local name of Lingála (patch by Raymond) +* Fix regression with default lock file and cache directories; threw visible + warning with open_basedir + + +== 1.8 Compatibility changes == + +=== Zend Optimizer === + +A bug in some versions of PHP 5 and Zend Optimizer which was triggered under +MediaWiki 1.8.x has been worked around by disabling some internal debugging +features when Zend Optimizer is loaded. This should solve some common +"blank page" problems. + +=== PHP 5.0 64-bit === + +MediaWiki now checks for a condition where PHP 5.0.x corrupts array data +on 64-bit systems and warns you to upgrade PHP to solve the problem. This +bug causes Special: pages to fail on affected systems under MediaWiki 1.8 +and higher, and subtler data corruption on earlier versions. + +The only known workaround is to upgrade PHP to 5.1 or later, which you +probably should do anyway for security reasons! + +=== MySQL 5 === + +MediaWiki should now install and run correctly on MySQL 5.0 and higher when +MySQL's "strict mode" is enabled. (This is now the default for many Windows +installations, though it seems to remain off by default on Unix.) + +This fixes errors about "cannot default default value for BLOB/TEXT fields". + +=== ImageMagick === + +Note that ImageMagick older than 6.x may no longer work for image resizing +due to use of the -thumbnail option. + + +== 1.8 Behavior changes == + +=== Localized special pages === + +The names of Special: pages can now be localized, so links and URLs to them +are more legible in languages that aren't English. + +Not all languages have included localized names yet. + +=== E-mail password === + +Users are now required to set a new password for themselves when they first +log in with a newly generated e-mailed password. + +Requesting passwords frequently is prevented to reduce abusive mailbombing. + +=== Undo revision === + +An "undo" link now appears in diff view for easier reverting of older edits. +When GNU diff3 is available for edit conflict merging, this can make it much +easier to "undo" the changes of an older edit when there are surrounding +changes elsewhere in the page. + +The changes must be manually reviewed and approved, as with conventional +full-revision reverts. + +=== Blocking === + +User blocks can be set to disable the automatic blocking of IP addresses the +account logs in with. + + +== 1.8 Database changes == + +* new 'redirect' table stores data on page redirects +* new 'querycachetwo' table used for some cached special pages +* 'ipblocks' table adds 'ipb_enable_autoblock' +* 'recentchanges' table adds 'rc_old_len', 'rc_new_len' for size tracking +* 'user' table has added 'user_newpass_time' and 'user_editcount' fields +* some indexes have been updated on 'recentchanges' + +== 1.8 Configuration changes == + +Several configuration options have changed since 1.8: + +=== $wgEnableAPI === + +The experimental machine API interface is now enabled by default, read-only. +You can disable it by setting $wgEnableAPI = false; in LocalSettings.php. + +=== $wgPathInfo === + +The use of PATH_INFO (the text after the script name in 'index.php/Blah') +is controlled by the $wgUsePathInfo setting. This is now explicitly disabled +for CGI, apache2filter, and ISAPI configurations of PHP, for more consistency +with the autodetection from the installer. + +In some rarer configurations you may have to switch $wgUsePathInfo from false +to true or, perhaps, from true to false to make things work properly if bad +PATH_INFO data comes through the server. + +The wiki now tries to detect this condition and should show you an error +message describing what to change instead of sending the browser into an +infinite redirect loop. + +=== $wgScript and other path settings === + +The following configuration variables are now automatically set in Setup.php +if they are not overridden in LocalSettings.php: + +from $wgScriptPath: + + $wgScript + | \- $wgArticlePath + + $wgRedirectScript + + $wgStylePath + + $wgUploadPath + \- $wgLogo + + $wgMathPath + +from $IP: + - $wgStyleDirectory + + $wgUploadDirectory + \- $wgMathDirectory + + $wgTmpDirectory + +Newly generated configuration files will by default include only $wgScriptPath +(hardcoded from the installer) and $IP (detected at runtime). + +Old configuration files which specify all these values explicitly should +continue to work just fine, but if you use the defaults you can remove them +to reduce clutter. + +=== $wgGroupPermissions === + +The sysop group now holds the "autopatrol" and "ipblock-exempt" rights by +default. + +"autopatrol" replaces the preference for marking ones own edits patrolled +by default; users holding this permission will automatically have their +edits patrolled, while others cannot mark their own edits as patrolled +even if they have patrolling rights. + +"ipblock-exempt" excludes the user from IP blocks; accounts which are blocked +explicitly by name will still be blocked, however. This is given to sysops +to minimize annoyance from accidental "collateral damage"; remember that a +sysop will be able to lift the block if they desire. + +The bot group now holds the "nominornewtalk" right. A user with this right +will not trigger new message notifications when making minor edits to user +talk pages. This is meant to minimize annoyance from maintenance bot +processes. + +=== $wgUseWatchlistCache === + +Watchlist caching has been removed. The feature was not maintained, and has +been unnecessary since switching to the 'recentchanges' database table +reduced server pressure for Wikipedia's watchlists. + +=== $wgBreakFrames === + +MediaWiki in the past attempted to detect when it was embedded in a frameset +and "break out" of it, assuming it to be hostile. + +This behavior is now disabled by default, but can be reenabled by setting +$wgBreakFrames to true in LocalSettings.php. + + +== 1.8 New settings == + +=== $wgVariantArticlePath === + +For languages with script variant support (Chinese, Serbian, and others), +it's possible to use alternate URL paths to select the variant for article +display, setting $wgVariantArticlePath. + +Documentation for this setting would be useful. + +=== $wgMaxMsgCacheEntrySize === + +The message cache can now skip items larger than a given size; this allows +it to better handle the primary caching case when large CSS and JS blobs are +present. + +=== $wgStyleVersion === + +When making significant changes to skin stylesheets and JavaScript files, +you can append a string to this variable to tweak the generated URLs, +forcing newly rendered pages to bring in a fresh version despite server- +or browser-side caching. + +Normally this will be set in the course of MediaWiki development, but +if doing development on a custom skin you may wish to poke it as well. + +=== $wgRCShowChangedSize === + +Special:Recentchanges and Special:Watchlist now show the number of bytes +added or removed to an article to give an idea of the size of the edit. +This information was previously available only in the IRC update feeds. + +To disable this site-wide, set $wgRCShowChangedSize to false. +(Individual users can suppress the data in custom CSS.) + +Adjust $wgRCChangedSizeThreshold to trigger highlighting of particularly +large changes. + +The formatting of the size figure can be adjusted through the +[[MediaWiki:Rc-change-size]] message. + +=== $wgQueryCacheLimit === + +The number of rows stored for "expensive" special pages in miser mode +can now be adjusted up or down from the default 1000. + +=== $wgDisableQueryPageUpdate === + +Individual "expensive" special pages can be skipped in processing by +updateSpecialPages if added to this list. + +=== $wgSorbsUrl === + +The base hostname for the DNS-based proxy blacklist can now be overridden +when $wgEnableSorbs is set, to use a different blacklist instead of SORBS. +The blacklist would need to respond the same was as SORBS; any positive +response will be taken as a proxy. + +=== $wgAjaxWatch === + +Experimental AJAX mode for the watch/unwatch tabs to execute inline. +Does not include the UI messages describing how to reach the watchlist, +so you may not want it on a general-audience site just yet. + +=== $wgParserTestFiles === + +MediaWiki's parser test suite can now be expanded with additional test +files. Custom extensions can add their test files to this array, and +they will be run along with the main tests by maintenance/parserTests.php + + == Changes since 1.7 == * Introduced AjaxResponse object, superceding AjaxCachePolicy @@ -3320,10 +5641,10 @@ For notes on 1.3.x and older releases, see HISTORY. === Online documentation === Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is currently being -built up on Meta-Wikipedia, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation +built up on MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation License: - http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents + http://www.mediawiki.org/ === Mailing list === @@ -3331,10 +5652,10 @@ License: A MediaWiki-l mailing list has been set up distinct from the Wikipedia wikitech-l list: - http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l + http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l A low-traffic announcements-only list is also available: - http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce + http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce It's highly recommended that you sign up for one of these lists if you're going to run a public MediaWiki, so you can be notified of security fixes.