X-Git-Url: https://git.cyclocoop.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=RELEASE-NOTES;h=a487b5e18f9a5053933cbf304c3093caa7dab764;hb=30ab0bd1ff8efce05dd796e612ea95d04548117f;hp=0d50a7cad55acea68b4ac37ee8ba1941a94efbe3;hpb=f1850a9238924c0b11b89ca387c905446e809a9e;p=lhc%2Fweb%2Fwiklou.git diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES index 0d50a7cad5..a487b5e18f 100644 --- a/RELEASE-NOTES +++ b/RELEASE-NOTES @@ -42,12 +42,12 @@ it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN * (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 +* (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 +* (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 @@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN 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 +* (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 @@ -76,20 +76,20 @@ it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN * 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) Allow URL parameters 'editintro' and 'preload' in Special:Mypage - and Special:Mytalk +* (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 +* 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 +* 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 +* (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. @@ -130,10 +130,21 @@ it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN * (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 +* 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 +* (bug 12681) New messages bar should appear above page title, for consistency + with other message boxes === Bug fixes in 1.12 === @@ -161,20 +172,20 @@ it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN * (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 +* (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 +* 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 +* (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 +* (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 @@ -208,12 +219,12 @@ it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN * 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''. + 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 +* (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) @@ -251,8 +262,8 @@ it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN * (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 +* (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 @@ -318,7 +329,17 @@ it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN 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 == Parser changes in 1.12 == @@ -329,28 +350,28 @@ The parser pass order has changed from * Template expansion * Main section... -to +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. +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>". +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 +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 +expansion within them, but they will be stripped by the following HTML security pass. The rules for template expansion during message transformation were @@ -364,16 +385,16 @@ 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 or comment removal will still be rendered into a heading tag, -and will get an entry in the TOC, but will not have a section edit link. +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 +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 +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. @@ -391,34 +412,34 @@ 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 +* (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 +* (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 +* 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 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 +* 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 +* (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 +* 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. @@ -430,7 +451,7 @@ Full API documentation is available at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API * 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, +* 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 @@ -440,6 +461,16 @@ Full API documentation is available at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API * 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 +* meta=userinfo can now fetch information on other users as well, through the uiusers parameter === Languages updated in 1.12 === @@ -453,6 +484,8 @@ Full API documentation is available at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API * Mapudungun (arn) (new) * Assamese (as) * Asturian (ast) +* Avaric (av) +* Kotava (avk) (new) * Aymara (ay) * Samogitian (bat-smg) * Boarisch (bar) @@ -488,6 +521,7 @@ Full API documentation is available at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API * Divehi (dv) * Ewe (ee) (new) * Greek (el) +* Emiliano-Romagnolo (eml) * English (en) * Spanish (es) * Estonian (et) @@ -552,6 +586,7 @@ Full API documentation is available at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API * Latin (la) * Ladino (lad) (new) * Luxembourgish (lb) (new) +* Lingua Franca Nova (new) * Lak (lbe) (new) * Limbugian (li) * Líguru (lij) (new) @@ -624,6 +659,7 @@ Full API documentation is available at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API * Walloon (wa) * Wolof (wo) * Wu (wuu) (new) +* Xhosa (xh) (new) * Yiddish (yi) * Cantonese (yue) * Zhuang (za) @@ -654,8 +690,8 @@ updates. If upgrading from before 1.7, you may want to run refreshLinks.php to ensure new database fields are filled with data. -If upgrading from before 1.11, and you are using a wiki as a commons repository, -make sure that it is updated as well. Otherwise, errors may arise due to +If upgrading from before 1.11, and you are using a wiki as a commons repository, +make sure that it is updated as well. Otherwise, errors may arise due to database schema changes. If you are upgrading from MediaWiki 1.4.x or earlier, some major database