RELEASE-NOTES-1.19

   1 = MediaWiki release notes =
   2
   3 Security reminder: MediaWiki does not require PHP's register_globals
   4 setting since version 1.2.0. If you have it on, turn it '''off''' if you can.
   5
   6 == MediaWiki 1.19 ==
   7
   8 THIS IS NOT A RELEASE YET
   9
  10 MediaWiki 1.19 is an alpha-quality branch and is not recommended for use in
  11 production.
  12
  13 === Configuration changes in 1.19 ===
  14 * Removed SkinTemplateSetupPageCss hook; use BeforePageDisplay instead.
  15 * (bug 27132) movefile right granted by default to registered users.
  16 * Default cookie lifetime ($wgCookieExpiration) is increased to 180 days.
  17 * (bug 31204) Removed old user.user_options
  18
  19 === New features in 1.19 ===
  20 * (bug 19838) Possibility to get all interwiki prefixes if the interwiki
  21   cache is used.
  22 * $wgDnsBlacklistUrls now accepts an array with url and key as the
  23   elements to work with DNSBLs that require keys, such as
  24   Project Honeypot.
  25 * (bug 30022) Add support for custom loadScript sources to ResourceLoader.
  26 * (bug 19052) Unicode space separator characters (Zs) now terminates external
  27   links and images links.
  28 * (bug 30160) Add public method to mw.loader to get module names from registry.
  29 * (bug 15558) Parameters to special pages included in wikitext can now be passed
  30   as with templates.
  31 * Installer now issues a warning if mod_security is present.
  32 * (bug 29455) Add support for a filter callback function in jQuery byteLimit
  33   plugin.
  34 * Extensions can now participate in the extraction of titles from url paths
  35 * Added two new GetLocalURL hooks to better serve extensions working on a
  36   limited type of titles.
  37 * Added a --no-updates flag to importDump.php that skips updating the links
  38   tables.
  39 * Most presentational html attributes like valign are now converted to inline
  40   css style rules. These attributes were removed from html5 and so we clean
  41   them up when $wgHtml5 is enabled. This can be disabled using
  42   $wgCleanupPresentationalAttributes.
  43 * Magic words (time and number-formatting ones, plus DIRECTIONMARK, but not
  44   NAMESPACE) now depend on the page content language instead of the site
  45   language. In theory this sets the right magic words in system messages,
  46   although they are not used there.
  47 * (bug 30451) Add page_props to RefreshLinks::deleteLinksFromNonexistent
  48 * (bug 30450) Clear page_props table on page deletion
  49 * Hook added to check for exempt from account creation throttle
  50 * (bug 30344) Add configuration variable for setting custom priorities when
  51   generating sitemaps
  52 * (bug 16428) Include permalink in printable version
  53 * (bug 96170) Add array support for space-separated list attributes (like
  54   'class') in the Html helper class.
  55 * (bug 26470) Add checkered background image on hover on files pages.
  56 * (bug 30774) mediawiki.html: Add support for numbers and booleans in the
  57   attribute values and element contents.
  58 * Conversion script between Tifinagh and Latin for the Tachelhit language
  59 * (bug 16755) Add options 'noreplace' and 'noerror' to {{DEFAULTSORT:...}}
  60   to stop it from replace an already existing default sort, and suppress error.
  61 * (bug 18578) Rewrote revision delete related messages to allow better
  62   localisation
  63 * (bug 30364) LanguageConverter now depends on the page content language
  64   instead of the wiki content language
  65 * Jump links will now be usable in css-capable browsers instead of only
  66   in outdated text browsers.
  67 * New common*.css files usable by skins instead of having to copy piles
  68   of generic styles from MonoBook or Vector's css.
  69 * Some deprecated presentational html attributes will now be automatically converted to css.
  70 * (bug 31233) New OutputPage::addJsConfigVars() method to make the output page specific
  71   mw.config map extendable.
  72
  73 === Bug fixes in 1.19 ===
  74 * $wgUploadNavigationUrl should be used for file redlinks if
  75   $wgUploadMissingFileUrl is not set. The first was used for this
  76   until the second was introduced in 1.17.
  77 * (bug 25355) Parser generates edit section links for special pages.
  78 * (bug 27894) Move 'editondblclick' event listener down from body to
  79   div#bodyContent.
  80 * (bug 30172) The check for posix_isatty() in maintenance scripts did not detect
  81   when the function exists but is disabled. Introduced
  82   Maintenance::posix_isatty().
  83 * (bug 30264) Changed installer-generated LocalSettings.php to use
  84   require_once() instead require() for included extensions.
  85 * Do not convert text in the user interface language to another script.
  86 * (bug 26283) Previewing user JS/CSS pages didn't load other user JS/CSS pages
  87 * (bug 11374) Improved diff readability for colorblind people.
  88 * (bug 26486) ResourceLoader modules with paths to nonexistent files cause PHP
  89   warnings/notices to be thrown.
  90 * (bug 30335) Fix for HTMLForms using GET breaking when non-friendly URLs are
  91   used
  92 * (bug 28649) Avoiding half truncated multi-byte unicode characters when
  93   truncating log comments.
  94 * Show --batch-size option in help of maintenance scripts that support it
  95 * (bug 4381) Magic quotes cleaning was not comprehensive, key strings were not
  96   unescaped
  97 * (bug 30684) Fix bad escaping in mw.message for inexistent messages (i.e. <key>)
  98 * (bug 23057) Importers no longer can 'edit' or 'create' a fully-protected page by
  99   importing a new revision into it
 100 * Allowing moving the associated talk pages of subpages even if the base page
 101   has no subpage.
 102 * (bug 30907) Special:Unusedcategories should sort ascendingly.
 103 * (bug 18424) Special:Prefixindex and Special:Allpages paging links are
 104   really small, and somewhat inconsistent with each other.
 105 * Per page edit-notices now work in namespaces without subpages enabled.
 106 * (bug 30245) Use the correct way to construct a log page title
 107 * (bug 31081) $wgEnotifUseJobQ causes many unnecessary jobs to be queued
 108 * (bug 30202) File names are now restricted on upload to 240 bytes, because of
 109   restrictions on some of the database fields.
 110
 111 === API changes in 1.19 ===
 112 * (bug 19838) siprop=interwikimap can now use the interwiki cache.
 113 * (bug 29748) Add API search prefix support.
 114 * (bug 29684) Set forgotten parameter types in ApiQueryIWLinks.
 115 * (bug 29685) do not output NULL parentid with list=deletedrevs&drprop=parentid.
 116 * siprop=interwikimap and siprop=languages can use silanguagecode to have
 117   a best effort language name translation. Use CLDR extension for best result.
 118 * (bug 30230) action=expandtemplates should not silently override invalid title
 119   inputs.
 120 * (bug 18634) Create API to fetch MediaWiki's language fallback tree structure.
 121 * (bug 26885) Allow show/hide of account blocks, temporary blocks and single IP
 122   address blocks for list=blocks.
 123 * (bug 30591) Add support to only return keys in ApiAllMessages.
 124
 125 === Languages updated in 1.19 ===
 126
 127 MediaWiki supports over 330 languages. Many localisations are updated
 128 regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
 129 changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
 130
 131 * Uighur (Latin) (ug-latn) was incorrectly marked as right-to-left language.
 132 * (bug 30217) Make pt-br a fallback of pt
 133 * (bug 31193) Set fallback language of Assamese from Bengali to English
 134
 135 === Other changes in 1.19 ===
 136 * jquery.mwPrototypes module was renamed to jquery.mwExtension.
 137 * The maintenance script populateSha1.php was renamed to the more concise
 138   populateImageSha1.php
 139 * The Client-IP header is no longer checked for when trying to resolve a client's
 140   real IP address.
 141
 142 == Compatibility ==
 143
 144 MediaWiki 1.19 requires PHP 5.2.3. PHP 4 is no longer supported.
 145
 146 MySQL is the recommended DBMS. PostgreSQL or SQLite can also be used, but
 147 support for them is somewhat less mature. There is experimental support for IBM
 148 DB2 and Microsoft SQL Server.
 149
 150 The supported versions are:
 151
 152 * MySQL 4.0 or later
 153 * PostgreSQL 8.3 or later
 154 * SQLite 3
 155 * Oracle 9.0.1 or later
 156
 157 == Upgrading ==
 158
 159 1.19 has several database changes since 1.18, and will not work without schema
 160 updates.
 161
 162 If upgrading from before 1.11, and you are using a wiki as a commons
 163 repository, make sure that it is updated as well. Otherwise, errors may arise
 164 due to database schema changes.
 165
 166 If upgrading from before 1.7, you may want to run refreshLinks.php to ensure
 167 new database fields are filled with data.
 168
 169 If you are upgrading from MediaWiki 1.4.x or earlier, some major database
 170 changes are made, and there is a slightly higher chance that things could
 171 break. Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading!
 172
 173 See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions.
 174
 175 For notes on 1.15.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
 176
 177 == Online documentation ==
 178
 179 Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is available on
 180 MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation License (except
 181 for pages that explicitly state that their contents are in the public domain):
 182
 183         http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation
 184
 185 == Mailing list ==
 186
 187 A mailing list is available for MediaWiki user support and discussion:
 188
 189         http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
 190
 191 A low-traffic announcements-only list is also available:
 192
 193         http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
 194
 195 It's highly recommended that you sign up for one of these lists if you're
 196 going to run a public MediaWiki, so you can be notified of security fixes.
 197
 198 == IRC help ==
 199
 200 There's usually someone online in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net.