* Added $wgUseTwoButtonsSearchForm to choose the Search form behavior/look
* Added $wgNoFollowDomainExceptions to allow exempting particular domain names
from rel="nofollow" on external links
-* (bug 12970) Added $wgForceClientThumbnails to force client rendering of thumbs,
- instead of falling back to GD.
+* (bug 12970) Brought back $wgUseImageResize.
* Added $wgRedirectOnLogin to allow specifying a specifc page to redirect users
to upon logging in (ex: "Main Page")
+* Add $wgExportFromNamespaces for enabling/disabling the "export all from
+ namespace" option (disabled by default)
+* (bug 18222) $wgMinimalPasswordLength default is now 1
+* $wgSessionHandler can be used to configure session.save_handler
=== New features in 1.15 ===
* Special:ListUsers: Sort list of usergroups by alphabet
* (bug 16762) Special:Movepage now shows a list of subpages when possible
* (bug 17585) Hide legend on Special:Specialpages from non-privileged users
-* (bug 15876) Users with 'reset-passwords' right can change the passwords of
- other users.
-* Add an ID if 'missingsummary' is triggered to allow styling of the summary
- line
-* Add logging to password resets if not resetting your own
* Added $wgUseTagFilter to control enabling of filter-by-change-tag
* (bug 17291) MediaWiki:Nocontribs now has an optional $1 parameter for the
username
with class 'mw-specialpage-summary'
* $wgSummarySpamRegex added to handle edit summary spam. This is used *instead*
of $wgSpamRegex for edit summary checks. Text checks still use $wgSpamRegex.
-* New function to convert content text to specified language (only applies on wiki with
- LanguageConverter class)
+* New function to convert content text to specified language (only applies on
+ wiki with LanguageConverter class)
* (bug 17844) Redirect users to a specific page when they log in, see
$wgRedirectOnLogin
-* Added a link to Special:UserRights on Special:Contributions for privileged users
-* (bug 10336) Added new magic word {{REVISIONUSER}}, which displays the user
- name of the last user to edit the page
-* LinkerMakeExternalLink now has an $attribs parameter for link attributes
+* Added a link to Special:UserRights on Special:Contributions for privileged
+ users
+* (bug 10336) Added new magic word {{REVISIONUSER}}, which displays the editor
+ of the displayed revision's author user name
+* LinkerMakeExternalLink now has an $attribs parameter for link attributes and
+ a $linkType parameter for the type of external link being made
+* (bug 17785) Dynamic dates surrounded with a <span> tag, fixing sortable tables
+ with dynamic dates.
+* (bug 4582) Provide preference-based autoformatting of unlinked dates with the
+ dateformat parser function.
+* (bug 17886) Special:Export now allows you to export a whole namespace (limited
+ to 5000 pages)
+* (bug 17714) Limited TIFF upload support now built in if 'tif' extension is
+ enabled. Image width and height are now recognized, and when using
+ ImageMagick, optional flattening to PNG or JPEG for inline display can be
+ enabled by setting $wgTiffThumbnailType
+* Renamed two input IDs on Special:Log from 'page' and 'user' to 'mw-log-page'
+ and 'mw-log-user', respectively
+* Added $wgInvalidUsernameCharacters to disallow certain characters in
+ usernames during registration (such as "@")
+* Added $wgUserrightsInterwikiDelimiter to allow changing the delimiter
+ used in Special:UserRights to denote the user should be searched for
+ on a different database
+* Add a class if 'missingsummary' is triggered to allow styling of the summary
+ line
+* Add CSS defintion of the 'wikitable' class to shared.css
+* (bug 17163) Added MediaWiki:Talkpageheader which will be displayed when
+ viewing talk pages
+* Add group convertsion support for LanguageConverter. New magic word
+ "{{GROUPCONVERT:xxx}}" enabled for this new feature. You can set related
+ conversion rules in [[MediaWiki:Groupconversiontable-xxx/language_code]].
+* Superfluous border="0" removed from images
+* Added new hook 'MessageCacheReplace' into MessageCache.php. For instance
+ to allow extensions to update caches in similar way as MediaWiki invalidates
+ a cached MonoBook sidebar
+* Special:AllPages: Move hardcoded styles from code to CSS
+* (bug 6092) Add parser function equivalents of {{REVISIONID}},
+ {{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}} (and friends) and {{REVISIONUSER}} magic words
+* (bug 18529) New hook: SoftwareInfo for adding information about the software
+ to Special:Version
+* Added $wgExtPGAlteredFields to allow extensions to easily alter the data
+ type of columns when using the Postgres backend.
+
=== Bug fixes in 1.15 ===
* (bug 16968) Special:Upload no longer throws useless warnings.
* (bug 17460) Client ecoding is now correctly set for PostgreSQL
* (bug 17648) Prevent floats from intruding into edit area in previews if no
toolbar present
-* (bug 16899) DISPLAYTITLE should allow Arabic and Persian harakats
* (bug 17692) Added (list of members) link to 'user' in Special:Listgrouprights
* (bug 17707) Show file destination as plain text if &wpForReUpload=1
* (bug 10172) Moved setting of "changed since last visit" flags out of the job
queue
* (bug 17761) "show/hide" link in page history in now works for the first
displayed revision if it's not the current one
-* (bug 17722) Fix regression where users are unable to change temporary passwords
+* (bug 17722) Fix regression where users are unable to change temporary
+ passwords
* (bug 17799) Special:Random no longer throws a database error when a non-
namespace is given, silently falls back to NS_MAIN
* (bug 17751) The message for bad titles in WantedPages is now localized
* (bug 17860) Moving a page in the "MediaWiki" namespace using SuppressRedirect
no longer corrupts the message cache
+* (bug 17900) Fixed User Groups interface log display after saving groups.
+* (bug 17897) Fixed string offset error in <pre> tags
+* (bug 17778) MediaWiki:Catseparator can now have HTML entities
+* (bug 17676) Error on Special:ListFiles when using Postgres
+* Special:Export doesn't use raw SQL queries anymore
+* (bug 14771) Thumbnail links to individual DjVu pages have two no longer have
+ two "page" parameters
+* (bug 17972) Special:FileDuplicateSearch form now works correctly on wikis that
+ don't use PathInfo or short urls
+* (bug 17990) trackback.php now has a trackback.php5 alias and works with
+ $wgScriptExtension
+* (bug 14990) Parser tests works again with PostgreSQL
+* (bug 11487) Special:Protectedpages doesn't list protections with pr_expiry
+ IS NULL
+* (bug 18018) Deleting a file redirect leaves behind a malfunctioning redirect
+* (bug 17537) Disable bad zlib.output_compression output on HTTP 304 responses
+* (bug 11213) [edit] section links in printable version no longer appear when
+ you cut-and-paste article text
+* (bug 17405) "Did you mean" to mirror Go/Search behavior of original request
+* (bug 18116) 'edittools' is now output identically on edit and upload pages
+* (bug 17241) The diffonly URI parameter should cascade to "Next edit" and
+ "Previous edit" diff links
+* (bug 16823) 'Sidebar search form should not use Special:Search view URL as
+ target'
+* (bug 16343) Non-existing, but in use, category pages can be "go" match hits
+* (bug 18031) Make namespace selector on Special:Export remember the previous
+ selection
+* The svn-version version numbers on Special:Version have been removed
+* (bug 17374) Special:Export no longer exports two copies of the same page
+* (bug 18190) Proper parsing in MediaWiki:Sharedupload message
+* (bug 17617) HTML cleanup for ImagePage
+* (bug 17964) namespaceDupes.php no longer fails on an empty interwiki table
+* Improved error handling for image moving
+* (bug 17974) On Special:SpecialPages, restricted special pages are now marked
+ with <strong> tags, helps with text-based browsers
+* (bug 18259) Special:DeletedContributions now also uses
+ MediaWiki:Sp-contributions-logs for the link to Special:Log
+* Don't add empty title="" attributes to links to anchors on the current page
+* (bug 18291) rebuildrecentchanges.php failed to add deletion log entries
+* (bug 18304) rebuildrecentchanges.php got size changes wrong
+* (bug 18170) Fixed a PHP warning in Parser::preSaveTransform() in PHP 5.3
+* (bug 18289) Database connection error page now returns correct HTML
+* "successbox", "errorbox" and related CSS classes are now available in all
+ skins
+* Fixed a PHP notice when $wgEnableSerializedMessages was set to false
+* (bug 18316) Removed superfluous name="fulltext" from Special:Search
+* (bug 18331) MediaWiki:Undelete-revision can now have wikitext
+* The "noautoblock" flag is no longer displayed in the block log when blocking
+ an IP address
+* (bug 18009) $wgHooks and $wgExtensionFunctions now support closures
+* (bug 17948) Maintenance scripts now exit(0) or exit(1) as appropriate
+* (bug 18377) Time in Enhanced ChangesList lacking localisation
+* (bug 12998) Allow <sup>, <sub>, etc. in DISPLAYTITLE
+* (bug 1553) Lowercase navigation headings in German
+* (bug 7830) Pending transactions failed to commit on loginToUse() error
+* (bug 11613) session.save_handler being over-ridden
+* (bug 11381) session.save_handler being set twice (causes error)
+* (bug 17835) ForeignAPIRepo throwing error on first page load for file
+* (bug 18115) ForeignAPIRepo cache isn't working
+* Fixed a bug caused by LanguageConverter.php, which brings an abnormal '}-'
+ after some parsed math syntax.
+* (bug 18441) rebuildrecentchanges.inc no longer ignores $wgLogRestrictions
+* (bug 18317) Bolded selections in 1 | 3 | etc days on RecentChanges now use
+ <strong> instead of hardcoded styles
+* (bug 18449) Fixed items number per column on category pages when the total is
+ divisible by 3
+* (bug 18121) maintenance/deleteArchivedRevisions.php no longer deletes
+ revisions when --delete is not passed
+* (bug 13172) GPS coordinates in image Exif data are now actually displayed
+* Overhaul of preferences system, includes the following bug fixes:
+ * (bug 5363) Changes to default preferences now impact registered users.
+ * (bug 14806) Hook to enable putting preferences in existing tabs.
+ * (bug 17191) Registration date now listed on preferences page.
+ * Note that this change will break some extensions which have not been adapted
+ for it.
== API changes in 1.15 ==
* (bug 16858) Revamped list=deletedrevs to make listing deleted contributions
when someone tries to use them
* BREAKING CHANGE: action=purge requires write rights and, for anonymous users,
a POST request
+* (bug 15935) Added action=userrights to add/remove users to/from groups
+* (bug 18099) Using appendtext to edit a non-existent page causes an interface
+ message to be included in the page text
+* Added uiprop=changeablegroups to meta=userinfo
+* Added usprop=gender to list=users
+* (bug 18311) action=purge now works for images too
+* Add parentid to prop=revisions output
+* (bug 17832) action=delete returns 'unknownerror' instead of 'permissiondenied'
+ when the user is blocked
+* (bug 18546) Added timestamp of new revision to action=edit output
+* (bug 18554) Also list hidden revisions in list=usercontribs for privileged
+ users
=== Languages updated in 1.15 ===
* Austrian German (de-at) (new)
* Swiss Standard German (de-ch) (new)
+* Simplified Gan Chinese (gan-hans) (new)
+* Traditional Gan Chinese (gan-hant) (new)
* Literary Chinese (lzh) (new)
* Uyghur (Latin script) (ug-latn) (renamed from 'ug')
+* Veps (vep) (new)
* Võro (vro) (renamed from fiu-vro)
* (bug 17151) Add magic word alias for #redirect for Vietnamese
* (bug 17288) Messages improved for default language (English)
* (bug 12937) Update native name for Afar
* (bug 16909) 'histlegend' now reuses messages instead of copying them
-* (bug 17832) action=delete returns 'unknownerror' instead of 'permissiondenied' when
- the user is blocked
+* Traditional/Simplified Gan Chinese conversion support
+* (bug 18474) Sorani (ckb - Central Kurdish) (renamed from ku-arab)
+* Add PLURAL function for Scots Gaelic (gd)
== Compatibility ==