From: Aryeh Gregor Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:40:33 +0000 (+0000) Subject: RELEASE-NOTES cleanup (79 chars, etc.) X-Git-Tag: 1.31.0-rc.0~44367 X-Git-Url: https://git.cyclocoop.org/admin/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f387e6d809924dbc175bb685af2dd3e51a186a78;p=lhc%2Fweb%2Fwiklou.git RELEASE-NOTES cleanup (79 chars, etc.) --- diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES index 662faf3f39..2c7d1c76a6 100644 --- a/RELEASE-NOTES +++ b/RELEASE-NOTES @@ -26,11 +26,11 @@ it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN * $wgForwardSearchUrl has been removed entirely. Documented setting since 1.4 has been $wgSearchForwardUrl. * (bug 15080) $wgOverrideSiteFeed has been added. Setting either - $wgSiteFeed['rss'] or 'atom' to a URL will override the default Recent Changes - feed that appears on all pages. + $wgSiteFeed['rss'] or 'atom' to a URL will override the default Recent + Changes feed that appears on all pages. * $wgSQLiteDataDirMode has been introduced as the default directory mode for - SQLite data directories on creation. Note this setting is separate from - $wgDirectoryMode, which applies to all normal directories created by MediaWiki. + SQLite data directories on creation. Note that this setting is separate from + $wgDirectoryMode, which applies to all normal dirs created by MediaWiki. * $wgGroupsAddToSelf and $wgGroupsRemoveFromSelf now work more like $wgAddGroups and $wgRemoveGroups, where the user must belong to a specified group in order to add or remove those groups from themselves. @@ -64,8 +64,8 @@ it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN === Migrated extensions === The following extensions are migrated into MediaWiki 1.14: -* Special:DeletedContributions to show deleted user contributions (was extension - DeletedContributions) +* Special:DeletedContributions to show deleted user contributions (was + extension DeletedContributions) * Special:Log/newusers recording new users (was extension Newuserlog) * Special:LinkSearch to search for external links (was extension LinkSearch) * RenderHash @@ -151,22 +151,22 @@ The following extensions are migrated into MediaWiki 1.14: deleted page, even if they are unable to edit it. * Added Wantedfiles special pages, allowing users to find image links with no image. -* (bug 12650) It is now possible to set different expiration times for different - restriction types on the protection form. +* (bug 12650) It is now possible to set different expiration times for + different restriction types on the protection form. * (bug 8440) Allow preventing blocked users from editing their talk pages * Improved upload file type detection for OpenDocument formats * Added the ability to set the target attribute on external links with $wgExternalLinkTarget -* api.php now sends "Retry-After" and "X-Database-Lag" HTTP headers if the maxlag - check fails, just like index.php does +* api.php now sends "Retry-After" and "X-Database-Lag" HTTP headers if the + maxlag check fails, just like index.php does * Added "link" parameter to image links, to allow images to link to an arbitrary title or URL. This should replace inaccessible and incomplete solutions such as CSS-based overlays and ImageMap. * (bug 368) Don't use caption for alt attribute; allow manual specification using new "alt=" parameter for images -* (bug 44) The {{ns:}} core parser function now also accepts localized namespace - names and aliases; also, its output now uses spaces instead of underscores to - match the behavior of the {{NAMESPACE}} magic word +* (bug 44) The {{ns:}} core parser function now also accepts localized + namespace names and aliases; also, its output now uses spaces instead of + underscores to match the behavior of the {{NAMESPACE}} magic word * Added the ability to display user edit counts in Special:ListUsers. Off by default, enabled with $wgEdititis = true (named after the medical condition marked by unhealthy obsession with edit counts). @@ -174,9 +174,10 @@ The following extensions are migrated into MediaWiki 1.14: several uses of the same image. * (bug 1250) Users can still use "show preview" and "show changes" even if the wiki is set to read-only mode. -* Added a call to the 'UnwatchArticleComplete' hook to the watchlist editor. This - should make it so that ALL user-accessible methods of removing a page from a watchlist - lead to this hook being called (it was previously only called from within Article.php +* Added a call to the 'UnwatchArticleComplete' hook to the watchlist editor. + This should make it so that ALL user-accessible methods of removing a page + from a watchlist lead to this hook being called (it was previously only + called from within Article.php * Maximum execution time for shell processes on linux is now configured with $wgMaxShellTime (180 seconds by default) * (bug 1306) 'Email user' link no longer shown on user page when emailing @@ -185,12 +186,14 @@ The following extensions are migrated into MediaWiki 1.14: linked from articles * Make search matches bold only, not red as well * Added 'UserRights::showEditUserGroupsForm' hook to allow extensions to alter - the groups that the user can be added to or removed from in Special:UserRights + the groups that the user can be added to/removed from in Special:UserRights * (bug 10080) Blocks can be modified without unblocking first -* (bug 15820) Special:BlockIP shows a notice if the user being blocked is already - directly blocked -* (bug 13710) Allow to force "watch this" checkbox via URL using para "watchthis" -* (bug 15125) Add Public Domain to default options when installing. Patch by Nathan Larson. +* (bug 15820) Special:BlockIP shows a notice if the user being blocked is + already directly blocked +* (bug 13710) Allow to force "watch this" checkbox via URL using parameter + "watchthis" +* (bug 15125) Add Public Domain to default options when installing. Patch by + Nathan Larson. * Set a special temporary directory for ImageMagick with $wgImageMagickTempDir * (bug 16113) Show/hide for redirects in Special:NewPages * (bug 15903) Upload link was added to Nostalgia skin @@ -201,7 +204,8 @@ The following extensions are migrated into MediaWiki 1.14: * New 'AbortDiffCache' hook can be used to cancel the caching of a diff * (bug 15835) Added Content-Style-Type meta tag * Add class="disambiguationpage" to tag for disambiguations -* (bug 11027) Add parameter to MW:Randompage-nopages so that user can see the namespace. +* (bug 11027) Add parameter to MW:Randompage-nopages so that user can see the + namespace. * Add id="mw-user-domain-section" to tag in Userlogin.php template so that admins with a single domain can hide the domain section using CSS @@ -225,12 +229,12 @@ The following extensions are migrated into MediaWiki 1.14: Patch by Max Semenik. * (bug 15055) Talk page notifications no longer attempt to send mail when user's e-mail address is invalid or unconfirmed -* (bug 12370) Add throttle on password attempts. Defaults to max 5 attempts in 5 - minutes. +* (bug 12370) Add throttle on password attempts. Defaults to max 5 attempts in + 5 minutes. * (bug 15016) 'Templates used on this page' list in view source should be wrapped in a div with class "templatesUsed" -* (bug 14868) Setting $wgFeedDiffCutoff to 0 now disables generation of the diff - entirely, not just the display of it. +* (bug 14868) Setting $wgFeedDiffCutoff to 0 now disables generation of the + diff entirely, not just the display of it. * (bug 6387) Introduced new setting $wgCategoryPrefixedDefaultSortkey which allows having the unprefixed page title as the default category sortkey * (bug 15079) Add class="ns-talk" / "ns-subject" to . Also added @@ -273,13 +277,14 @@ The following extensions are migrated into MediaWiki 1.14: * (bug 15543) Only include user touched timestamp to generated CSS * (bug 15497) Removed encoding attribute from tag * (bug 12284) Special:Preferences now sets a returnto parameter on the link to - Special:Userlogin. Patch by Marooned. + Special:UserLogin. Patch by Marooned. * Fixed the HTTP accept language string detection length in LanguageConverter.php, instead of the fixed length language codes. -* Special:Recentchangeslinked no longer shows outgoing links for nonexistent pages - even if there are broken link records with source article id 0 in the database -* (bug 15598) Special:Newpages default limit uses user preference for recentchanges - limit instead of hardcoded 50. +* Special:RecentChangesLinked no longer shows outgoing links for nonexistent + pages even if there are broken link records with source article id 0 in the + database +* (bug 15598) Special:Newpages default limit uses user preference for + recentchanges limit instead of hardcoded 50. * (bug 15617) $wgFeedClassesOutputPage::getHeadLinks() respects $wgFeedClasses, instead of hardcoding rss and atom. Patch by Juliano F. Ravasi. * (bug 14638) Special:Blockip now provides a link to the block log if the user @@ -300,40 +305,44 @@ The following extensions are migrated into MediaWiki 1.14: * (bug 15846) Categories "leak" from older revisions in certain circumstances * (bug 15928) Special pages dropdown should be inline in non-MonoBook skins * (bug 14178) Some uses of UserLoadFromSession hook cause segfault -* (bug 15925) Postitive bytes added on recentchanges and watchlists are now bolded - if above the threshold, previously it only worked for negatives -* Specify apple-touch-icon before favicon in HTML head section to make the Konqueror - browser correctly use the latter +* (bug 15925) Postitive bytes added on recentchanges and watchlists are now + bolded if above the threshold, previously it only worked for negatives +* Specify apple-touch-icon before favicon in HTML head section to make the + Konqueror browser correctly use the latter * (bug 15717) Set $separatorTransformTable for language 'eu' * (bug 15605) Enabled $datePreferences for language 'hr'. Added standard date preferences. * (bug 13701) {{NUMBEROFVIEWS}} magic word to show number of total views. -* (bug 5101) Image from Commons doesn't show up when searched in Wikipedia search box -* (bug 14609) User's namespaces to be searched default not updated after adding new namespace -* Purge form uses valid XHTML and (bug 8992) uses $wgRequest instead of $_SERVER +* (bug 5101) Image from Commons doesn't show up when searched in Wikipedia + search box +* (bug 14609) User's namespaces to be searched default not updated after adding + new namespace +* Purge form uses valid XHTML * (bug 12764) Special:LonelyPages shows transcluded pages -* (bug 16073) Enhanced RecentChanges uses onclick handler with better fallback if - JavaScript is disabled. +* (bug 16073) Enhanced RecentChanges uses onclick handler with better fallback + if JavaScript is disabled * (bug 4253) Recentchanges IRC messages no longer include title in diff URLs * Allow '0' to be an accesskey. * (bug 8063) Use language-dependent sorting in client-side sortable tables * (bug 16160) Suggestions box should be resized from left for RTL wikis * (bug 11533) Fixed insane slowdown when in read-only mode for long periods of time with CACHE_NONE (default objectcache table configuration). -* Trying to set two different default category sort keys for one page now produces - a warning -* (bug 16143) Fix redirect loop on special pages starting with lower case letters +* Trying to set two different default category sort keys for one page now + produces a warning +* (bug 16143) Fix redirect loop on special pages starting with lower case + letters * (bug 15737) Fix notices while expanding using PPCustomFrame * (bug 15544) Non-index entry points cause the "Wiki not set up" message to have corrupt URLs -* (bug 5101) Image from Commons doesn't show up when searched in Wikipedia search box +* (bug 5101) Image from Commons doesn't show up when searched in Wikipedia + search box * (bug 4362) [[MediaWiki:History copyright]] no more used with most recent revision when passing oldid parameter in the url * (bug 16265) When caching thumbs with the ForeignApiRepo, we now use the same filename as the remote site. * (bug 8345) Don't autosummarize where a redirect was left unchanged -* Made thumb caching in ForeignApiFile objects integrated with normal thumb path - naming (/thumbs/hash/file), retired 'apiThumbCacheDir' as a result. +* Made thumb caching in ForeignApiFile objects integrated with normal thumb + path naming (/thumbs/hash/file), retired 'apiThumbCacheDir' as a result. * (bug 5530) Consistency between character encoding in {{PAGENAMEE}}, {{SUBPAGENAMEE}} and {{FULLPAGENAMEE}} @@ -356,15 +365,15 @@ The following extensions are migrated into MediaWiki 1.14: * list=search doesn't list missing pages any more * (bug 15178) Added clshow to prop=categories to allow filtering for hidden/ non-hidden categories -* (bug 15228) Combining revids= and redirects now throws a warning instead of an - error, and still resolves redirects generated by the generator. +* (bug 15228) Combining revids= and redirects now throws a warning instead of + an error, and still resolves redirects generated by the generator. * list={backlinks,embeddedin,imageusage} now return arrays with keys 0, 1, 2, etc. (AKA lists) instead of arrays with pageIDs as keys (AKA hash tables) for consistency with other list modules. * Added action=watch * (bug 15275) apprefix and related parameters ignore spaces at the end -* action=edit no longer throws unknown error 228 when trying to create an empty - section with section=new +* action=edit no longer throws unknown error 228 when trying to create an + empty section with section=new * Database replication lag doesn't cause all action=edit requests to return the nochange flag any more * (bug 15392) ApiFormatBase::formatHTML now uses $wgUrlProtocols. @@ -458,8 +467,8 @@ At this time we still recommend 4.0, but 4.1/5.0 will work fine in most cases. 1.14 has several database changes since 1.13, and will not work without schema updates. -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 reposito- +ry, make sure that it is updated as well. Otherwise, errors may arise due to database schema changes. If upgrading from before 1.7, you may want to run refreshLinks.php to ensure