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| author | Pierre Schmitz <pierre@archlinux.de> | 2011-06-22 11:28:20 +0200 |
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| committer | Pierre Schmitz <pierre@archlinux.de> | 2011-06-22 11:28:20 +0200 |
| commit | 9db190c7e736ec8d063187d4241b59feaf7dc2d1 (patch) | |
| tree | 46d1a0dee7febef5c2d57a9f7b972be16a163b3d /RELEASE-NOTES | |
| parent | 78677c7bbdcc9739f6c10c75935898a20e1acd9e (diff) | |
update to MediaWiki 1.17.0
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diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES index ecfb4e2d..6d288307 100644 --- a/RELEASE-NOTES +++ b/RELEASE-NOTES @@ -1,1060 +1,813 @@ = MediaWiki release notes = -== MediaWiki 1.16.5 == - -2011-05-05 - -This is a security release of the MediaWiki 1.16 branch. - -=== Summary of selected changes in 1.16 === - -Selected changes since MediaWiki 1.15 that may be of interest: - -* A new skin called Vector was added - -* Watchlists now have RSS/Atom feeds. RSS feeds generally are now hidden, - since Atom is a better protocol and is supported by virtually all clients. - -* It's now possible to block users from sending email via Special:Emailuser. - -* The maintenance script system was overhauled. Most maintenance scripts now - have a useful help page when you run them with --help. - -* AdminSettings.php is no longer required in order to run maintenance scripts. - You can just set $wgDBadminuser and $wgDBadminpassword in your - LocalSettings.php instead. - -* The preferences system was overhauled. Preferences are stored in a more - compact format. Changes to site default preferences will automatically - affect all users who have not chosen a different preference. - -* Support for SQLite was improved. Some broken features were fixed, and it - now has an efficient full-text search. - -* The user groups ACL system was improved by allowing rights to be revoked, - instead of just granted. - -* A new localisation caching system was introduced, which will make MediaWiki - faster for almost everyone, especially when lots of extensions are enabled. - -By default, this new system makes a lot of database queries. If your database -is particularly slow, or if your system administrator limits your query count, -or if you want to squeeze as much performance as possible out of Mediawiki, -set $wgCacheDirectory to a writable path on the local filesystem. Make sure -you have the DBA extension for PHP installed, this will improve performance -further. - -== Changes since 1.16.4 - -* (bug 28534) Fixed XSS vulnerability for IE 6 clients. This is the third - attempt at fixing bug 28235. -* (bug 28639) Fixed potential privilege escalation when $wgBlockDisablesLogin - is enabled. - -== Changes since 1.16.3 == - -* (bug 28507) The change we made in 1.16.3 to fix bug 28235 (XSS for IE 6 - clients) was not actually sufficient to fix that bug. This release contains - a second attempt, hopefully we have fixed it this time. - -== Changes since 1.16.2 == - -* (bug 28449) Fixed permissions checks in Special:Import which allowed users - without the 'import' permission to import pages from the configured import - sources. -* (bug 28235) Fixed XSS affecting IE 6 and earlier clients only, due to those - browsers looking for a file extension in the query string of the URL, and - ignoring the Content-Type header if one is found. -* (bug 28450) Fixed a CSS validation issue involving escaped comments, which - led to XSS for Internet Explorer clients and privacy loss for other clients. - -== Changes since 1.16.1 == - -* (bug 26642) Fixed incorrect translated namespace due to a regression in the - language converter. -* The interface translations were updated. -* (bug 27093, CVE-2011-0047): Fixed CSS injection vulnerability. -* (bug 27094) Fixed server-side arbitrary script inclusion vulnerability. - Affects Windows servers only. A malicious file with extension ".php" must - exist on the server for the exploit to be effective. - -== Changes since 1.16.0 == - -* (bug 24981) Allow extensions to access SpecialUpload variables again -* (bug 24724) list=allusers was out by 1 (shows total users - 1) -* (bug 24166) Fixed API error when using rvprop=tags -* For wikis using French as a content language, Special:Téléchargement works - again as an alias for Special:Upload. -* (bug 25167) Correctly load JS fixes for IE6 (fixing a regression in 1.16.0) -* (bug 25248) Fixed paraminfo errors in certain API modules. -* The installer now has improved handling for situations where safe_mode is - active or exec() and similar functions are disabled. +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. + +== MediaWiki 1.17.0 == + +2011-06-22 + +This is the first stable release of the MediaWiki 1.17 branch. + +=== Summary of selected changes in 1.17 === + +Selected changes since MediaWiki 1.16 that may be of interest: + +* A new installer has been introduced. It has a wizard-style interface which is + translated into many languages. Many shortcomings in the old installer were + addressed with this rewrite. Note that it is no longer required for the config + directory to be made writable by the webserver. Instead the generated + LocalSettings.php file is offered as a download, which you must then upload + to the wiki's base directory. + +* ResourceLoader, a new framework for delivering client-side resources such as + JavaScript and CSS, has been introduced. These resources are now delivered + through the new entry point script "load.php", instead of as static files + served directly by the web server. This allows minification, compression and + client-side caching to be used more effectively, which should provide a net + performance improvement for most users. + +* Category sorting has been improved. +** Sorting is now case insensitive. +** Sub-categories, pages and files can now be paged separately. +** When several pages are given the same sort key, they sort by their + names instead of randomly. + +* The lowest supported version of PHP is now 5.2.3. If necessary, please + upgrade PHP prior to upgrading MediaWiki. + +=== Changes since 1.17.0rc1 === + +* Fixed syntax error in generated LocalSettings.php when a non-default user + rights profile is chosen. +* (bug 29399) Fixed PostgreSQL installation when the DB user for installation + is the same as the one for web access. +* (bug 29233) Fixed failover for DB slave servers. When a DB slave went down, + an error was immediately shown to the user, instead of trying another slave. + Was broken since 1.17 beta 1. +* (bug 29278) Fixed PHP fatal error when attempting to add text to a page via a + redirect. +* (bug 29408) Fixed uploads of files with MIME types that aren't detected by + MediaWiki. + +=== Changes since 1.17 beta 1 === + +* Fixed warning about missing file "password.js". +* When installing on MySQL, don't attempt to create a new database user if the + same user is used for installation and web access. +* Fixed SQL query errors in queries with table aliases. +* (bug 27891) Fixed the "chronology protector", broken since 1.17beta1, which + ensures that when database replication is used, the new version is seen by + the user immediately after they create or edit an article. +* (bug 28845) Allow PostgreSQL installation using a non-root user account which + has role creation abilities. +* When installing on PostgreSQL and the install account is the same as the web + account, check to make sure that the account has suitable privileges in the + mediawiki schema. +* (bug 28172) Fixed error in PostgreSQL installation when creating the wiki + sysop account. +* Fixed an issue with the Oracle installer in cases where the user is different + to the database name. +* Added "unblockself" to the list of available rights. +* In the installer, fixed the "user rights profile" option, it never worked. +* (bug 29117) Fixed Hebrew localisation of the installer. +* (bug 28840) Reduce the collateral damage caused by the fix for bug 28235 (XSS + on Internet Explorer 6 due to a file extension in the query string) by + reducing the number of URLs that are blocked, and by redirecting the request + to a safer URL where possible instead of blocking it. +* (bug 28812) Fixed documentation of API action=parse. +* (bug 28979) Fixed styling of <abbr> and <acronym>. +* Fixed the error message displayed when you try to create an account by email, + but an email address is not given. +* Fixed JS error due to missing dependency for jquery.suggestions. +* Exposed $wgExtensionAssetsPath in JavaScript. +* (bug 28738) Made ResourceLoader support environments with small URL length + limits. The length limit can be configured via $wgResourceLoaderMaxQueryLength, + and this is set automatically in the generated LocalSettings.php when the + php.ini variable "suhosin.get.max_value_length" is set. When a URL exceeds + this limit, the request is split up. Also, reduced the average length of + load.php URLs by using a more compact parameter format. +* (bug 25262) Fix for minification of hardcoded data: URIs in CSS. +* (bug 25124) Respect $wgStyleDirectory in ResourceLoader. +* Allow installation when no HTTP client is available, don't throw an exception. +* (bug 27465) Fix metadata extraction for SVG files using unusual namespace + names. +* (bug 29174) Fix regression in upload-by-URL: uploading files larger than the + PHP memory limit should work again. +* Fixed the display of comments in the new user log. +* (bug 28237) When installing extensions using the web-based installer, create + any necessary database tables. +* (bug 28983) Fixed automated installation of extensions that overwrite $path. +* Fixed error caused by missing magic words. +* Fixed breakage of article editing in PostgreSQL due to text search + configuration errors. +* Fixed the HTTPS client used when Curl is not available. This avoids an error + during install about failure of the mediawiki-announce subscription. +* (bug 28162) When installing to PostgreSQL, respect the "database port" input, + it was ignored. + +=== Configuration changes in 1.17 === + +* $wgLogAutocreatedAccounts controls whether autocreation of accounts is logged + to new users log. +* (bug 22858) $wgLocalStylePath is by default set to the same value as + $wgStylePath but should never point to a different domain than the site is + on, allowing skins to use .htc files which are not cross-domain friendly. +* $wgFileStore has been deprecated. The only usage $wgFileStore['deleted'] has + been turned into $wgDeletedDirectory. +* $wgDeletedDirectory has been added to specify what directory to place deleted + uploads in. +* IBM DB2 database no longer uses the db specific $wgDBport_db2 variable but the + normal $wgDBport. +* $wgCategoryPrefixedDefaultSortkey was removed and is now always false. This + provides more sensible sorting behavior for categories. +* Removed unused globals: $wgEnableSerializedMessages, $wgCheckSerialized, + $wgUseMemCached, $wgDisableSearchContext, $wgColorErrors, $wgUseZhdaemon, + $wgZhdaemonHost and $wgZhdaemonPort. +* (bug 24408) The include_path is not modified in the default LocalSettings.php +* $wgVectorExtraStyles was removed, and is no longer in use. +* Removed $wgUpdates for database updates; extensions should use + DatabaseUpdater::addExtensionUpdate() via the LoadExtensionSchemaUpdates hook. +* Removed $wgServerName. It doesn't need to be set anymore and is no longer + available as input for other configuration items, either. +* It's no longer necessary for LocalSettings.php to include DefaultSettings.php. +* It's no longer necessary to set $wgCacheEpoch to the file modification time + of LocalSettings.php, in LocalSettings.php itself. Instead, this is done + automatically if $wgInvalidateCacheOnLocalSettingsChange is true (which is + the default). +* $wgCopyrightIcon is deprecated and $wgFooterIcons['copyright']['copyright'] + should be used instead. +* $wgSysopUserBans is deprecated, and will be made permanently true in 1.18. + If you need this functionality, you should use the BlockIp hook to filter and + reject such blocks. +* $wgSysopRangeBans is deprecated, you should set $wgBlockCIDRLimit to maximum + (32 for IPv4, 128 for IPv6), equivalent to allowing rangeblocks of only 1 + address at a time. + +=== New features in 1.17 === + +* (bug 10183) Users can now add personal styles and scripts to all skins via + User:<name>/common.css and /common.js (if user css/js is enabled). +* (bug 22748) Add anchors on Special:ListGroupRights. +* (bug 21981) Add parameter 'showfilename' to <gallery> to automatically + apply the names of the individual files within the gallery. +* Future-proof redirection to fragments in Gecko, so things work a little nicer + if they fix <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=516293>. +* Support git:// and mms:// protocols by default for external links. +* (bug 15810) Blocked admins can no longer unblock themselves without the + 'unblockself' permission (which they have by default). +* (bug 18499) Added "enhanced" URL parameter to switch between old and enhanced + changes list. +* (bug 22925) "sp-contributions-blocked-notice-anon" message now displayed when + viewing contributions of a blocked IP address. +* (bug 22474) {{urlencode:}} now takes an optional second parameter for type of + escaping. +* Special:Listfiles now supports a username parameter. +* Special:Random carries over query string parameters. +* (bug 23206) Add Special::Search hook for detecting successful "Go". +* When visiting a "red link" of a deleted file, a deletion and move log excerpt + is provided on the Upload form. +* (bug 22647) Add category details in search results. +* (bug 23276) Add hook to Special:NewPages to modify query. +* Add accesskey 's' and tooltip to 'Save' button at Special:Preferences. +* Add accesskey 'b' and tooltip to the summary field of edit mode. +* (bug 20186) Allow filtering Special:Contributions for RevisionDeleted edits. +* ajaxwatch now uses the API and JQuery, and can be used to animate arbitrary + watch links, not just to watch the page the link is on. +* (bug 20976) "searchmenu-new-nocreate" message now displayed when when there + is no title match in search and the user has no rights to create pages. +* (bug 23429) Added new hook WatchlistEditorBuildRemoveLine. +* (bug 22844) Added support for WinCache object caching (for IIS). +* (bug 23580) Add two new events to LivePreview so that scripts can be notified + about the beginning and finishing of LivePreview actions. +* (bug 21278) Now the sidebar allows inclusion of wiki markup. +* (bug 23733) Add IDs to messages used on CSS/JS pages. +* Show validity period of the login cookie in Special:UserLogin and + Special:Preferences. +* Interlanguage links display the page title in their tooltip. +* (bug 23621) New Special:ComparePages to compare (diff) two articles. +* (bug 4597) Provide support in Special:Contributions to show only "current" + contributions +* (bug 17857) {{anchorencode}} acts more like how the parser creates section ids +* (bug 21477) \& can now be used in <math> +* (bug 11641) \dotsc \dotsm \dotsi \dotso can now be used in <math> +* (bug 21475) \mathtt and \textsf can now be used in <math> +* texvc is now run via ulimit4.sh, to limit execution time. +* SQLite now supports $wgSharedDB. +* (bug 8507) Group file links by namespace:title on image pages. +* Stop emitting named entities, so we can use <!DOCTYPE html> while still being + well-formed XML. +* texvc now supports \bcancel and \xcancel in addition to \cancel and \cancelto +* Added scriptExtension setting to $wgForeignFileRepos. +* ForeignApiRepo uses scriptDirUrl if apiBase not set. +* (bug 24212) Added MediaWiki:Filepage.css which is also included on foreign + client wikis. +* (bug 14685) Double underscore magic word usage is now tracked in the + page_props table, as well as the behavioral magic words {{DEFAULTSORT}} and + {{DISPLAYTITLE}} +* (bug 24045) MediaWiki:Ipb-needreblock is now wrapped in a div with class + "mw-ipb-needreblock" +* Non-file pages can no longer be moved to the file namespace, nor vice versa. +* (bug 671) The <dfn>, <kbd> and <samp> elements have been whitelisted in user + input. +* (bug 21503) There's now a "reason" field when creating account for other users. +* (bug 24418) action=markpatrolled now requires a token. +* A variety of category sort-related fixes, including: +** (bug 164) In English, lowercase and uppercase letters now sort the same. +** (bug 1211) Subcategories, ordinary pages, and files now page separately. +** When several pages are given the same sort key, they sort by their names + instead of randomly. +* (bug 23848) Add {{ARTICLEPATH}} Magic Word. +* (bug 8140) Add dedicated CSS classes to Special:Newpages elements. +* (bug 11005) Add CSS class to empty pages in Special:Newpages. +* The parser cache is now shared amongst users whose different settings aren't + used in the page. +* Any attribute beginning with "data-" can now be used in wikitext, per HTML5. +* (bug 24007) Diff pages now mention the number of users having edited + intermediate revisions. +* Added new hook GetIP. +* Special:Version now displays whether a SQLite database supports full-text + search. +* TS_ISO_8691_BASIC was added as a time format, which is used by ResourceLoader + for versioning. +* Maintenance scripts get a --memory-limit option to override defaults (which + is usually to set it to -1 to disable the limit). +* (bug 25397) Allow uploading (not displaying) of WebP images, disabled + by default. +* (bug 23194) Special:ListFiles now has thumbnails. +* Use hreflang to specify canonical and alternate links, search engine friendly + when a wiki has multiple variant languages. * (bug 19593) Specifying --server in now works for all maintenance scripts. -* Fixed $wgLicenseTerms register globals. -* (bug 26561) Fixed clickjacking vulnerabilities by introducing support for - X-Frame-Options. The header value can be configured using $wgBreakFrames and - $wgEditPageFrameOptions. - -== Changes since 1.16 beta 3 == - -* (bug 23769) Disabled HTML 5 client-side form validation. Was introduced in - 1.16 beta 1, but is currently poorly supported by browsers. -* (bug 23175) Re-added window.ta variable for backwards compatibility. -* (bug 23264) Fixed breakage of various command line scripts due to extra line - endings being inserted by Maintenance::output(). -* Fixed HTTP client functionality with safe_mode=On. -* Fixed parser tests broken in 1.16 beta 3. -* For Oracle DB backend: fixed parser tests and table prefix feature. -* (bug 23767) Fixed PHP warning when REQUEST_URI is blank (IIS issue). -* Fixed plural function for Northern Sami (se) -* (bug 23597) Fixed conflicts between ID attributes in the Vector skin and - parser-generated heading IDs. Renamed head, panel, head-base and page-base. -* Disabled $wgHitcounterUpdateFreq>1 feature on SQLite, does not work yet. -* (bug 23465) Don't ignore the predefined destination filename on - Special:Upload after following a red link to a file. -* In SQLite full-text search feature: fixed "move page" feature, was non- - functional. -* (bug 24565) Fixed Cache-Control headers sent from API modules, to protect - user privacy in the case where an attacker can access the wiki through the - same HTTP proxy as a logged-in user. -* Fixed an XSS vulnerability in profileinfo.php for installations with - $wgEnableProfileInfo = true (false by default) -* Fixed a case where an X-Vary-Options header was sent despite $wgUseXVO being - false. Fixed a minor header parsing issue when $wgUseXVO = true. -* Fixed a register_globals arbitrary inclusion vulnerability in - MediaWikiParserTest.php, introduced in 1.16 beta 1. - -== Changes since 1.16 beta 2 == - -* Fixed bugs in the [[Special:Userlogin]] and [[Special:Emailuser]] handling of - invalid usernames. -* Fixed sorting in [[Special:Allmessages]] -* (bug 23113) Fixed title in the show/hide links on diff pages -* (bug 23117) Fixed API rollback, was returning "badtoken" for valid requests -* (bug 23127) Re-added missing $1 parameter to the uploadtext message -* Fixed a bug in the Vector skin where personal tools display behind the logo -* (bug 23139) Fixed a bug in edit conflict resolution, where both textboxes - showed the same text. -* (bug 23115, bug 23124) Fixed various problems with <title> and <h1> elements - in page views and previews when the language converter is enabled. -* (bug 23148) Fixed a local path disclosure vulnerability in ImageMagick image - scaling, which was introduced in 1.16 beta 1. -* Improved error checking on installer. -* (bug 22970) Fixed a JavaScript error in the upload destination conflict - check. -* (bug 23167) Check the watch checkbox by default if the watchcreations +* Now rebuildtextindex.php warns if SQLite doesn't support full-text search. +* (bug 10541) Front/backend separation of installation/upgrade code. +* (bug 10596) Allow installer to enable extensions already in extensions folder. +* (bug 20627) Installer should be in languages other than English. +* Support for metadata in SVG files (title, description). +* Special:Search: Add CSS classes to 'none found' and 'create link' messages. +* Add CSS classes (including namespace and pagename) to the enhanced recent + changes/watchlist entries. +* (bug 22463) Add hook 'SkinGetPoweredBy' to make 'powered by' icon/text + customizable. +* Added CSS print pagination to the print stylesheets. +* (bug 25960) Add <link rel=canonical"> for File pages of shared/foreign + file repositories. +* When viewing a redirect, the redirect arrow and redirection target are both + wrapped in a div that has the class "redirectMsg" so that the redirection + arrow can be customized with CSS. +* (bug 21911) Hard coded limit for long page warning removed. New message + [[MediaWiki:Longpage-hint]] (empty per default) can be used instead. + Parameters: $1 shows the formatted textsize in Byte/KB/MB, $2 is the raw + number of the textsize in Byte. +* (bug 3276) Give image <gallery>s fluid width. +* Added uploads link to page subtitle in Special:Contributions. +* Added Special:Myuploads special page that redirects to Special:Listfiles. +* The footerlinks used in Monobook/Vector/Modern are now part of common skin + code, SkinTemplateOutputPageBeforeExec can be used to customize the list. +* Special wrapping setups can now define MW_CONFIG_FILE to load a config file + other than LocalSettings.php. This is like MW_CONFIG_CALLBACK but works in + some cases where MW_CONFIG_CALLBACK will not work. +* (bug 26574) Added 'upload' to $wgRestrictionTypes, allowing upload protected + pages to be queried via the API and Special:ProtectedPages, and allowing + disabling upload protection by removing it from $wgRestrictionTypes. +* The name attribute of HTMLForm fields can now be overridden by passing a + 'name' key in the descriptor array. Hidden field names are now treated + consistently with other fields and, by default, prefixed with 'wp'. +* (bug 27402) Add support for disabling MWSuggest. +* (bug 26563) Add bytes changed per revision for stub and full article dumps. +* (bug 27508) Add $wgSVGMetadataCutoff to limit the maximum amount of an svg we + look at when finding metadata to prevent excessive resource usage. +* (bug 198) $wgUpgradeKey allows unlocking the web installer for upgrades + without having to move LocalSettings.php +* Added $wgAllowImageTag, which can be set to true to whitelist the <img> tag + in wikitext. +* (bug 12797) Add $wgGalleryOptions for adjusting of default gallery display + options. +* Added the $wgAllowUserCssPrefs option which allows disabling CSS-based + preferences; which can improve page loading speed. +* Added $wgSQLMode for setting database SQL modes - either performance (null) + or other reasons (such as enabling stricter checks). +* (bug 20193) Added $wgVectorShowVariantName global configuration variable + which causes Vector to render the variants drop-down menu with a label + showing the current variant name. This is off by default, pending further + research into its user experience implications. +* The upload link for missing files can now be set separately from the + navigation link with $wgUploadMissingFileUrl. +* $wgAdditionalMailParams added to allow setting extra options to mail() calls. +* Added $wgSecureLogin to optionally login using HTTPS. +* (bug 25728) Added $wgPasswordSenderName to make the name associated + with $wgPasswordSender configurable. +* (bug 22463) $wgFooterIcons added to allow configuration of the icons shown in + the footers of skins. +* $wgFileCacheDepth can be used to set the depth of the subdirectory hierarchy. + used for the file cache. Default value is 2, which matches former behavior. + +=== Bug fixes in 1.17 === + +* (bug 17560) Half-broken deletion moved image files to deletion archive + without updating database. +* (bug 22666) Submitting user block form with an invalid user name no longer + throws an error. +* (bug 22665, bug 22667) User '0' can now be unblocked and have its block + settings changed. +* (bug 22606) The body of e-mail address confirmation message is now different + when the address changed. +* (bug 22664) Special:Userrights now accepts '0' as a valid user name. +* (bug 5210) Preload parser now parses <noinclude>, <includeonly> and + redirects. +* (bug 22709) IIS7 mishandles redirects generated by OutputPage::output() when + the URL contains a colon. +* (bug 22353) Categorised recent changes now works again. +* (bug 22747) "Reveal my e-mail address in notification e-mails" preference is + now only displayed when relevant. +* (bug 22772) {{#special:}} parser function now works with subpages. +* (bug 18664) Relative URIs in interwiki links cause failed redirects. +* (bug 19270) Relative URIs in interwiki links break interwiki transclusion. +* (bug 22903) Revdelete log entries now show in the user preferred language. +* (bug 22905) Correctly handle <abbr> followed by ISBN. +* (bug 22940) Namespace aliases pointing to main namespace don't work. +* (bug 15810) Blocked admins can no longer block/unblock other users. +* (bug 22876) Avoid possible PHP Notice if $wgDefaultUserOptions is not + correctly set. +* (bug 14952) Page titles are renormalized after html entities are removed so + that links with non-NFC character references work correctly. +* (bug 22991) wgUserGroups JavaScript variable now reports * group for + anonymous users instead of null. +* (bug 22627) Remove PHP notice when deleting a page only hidden users edited. +* (bug 21520) Anonymous previews now also gives a warning about not being + logged in (anonpreviewwarning). +* (bug 22935) image/x-ms-bmp mime type added for BMP files. +* (bug 23024) Special:ListFiles now escapes file names correctly. +* (bug 22867) "View source" tab is now only displayed if there's source text. +* (bug 19393) Feeds now format dates in user language rather than content + language. +* (bug 22852) "Served in" comment is now the time used to cache a single page + when using rebuildFileCache.php +* (bug 22496) Viewing diff of a redirect page without specifying "oldid". + parameter no longer makes the page displayed as being the redirect target. +* (bug 22918) Feed cache keys now use $wgRenderHashAppend. +* (bug 21916) Last-Modified header is now correct when outputting cached feed. +* (bug 20049) Fixed PHP notice in search highlighter that occurs in some cases. +* (bug 23017) Special:Disambiguations now list pages in content namespaces + rather than only main namespace. +* (bug 23063) $wgMaxAnimatedGifArea is checked against the total size of all. + frames, and $wgMaxImageArea against the size of the first frame, rather than + the other way around. Both now default to 12.5 megapixels. Also, images + exceeding $wgMaxImageArea can still be embedded at original size. +* (bug 23078) "All public logs" option on Special:Log is now always the first + item. +* (bug 16817) Group names in user rights log are now singular and in lowercase. +* Special:Preferences no longer crashes if the wiki default date formatting + style is not valid for the user's interface language. +* (bug 23167) Check the watch checkbox by default if the watchcreations preference is set. -* (bug 23171) Improve IE6 version check to avoid false positives. -* (bug 23176) Fixed upload warning override feature "upload new version", - broken in 1.16 beta 1. -* Fixed regression in unwatch links sent out in notification emails. When the - mailing job was deferred via the job queue, the title was incorrect. -* (bug 23534) Fixed SQL query error in API list=allusers. -* Fixed a bug in uploads for non-JavaScript clients. An empty string was used - as the default destination filename, instead of the source filename as - expected. -* (bug 23371) Fixed CSRF vulnerability in "e-mail me my password", "create - account" and "create by e-mail" features of [[Special:Userlogin]] -* (bug 23687) Fixed XSS vulnerability affecting IE clients only, due to a CSS - validation issue. -* Fixed a DoS vulnerability in ImageMagick image scaling. ImageMagick - expanded wildcard characters "?" and "*" in image filenames, potentially - causing large numbers of images to be scaled in response to a single request. - The fix for this involves breaking the scaling of such image filenames until - ImageMagick 6.6.1-5 or later is deployed, see bug 23361 for more details. -* (bug 23608) Fixed invalid HTML in diff pages. - -=== Changes since 1.16 beta 1 === - -* Fixed errors in maintenance/patchSql.php -* (bug 19627) Fix regression from r57867 where HTMLForm would output - <element classes="foo bar"> rather than <element class="foo bar"> -* Fixed broken "-r" option to maintenance/lag.php -* (bug 23076) Fixed login CSRF vulnerability. Logins now require a token to - be submitted along with the user name and password. - -=== Configuration changes in 1.16 === - -* (bug 18222) $wgMinimalPasswordLength default is now 1 -* $wgSessionHandler can be used to configure session.save_handler -* $wgLocalFileRepo/$wgForeignFileRepos now have a 'fileMode' parameter to - be used when uploading/moving files -* (bug 18761) $wgHiddenPrefs is a new array for specifying preferences not - to be shown to users -* $wgAllowRealName and $wgAllowUserSkin were deprecated in favor of - $wgHiddenPrefs[] = 'realname', but the former are still retained - for backwards-compatibility -* (bug 9257) $wgRCMaxAge now defaults to three months -* $wgDevelopmentWarnings can be set to true to show warnings about deprecated - functions and other potential errors when developing. -* Subpages are now enabled in the MediaWiki namespace by default. This is - mainly a cosmetic change, and does not in any way affect the MessageCache, - which was already effectively treating the namespace as if it had subpages. -* Oracle: maintenance/ora/user.sql script for creating DB user on oracle with - appropriate privileges. Creating this user with web-install page requires - oci8.privileged_connect set to On in php.ini. -* Removed UserrightsChangeableGroups hook introduced in 1.14 -* Added $wgCacheDirectory, to replace $wgFileCacheDirectory, - $wgLocalMessageCache, and any other local caches which need a place to put - files. -* $wgFileCacheDirectory is no longer set to anything by default, and so either - needs to be set explicitly, or $wgCacheDirectory needs to be set instead. -* $wgLocalMessageCache has been removed. Instead, set $wgUseLocalMessageCache - to true -* Removed $wgEnableSerializedMessages and $wgCheckSerialized. Similar - functionality is now available via $wgLocalisationCacheConf. -* $wgMessageCache->addMessages() is deprecated. Messages added via this - interface will not appear in Special:AllMessages. -* $wgRegisterInternalExternals can be used to record external links pointing - to same server -* (bug 19907) $wgCrossSiteAJAXdomains and $wgCrossSiteAJAXdomainExceptions added - to control which external domains may access the API via cross-site AJAX. -* $wgMaintenanceScripts for extensions to add their scripts to the default list -* $wgMemoryLimit has been added, default value '50M' -* $wgExtraRandompageSQL is deprecated, the SpecialRandomGetRandomTitle hook - should be used instead -* (bug 20489) $wgIllegalFileChars added to override the default list of illegal - characters in file names. -* (bug 19646) $wgImgAuthDetails added to display reason access to uploaded file - was denied to users(img_auth only) -* (bug 19646) $wgImgAuthPublicTest added to test to see if img_auth set up - correctly (img_auth only) -* $wgUploadMaintenance added to disable file deletions and restorations during - maintenance -* $wgCapitalLinkOverrides added to configure per-namespace capitalization -* (bug 21172) $wgSorbsUrl can now be an array with multiple DNSBL and renamed - to $wgDnsBlacklistUrls (backward compatibility kept) -* $wgEnableHtmlDiff has been removed -* (bug 3340) $wgBlockCIDRLimit added (default: 16) to configure the low end of - CIDR ranges for blocking -* $wgUseInstantCommons added for quick and easy enabling of Commons as a remote - file repository -* $wgDBAhandler added to choose a DBA handler when using CACHE_DBA -* $wgPreviewOnOpenNamespaces for extensions that create namespaces that behave - similarly to the category namespace. -* $wgEnableSorbs renamed to $wgDnsBlacklistUrls ($wgEnableSorbs kept for - backward compatibility) -* $wgUploadNavigationUrl now also affects images inline images that do not - exist. In that case the URL will get (?|&)wpDestFile=<filename> appended to - it as appropriate. -* If $wgLocaltimezone is null, use the server's timezone as the default for - signatures. This was always the behaviour documented in DefaultSettings.php - but has not been the actual behaviour for some time: instead, UTC was used - by default. -* Added $wgExtensionAssetsPath, to decouple assets serving from $wgScriptPath. - If not specified it will default to $wgScriptPath/extensions -* Added $wgCountTotalSearchHits to make search UI display total number of hits - with some search engines. -* Added $wgAdvertisedFeedTypes to decide what feed types (RSS, Atom, both, or - neither) MediaWiki advertises. Default is array( 'atom' ), so RSS is no - longer advertised by default (but it still works). -* Added $wgMemCachedTimeout, controls how long to wait for data from the - memcached servers. -* New configuration variables $wgDebugTimestamps and $wgDebugPrintHttpHeaders - for controlling debug output. -* New $wgBlockDisablesLogin when set to true disallows blocked users from - logging in. -* (bug 8790) Metadata edition ($wgUseMetadataEdit) has been moved to a separate - extension "MetadataEdit". - -=== New features in 1.16 === - -* A new skin called Vector was added -* Add CSS defintion of the 'wikitable' class to shared.css -* (bug 17163) Added MediaWiki:Talkpageheader which will be displayed when - viewing talk pages -* 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 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 16950) Show move log when viewing/creating a deleted page -* (bug 18242) Show the Subversion revision number per extensions in - Special:Version -* (bug 18420) Missing file revisions are handled gracefully now -* (bug 9219) Auth plugins can control editing RealName/Email/Nick preferences -* (bug 18466) Add note or warning when overruling a move (semi-)protection -* (bug 18342) insertTags works in edit summary box -* (bug 18411) The upload form also checks post_max_size -* Watchlist now has a specialized <div> tag that contains a unique class for - each page -* Added Minguo calendar support for the Taiwan Chinese language -* Database: unionQueries function to be used for UNION sql construction, so - it can be overloaded on DB abstraction level for DB specific functionality -* (bug 18849) Implement Japanese and North Korean calendars -* (bug 5755) Introduce {{CURRENTMONTH1}} and {{LOCALMONTH1}} to display the - month number without the leading zero -* (bug 13456) categoriespagetext supports PLURAL -* (bug 18860) Blocks of IPs affecting registered users can now block email -* (bug 17093) Date and time are separate parameters in Special:BlockList -* (bug 11484) Added ISO speed rating to default collapsed EXIF metadata view -* (bug 14866) Messages 'recentchangeslinked-toolbox' and - 'recentchangeslinked-toolbox' were added to allow more fine grained - customisation of the user interface -* DISPLAYTITLE now accepts a limited amount of wiki markup (the single-quote - items) -* Special:Search now could search terms in all variant-forms. ONLY apply on - wikis enabled LanguageConverter. -* Add autopromote condition APCOND_BLOCKED to autopromote blocked users to - various user groups. -* Add $wgRevokePermissions as a means of restricting a group's rights. The - syntax is identical to $wgGroupPermissions, but users in these groups will - have these rights stripped from them. -* Added a PHP port of CDB (constant database), for improved local caching when - the DBA extension is not available. -* Introduced a new system for localisation caching. The system is based around - fast fetches of individual messages, minimising memory overhead and startup - time in the typical case. The database backend will be used by default, but - set $wgCacheDirectory to get a faster CDB-based implementation. -* Expanded the number of variables which can be set in the extension messages - files. -* Added a feature to allow per-article process pool size control for the parsing - task, to limit resource usage when the cache for a heavily-viewed article is - invalidated. Requires an external daemon. -* (bug 19576) Moved the id attribues from the anchors accompanying section - headers to the <span class="mw-headline"> elements within the section headers, - removing the redundant anchor elements. -* Parser::setFunctionTagHook now can be used to add a new tag which is parsed at - preprocesor level. -* Added $wgShowArchiveThumbnails, allowing sysadmins to disable thumbnail - display for old versions of images. -* In watchlists and Special:RecentChanges, the difference in page size now - appears in dark green if bytes were added and dark red if bytes were removed. -* Added FSRepo configuration properties thumbUrl and thumbDir, to allow the - thumbnails to be stored in a separate location to the source images. -* If config/ directory is not executable, the command to make it executable - now asks the user to cd to the correct directory -* Add experimental new external authentication framework, ExternalAuth -* (bug 18768) Remove AdminSettings requirements. Maintenance environment - will still load it if it exists, but it's not required for anything -* (bug 19900) The "listgrouprights-key" message is now wrapped in a div with - class "mw-listgrouprights-key" -* (bug 471) Allow RSS feeds for watchlist, using an opt-in security token -* (bug 10812) Interwiki links can have names and descriptions, fetched from - message 'interwiki-desc-PREFIX', not really used anywhere yet though -* (bug 9691) Add type (signup or login) parameter to - AuthPlugin::ModifyUITemplate() -* (bug 14454) "Member of group(s)" in Special:Preferences causes language - difficulties -* (bug 16697) Unicode combining characters are difficult to edit in some - browsers -* Parser test supports uploading results to remote CodeReview instance -* (bug 20013) Added CSS class "mw-version-ext-version" is wrapped on the - extension version in Special:Version -* (bug 20014) Added CSS class "mw-listgrouprights-right-name" is wrapped on the - right name in Special:ListGroupRights -* (bug 12920) New CoreParserFunction {{nse:...}} as an url-friendly equivalent - to {{ns:...}} -* (bug 16322) Allow maintenance scripts to accept DB user/pass over input or - params -* (bug 18566) Maintenance script to un/protect pages -* (bug 671) The HTML <abbr> tag is now permitted. -* RecentChanges now has a legend to explain what the Nmb! flags mean, and the - flags have tooltips. -* (bug 15209) New hook BeforeInitialize called after everything has been setup - but before Mediawiki::performRequestForTitle() -* wgMainPageTitle variable now available to JavaScript code to identify the main - page link, so it doesn't have to be extracted from the link URLs. -* (bug 16836) Display preview of signature in user preferences and describe its - use -* The default output format is now HTML 5 instead of XHTML 1.0 Transitional. - This can be disabled by setting $wgHtml5 = false;. Specific features enabled - if HTML 5 is used: -** Some extra inputs will be autofocused, in supporting browsers. -** The summary attribute has been removed from tables of contents. summary is - obsolete in HTML 5 and wasn't useful here anyway. -** Unnecessary type="" attribute removed for CSS and JS. -** If $wgWellFormedXml is set to false, some bytes will be shaved off of HTML - output by omitting some things like quotation marks where HTML 5 allows. -** (bug 16921) maxlength enabled for page move comments -* The description message in $wgExtensionCredits can be an array with parameters -* New hook SpecialRandomGetRandomTitle allows extensions to modify the selection - criteria used by Special:Random and subclasses, or substitute a custom result, - deprecating the $wgExtraRandompageSQL config variable -* (bug 20318) Distinct CSS classes for ISBN/RFC/PMID special links added -* (bug 20404) Custom fields in the user creation form template can now have - detail labels in prefsectiontip divs. -* MakeSysop and MakeBot are now aliases for Special:UserRights -* IndexPager->mLimitsShown can now be an associative array of limit => text-to- - display-in-limit-form. -* (bug 18880) LogEventsList::showLogExtract() can now take a string-by-reference - and add its HTML to it, rather than having to go straight to $wgOut. -* Added $wgShowDBErrorBacktrace, to allow users to easily gather backtraces for - database connection and query errors. -* Show change block / unblock link on Special:Contributions if user is blocked -* Display note on Special:Contributions if the user is blocked, and provide an - excerpt from the block log. -* (bug 19646) New hook: ImgAuthBeforeStream for tests and functionality before - file is streamed to user, but only when using img_auth -* Note on non-existing user and user talk pages if user does not exist -* New hook ShowMissingArticle so extensions can modify the output for - non-existent pages. -* Admins could disable some variants using $wgDisabledVariants now. ONLY apply - on wikis enabled LanguageConverter. -* (bug 16310) Credits page now lists IP addresses rather than saying the number - of anonymous users that edited the page -* New permission 'sendemail' added. Default right for all registered users. Can - for example be used to prevent new accounts from sending spam. -* (bug 16979) Tracking categories for __INDEX__ and __NOINDEX__ -* Two new hooks, ConfirmEmailComplete and InvalidateEmailComplete, which are - called after a user's email has been successfully confirmed or invalidated. -* (bug 19741) Moved the XCF files out of the main MediaWiki distribution, for - a smaller subversion checkout. -* (bug 13750) First letter capitalization can now be a per-namespace setting -* (bug 21073) "User does not exist" message no longer displayed on sub-sub-pages - of existing users -* (bug 21095) Tracking categories produced by the parser (expensive parser - function limit exceeded, __NOINDEX__ tracking, etc) can now be disabled by - setting the system message ([[MediaWiki:expensive-parserfunction-category]] - etc) to "-". -* Added maintenance script sqlite.php for SQLite-specific maintenance tasks. -* Rewrote Special:Upload to allow easier extension. -* Upload errors that can be solved by changing the filename now do not require - reuploading. -* Added $wgRateLimitsExcludedIPs, to allow specific IPs to be whitelisted from - rate limits. -* (bug 21222) When $wgUseTeX is not enabled, <math> is no longer registered with - the parser so extensions are free to implement their own <math> tag -* (bug 21047) Wrap 'cannotdelete' into a div with the generic 'error' class and - an own 'mw-error-cannotdelete' class -* New hook AbortNewAccountAuto, called before account creation from AuthPlugin- - or ExtUser-driven requests. -* (bug 3480) The warning saying that the page has a history when deleting it now - contains the number of revisions in the history -* $wgStylePath and $wgLogo are now set in the default LocalSettings.php file. -* (bug 20186) Allow filtering history for revision deletion. -* New hook OtherBlockLogLink, called in Special:IPBlockList and Special:Block - to show links to block logs of other blocking extensions, i.e. GlobalBlocking -* Added search capabilities to SQLite backend -* rebuildtextindex.php maintenance script now supports databases other than - MySQL -* upgrade1_5.php now requires to be run --update option to prevent confusion -* (bug 17662) Customizable default preload/editintro for new sections in the - respective addsection-preload and addsection-editintro messages -* Added maintenance script checkSyntax.php that checks for PHP syntax errors - and common coding mistakes -* Updated Unicode normalization tables -* (bug 21604) Spellcheck attribute for editsummary -* New wgCategories JavaScript global variable for userscripts. -* (bug 20717) Added checkboxes to hide users with bot and/or sysop group - membership in SpecialActiveusers -* Allow \pagecolor and \definecolor in texvc -* $wgTexvcBackgroundColor contains background color for texvc call -* (bug 21574) Redirects can now have "303 See Other" HTTP status -* EditPage refactored to allow extensions to derive new edit modes much easier. -* (bug 21826) Subsections of Special:Version now also have anchors -* (bug 19791) Add URL of file source as comment to thumbs (for ImageMagick) -* (bug 21946) Sorted wikitables do not properly handle minus signs -* (bug 18885) Red links for media files do not support shared repositories -* Added $wgFixArabicUnicode, to convert deprecated presentation forms in - Arabic text to their modern equivalents, and $wgFixMalayalamUnicode, to - convert ZWJ-based chillu sequences in Malayalam text to their Unicode 5.1 - equivalents. -* (bug 22051) Returing false in SpecialContributionsBeforeMainOutput hook now - stops normal output -* Send new password e-mail in users preference language -* LanguageConverter now support nested using of manual convert syntax like - "-{-{}-}-" -* Upload license preview now uses the API instead of action=ajax -* (bug 7346) Add <guid> to RSS to avoid duplicates -* (bug 19996) Added new hooks for Special:Search, which allow to further - restrict/expand it. -* (bug 21936) When a revision has been patrolled, there's now a link back to the - article -* (bug 22315) SpecialRecentChangesQuery hook now pass $query_options and checks - the return value -* Separate unit test suites under t/ and tests/ were merged and moved to - maintenance/tests/. -* importImages.php maintenance script can now use the original uploader and -comment from another wiki. -* Support for Turck MMCache was removed -* (bug 14592) Warn users when they try to move their user page that their - account will not be renamed -* Show block log on non-existing user (talk) pages of currently blocked users - -=== Bug fixes in 1.16 === - -* (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 -* (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. -** The user_properties table (now used for storing preferences) has been added - to $wgSharedTables. -** Note that this change will break some extensions which have not been adapted - for it. -* (bug 17020) Adding fallback encodings for Traditional and Simplified Chinese - languages while the the text is typed as URLs. -* (bug 17614) Prev / Next links are not shown if all results are shown -* (bug 18207) Strange spacing before [[irc:...]] links -* Removed float from the user login form in RTL interface - caused display - problems in FF2 -* (bug 15008) Redirect images are now subject to Bad image list rules -* (bug 6802) profileinfo.php now also work on other database servers than MySQL -* (bug 16925) Diffs no longer fail when $wgExternalDiffEngine is set to - 'wikidiff' or 'wikidiff2' but extension is not installed -* (bug 18326) Chmod errors in file repos have been hidden -* (bug 18718) Comma after a } create a error in IE -* (bug 18716) Removed redundant class in Modern skin CSS for category links and - tweaked spacing. -* (bug 18656) Use proper directory separators in wfMkdirParents() -* (bug 18549) Make Special:Blockip respect $wgEnableUserEmail and - $wgSysopEmailBans -* (bug 16912) Tooltips on images with link= disappear -* (bug 18389) Localise numbers in EXIF data -* (bug 18522) Wrap MediaWiki:Protect-cascadeon in a div for identification -* (bug 18438) Tweak HTML for preview bar for consistency and accessibility -* (bug 18432) Updated documentation for dumpBackup.php -* Fix array logic in Sanitizer::removeHTMLtags so that it doesn't strip good - tags that were redundantly defined. -* (bug 14118) SpecialPage::getTitleFor does not return a localised name -* (bug 18698) Renaming non entry point maintenance scripts from .inc.php to - .inc -* Deprecated methods Title::getInterwikiLink, Title::userCanCreate(), - Title::userCanEdit() and Title::userCanMove() have been removed -* Only show upload links on file description if $wgEnableUploads = true - and user can upload -* Don't say "You need to log in to upload/move", because it's possible that - uploading/moving is disabled for registered users as well (e.g. only sysops) -* (bug 18943) Handle invalid titles gracefully at Special:Mostlinked -* (bug 8873) Enable variant conversion in text on 'alt' and 'title' attributes -* (bug 10837) Introducing the StubUserVariant class to determine the variant - variable instead of using this to overrules the user language preference. -* (bug 19014) If user had deletedhistory right, but not undeleted right, then - show "view" instead of "view/restore" on logs. -* (bug 19017) TOC level calculation error in an odd case -* (bug 18999) CSS update for RTL interwiki links -* (bug 18925) history.js removes class names of list elements on initialization -* Multiple whitespace in TOC anchors is now stripped, for consistency with the - link from the edit comment -* (bug 19112) Preferences now respects $wgUseExternalEditor -* (bug 18173) MediaWiki now fails when unable to determine a client IP -* (bug 19170) Special:Version should follow the content language direction -* (bug 19160) maintenance/purgeOldText.inc is now compatible with PostgreSQL -* Fixed performance regression in "bad image list" feature -* Show user preference 'Use live preview' if $wgLivePreview is enabled only -* (bug 17014) Blocked users can no longer use Special:UserRights unless they - can add/remove *all* groups (have 'userrights' permission). -* (bug 19294) Always show Sp-contributions-footer(-anon) -* Attempts to restrict reading of pages while anonymous viewing is allowed - via extensions not using the userCan hook and via $wgRevokePermissions now +* Maintenance script cleanupTitles is now able to fix titles stored + in a negative namespace (which is invalid). +* (bug 19858) Removed obsolete <big> in interface messages. +* (bug 21456) "Bad title" error when showing non-local interwiki pages no longer + displays incorrect tabs. +* (bug 23190) Improved math representation for text browsers. +* (bug 22015) Improved upload-by-url error handling and error display. +* (bug 17941) $wgMaxUploadSize is now honored by all upload sources. +* (bug 23080) New usernames now limited to 235 bytes so that custom skin files work. -* (bug 8445) Multiple-character search terms are now handled properly for - Chinese -* (bug 19450) Use formatNum for "Number of edits" in Special:Preferences -* (bug 11242) Check for MySQL storage engines during installation now checks - whether the engines are actually available -* (bug 19390) Omit the "printable version" link on the printable version -* (bug 18394) img_auth.php now respects userCan -* (bug 19509) Uploading to a file named '0' previously treated it as null input - and attempted to upload with the source name. Now warns about not having an - extension (since 0.ext is perfectly valid) -* (bug 19468) Enotif preferences are now only displayed when they are turned on -* (bug 19442) Show/hide options on watchlist only work once -* (bug 19602) PubMed Magic links now use updated NIH url -* (bug 19637) externallinks have links to self -* Don't load Opera 9.5 RTL fixes for Opera 9.6 -* Remove five-year-old KHTMLFixes.css, which is unlikely to be relevant anymore - and was causing problems. -* Removed repetition of URIs in the title attributes of external links. -* (bug 19693) User name is now escaped in "Contributions for ..." link on - Special:BlockIP -* (bug 19571) Override buildConcat for SQLite. -* Log in and log out links no longer return to page view when clicked from - history view, edit page, or something similar -* (bug 19513) RTL fixes for new Search UI -* (bug 16497) Special:Allmessages is paginated -* (bug 18708) CSS plainlinks class now available to all skins -* (bug 19590) Database error messages no longer have "MySQL" hardcoded as the - database type -* (bug 19759) successbox on Special:Preferences now correctly aligned on - standard, nostalgia and cologneblue skin -* (bug 19814) interwiki links from file links ([[File:Foo.jpg|link=de:Test]]) - are no longer recorded in the pagelinks table -* (bug 19784) date option "ISO 8601" produced illegal id -* (bug 19761) Removed autogenerated <meta keywords> tag with link data. - Keyword set was not useful, and is ignored by modern search engines anway. -* (bug 19827) Special:SpecialPages title is "Upload file -* (bug 19355) Added .xhtml, .xht to upload file extension blacklist -* (bug 19287) Workaround for lag on history page in Firefox 3.5 -* (bug 19564) Updated docs/hooks.txt -* (bug 18751) Fix for buggage in profiling setup for some extensions on PHP 5.1 -* (bug 17139) ts_resortTable inconsistent trimming makes date sorting fragile -* (bug 19445) Change oldimage table to use ON UPDATE CASCADE for FK to image - table. -* (bug 14080) Short notation links to subpages didn't work in edit summaries -* (bug 17374) Special:Export no longer exports multiple copies of pages -* (bug 19818) Edits to user CSS/JS subpages can now be marked as patrolled by - users who can't edit them -* (bug 19839) Comments in log items are no more double escaped -* (bug 18161) Fix inconsistent separators in watchlist link toolbars with - "enhanced recent changes" -* (bug 16877) Moving a page over a redirect no longer leaves an orphan entry in - the recentchanges table -* (bug 16009) Limit selection forms based on Pager now links to the correct page - when using long urls -* The display of the language list on the preferences is more comply with the - BCP 47 standards. -* (bug 19849) Custom X-Vary-Options header now disabled unless $wgUseXVO is set -* (bug 19301) Duplicates entries in $wgAddGroups, $wgRemoveGroups, - $wgGroupsAddToSelf and $wgGroupsRemoveFromSelf are no more displayed on - Special:ListGroupRights -* (bug 18799) Special:Userlogin now handles correctly the returnto parameter - to not link back to Special:Userlogout when user's language isn't the same as - content's language -* (bug 19479) Show proper error message when unable to connect to PostgreSQL - database with username/password in MediaWiki's setup -* (bugs 18407, 18409) Special:Upload is now listed on Special:Specialpages only - if uploads are enabled and the user can access it -* (bug 17988) Spaces before [[Category:]] links are no longer ignored -* (bug 19957) All known-failing tests now marked disabled; added --run-disabled - option to parser test suite to run disabled tests if desired. -* (bug 16311) Make recent change flags (n/m/b) <abbr>s instead of <span>s -* (bug 15680) Split the edit tip message of user CSS/JS subpage into - "usercssyoucanpreview" and "userjsyoucanpreview" respectively. -* (bug 12110) Split the rights for editing users' CSS/JS subpage from - "editusercssjs" into "editusercss" and edituserjs" respectively. -* (bug 19394) RecentChanges feed URLs for log items with no revisions - (eg Newuser, Userrights) are no longer broken -* (bug 17395) Remote file descriptions use user language ($wgLang), not wiki - language ($wgContLang) -* (bug 11867) Lock error on redirect table when running orphans.php -* (bug 18930) initStats.php now refreshes active users count -* (bug 18699) Using the nosummary URL option no longer triggers the "You have - not provided a summary" warning for those who activated it in their - preferences -* (bug 18855) commandLine.inc and Maintenance.php are now properly included - using the full path -* (bug 18497) Fixed broken style sheets in Opera fullscreen mode -* (bug 16084) Default memory limit has be increased to 50M, see $wgMemoryLimit -* (bug 17864/19519) Added proper input normalization in Special:UserRights -* (bug 20086) Add Hook to add extra statistics at the end of Special:Statistics -* (bug 19289) importDump.php can now handle bzip2 and 7zip -* (bug 20131) Fixed a PHP notice for users having the "rollback" right on - Special:RecentChangesLinked -* Do not transform EXIF fields with pure text to avoid results like - foo,bar@example,com -* (bug 20176) Fix login/logout links in skin CologneBlue -* (bug 20203) "Powered by Mediawiki" now has height/width on image tag -* (bug 20273) Fix broken output when no pages are found in the content - namespaces -* (bug 20265) Make AncientPages and UnusedFiles work on SQLite -* Fixed XSS vulnerability for Internet Explorer clients (only pre-release - versions of MediaWiki were affected). -* (bug 14817) Moving a page to a subpage of itself moves it twice -* (bug 20289) $wgMaximumMovedPages should only count pages actually moved -* (bug 15248) Non-breaking spaces and certain other Unicode space characters - are now normalized to ordinary spaces in titles; if your wiki has existing - titles with such characters, run cleanupTitles.php and/or cleanupImages.php -* (bug 11143) Links containing invalid UTF-8 percent-code sequences are now - cleanly disabled instead of breaking parsing entirely on PHP 5.2. -* (bug 20296) Fixed an PHP warning in Language::getMagic() in PHP 5.3 -* (bug 20358) Unprotect tab was missing accesskey; now same as protect tab. -* (bug 20317) Cleaned up default main page link accesskey settings -* (bug 20362) Special:Statistics now produces valid HTML when view counters are - enabled -* (bug 19857) maintenance/deleteRevision.php on last revision no longer breaks - target page -* (bug 20365) Page name with with c/g/h/j/s/u + x are now correctly handled in - Special:MovePage with Esperanto as content language -* (bug 20364) Fixed regression in GIF metadata loading -* (bug 20299) MediaWiki:Move-subpages and MediaWiki:Move-talk-subpages can now - use wikitext -* (bug 15475) DatabaseBase::setFlag(), DatabaseBase::clearFlag() and - DatabaseBase::getFlag() now have documentation -* (bug 19966) MediaWiki:License-header is now used for the licensing header in - the file description page instead of MediaWiki:License -* (bug 20380) Links to history/deleted edits at the top of - Special:RevisionDelete are no more displayed when when doing log suppression -* (bug 8143) Localised parser function names are now correctly case insensitive - if they contain non-ASCII characters -* (bug 19055) maintenance/rebuildrecentchanges.php now purges - Special:Recentchanges's RSS and Atom feed cache -* The installer will now try to bypass PHP's max_execution_time -* (bug 20260) SQLite no longer tries to automatically create the database at - execution time, this now happens only at install time; if it is not available - at script execution, it now throws an exception -* Fixed EditFilterMerged hook so the hookError parameter serves a purpose - (analogous to EditFilter hook) -* (bug 2257) Tag extensions can expand template parameters provided to the tag, - by using a new parameter added to the recursiveTagParse function -* (bug 14900) __INDEX__ and __NOINDEX__ no longer override site config set in - $wgArticleRobotPolicies. -* (bug 20466) Hidden categories are no more displayed when printing -* (bug 20446) When changing user rights with User@remotewiki and remotewiki is - the local wiki, the user is now treated as the local user -* (bug 20494) OutputPage::getArticleBodyOnly() no longer requires an useless - argument -* (bug 20136) Protection form JavaScript now synchronizes the expiry boxes on - any change, in addition to onkeyup. -* Don't link to "edit this page" on MediaWiki:Noarticletext if user is not - allowed to create page. Done via new message - MediaWiki:Noarticletext-nopermission -* Improved compatibility between the Vector skin and addPortletLink() from - wikibits.js: empty portlets are now present but hidden, adding an element to a - portlet unhides it -* (bug 19531) addPortletLink() now wraps inserted labels in a <span> element to - be compatible with the CSS for the Vector skin -* (bug 20578) Wrong localized image metadata - duplicated string? -* (bug 20556) Stub threshold's "other" <input> in Special:Preferences now has a - correct type="text" parameter -* (bug 482) Don't include TOC in the printable version if it has been hidden -* Adjust the time according to the user configuration on Special:Revisiondelete -* (bug 20624) Installation no longer allows "qqq" as the chosen language -* (bug 20634) The installer-created database user will now have all rights on - the database so that upgrades will go more smoothly. -* (bug 18180) Special:Export ignores limit, dir, offset parameters -* User::getBlockedStatus() works for all kinds of user objects and doesn't - assume the user object is equal to the current-user object ($wgUser) -* (bug 20517) Cancel link from edit page now returns to the old version when - editing an old version -* (bug 16902) Installer no longer shows warnings when exec() has been disabled - by disable_functions -* (bug 20726) Title::getLatestRevID's documentation now says that the function - returns false if the page doesn't exist -* (bug 20751) ForeignApiRepo now urldecodes filenames when saving to local cache -* (bug 20730) Fix to Special:Version ViewVC link for branch checkouts -* (bug 20353) wfShellExec() was adding extra quotes on Windows Vista, causing - command line scripts to fail -* (bug 20702) Parser functions can now be used correctly in - MediaWiki:Missing-article -* (bug 14117) "redirected from" is now also shown on foreign file redirects -* (bug 17747) Only display thumbnail column in file history if the image can - be rendered. -* (bug 3421) Live preview no longer breaks user CSS/JS previews -* (bug 11264) The file logo on a file description page for documents (PDF, ...) - now links to the file rather than the file description page -* Password fields built with HTMLForm now still have the type="password" - attribute if $wgHtml5=false. -* (bug 20836) Preload now works for MediaWiki namespace -* (bug 20885) Search box no longer suggests unavailable special pages -* (bug 20948) "Create this page" on Special:Search is no longer displayed when - searching for special pages -* (bug 20524) Hideuser: Show nice error when trying to block hidden user without - hideuser right -* (bug 21026) Fixed file redirects on shared repos on non-English client wikis -* (bug 21030) Fixed schema choices from being overwritten by defining unique - field names per driver. -* (bug 21115) wgCanonicalSpecialPageName javascript variable is now always - false on non-special pages -* (bug 21113) "Other statistics" header on Special:Statistics is no more - displayed when there isn't any entry in it -* (bug 21114) Special:Contributions no longer shows diff links for new - revisions -* (bug 21116) MediaWiki:Templatesused, MediaWiki:Templatesusedpreview and - MediaWiki:Templatesusedsection now support plural -* (bug 21079) There is no more line wrapping between label and field in - Special:Log -* (bug 20256) Fixed SQL errors on Special:Recentchanges and - Special:Recentchangeslinked on SQLite backend -* (bug 20880) Fixed updater failure on SQLite backend -* (bug 21182) Fixed invalid HTML in Special:Listgrouprights -* (bug 20242) Installer no longer promts for user credentials for SQLite - databases -* (bug 20911) Installer failed to create a SQLite database -* (bug 20847) Deprecated deprecated akeytt() removed in wikibits.js leaving - dummy -* (bug 21161) Changing $wgCacheEpoch now always invalidates file cache -* (bug 20268) Fixed row count estimation on SQLite backend -* (bug 20275) Fixed LIKE queries on SQLite backend -* (bug 21234) Moving subpages of titles containing \\ now works properly -* (bug 21006) maintenance/updateArticleCount.php now works again on PostgreSQL -* (bug 19319) Add activeusers-intro message at top of SpecialActiveUsers page -* (bug 21255) Fixed hostname construction for DNSBL checking -* (bug 18019) Users are now warned when moving a file to a name in use on a - shared repository and only users with the 'reupload-shared' permission can - complete the move. -* (bug 18909) Add missing Postgres INSERT SELECT wrapper -* User::isValidPassword now only returns boolean results, - User::getPasswordValidity can be used to get an error message string -* The error message shown in Special:ChangePassword now parses wiki markup -* (bug 19859) Removed experimental HTMLDiff feature -* Removed section edit links in edit conflict form -* Allow SpecialActiveusers to work on non-MySQL databases -* (bug 6579) Fixed protecting images from uploading only -* (bug 18609) Search index was empty for some pages -* (bug 13453) rebuildrecentchanges maintenance script works on PG again -* (bug 16583) Reduce false positives when checking for PHP (on upload, etc.) -* (bug 20112) Bitrotted tests in the t/ directory were failing. -* (bug 21470) MediaWiki:Sp-contributions-explain is now wrapped in a <p> with - id "mw-sp-contributions-explain" -* (bug 19159) Fixed \overleftrightarrow in texvc -* (bug 19391) Fix caching for Recent ChangesFeed. -* (bug 21455) Fixed "Watch this page" checkbox appearing on some special pages - even to non-logged in users -* (bug 21551) Rewrote the Squid purge HTTP client to provide a more robust and - general implementation of HTTP, allowing it to purge non-Squid caches such as - Varnish. -* Fixed corruption of long UDP debug log messages by using socket_sendto() - instead of fsockopen() with fwrite(). -* (bug 16884) Fixed feed links in sidebar not complying with URL parameters - of the displayed page -* (bug 21403) memcached class renamed to MWMemecached to avoid conflict with - PHP's memcached extension -* (bug 21650) Both calls to SkinTemplateTabs hook are now compatible -* (bug 21672) Add missing Accept-Language to both Vary and XVO headers -* (bug 21679) "Edit block reasons" link at the bottom of Special:Blockip is now - only displayed to the users that have "editinterface" right -* (bug 21740) Attempting to protect a page that doesn't exist (salting) returns - "unknown error" -* (bug 18762) both redirects and links get fixed one after another if - redirects-only switch is not present -* (bug 20159) thumbnails rerendered if older that $wgThumbnailEpoch -* Fixed a bug which in some situations causes the job queue to grow forever, - due to an infinite loop of job requeues. -* (bug 21523) File that can have multiple pages (djvu, pdf, ...) no longer have - the page selector when they have only one page -* (bug 21559) "logempty" message is now wrapped in a div with class - "mw-warning-logempty" when used in log extract -* (bug 20549) Parser tests were broken on SQLite backend -* (bug 21776) Interwiki urls like http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/cs: should give - a redirect instead of a baderror. -* (bug 21803) Special:MyContributions now keeps the query string parameters -* Redirecting special pages now keep query string paramters set to "0" (e.g. - for namespace) -* (bug 20765) Special:ListGroupRights no longer misses addables and removables - groups if there are duplicate entries -* (bug 21814) Message shown when rolling back an edit with a deleted username - now shows '(username deleted)' instead of broken user tool links -* (bug 21536) Fixed JavaScript error on Special:Search caused by an incorrect ID -* (bug 21535) RecentChanges RSS feed now always recognises the namespace filter, - previously it sometimes didn't due to caching. -* (bug 20388) ProfilerSimpleText no longer outputs comment on action=raw -* refreshLinks.php now purges orphaned redirect table rows -* (bug 2971) Swap links of hist & diff location on Special:Contributions for - consistency with RC/WL -* (bug 21986) Special page names were are now capitalized by content language -* If two log type have the same description, they're now both displayed in the - type selector on Special:Log -* (bug 20115) Special:Userlogin title says "Log in / create account" even if the - user can't create an account -* (bug 2658) Don't attempt to set the TZ environment variable. -* (bug 9794) User rights log entries for foreign user now links to the foreign - user's page if possible -* (bug 14717) Don't load nonexistent CSS fix files for non-Monobook skins -* (bug 22034) Use wfClientAcceptsGzip() in wfGzipHandler instead of - reimplementing it. -* (bug 19226) First line renders differently on many UI messages. -* (bug 21303) Comments are no longer stripped from MediaWiki:Common.js and - skin-specific JS pages -* (bug 5061) Use the more precise thumbcaption thumbimage and thumbinner classes - for image divs. -* Fixed bug involving unclosed "-{" markup in the language converter -* (bug 21870) No longer include Google logo from an external server on wiki error. -* (bug 22181) Do not truncate if the ellipsis actually make the string longer -* (bug 16039) Text disappearing after a bad image -* (bug 18784) Internal links like [[File:Foo|caption]] should read 'caption', - not 'File:Foo' when Foo is not an image -* (bug 21518) Special:UserRights no longer displays the user name box for users - that can only change their rights -* (bug 21593) Special:UserRights now lists automatic groups membership -* (bug 22364) Setting $wgUseExternalEditor to false no longer hides the reupload - link from file pages -* Fix bug introduced in MediaWiki 1.12: The author field in - $wgExtensionCredits is no longer sorted with sort() but rather used - as it appears in extensions as was the case before r30117 where it - was unintentionally sorted along with other fields. -* (bug 19334) Textarea no longer jumps when editing longer articles in IE8 -* Truncate summary of page moves in revision comment field to avoid broken - multibyte characters -* (bug 22540) ForeignApiRepos no longer try to store thumbnails that don't exist -* (bug 22551) Special:Resetpass now has a "Cancel" button that sends the user to - the page set in the &returnto parameter. -* (bug 19194) Search box in Modern skin doesn't focus with Safari/Chrome -* (bug 17790) Users instantly logged off on HughesNet - -== API changes in 1.16 == -* 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 -* (bug 13049) "API must be accessed from the primary script entry point" error -* (bug 16422) Don't display help for format=jsonfm unless specifically requested -* Added PHP and database version to meta=siteinfo output -* (bug 18533) Add readonly message to meta=siteinfo output -* (bug 18518) Add clprop=hidden to prop=categories -* (bug 18710) Fixed internal error with empty parameter in action=paraminfo -* (bug 18709) Missing descriptions for some parameters in action=paraminfo - output -* (bug 18731) Show correct SVN links for extension modules in api.php?version -* (bug 18730) Add version information to action=paraminfo output -* (bug 18743) Add ucprop=size to list=usercontribs -* (bug 18749) Add generator flag to action=paraminfo output -* Make action=block respect $wgEnableUserEmail and $wgSysopEmailBans -* Made deleting file description pages without files possible -* (bug 18773) Add content flag to siprop=namespaces output -* (bug 18785) Add siprop=languages to meta=siteinfo -* (bug 14200) Added user and excludeuser parameters to list=watchlist and - list=recentchanges -* Added index, fromtitle and byteoffset fields to action=parse&prop=sections - output -* (bug 19313) action=rollback returns wrong revid on master/slave setups -* (bug 19323) action=parse doesn't return section tree on pages with Cite - warnings -* (bug 18720) Add anchor field to action=parse&prop=sections output -* (bug 19423) The initial file description page used caption in user lang - rather than UI lang -* (bug 17809) Add number of users in user groups to meta=siteinfo -* (bug 18533) Add readonly reason to readonly exception -* (bug 19528) Added XSLT parameter to API queries in format=xml -* (bug 19040) Fix prependtext and appendtext in combination with section - parameter in action=edit -* (bug 19090) Added watchlist parameter, deprecated watch and unwatch - parameter in action=edit -* Added fields to list=search output: size, wordcount, timestamp, snippet -* Where supported by backend, list=search adds a 'searchinfo' element with - optional info: 'totalhits' count and 'suggestion' alternate query term -* (bug 19907) $wgCrossSiteAJAXdomains added to allow specified (or all) - external domains to access api.php via AJAX, if the browser supports the - Access-Control-Allow-Origin HTTP header -* (bug 19999) Made metadata and properties of search results optional. Added - srprop and srinfo. -* (bug 20700) Add amprop=default to meta=allmessages to list default value for - customized messages -* Don't parse magic words in meta=allmessages, output messages unparsed -* (bug 21105) list=usercontribs can now list contribs for User:0 -* (bug 21085) list=deletedrevs no longer returns only one revision when - drcontinue param is passed -* (bug 21106) Deprecated parameters now tagged in action=paraminfo -* (bug 19004) Added support for tags -* (bug 21083) list=allusers no longer returns current timestamp for users - without registration date -* (bug 20967) action=edit allows creation of invalid titles -* (bug 19523) Add inprop=watched to prop=info -* (bug 21589) API: Separate summary and initial page text for uploads -* (bug 21817) list=usercontribs returns empty result for empty ucuser -* (bug 21441) meta=userinfo&uiprop=options no longer returns default options - for logged-in users under certain circumstances -* (bug 21945) Add chomp control in YAML -* Expand the thumburl to an absolute url to make it consistent with url and - descriptionurl -* (bug 20233) ApiLogin::execute() doesn't handle LoginForm :: RESET_PASS -* (bug 22061) API: add prop=headitems to action=parse -* (bug 22240) API: include time in siteinfo -* (bug 22241) Quick edit is still using the deprecated watch parameter (API: Setting default for watch/unwatch wrongly set) -* (bug 22245) blfilterredirect=nonredirects in blredirect mode wrongly filtering -* (bug 22248) Output extension URLs in meta=siteinfo&siprop=extensions -* Support key-params arrays in 'descriptionmsg' in meta=siteinfo&siprop=extensions -* (bug 21922) YAML output should quote asterisk when used as key -* (bug 22297) safesubst: to allow substitution without breaking transclusion -* (bug 18758) API read of watchlist's wl_notificationtimestamp -* (bug 20809) Expose EditFormPreloadText via the API -* (bug 18427) Comment (edit summary) parser option for API -* (bug 18608) API should provide list of CSS styles to apply to rendered output -* (bug 18771) List possible errors in action=paraminfo - -=== Languages updated in 1.16 === - -MediaWiki supports over 330 languages. Many localisations are updated -regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as -changes to languages because of MediaZilla reports. - -* Capiznon (cps) (new) -* North Frisian (frr) (new) -* Kirmanjki (kiu) (new) -* Komi-Permyak (koi) (new) -* Karachay-Balkar (krc) (new) -* Latgalian (ltg) (new) -* Hill Mari (mrj) (new) -* Prussian (prg) (new) -* Romagnol (rgn) (new) -* Rusyn (rue) (new) -* Lower Silesian (sli) (new) -* Picard (pcd) (new) -* Uyghur (Arabic script) (ug-arab) (new) -* Upper Franconian (vmf) (new) -* Votic (vot) (new) -* Eastern Yiddish (ydd) (removed) -* Iriga Bicolano (bto) (removed) -* Ladin (lld) (removed) -* Palembang (plm) (removed) -* Megleno-Romanian (Greek script) (ruq-grek) (removed) -* Tamazight (tzm) (removed) - -* (bug 18474) Sorani (ckb - Central Kurdish) (renamed from ku-arab) -* Add PLURAL function for Scots Gaelic (gd) -* Add Estonian letters äöõšüž to linktrail (et) -* (bug 18776) Native name of Burmese language (my) -* (bug 18806) Use correct unicode characters in spelling of native Chuvash - (Чӑвашла) -* (bug 18864) Updated autonym for Zhuang language -* (bug 18308) Updated date formatting in Occitan (oc) -* (bug 19080) Added ăâîşţșțĂÂÎŞŢȘȚ to Romanion (ro) linktrail -* (bug 19286) Correct commafying function in Polish (pl) -* (bug 19441) Updated date formatting for Lithuanian -* (bug 19630) Added ÄäÇçĞğŇňÖöŞşÜüÝýŽž to Turkmen (tk) linktrail -* (bug 19949) New linktrail for Greek (el) -* (bug 19809) Korean (North Korea) (ko-kp) (new) -* (bug 19968) Fixed "Project talk" namespace name for Maltese (mt) -* (bug 21168) Added áâãàéêçíóôõúü to Portuguese (pt) linktrail -* (bug 21596) Change interwiki link for Kurdish (ku) +* (bug 23075) Correct MediaTransformError default width in gallery. +* (bug 16487) The Anonymous user account used on Postgres is no longer + displayed on Special:Listusers. +* (bug 23313) Move watchlisthidepatrolled above token in watchlist preferences + to enhance preference grouping. +* (bug 23298) Interwiki links with prefix only in log summaries now link to the + correct link. +* (bug 23284) Times are now rounded correctly. +* (bug 23375) Added ogv, oga, spx as extensions for ogg files. +* (bug 18408) All required permissions for uploading (upload, edit, create). + are now checked when loading Special:Upload. Toolbar link for Special:Upload + is no longer shown if the user does not have the required permissions. +* (bug 23397) texvc in html mode renders \sim as ˜ not ∼ +* (bug 23241) License selector should be disabled during upload of a new + version. +* (bug 23240) Add ID to namespace selector form on Special:Watchlist. +* The pipe | character in urls is now escaped. +* (bug 23422) mp3 files can now be moved. +* (bug 23448) MediaWiki:Summary-preview is now displayed instead of + MediaWiki:Subject-preview when previewing summary. +* (bug 23426) The {{REVISIONMONTH}} variable is now zero-padded and added + new variable {{REVISIONMONTH1}} when unpadded version is needed. +* Special:Userrights didn't recognize user as changing his/her own rights if + user did not capitalize first letter of username. +* (bug 23507) Add styles for printing wikitables. +* (bug 19586) Avoid JS errors in mwsuggest when using old browsers such + as Opera 8. +* (bug 23563) Old skins now support $wgUploadNavigationUrl and take into + account upload rights. +* (bug 1347) Render \phi in math using images, in order to create consistent + and correct render results. +* (bug 16573) Render \epsilon in math using images, in order to create + consistent and correct render results. +* (bug 22541) Support image redirects when using ForeignAPIRepo. +* (bug 22967) Make edit summary length cut-off behave correctly for multibyte + characters. +* (bug 8689) Long numeric lines no longer kill the parser. +* (bug 23740) Article::doRedirect() now use $extraQuery parameter correctly if + the $noRedir parameter is set to true. +* (bug 23688) Correct mime types for Office 2007 OpenXML documents. +* (bug 23787) Corrected $wgDefaultSkin's comment in DefaultSettings.php. +* (bug 23797) Xml::input() now allows '0' for the value parameter. +* (bug 23747) Make sure that on History pages, the RevDel button is not + accidentally activated when hitting enter. +* (bug 23845) Special:ListFiles now uses correct file names without underscores. +* Ask for permanent login in Special:Preferences only if $wgCookieExpiration > 0. +* (bug 16356) Repair dumpInterwiki.inc to use proper normalization. +* (bug 24006) deleteArchivedRevisions.php maintenance script now longer throws + a fatal error. +* (bug 23465) Don't ignore the predefined destination filename on + Special:Upload after following a red link. +* (bug 23642) Recognize mime types of MS OpenXML documents. +* (bug 22784) Normalise underscores and spaces in autocomments. +* (bug 19910) Headings of the form ===+\s+ are now displayed as valid headings. +* (bug 24022) Only check file extensions on the uploadpage when needed. +* (bug 24076) Recognize Office 2003 files with OpenXML trailers. +* (bug 24244) Updated comments in DefaultSettings.php to reflect. + Image: --> File: namespace rename. +* Make wfTimestamp recognize negative unix timestamp values. +* (bug 24401) SimpleSearch: No button/text indicating 'Search' if image is + disabled. +* (bug 23293) Do not show change tags when Special:RecentChanges(linked) or + Special:Newpages is transcluded into another page as it messes up the page. +* (bug 24517) LocalFile::newFromKey() and OldLocalFile::newFromKey() no longer + throw fatal errors. +* (bug 23380) Uploaded files that are larger than allowed by PHP now show a + useful error message. +* Uploading to a protected title will allow the user to choose a new name + instead of showing an error page. +* (bug 24425) Use Database::replace instead of delete/insert in + SqlBagOStuff::set to avoid query errors about duplicate keynames. +* (bug 15470) First letters of filenames are always capitalized by upload JS. +* (bug 21215) NoLocalSettings.php doesn't tolerate rewrite rules. +* (bug 21052) Fix link color for stubs in NewPages. +* (bug 24714) Usage of {{#dateformat: }} in wikis without $wgUseDynamicDates no + longer pollutes the parser cache. +* (bug 17031) Correct which characters the parser allows in tag attributes (a + letter, colon or underscore followed by 0 or more letters, numbers, colons, + underscores, hyphens, and/or periods). +* Save 200 useless queries on each category page view. +* Shell commands will now work on Linux in filesystems mounted noexec. +* (bug 24804) Corrected commafying in Polish and Ukrainian. +* "Difference between pages" is now displayed instead of "Difference between + revisions" on diffs when appropriate. +* (bug 23703) ForeignAPIRepo fails on findBySha1() when using a 1.14 install as + a repository due to missing 'name' attribute from the API list=allimages. +* (bug 24898) MediaWiki uses /tmp even if a vHost-specific tempdir is set, also + make wfTempDir() return a sane value for Windows on worst-case. +* (bug 24824) Support ImageMagick 6.5.6-2+ JPEG decoder size hint, to reduce + memory usage when such an ImageMagick is used for scaling. +* Disable multithreaded behaviour in recent ImageMagick, to avoid a deadlock + when a resource limit such as $wgMaxShellMemory is hit. +* (bug 24981) Allow extensions to access SpecialUpload variables again. +* (bug 20744) Wiki forgets about an uploaded file. +* (bug 17913) Don't show "older edit" when no older edit available. +* (bug 6204) TOC not properly rendered when using $wgMaxTocLevel. +* (bug 24977) The accesskey in history page now lead directly to the diff. + instead of alternating focus between the two buttons. +* (bug 24987) Special:ListUsers does not take external groups into account. +* (bug 20633) update.php has mixed language output. +* SQLite system table names are now never prefixed. +* (bug 25292) SkinSubPageSubtitle hook now passes the Skin object as second + parameter. +* (bug 25167) Correctly load JS fixes for IE6 (fixing a regression in 1.16). +* (bug 25367) wfShellExec() is more explicit when failing due to disabled + passthru(). +* (bug 25462) Fix double-escaping for section edit link tooltips. +* action=raw was removed for Special:Statistics. This information is still + available via the API. +* (bug 23934) Groups defined in $wgRevokePermissions but not in + $wgGroupPermissions now appear on Special:ListGroupRights. +* (bug 23923) Special:Prefixindex no longer shows results if nothing was + requested. +* (bug 22308) Search now finds text in default main page immediately after setup. +* (bug 25697) Make sure empty lines render in diff view. +* Use an actual minus sign in diff views, instead of a hyphen. +* (bug 23732) Clarified "n links" message on Special:MostLinkedFiles. +* (bug 23731) Clarified "n links" message on Special:MostLinkedTemplates. +* (bug 25642) A exception is now thrown instead of a fatal error when using + $wgSMTP without PEAR mail package. +* (bug 19633) When possible, Upscale small SVGs when creating thumbnails. +* (bug 11013) Database driver detection needs rewriting for robustness. +* (bug 13409) Installer prompts could use clarification--now has help boxes. +* (bug 16902) Installer spews warnings when exec() and dl() are not available. +* (bug 19129) Only show MyISAM/InnoDB when supported. +* (bug 17762) Only show other e-mail options when e-mail is globally enabled. +* Cache multiple sizes of InstantCommons thumbnails. +* (bug 25488) Disallowing anonymous users to read pages no longer throws error + on discussion pages with vector as default skin. +* (bug 24833) Files name in includes/diff/ are now less confusing. +* (bug 25713) SpecialPage::resolveAlias() now normalise spaces to underscores. +* (bug 25829) Special:Mypage and Special:Mytalk now forward oldid, diff and dir + parameters. +* (bug 25175) HTML file cache now honor $wgCacheDirectory if + $wgFileCacheDirectory is not set. +* (bug 13353) Diff3 version checks were too strict, did not detect working diff3. +* (bug 25843) Links to special pages using link= attribute on images are now. + normalised like normal links to special pages. +* (bug 21364) External links using link= attribute on images now respect + $wgExternalLinkTarget. +* (bug 17789) Added a note to the total views on Special:Statistics saying that + is doesn't count non-existing pages and special pages. +* (bug 17996) HTTP redirects are now combined when requesting a special page. +* (bug 19944) Link on image thumbnails no longer link to "Media:" namespace in + some cases. +* (bug 25670) wfFindFile() now checks the namespace of the given title, only + "File" and "Media" are allowed now. +* (bug 25872) Rename the HttpRequest class to MWHttpRequest to avoid conflict + with php extension that defines same class. +* (bug 20591) There's now a different message on Special:MovePage when + $wgFixDoubleRedirects is set to false. +* Fixed PHP warnings when updating a broken MySQL database. +* (bug 26023) Corrected deleteBacth.php's documentation. +* (bug 25451) Improved datetime representation in 32 bit php >= 5.2. +* Show "skin does not exist error" only when the skin is inputted in the wrong + case. +* (bug 26164) Potential html injection when the database server isn't available. +* (bug 26160) Upload description set by extensions are not propagated. +* (bug 9675) generateSitemap.php now takes an --urlpath parameter to allow + absolute URLs in the sitemap index (as required e.g. by Google). +* Partial workaround for bug 6220: at least make files on shared repositories + show up as (struck-out) bluelinks instead of redlinks on Special:WantedFiles. +* rebuildFileCache.php no longer creates inappropriate cache files for redirects. +* (bug 25512) Subcategory list should not include category prefix for members. +* (bug 10871) Javascript and CSS pages in MediaWiki namespace are no longer + treated as wikitext on preview. +* Page existence is now not revealed (in the colour of the tabs) to users who + cannot read the page in question. +* (bug 22753) Output from update.php is more clear when things changed, entries + indicating nothing changed are now all prefixed by "..." +* (bug 16019) $wgArticlePath = "/$1" no longer breaks API edit/watch actions. +* (bug 18372) File types blacklisted by $wgFileBlacklist will no longer be shown as + "Permitted file types" on the upload form. +* (bug 26540) Fixed wrong call to applyPatch in MysqlUpdater. +* (bug 26034) Make the "View / Read" tab in content_navigation style tabs remain + selected when the action is "purge". +* (bug 26733) Wrap initial table creation in transaction. +* (bug 26208) Mark directionality of some interlanguage links. +* (bug 26716) Provide link to instructions for external editor related preferences. +* (bug 26961) Hide anon edits in watchlist preference now actually works. +* (bug 1379) Installer directory conflicts with some hosts' configuration panel. +* (bug 27781) Installer does not warn about 5.1.x. Added a compatibility function + for array_key_exists(). +* Fix XML well-formedness on a few pages when $wgHtml5 is true (the default). +* (bug 28069) MediaWiki fails streaming files when mod_deflate and ob_gzhandler + are also set. +* (bug 26223) Concurrently moving an article to different titles leaks a + redirect revision with no page. +* (bug 15641) Fixed permissions checks in Special:Import which allowed users + without the 'import' permission to import pages from configured import sources. +* (bug 26449) Keep underlines from headings outside of tables and thumbs by + adding overflow:hidden to h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6 (also fixes editsection bunching). +* (bug 26708) Remove background-color:white from tables in Monobook and Vector. +* (bug 26781) {{PAGENAME}} and related parser functions escape their output better. +* (bug 26716) Provide link to instructions for external editor related preferences + and add a comment to the ini control file explaining what is going on. +* (bug 28422) Remove color:black from tables in Monobook and Vector. And add it + to table.wikitable instead. +* (bug 27560) Search queries no longer fail in walloon language. +* (bug 27700) The upload protection can now also be set for files that do not + exist. +* (bug 28034) uploading file to local wiki when file exists on shared repository + (commons) gives spurious info in the warning message. +* Usernames get lost when selecting different sorts on Special:listfiles. +* (bug 28166) UploadBase assumes that 'edit' and 'upload' rights are not per + page restrictions. +* (bug 28242) Make redirects generated by urls containing a local interwiki + prefix be a 301 instead of a 302. +* (bug 28568) Entries in the iwlinks table are now removed on page deletion. +* (bug 28306) Fix exposure of suppressed usernames in ForeignDBRepo. +* (bug 28444) Fix regression: edit-on-doubleclick retains revision id again. +* UtfNormal::cleanUp on an invalid utf-8 sequence no longer returns false if + intl installed. +* (bug 26729) Category pages should return 404 if they do not exist and have no + members. +* (bug 28214) When page not found, sends malformed HTTP/1.x instead of HTTP/1.1 + in header of response. +* (bug 27634) TOC title appears in wrong language. +* (bug 27761) Fix regression: pages with Esperanto titles containing convertible + character sequences became unreachable. +* (bug 27508) SVGMetadataExtractor takes too much resources on huge svgs. +* (bug 27465) SVG thumbnail generation. +* (bug 27467) preload can leave UNIQ. +* (bug 27539) Allow attributes beginning with a digit in wiktext tag parameters. +* (bug 27328) using relative paths in CSS imports in MediaWiki:Common.css broken + in 1.17. +* (bug 27333) Fix repetitive last-seen time queries on page history. +* (bug 26250, bug 23817) Fix wfObjectToArray() to descend into arrays; fixes + processing of JSON return values for ForeignAPIRepo when native json module + not present. +* (bug 25675) Fix search suggestions for Special: pages with spaces. +* (bug 25571) Xml::encodeJsVar now passes floats natively instead of converting + to strings. +* (bug 27338) Gallery in 1.17 breaks for audio/video + ogghandler. +* (bug 27302) Don't append the current timestamp for user/site modules when no + user/site JS/CSS is present. +* (bug 27016) dumpTextPass.php now consider the "output" parameter. +* (bug 22606) don't send the "someone registred an account" message when setting + email address (i.e. old one empty) in user preferences. +* (bug 26458) Section edit links appear on pages that user does not have right + to edit. +* (bug 28611) Don't die in SqlBagOStuff::incr() if there's a race condition. +* (bug 16886) Sister projects box moves down the extract of the first result + in IE 7. +* (bug 17398) Fixed "link" parameter in image links with "thumb" or "frame" + parameter. + +=== API changes in 1.17 === + +* BREAKING CHANGE: action=patrol now requires POST. +* BREAKING CHANGE: patrol token is no longer the same as edit token. +* BREAKING CHANGE: Session keys returned by ApiUpload are now strings instead + of integers. +* BREAKING CHANGE: (bug 25303) Fix API parameter integer validation to actually + enforce validation on the input values in addition to giving a warning. + Also add flag to enforce (die) if integer out of range. +* (bug 24650) Fix API to work with categorylinks changes. +* action=parse now correctly returns an error for nonexistent pages. +* (bug 27201) Special:WhatLinksHere output no longer contains duplicate IDs. +* (bug 26560) On allusers if limit < total number of users, last user gets + duplicated. +* (bug 27715) imageinfo didn't respect revdelete. +* (bug 27479) API error when using both prop=pageprops and + prop=info&inprop=displaytitle. +* (bug 27862) Useremail module didn't properly return success on success. +* (bug 27590) prop=imageinfo now allows querying the media type. +* (bug 27587) list=filearchive now outputs full title info. +* (bug 27897) list=allusers and list=users list hidden users. +* (bug 22738) Allow filtering by action type on query=logevent. +* (bug 22764) uselang parameter for action=parse. +* (bug 22944) API: watchlist options are inconsistent. +* (bug 22868) don't list infinite block expiry date as "now" in API logevents. +* (bug 22290) prop=revisions now outputs "comment" field even when comment. + is empty, for consistency with list=recentchanges. +* (bug 19721) API action=help should have a way to just list for a specific + module. +* (bug 23458) Add support for pageid parameter to action=parse requests. +* (bug 23460) Parse action should have a section option. +* (bug 21346) Make deleted images searchable by hash. +* (bug 23461) Normalise usage of parameter names in parameter descriptions. +* (bug 23548) Allow access of another users watchlist through watchlistraw + using token and username. +* (bug 23524) Api Modules as followup to bug 14473 (Add iwlinks table to + track inline interwiki link usage). +* Add pltitles and tltemplates to prop=links and prop=templates respectively, + similar to prop=categories's clcategorie. +* (bug 23834) Invalid "thumbwidth" and "thumbheight" in "imageinfo" query when + thumbnailing larger than original image. +* (bug 23835) Need "thumbmime" result in "imageinfo" query. +* (bug 23851) Repair diff for file redirect pages. +* (bug 24009) Include implicit groups in action=query&list=users&usprop=groups. +* (bug 24016) API: Handle parameters specified in simple string syntax + ( 'paramname' => 'defaultval' ) correctly when outputting help. +* (bug 24089) Logevents causes PHP Notice if leprop=title isn't supplied. +* (bug 23473) Give description of properties on all modules. +* (bug 24136) unknownerror when adding new section without summary, but + forceditsummary. +* (bug 22339) Added srwhat=nearmatch to list=search to get a "go" result. +* (bug 24303) Added new &servedby parameter to all actions which adds the + hostname that served the request to the result. It is also added + unconditionally on error. +* (bug 24185) Titles in the Media and Special namespace are now supported for + title normalization in action=query. Special pages have their name resolved + to the local alias. +* (bug 24296) Added converttitles parameter to convert titles to their + canonical language variant. +* (bug 23936) Add "displaytitle" to query/info API. +* (bug 24485) Make iwbacklinks a generator, optionally display iwprefix and + iwtitle. +* (bug 24564) Fix fatal errors when using list=deletedrevs, prop=revisions or + one of the backlinks generators with limit=max. +* (bug 24656) API's parse module needs option to disable PP report. +* PARAM_REQUIRED parameter flag added. If this flag is set, and the end user + does not set the parameter, the API will automatically throw an error. +* (bug 24665) When starttimestamp is not specified, fake it by setting it to + NOW, not to the timestamp of the last edit. +* (bug 24677) axto= parameters added to allcategories, allimages, alllinks, + allmessages, allpages, and allusers. +* (bug 24236) Add add, remove, add-self, remove-self tags to + meta=siteinfo&siprop=usergroups. +* (bug 24484) Add prop=pageprops module. +* (bug 24330) Add &redirect parameter to ?action=edit. +* (bug 24722) For list=allusers&auprop=blockinfo, only show blockedby and + blockreason if the user is actually blocked. +* Add format=dump and format=dumpfm, outputs results in PHP's var_dump() format. +* For required string parameters, if '' is provided, this is now classed as + missing. +* (bug 24724) list=allusers is out by 1 (shows total users - 1). +* (bug 24166) API error when using rvprop=tags. +* Introduced "asynchronous download" mode for upload-by-url. Requires + $wgAllowAsyncCopyUploads to be true. +* sinumberingroup correctly gives size of 'user' group, and omits size of + implicit groups rather than showing 0. +* (bug 25248) API: paraminfo errors with certain modules. +* (bug 24792) API help for action=purge sometimes wrongly stated whether a + POST request was needed due to cache pollution. +* Added iiprop=parsedcomment to prop=imageinfo, similar to prop=revisions. +* Added rvparse to parse revisions. For performance reasons if this option is + used, rvlimit is enforced to 1. +* (bug 25748) If a action=parse request provides an oldid that is actually the + current revision id, try the parser cache, and save it to it if necessary. +* (bug 25463) Export header should not be shown if no pages were requested, to + reduce confusion. +* (bug 25648) API discovery information has been added as RSD link in page. + <head> and by providing an API module action=rsd. Added hook + ApiRsdServiceApis for extensions to add their own service to the services + list. +* The HTML of diff output markers has changed. Hyphens are now minus signs, + empty markers are now filled with non-breaking-space characters. +* (bug 25741) Add more data to list=search's srprop. +* (bug 25760) counter property still reported by the API when + $wgDisableCounters enabled. +* (bug 25987) prop=info&inprop=watched now also works for missing pages. +* (bug 26006) prop=langlinks now allows obtaining full URL. +* (bug 26075) ApiDelete.php now calls correctly ArticleDelete hook. +* (bug 26089) add block expiration to blockinfo. +* (bug 26125) prop=imageinfo&iiprop=size now returns the page count if the + file is a multi-page file. +* (bug 10268) Added linktodiffs parameter on action=feedwatchlist. +* (bug 26219) Show API limits for multi values in description. +* (bug 28070) Fix watchlist RSS for databases that store timestamps in a + real timestamp field. +* (bug 27722) list=filearchive now supports revdel. + +=== Language support changes in 1.17 === + +MediaWiki supports over 330 languages. Many localizations are updated regularly. + +The following languages were added: + +* Moroccan Spoken Arabic (ary) +* Banjar (bjn) +* Kabardian (kdb) +* Kabardian (Cyrillic) (kbd-cyrl) +* Latgalian (ltg) +* Minangkabau (min) +* Dutch (informal) (nl-informal) +* Rusyn (rue) + +Other significant changes to MediaWiki's language support: + +* Fiji Hindi (Devangari script) was removed. +* Removed deprecated language code "dk" (Danish), use "da" instead. +* Link trail added for sl and sh. +* (bug 27633) Add characters to linkTrail for Portuguese (pt and pt-br). +* (bug 23156) Commafy and search normalization updated for Belarusian + (Taraškievica). +* (bug 23283) Native name for Old English -> Ænglisc. +* (bug 23364) Native name for Azerbaijani -> Azərbaycanca. +* (bug 24593) Native name for Sorani now uses only Arabic script. +* (bug 24628) Generic translations for NS_USER/NS_USER_TALK for Esperanto. +* (bug 24917) Polish as fallback for Kashubia. +* (bug 24794) Tatar link trail updated. +* Esperanto date format corrected. +* (bug 28159) Change interwiki name of language kbd to Къэбэрдеибзэ / + Qabardjajəbza. +* (bug 28184) Namespaces for the Latgalian Wikipedia. +* (bug 25010) Bashkir-language interwikis: linktext change from Башҡорт + to Башҡортса. +* (bug 26395) Change name of Cornish language to Kernowek. + +=== Other changes in 1.17 === + +* DatabaseFunctions.php that was needed for compatibility with pre-1.3 + extensions has been removed. +* XmlFunctions.php has been removed. Use the Xml or Html classes as appropriate. +* The FailFunction "error handling" method has now been removed +* Sysops now have the "suppressredirect" right by default +* Removed $wgRemoteUploads. It was not well supported and superseded by + $wgUploadNavigationUrl. +* (bug 26253) $wgPostCommitUpdateList has been removed +* The PHPUnit test suite has been removed from this release due to serious issues + which should be resolved by the 1.18 release. +* Oracle DB now uses the __destruct fuction to commit/close connection as it + doesn't commit on close if transation is triggered in OCI. == Compatibility == -MediaWiki 1.16 requires PHP 5.1 (5.2 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer supported. +MediaWiki 1.17 requires PHP 5.2.3 or later. + +MySQL is the recommended DBMS. PostgreSQL or SQLite can also be used, but +support for them is somewhat less mature. There is experimental support for IBM +DB2 and Microsoft SQL Server. -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. +The supported versions are: +* MySQL 4.0 or later +* PostgreSQL 8.3 or later +* SQLite 3 +* Oracle 9.0.1 or later == Upgrading == -1.16 has several database changes since 1.15, and will not work without schema +1.17 has several database changes since 1.16, and will not work without schema updates. -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 +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 upgrading from before 1.7, you may want to run refreshLinks.php to ensure @@ -1066,43 +819,29 @@ break. Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading! See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions. +For notes on 1.16.x and older releases, see HISTORY. -=== Caveats === +== Online documentation == -Some output, particularly involving user-supplied inline HTML, may not -produce 100% valid or well-formed XHTML output. Testers are welcome to -set $wgMimeType = "application/xhtml+xml"; to test for remaining problem -cases, but this is not recommended on live sites. (This must be set for -MathML to display properly in Mozilla.) +Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is available on +MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation License (except +for pages that explicitly state that their contents are in the public domain): -For notes on 1.15.x and older releases, see HISTORY. + http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation +== Mailing list == -=== Online documentation === +A mailing list is available for MediaWiki user support and discussion: -Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is currently being -built up on MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation -License (except for pages that explicitly state that their contents are in -the public domain) : - - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation - - -=== Mailing list === - -A MediaWiki-l mailing list has been set up distinct from the Wikipedia -wikitech-l list: - - http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l + http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l A low-traffic announcements-only list is also available: - http://lists.wikimedia.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. - -=== IRC help === +== IRC help == There's usually someone online in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net |