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If you have it on, turn it *off* if you can. +== Changes since 1.6 == + +* (bug 5458) Fix double-URL encoding in block log link in contribs and contribs + link in block log +* (bug 5462) Bogus missing patch warning in updater +* (bug 5461) Use of deprecated "showhideminor" in Special:Recentchangeslinked +* PHP warning when allow_call_time_pass_reference is off +* Update to Finnish localization +* (bug 5467) Link to page histories in watchlist edit mode +* Further additions to Hebrew localisation +* (bug 5476) Invalid xhtml in German localization +* (bug 5479) Id translation for preferences tabs caption +* (bug 5493) Id translation for special pages +* Added skinname and style path parameters to CBT version of MonoBook +* Include subversion revision number in Special:Version if available +* (bug 5344) Fix regression that broke slashes in extension tag parameters +* Improve Special:Log performance on big log sets +* (bug 5507) Changed mediawiki:logouttext from plain to wikitext +* (bug 4760) Prevent creation of entries in protection log when protection + levels haven't changed +* (bug 861) Show page protection/unprotection events in histories +* (bug 5499) Don't clear the tag strip state when asked not to clear state. + Fixes regression with use of <ref> in a template breaking <nowiki> etc. +* Minor improvements to English language files +* Display the anon talk page info message on anon talk pages again + (moved outside the parser cache) +* Optional {{DISPLAYTITLE|title with markup}} magic word + Deactivated by default, set "$wgAllowDisplayTitle = true" in LocalSettings.php + to activate +* Cleaned SpecialContributions a bit +* Added a table to track interlanguage links +* (bug 5544) Fix redirect arrow in Special:Listredirects for right-to-left + languages +* Replace "doubleredirectsarrow" with a content language check that picks the + appropriate arrow +* (bug 5537) Add stub language file for Samogitian (bat-smg); inherits + Lithuanian (lt) +* Don't force edit summaries when a user is editing their own user/talk page +* (bug 5510) Warning produced when using {{SUBPAGENAME}} in some namespaces +* (bug 385) Installer support for PostgreSQL, fixes for PG compatibility +* PersistentObject removed; it doesn't do anything and was broken besides. + All extensions using it have been corrected. +* Propagate ISBN number for Booksources in LanguageNo.php +* (bug 5548) Improvements to Indonesian localisation [patch: Ivan Lanin] +* Add TALKSPACE, SUBJECTSPACE, TALKPAGENAME, SUBJECTPAGENAME (and encoded forms + for all) magic words +* (bug 5403) Fix Special:Newpages RSS/Atom feeds +* Reject malformed addresses in X-Forwarded-For entries +* (bug 3359) Add hooks on completion of file upload +* (bug 5559) Improve detection of ImageMagick [patch: Greg Turnquist] +* (bug 5475) New pages feeds ignore "limit" argument +* (bug 5184) CSS misapplied to elements in Special:Allmessages due to + conflicting anchor identifiers +* (bug 5519) Allow sidebar cache to be disabled; disable it by default. +* Maintenance script to import the contents of a text file into a wiki page +* Add $wgReservedUsernames configuration directive to block account creation/use +* (bug 5576) Remove debugging hack in session check +* (bug 5426) Lowercase treatment of titles in rights log leads to broken links + on Special:Log +* Minor improvements to French localisation files +* (bug 5181) Update "nogomatch" for Slovak +* (bug 5594) Id translation up to # Login and logout pages section +* (bug 5536) Use content language for editing help link +* Improvements to German localisation files +* (bug 5570) Problems using <special page>/parameter link form for long titles +* (bug 3884) Add $user parameter to AddNewUser hook, call it for by-email + registrations as well as self-registrations. +* (bug 4327) Report age of cached data sets in query pages +* (bug 4662) Fix Safari check in wikibits.js +* (bug 4663) Edit toolbar enabled in compatible versions of Safari +* (bug 5572) Edit toolbar enabled in compatible versions of Konqueror (3.5+) +* (bug 5235) Edit toolbar tooltips no longer show JavaScript junk in Opera +* Edit toolbar now works in pure XHTML mode (application/xhtml+xml) +* Add watchlist clear function to allow quick purging of all items +* (bug 5625) Additional namespace translations for Welsh +* Add meta tag and JavaScript variables to cached special pages which provides + the timestamp of the last update, in YYYYMMDDHHMMSS format. +* (bug 5628) More translations for MessagesHr.php +* (bug 5595) Localisation for Bosnian language (bs) +* (bug 2910) Default view preferences for watchlists +* Add "hide bot edits from the watchlist" user preference +* (bug 5250) Introduce Special:Unusedtemplates +* Add user preference setting for an extended watchlist, showing all recent + edits up to a certain edit, and not just the latest edit.. +* Made MessageRo.php more general +* (bug 5640) Indonesian localisation improvements +* (bug 5592) Actions are logged with the default language for the + wiki, not the language of the user performing the operation. +* (bug 5644) Error in LanguageBs.php file +* (bug 5646) Compare for identical types in wfElement() +* (bug 5472) Language::userAdjust()->minDiff not initialized on else condition +* (bug 5386) LanguageMk.php: updated namespaces translations +* (bug 5422) Stub for Romani (rmy) language which extends ro +* Fix linktrail for LanguageSr +* (bug 5664) Fix Bosnian linktrail +* (bug 3825) Namespace filtering on Special:Newpages +* (bug 1922) When Special:Wantedpages is cached, mark links to pages + which have since been created +* (bug 5659) Change grammar hacks for Bosnian Wikimedia namespaces. + This sort of special casing should be removed and fixed properly. +* Remove useless whitespace from Special:Brokenredirects header +* Treat "allmessagesnotsupporteddb" as wikitext when echoing; change default + text +* (bug 5497) Regression in HTML normalization in 1.6 (unclosed <li>,<dd>,<dt>) +* (bug 5709) Allow customisation of separator for categories +* (bug 5684) Introduce Special:Randomredirect +* (bug 5611) Add a name attribute to the text box containing source text in + read-only pages +* Indicate when a protected page is an interface message ("protectedinterface") +* (bug 4259) Indicate when a protected page being edited is an interface message + ("editinginterface") +* (bug 4834) Fix XHTML output when using $wgMaxTocLevel +* Pass login link to "whitelistedittext" containing 'returnto' parameter +* (bug 5728): mVersion missing from User::__sleep() leading to constant cache + miss +* Updated maintenance/transstat.php so it can show duplicate messages +* Improvements to update scripts; print out the version, check for superuser + credentials before attempting a connection, and produce a friendlier error if + the connection fails +* (bug 5005) Fix XHTML <gallery> output. +* (bug 5315) "Expires: -1" HTTP header made strictly valid (using 1970 date). +* (bug 4825) note in DefaultSettings.php about 'profiling' table creation +* Remove unneeded extra whitespace at top of Special:Categories +* (bug 5679) time units are now using local numerals +* (bug 5751) Updates to Portuguese localisation files +* (bug 5741) Introduce {{NUMBEROFUSERS}} magic word +* (bug 93) <nowiki> tags and tildes in templates +* The returnto parameter is now actually used by SpecialUserlogin.php +* Parser can now know that it is parsing an interface message +* (bug 4737) MediaWiki:Viewcount supports {{PLURAL}} now +* Fix bug in wfMsgExt under PHP 5.1.2 +* (bug 5761) Project talk namespace broken in Xal, Os, Udm and Cv +* Rewrite reassignEdits script to be more efficient; support optional updates to + recent changes table; add reporting and silent modes +* Cleaned up formatNum usage in langfiles +* (bug 5716) Warn when a user tries to upload a file which was previously + deleted +* (bug 5565) Add a class attribute to the table on Special:Allpages +* "lang=xx" option for parser test cases to set content language +* (bug 5764) Friulian translation updated +* (bug 5757) Fix premature cutoff in LanguageConverter with extra end markers +* (bug 5516) Show appropriate "return to" link on blocked page +* (bug 5377) Do not auto-login when creating an account as another user +* (bug 5284) Special redirect pages should remember parameters +* Suppress 7za output on dumpBackup +* (bug 5338) Reject extra initial colons in title +* (bug 5487) Escape self-closed HTML pair tags +* Add "raw suffix" magic word for some magic words, e.g. {{NUMBEROFUSERS|R}} + will produce a count minus formatting +* Fix Parser::cleanSig() to use Parser::startExternalParse() and choose an + appropriate output format given the scope of the clean +* (bug 5593) Change "bureaucrat log" to "rights log" +* Show a boilerplate "(none)" in place of a blank within the log action text for + user rights +* (bug 137) Commented out translations for copyrightwarning which mention GNU FDL +* (bug 5723) Don't count pages linked to from the MediaWiki namespace as "wanted" +* (bug 5696) Add a third parameter, $3, to "rcnote", passing the current time + formatted according to the current user's settings +* (bug 5780) Thousands and decimal separators for Norwegian +* Updated initStats maintenance script +* (bug 5767) Fix date formats in Vietnamese locale +* (bug 361) URL in URL, they were almost fixed. Now they are. +* (bug 4876) Add __NEWSECTIONLINK__ magic word to force the "new section" link/tab to + show up on specific pages on demand +* Bidi-aid on list pages +* (bug 5782) Allow entries in the bad image list to use canonical namespace names +* (bug 5789) Treat "loginreqpagetext" as wikitext +* Sanitizer: now handles nested <li> in <ul> or <ol> +* (bug 5796) We require MySQL >=4.0.14 +* Add 'EmailConfirmed' hook +* New findhooks.php script to find undocumented hooks. +* Silently ignore errors on profiling table update. +* (bug 5801) Correct handling of underscores in Special:Listusers +* Clean up Special:Listusers; add an "(all)" label to the group selection box +* (bug 5812) Use appropriate link colour in Special:Mostlinked +* (bug 5802) {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} variable broken in Vietnamese locale +* (bug 5817) Appropriate handling for Special:Recentchangeslinked where the target + page doesn't exist +* Special:Randompage now additionally accepts English namespace name as parameter +* (bug 2981) Really fixed linktrail for Tamil (ta) +* Disallow substituting Special pages when included into a page +* (bug 5587) Clean up the languages from references to the Groups special page +* Added new group-X and group-X-member messages +* Rewritten removeUnusedAccounts to be more efficient, print names of inactive + accounts +* Redirect Special:Userlist to Special:Listusers +* Introduce $wgAllowTitlesInSVG, which allows the <title> attribute in uploaded files + bearing the image/svg MIME type. Disabled by default due to the vast majority of + web servers being hideously misconfigured. See DefaultSettings.php for more details. +* Changed default LocalSettings.php to append the previous include path when setting it +* (bug 5837) Use "members" for the value descriptor in Special:Categories, + Special:Wantedcategories and Special:Mostlinkedcategories. +* (bug 3309) Allow comments when undeleting pages +* Clean up Special:Undelete a bit +* (bug 5805) messages nbytes, ncategories can now use {{plural:}} +* Clean up Special:Imagelist a bit +* (bug 5838) Namespace names for Nds-NL +* (bug 5749) Added Tyvan language files +* (bug 5791) Fix SQL syntax in Special:BrokenRedirects, was causing incorrect data to show +* (bug 5839) Prevent access to Special:Confirmemail for logged-out users +* (bug 5853) Update for Portuguese messages (pt) +* (bug 5851) Use Cyrillic for Kirghiz language name +* (bug 5841) Allow the 'EditFilter' hook to return a non-fatal error message +* (bug 5846) Link to individual group description pages in Special:Listusers +* (bug 5857) Update for German localisation (de) +* (bug 5858) Update for Russian language (ru) +* (bug 5860) Update for Indonesian language (id) +* (bug 1120) Update for Czech language (Cs) +* Added many missing formatNum calls +* Added grammar function to Belarusian (be) +* (bug 5819) Add 'PersonalUrls' hook +* (bug 5862) Update of Belarusian language (be) +* (bug 5886) Update for Portuguese messages (pt) +* (bug 5586) <gallery> treated text as links +* (bug 5878) Update for Indonesian language (id) +* (bug 5697) Update for Malay language (ms) +* (bug 5890) Update for German language (de) +* (bug 5889) Name for Sindhi language should appear as سنڌي +* --force-normal parameter on dump scripts to force check for ICU extension +* (bug 5895) Update for Dutch language (nl) +* (bug 5891) Linktrail for Polish language (pl) +* User::isBureaucrat , User::isDeveloper , User::isSysop deprecated in + v1.6 now die with a backtrace. They will be removed in v1.8 +* dumpTextPass now skips goes to database for entries that were blank in the + previous dump, as this may indicate a broken dump. +* dumpTextPass progress includes percentage of items prefetched +* dumpTextPass can now use 7zip files for prefetch +* (bug 5915) Update to Indonesian localisation (id) +* (bug 5913) Update for German localisation (de) +* (bug 5905) Plural support for Bosnian localisation (bs) +* Groups which won't hit the rate limiter now configurable with + $wgRateLimitsExcludedGroups +* (bug 5806) {{plural:}} support instead of "twin" MediaWiki messages +* (bug 5931) Update for Polish language (pl) +* Ignore the user and user talk namespaces on Special:Wantedpages +* Introduce NUMBEROFPAGES magic word +* (bug 5833) Introduce CURRENTVERSION magic word +* (bug 5370) Allow throttling of password reminder requests with the rate limiter +* (bug 5683) Respect parser output marked as uncacheable when saving +* (bug 5918) Links autonumbering now work for all defined protocols +* (bug 5935) Improvement to German localisation (de) +* (bug 5937) Register links from gallery captions with the parent parser output + object so that link tables receive those updates too +* (bug 5845) Introduce BASEPAGENAME and BASEPAGENAMEE magic words +* (bug 5941) Use content language when getting the administrator page title for + Special:Statistics +* (bug 5949) Update to Indonesian localisation (id) +* (bug 5862) Update of Belarusian translation (be) +* (bug 5950) Improvements to French localisation +* (bug 5805) {{plural:}} support for counters in some special pages +* (bug 5952) Improvement to German localisation (de) +* Rename conflicting metadata help message to "metadata_help" (was "metadata") + and treat it as wiki text +* Improve preferences input filtering +* Maintenance script to import multiple files into the wiki +* (bug 5957) Update for Hebrew language (he) +* (bug 5962) Update for Italian language (it) +* (bug 5961) Update for Portuguese localisation (pt) +* (bug 5849) Remove some hard-coded references to "Wikipedia" in messages +* (bug 5967) Improvement to German localisation (de) +* (bug 5962) Update for Italian language (it) +* Suppress images in galleries which appear on the bad image list (when rendering + for a wiki page; galleries in special pages and categories are unaffected) +* Maintenance script to remove orphaned revisions from the database +* (bug 5991) Update for Russian language (ru) +* (bug 6001) PAGENAMEE and FULLPAGENAMEE don't work in FULLURL and LOCALURL magic + words +* (bug 5958) Switch Uzbek language name to use latin script +* (bug 839) Add URLENCODE magic word +* (bug 6004) Update for Polish language (pl) +* (bug 5971) Improvement to German localisation (de) +* (bug 4873) Don't overwrite the subtitle navigation when viewing a redirect page + that isn't current +* (bug 2203) Namespace updates for Thai +* Fix breakage in parser test suite which caused incorrect reporting of the failure of + {{NUMBEROFFILES}}. Now initialises the site_stats table with some dumb data. Updated + the expected output for {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} to reflect this. +* (bug 6009) Use {{ns:project}} in messages where appropriate +* (bug 6012) Update to Indonesian localisation (id) +* (bug 6017) Update list of bookstores in German localisation files +* (bug 5187) Allow programmatically bypassing username validation, for scripts +* (bug 6025) SpecialImport: wrong message when no file selected +* (bug 6015) EditPage: add spacing in the boxes "edit is minor" and "watch this" +* (bug 6018) Userrights: new message when no user specified ('nouserspecified') +* (bug 2015) Add "\sim" to ~ conversion for HTML rendering +* (bug 6029) Improvement to German localisation (de) +* (bug 5015) Update be: magic words +* (bug 3974) Add parameter for site URL to "passwordremindertext" +* (bug 6039) Update for Portuguese localisation (pt) +* (bug 764) Add CREATE TEMPORARY TABLES to default database permissions +* Big update to Swedish localisation (sv) +* Use appropriate HTML functions to create the tool links on image pages, so they don't + look garbled when tidy isn't on +* (bug 5511) Fix URL-encoding of usernames in links on Special:Ipblocklist +* (bug 6046) Update to Indonesian localisation (id) #15 +* (bug 5523) $wgNoFollowNsExceptions to allow disabling rel="nofollow" in + specially-selected namespaces. +* (bug 6055) Fix for HTML/JS injection bug in variable handler (found by Nick Jenkins) +* Reordered wiki table handling and __TOC__ extraction in the parser to better + handle some overlapping tag cases. +* Only the first __TOC__ is now turned into a TOC +* (bug 4610) Indicate patrolled status on watchlists and allow users to mark + changes as patrolled using the diff links there +* Add 'DiffViewHeader' hook called before diff page output +* (bug 6051) Improvement to German localisation (de) +* (bug 6054) Update to Indonesian localisation (id) #16 +* Add {{CURRENTTIMESTAMP}} magic word +* (bug 6061) Improper escaping in some html forms +* (bug 6065) Remove underscore when using NAMESPACE and TALKSPACE magics. +* (bug 6074) Correct squid purging of offsite upload URLs +* To simplify the lives of extension developers, the logging type arrays + can now be appended to directly by an extension setup function. It is + no longer necessary to write four separate functions just to add a + custom log type. +* (bug 6057) Count "licenses" as a message (and show it in Special:Allmessages) +* Added $wgGrammarForms global +* Fixed hardcoded 'done.' when removing watchlist entries. +* (bug 5962) Update for Italian language (it) +* (bug 6086) Remove vestigial attempt to call Article::validate() +* wfHostname() function for consistent server hostname use in debug messages +* Send thumbnailing error messages to 'thumbnail' log group +* wfShellexec() now accepts an optional parameter to receive the exit code +* Failed, but not zero-length, thumbnail renderings are now removed. + Should help clean up when rsvg fails in weird ways. +* (bug 6081) Change description for Turkmen language +* Increase robustness of parser placeholders; fixes some glitches when + adjacent to identifier-ish constructs such as URLs. +* Shut up the parser test whining about files in a temp directory. +* (bug 6098) Add Aragonese language support (an) +* (bug 6101) Update for Russian language (ru) +* Add $wgIgnoreImageErrors to suppress error messages for thumbnail rendering + problems. If errors are transitory, this should reduce annoying messages + making it into cached display. +* (bug 6103) Wrap self-links in a CSS class ("selflink") +* (bug 6102) For consistency with other markup, normalize all HTML-encoded + character entities in URLs, not just ampersands. This allows use of eg + = when making URLs for template parameters. +* Markup anality: escape </ as <\/ in toolbar javascript for pure correctness + under HTML-compatible browsers. +* (bug 5077) Added hook 'BeforePageDisplay' to SkinTemplate::outputPage +* Replace fatally changed 'uploadnewversion' with 'uploadnewversion-linktext' +* (bug 472) Syndication feeds for the last few edits of page history +* Format edit comments in Recent Changes feed +* Switch incorrectly ordered column headers on Recent Changes feed diffs +* (bug 6117) Use message for history feed description, add German localization +* (bug 1017) fixed thumbnails of animated gifs. +* Add APC as object caching option +* Update to Albanian localization (sq) +* (bug 6099) Introduce {{DIRECTIONMARK}} magic word (with {{DIRMARK}} as an alias) +* Use optimized php5-only microtime() +* Add possibility to store local message cache as PHP executable script +* Fix profiling table definition +* (bug 6040) Run pre-save transform before calculating the diff. when doing a + "show changes" operation in the editor +* (bug 4033) Respect $wgStyleDirectory when checking available skins +* Remove hideous backslashes from MessagesBr.php +* Fix APC object cache issues, add functionality to installer +* (bug 6133) Update strip state as we work. This mostly fixes extensions + used in Cite.php <ref> tags when Tidy is on. +* (bug 6139) Workaround for transclusion oddities in Vietnamese upload text +* (bug 6136) Update to Catalan language (ca) +* Update to Japanese localization (ja) +* Add /usr/local/bin to the diff3 search paths in the installer +* (bug 6106) Update to Indonesian localisation (id) #17 +* (bug 6125) Add links to edit old versions to diff views +* (bug 5127) Auto edit summary when creating/editing redirect page +* (bug 3926) Introduce {{#language:}} magic word +* Fix section links from edit comments for [[:Image:Bla.jpg]] in section titles +* (bug 6126) Allow fallback to customized primary language when user language + message contains '-'; fixes licenses selector on Commons configuration after + recent addition of the message to Messages.php +* (bug 5527) Batch up job queue insertions for, hopefully, better survivability + of lock contention etc. Duplicates are now removed at pop time instead of + at insert time. +* When showing the "blah has been undeleted" page, make sure it's a blue link +* parserTests.php accepts a --file parameter to run an alternate test sutie +* parser tests can now test extensions using !!hooks sections +* Fix oddity with open tag parameters getting stuck on </li> +* (bug 5384) Fix <!-- comments --> in <ref> extension +* Nesting of different tag extensions and comments should now work more + consistently and more safely. A cleaner, one-pass tag strip lets the + 'outer' tag either take source (<nowiki>-style) or pass it down to + further parsing (<ref>-style). There should no longer be surprise + expansion of foreign extensions inside HTML output, or differences + in behavior based on the order tags are loaded. +* (bug 885) Pre-save transform no longer silently appends close tags +* Pre-save transform no longer changes the case of close tags +* (bug 6164) Fix regression with <gallery> resetting <ref> state +* Hackaround for IE 7 wrapping bug in MonoBook footer +* New message sp-newimages-showfrom replaces rclistfrom on special:newimages +* Improve handling of ;: definition list construct with overlapping or + nested HTML tags +* (bug 6171) Fix sanitizing of HTML-elements with an optional closing + tag. The sanitizer still needs to learn how to make well-formed XML + in this case. +* Fix fatal error when specifying illegal name for manual thumbnail +* (bug 6184) Use shinier Linker::userLink() to make user links in + Special:Undelete +* (bug 6170) Update for Kashubian translation (csb) +* (bug 6191) Update to Indonesian translation (id) #18 +* (bug 6114) Update to Walloon localization (wa) +* Added $wgNamespaceRobotPolicies to allow customisation of robot policies on a + per-namespace basis. +* Add <ol> to the list of block elements for doBlockLevels; avoids <p>s being + interspersed into your ordered lists. +* (bug 5021) Transcluding the same special page twice now works +* Add 'SiteNoticeBefore' and 'SiteNoticeAfter' hooks +* (bug 6182) Date passed in "sp-newimages-showfrom" not adjusted to user time + preferences +* (bug 2587) Fix for section editing with comment prefix +* (bug 2607) Fix for section editing with mix of wiki and HTML headings +* (bug 3342) Fix for section editing with headings wrapped in <noinclude> +* (bug 3476) Fix for section editing with faux headings in extensions +* (bug 5272) Fix for section editing with HTML-heading subsections +* Fix for bogus wiki headings improperly detected with following text +* Fix for HTML headings improperly not detected with preceding/following text +* Section extraction and replacement functions merged into one implementation + on the Parser object, so they can't get out of sync with each other. +* Edit security precautions in raw HTML mode, etc +* (bug 6197) Update to Indonesian translation (id) #19 +* (bug 6175) Improvement to German translation (de) +* Redirect Special:Logs to Special:Log +* (bug 6206) Linktrail for Swedish localization (se) +* (bug 3202) Attributes now allowed on <pre> tags +* Sanitizer::validateTagAttributes now available to discard illegal/unsafe + attribute values from an array. +* (bug 3837) Leave <center> as is instead of doing an unsafe text replacement + to <div class="center">. <center> is perfectly valid in the target doctype + (XHTML 1.0 Transitional), while the replacement didn't catch all cases and + could even result in invalid output from valid input. +* (bug 4280) Use 'noindex,nofollow' instead of 'noindex,follow' for default + meta robots tag on diff view and special pages. Should reduce impact of + robots on scrolling special pages, diffs etc on sites where robots.txt + doesn't forbid access. +* Regression fix: suppress warning about session failure when clicking to + edit with 'preview on first edit' enabled. +* (bug 6230) Regression fix: <nowiki> in [URL link text] +* Added AutoLoader.php, which loads classes without need of require_once() +* (bug 5981) Add plural function Slovenian (sl) +* (bug 5945) Introduce {{CONTENTLANGUAGE}} magic word +* {{PLURAL}} can now take up to five forms +* (bug 6243) Fix email for usernames containing dots when using PEAR::Mail +* Remove a number of needless {{ns:project}}-type transforms from messages files. These + usages already have separate label text. Such transforms are wasteful on each page view. +* Update to Yiddish localization (yi) +* (bug 6254) Update to Indonesian translation (id) #20 +* (bug 6255) Fix transclusions starting with "#" or "*" in HTML attributes +* Whitespace now normalized more or less properly in HTML attributes +* Fix regression(?) in behavior of initial-whitespace-pre in <center> +* (bug 6260) Update to Interlingua localization (ia) +* Update to Vlax Romany localization (rmy) +* Update to Latin translation (la) +* Update to Dutch translation (nl) +* Avoid some notices in page history with bad input +* Use double quoted consistently on attributes in linker output; preparing + for new normalization code when tidy not in use +* Replace "nogomatch" with "noexactmatch" and place the magic colon in the messages + themselves. Some minor tweaks to the actual message content. +* Introduce $wgContentNamespaces which allows for articles to exist in namespaces other + than the main namespace, and still be counted as valid content in the site statistics. +* (bug 5932) Introduce {{PAGESINNAMESPACE}} magic word +* Disable $wgAllowExternalImages by default. +* (bug 2700) Nice things like link completion and signatures now work in <gallery> tags. +* Cancel output buffering in StreamFile; when used inside gzip buffering this + could cause funny timeout behavior as the Content-Length was wrong. +* Return correct content-type header with 304 responses for StreamFile; + it confuses Safari if you let it return "text/html". +* (bug 6280) Correct GRAMMAR for Slovenian localisation (sl) +* (bug 6162) Change date format for Dutch Low Saxon (nds-nl) +* (bug 6296) Update to Indonesian localisation (id) #21 +* Introduce EditFormPreloadText hook, see docs/hooks.txt for more information +* (bug 4054) Add "boteditletter" to recent changes flags +* Update to Catalan localization (ca) +* (bug 2099) Deleted image files can now be archived and undeleted. + Set $wgSaveDeletedFiles on and an appropriate directory path in + $wgFileStore['deleted']['directory'] +* (bug 6324) Fix regression in enhanced RC alignment +* Introduce {{NUMBEROFADMINS}} magic word +* Update to Slovak translation (sk) +* Update to Alemannic localization (gsw) +* (bug 6300) Bug fixes for sr: variants +* namespaceDupes.php can now accept an arbitrary prefix, for checking rogue + interwikis and such. Not yet fully automated. +* (bug 6344) Add Special:Uncategorizedimages page +* (bug 6357) Update to Russian translation (ru) +* Workaround possible bug in Firefox nightlies by properly removing the + Content-Encoding header instead of sending explicit 'identity' value + in StreamFile +* (bug 6304) Show timestamp for current revision in diff pages +* Vertically align current version with old version header in diff display +* (bug 6174) Remove redundant "emailforlost" message +* (bug 6189) Show an error to an unprivilleged user trying to create account +* (bug 6365) Show user information in the "old revision" navigation links +* Introduce 'FetchChangesList' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information +* (bug 6345) Update to Indonesian localisation (id) #22 +* (bug 6279) Add genitive month names to Slovenian localisation +* (bug 6351) Update to German translation (de) +* Respect language directionality when displaying arrow in Special:Brokenredirects +* Remove unused "validation" table definitions from the schema files +* (bug 6398) Work around apparent PCRE bug breaking section editing when + massively-indented preformatted text immediately followed a header +* (bug 6392) Fix misbehaving <br /> in preferences form +* Add translated magic words to Hebrew localization +* (bug 6396) Change name for Chuvash language +* Introduce optional (off by default) language selector bar for user login + and registration. Customisable via the "loginlanguagelinks" message, the + links will preserve "returnto" values. If the user creates an account while + using such a link, then the language in use will be saved as their language + preference. +* Make sure '~~~' '~~~~' '~~~~~' are removed in Nickname preference. +* Rename "ipusuccess" to "unblocked", change the format (now wiki text) +* (bug 2316) Add "caption" attribute to <gallery> tag +* Allow setting the skin object that ImageGallery will use; needed during parse + operations (the skin must come from the ParserOptions, not $wgUser) +* Fix notice in MacBinary detection debug data for files of certain lengths +* (bug 6131) Add type detection for DjVu files, allowing them to be uploaded + with validity checking and size detection. No inline thumbnailing yet, + but could be added in the future. +* (bug 6423) Don't update newtalk flag if page content didn't change (null edits + were causing the newtalk flag to trigger inappropriately) +* Parser functions are now set using magic words. +* (bug 6428) Incorrect form action URL on Special:Newimages with hidebots = 0 set +* (bug 4990) Show page source to blocked users on edits, or their modified version + if blocked during an edit +* (bug 5903) When requesting the raw source of a non-existent message page, + return blank content (as opposed to the message key) +* Improve default blank content of MediaWiki:Common.css and MediaWiki:Monobook.css +* (bug 6434) Allow customisation of submit button text on Special:Export +* (bug 6314) Add user tool links on page histories +* Fix display of file-type icons in galleries when $wgIgnoreImageErrors is off +* (bug 6438) Update to Indonesian translation (id) #23 +* Adding the language code parameter to the hook "LanguageGetMagic", to allow + localizble extensions magic words. +* Update to Romanian translation (ro) +* Update to Esperanto translation (eo) +* Check for preg_match() existence when installing and die out whining about PCRE + if it's not there, instead of throwing a fatal error +* (bug 672) Add MathAfterTexvc hook +* Update to Piedmontese localization (pms) +* dumpBackup can optionally compress via dbzip2 +* (bug 2483) Run link updates on change via XML import +* (bug 2481) List imported pages during Special:Import +* (bug 2482) Log and RC entries for Special:Import events +* Allow fetching all revisions from transwiki Special:Import +* Allow fetching all revisions from Special:Export GET request +* Disable output buffering on Special:Export; should help with streaming + large numbers of history items. +* Allow setting a maximum number of revisions for history Special:Export; + pages with more than $wgExportMaxHistory revisions are excluded from + export when history is requested. +* Fix transwiki import of pages with space in name +* Save null edit when importing pages through Special:Import +* Update to Korean translation (ko) +* Show a more specific message when an anonymous user tries to access Special:Watchlist +* (bug 3278) Paging links in Special:Prefixindex +* Added Latvian localization (lv) +* (bug 6472) Fix regression in Special:Export with multiple pages +* Update to Macedonian translation (mk) +* Allow page moves over historyless self-redirects. Such are usually created + as part of namespace rearrangements, and it's easier to clean them up if + we can move over them. +* Show some error results in moveBatch.php +* (bug 6479) Allow specification of the skin to use during HTML dumps +* (bug 6461) Link to page histories in Special:Newpages +* (bug 6484) Don't do message transformations when preloading messages for editing +* (bug 6201) Treat spaces as underscores in parameters to {{ns:}} +* (bug 6006) Allow hiding the password change fields using an authentication plugin +* (bug 6489) Use appropriate link colour on Special:Shortpages +* Added formatnum magic word +* Added Javanese localization (jv) +* (bug 6491) Apply bad image list in category galleries +* (bug 6488) Show relevant log fragment in Special:Movepage +* Fix potential PHP notice in Special:Blockme when $wgBlockOpenProxies is true +* Use mysql_real_escape_string instead of addslashes for string escaping in + the MySQL Database class. This may fix some rare breakage with binary fields. + Note that MediaWiki does not support the multibyte character sets where a + "dumb" byte replacement can be actively dangerous; UTF-8 is always safe + in this regard due to the bit patterns which make head and tail bytes + distinct. +* (bug 6497) Use $wgMetaNamespaceTalk for Esperanto if set +* (bug 6498) Use localized forms for image size in Special:Undelete +* (bug 6485) Update to Indonesian translation (id) #24 +* Extension messages translation is now possible. +* Add target namespace override selector for transwiki imports. + $wgImportTargetNamespace specifies the default, to be used for + Wiktionary's 'Transwiki:' namespace etc. +* (bug 6506) Update to German localisation (de) +* (bug 502) Avoid silly tabs on bad title by using virtual special page +* (bug 6511) Add diff links to old revision navigation bar +* (bug 6511) Replace 'oldrevisionnavigation' message with 'old-revision-navigation' +* Fix regression in Polish genitive month forms +* (bug 4037) Make input handling in Special:Allpages and Special:Prefixindex + more consistent: Accept just a namespace prefix and a colon, reject input + with interwiki prefixes, otherwise do what Title::makeTitleSafe() does. +* (bug 6516) Update to Russian translation +* New 'allpagesbadtitle' message for Special:Allpages, based on 'badtitletext'. +* Rename "searchquery" to "searchsubtitle" and support wiki text in it +* Introduce updateArticleCount maintenance script which uses a better check that + reflects what Article::isCountable() tests for +* Introduce 'BadImage' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information +* Add "searchsubtitleinvalid" message for searches that are not valid titles. +* (bug 5962) Update to Italian localisation +* (bug 6530) Update to Indonesian localisation (id) #25 +* (bug 6523) Fix SVG issue in rebuildImages.php +* (bug 6512) Link to page-specific logs on page histories +* (bug 6504) Allow configuring session name with $wgSessionName +* (bug 6185) Add standard user tool links to log page views +* Update to Venetian translation (vec) +* Update to Slovenian translation (sl) +* Add standard user tool links to deleted revision list +* Separate out EditPage's getContent bits from regular Article getContent. + Cleans up read-only-mode warning on empty pages and neats up some code. +* (bug 6565) Strict JavaScript writing +* (bug 6570) Update to Indonesian localisation (id) #26 +* Added Telugu translation (te) +* Update to Catalan translation (ca) +* (bug 6560) Avoid PHP notice when trimming ISBN whitespace +* Added namespace translation to Kannada (ka) +* (bug 6566) Improve input validation on timestamp conversion +* Implicit group "emailconfirmed" for all users whose email addresses are confirmed +* (bug 6577) Avoid multiline parser breakage on <pre> with newline in attribute +* (bug 6771) Make old revisions of MediaWiki pages available with action=raw + == Changes since 1.5 == * (bug 2885) More PHP 5.1 fixes: skin, search, log, undelete |