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@@ -1,4 +1,337 @@ -Change notes from older releases. For current info see RELEASE-NOTES-1.21. +Change notes from older releases. For current info see RELEASE-NOTES-1.22. + +== MediaWiki 1.21 == + +MediaWiki 1.21 is an alpha-quality branch and is not recommended for use in +production. + +=== Configuration changes in 1.21 === +* (bug 29374) $wgVectorUseSimpleSearch is now enabled by default. +* Deprecated $wgAllowRealName is removed. Use $wgHiddenPrefs[] = 'realname' + instead. +* (bug 39957) Added $wgUnwatchedPageThreshold, specifying minimum count + of page watchers required for the number to be accessible to users + without the unwatchedpages permission. +* $wgBug34832TransitionalRollback has been removed. +* (bug 29472) $wgUseDynamicDates has been removed and its functionality + disabled. + +=== New features in 1.21 === +* (bug 38110) Schema changes (adding or dropping tables, indices and + fields) can be now be done separately from from other changes that + update.php makes. This is useful in environments that use database + permissions to restrict schema changes but allow the DB user that + MediaWiki normally runs as to perform other changes that update.php + makes. Schema changes can be run separately. See the file UPGRADE + for more information. +* (bug 34876) jquery.makeCollapsible has been improved in performance. +* Added ContentHandler facility to allow extensions to support other content + than wikitext. See docs/contenthandler.txt for details. +* New feature was developed for showing high-DPI thumbnails for high-DPI mobile + and desktop displays (configurable with $wgResponsiveImages). +* Added new backend to represent and store information about sites and site + specific configuration. +* jQuery upgraded from 1.8.2 to 1.8.3. +* jQuery UI upgraded from 1.8.23 to 1.8.24. +* Added separate fa_sha1 field to filearchive table. This allows sha1 + searches with the api in miser mode for deleted files. +* Add initial and programmatic sorting for tablesorter. +* Add the event "sortEnd.tablesorter", triggered after sorting has completed. +* The Job system was refactored to allow for different backing stores for + queues as well as cross-wiki access to queues, among other things. The schema + for the DB queue was changed to support better concurrency and reduce + deadlock errors. +* Added ApiQueryORM class to facilitate creation of query API modules based on + tables that have a corresponding ORMTable class. +* (bug 40876) Icon for PSD (Adobe Photoshop) file types. +* (bug 40641) Implemented Special:Version/Credits with a list of contributors. +* (bug 7851) Implemented one-click AJAX patrolling. +* The <data>, <time>, <meta>, and <link> elements are allowed within WikiText + for use with Microdata. +* The HTML5 <mark> tag has been whitelisted. +* Added ParserCloned hook for when the Parser object is cloned. +* Added AlternateEditPreview hook to allow extensions to replace the page + preview from the edit page. +* Added EditPage::showStandardInputs:options hook to allow extensions to add + new fields to the "editOptions" area of the edit form. +* Upload stash DB schema altered to improve upload performance. +* The following global functions are now reporting deprecated warnings in + debug mode: wfMsg, wfMsgNoTrans, wfMsgForContent, wfMsgForContentNoTrans, + wfMsgReal, wfMsgGetKey, wfMsgHtml, wfMsgWikiHtml, wfMsgExt, wfEmptyMsg. Use + the Message class, or the global method wfMessage. +* Added $wgEnableCanonicalServerLink, off by default. If enabled, a + <link rel=canonical> tag is added to every page indicating the correct server + to use. +* Debug message emitted by wfDebugLog() will now be prefixed with the group + name when its logged to the default log file. That is the case whenever the + group has no key in wgDebugLogGroups, that will help triage the default log. +* (bug 24620) Add types to LogFormatter. +* jQuery JSON upgraded from 2.3 to 2.4.0. +* Added GetDoubleUnderscoreIDs hook, for modifying the list of magic words. +* DatabaseUpdater class has two new methods to ease extensions schema changes: + dropExtensionIndex and renameExtensionIndex. +* New preference type - 'api'. Preferences of this type are not shown on + Special:Preferences, but are still available via the action=options API. +* (bug 39397) Hide rollback link if a user is the only contributor of the page. +* $wgPageInfoTransclusionLimit limits the list size of transcluded articles + on the info action. Default is 50. +* Added action=createaccount to allow user account creation. +* (bug 40124) action=options API also allows for setting of arbitrary + preferences, provided that their names are prefixed with 'userjs-'. This + officially reenables the feature that was undocumented and defective + in MW 1.20 (saving preferences using Special:Preferences cleared any + additional fields) and which has been disabled in 1.20.1 as a part of + a security fix (bug 42202). +* Added option to specify "others" as author in extension credits using + "..." as author name. +* Added the ability to limit the wall clock time used by shell processes, + as well as the CPU time. Configurable with $wgMaxShellWallClockTime. +* Allow memory of shell subprocesses to be limited using Linux cgroups + instead of ulimit -v, which tends to cause deadlocks in recent versions + of ImageMagick. Configurable with $wgShellCgroup. +* Added $wgWhitelistReadRegexp for regex whitelisting. +* (bug 5346) Categories that are redirects will be displayed italic in + the category links section at the bottom of a page. +* (bug 43915) New maintenance script deleteEqualMessages.php. +* You can now create checkbox option matrices through the HTMLCheckMatrix + subclass in HTMLForm. +* WikiText now permits the use of WAI-ARIA's role="presentation" inside of + html elements and tables. This allows presentational markup, especially + tables. To be marked up as such. +* maintenance/sql.php learned the --cluster option. Let you run the script + on some external cluster instead of the primary cluster for a given wiki. +* (bug 20281) test the parsing of inline URLs. +* Added Special:PagesWithProp, which lists pages using a particular page property. +* Implemented language-specific collations for category sorting for 67 languages + based in latin, greek and cyrillic alphabets. This allows one to *finally* get + articles to be correctly sorted on category pages. They are named + 'uca-<langcode>', where <langcode> is one of: af, ast, az, be, bg, br, bs, ca, + co, cs, cy, da, de, dsb, el, en, eo, es, et, eu, fi, fo, fr, fur, fy, ga, gd, + gl, hr, hsb, hu, is, it, kk, kl, ku, ky, la, lb, lt, lv, mk, mo, mt, nl, no, + oc, pl, pt, rm, ro, ru, rup, sco, sk, sl, smn, sq, sr, sv, tk, tl, tr, tt, uk, + uz, vi. +* Added 'CategoryAfterPageAdded' and 'CategoryAfterPageRemoved' hooks. +* Added 'HistoryRevisionTools' and 'DiffRevisionTools' hooks. +* Added 'SpecialSearchResultsPrepend' and 'SpecialSearchResultsAppend' hooks. +* (bug 33186) Add image rotation api "imagerotate" +* (bug 34040) Add "User rights management" link on user page toolbox. +* (bug 45526) Add QUnit assertion helper "QUnit.assert.htmlEqual" for asserting + structual equality of HTML (ignoring insignificant differences like + quotmarks, order and whitespace in the attribute list). +* (bug 23393) HTML <hN> headings containing line breaks are now handled + correctly. +* (bug 45803) Whitespace within == Headline == syntax and within <hN> headings + is now non-significant and not preserved in the HTML output. + +=== Bug fixes in 1.21 === +* (bug 40353) SpecialDoubleRedirect should support interwiki redirects. +* (bug 40352) fixDoubleRedirects.php should support interwiki redirects. +* (bug 9237) SpecialBrokenRedirect should not list interwiki redirects. +* (bug 34960) Drop unused fields rc_moved_to_ns and rc_moved_to_title from + recentchanges table. +* (bug 32951) Do not register internal externals with absolute protocol, + when server has relative protocol. +* (bug 39005) When purging proxies listed in $wgSquidServers using HTTP PURGE + method requests, we now send a Host header by default, for Varnish + compatibility. This also works with Squid in reverse-proxy mode. If you wish + to support Squid configured in forward-proxy mode, set + $wgSquidPurgeUseHostHeader to false. +* (bug 37020) sql.php with readline eats semicolon. +* (bug 11748) Properly handle optionally-closed HTML tags when Tidy is + disabled, and don't wrap HTML-syntax definition lists in paragraphs. +* (bug 41409) Diffs while editing an old revision should again diff against the + current revision. +* (bug 41494) Honor $wgLogExceptionBacktrace when logging non-API exceptions + caught during API execution. +* (bug 37963) Fixed loading process for user options. +* (bug 26995) Update filename field on Upload page after having sanitized it. +* (bug 41793) Contribution links to users with 0 edits on Special:ListUsers + didn't show up red. +* (bug 41899) A PHP notice no longer occurs when using the "rvcontinue" API + parameter. +* (bug 42036) Account creation emails now contain canonical (not + protocol-relative) URLs. +* (bug 41990) Fix regression: API edit with redirect=true and lacking + starttimestamp and basetimestamp should not cause an edit conflict. +* (bug 41706) EditPage: Preloaded page should be converted if possible and + needed. +* (bug 41886) Rowspans are no longer exploded by tablesorter until the table is + actually sorted. +* (bug 2865) User interface HTML elements don't use lang attribute. + (completed the fix by adding the lang attribute to firstHeading). +* (bug 42173) Removed namespace prefixes on Special:UncategorizedCategories. +* (bug 36053) Log in "returnto" feature forgets query parameters if no + title parameter was specified. +* (bug 42410) API action=edit now returns correct timestamp for the new edit. +* (bug 14901) Email notification mistakes log action for new page creation. + Enotif no longer sends "page has been created" notifications for some log + actions. The following events now have a correct message: page creation, + deletion, move, restore (undeletion), change (edit). Parameter + $CHANGEDORCREATED is deprecated in 'enotif_body' and scheduled for removal in + MediaWiki 1.23. +* (bug 457) In the sidebar of Vector, CologneBlue, Monobook, and Monobook-based + skins, the heading levels have been changed from (variously per skin) + <h4>, <h5> or <h6> to only <h3>s, with a <h2> hidden heading above them. + If you are styling or scripting the headings in a custom way, this change + will require updates to your site's CSS or JS. +* (bug 41342) jquery.suggestions should cancel any active (async) fetches + before it triggers another fetch. +* (bug 42184) $wgUploadSizeWarning missing second variable. +* (bug 34581) removeUnusedAccounts.php maintenance script now ignores newuser + log when determining whether an account is used. +* (bug 43379) Gracefully fail if rev_len is unavailable for a revision on the + History page. +* (bug 42949) API no longer assumes all exceptions are MWException. +* (bug 41733) Hide "New user message" (.usermessage) element from printable view. +* (bug 39062) Special:Contributions will display changes that don't have + a parent id instead of just an empty bullet item. +* (bug 37209) "LinkCache doesn't currently know about this title" error fixed. +* wfMerge() now works if $wgDiff3 contains spaces +* (bug 43052) mediawiki.action.view.dblClickEdit.dblClickEdit should trigger + ca-edit click instead opening URL directly. +* (bug 43964) Invalid value of "link" parameter in <gallery> no longer produces + a fatal error. +* (bug 44775) The username field is not pre-filled when creating an account. +* (bug 45069) wfParseUrl() no longer produces a PHP notice if passed a "mailto:" + URL without address +* (bug 45012) Creating an account by e-mail can no longer show a + "password mismatch" error. +* (bug 44599) On Special:Version, HEADs for submodule checkouts (e.g. for + extensions) performed using Git 1.7.8+ should now appear. +* (bug 42184) $wgUploadSizeWarning missing second variable +* (bug 40326) Check if files exist with a different extension during uploading +* (bug 34798) Updated CSS for Atom/RSS recent changes feeds to match on-wiki diffs. +* (bug 42430) Calling numRows on MySQL no longer propagates unrelated errors. +* (bug 44719) Removed mention of non-existing maintenance/migrateCurStubs.php + script in includes/DefaultSettings.php +* (bug 45143) jquery.badge: Treat non-Latin variants of zero as zero as well. +* (bug 46151) mwdocgen.php should not ignore exit code of doxygen command. +* (bug 41889) Fix $.tablesorter rowspan exploding for complex cases. + +=== API changes in 1.21 === +* prop=revisions can now report the contentmodel and contentformat. + See docs/contenthandler.txt. +* action=edit and action=parse now support contentmodel and contentformat + parameters to control the interpretation of page content. + See docs/contenthandler.txt for details. +* (bug 35693) ApiQueryImageInfo now suppresses errors when unserializing metadata. +* (bug 40111) Disable minor edit for page/section creation by API. +* (bug 41042) Revert change to action=parse&page=... behavior when the page + does not exist. +* (bug 27202) Add timestamp sort to list=allimages. +* (bug 43137) Don't return the sha1 of revisions through the API if the content is + revision-deleted. +* ApiQueryImageInfo now also returns imageinfo for redirects. +* list=alltransclusions added to enumerate every instance of page embedding +* list=alllinks & alltransclusions now allow both 'from' and 'continue' in + the same query. When both are present, 'from' is simply ignored. +* list=alllinks & alltransclusions now allow 'unique' in generators, to yield + a list of all link/template target pages instead of source pages. +* BREAKING CHANGE: list=logevents output format changed for details of some log + types. Specifically, details that were formerly reported under a key like + "4::foo" will now be reported under a key of simply "foo". +* BREAKING CHANGE: '??_badcontinue' error code was changed to '??badcontinue' + for all query modules. +* ApiQueryBase adds 'badcontinue' error code if module has 'continue' parameter. +* (bug 35885) Removed version parameter and all getVersion() methods. +* action=options now takes a "resetkinds" option, which allows only resetting + certain types of preferences when the "reset" option is set. +* (bug 36751) ApiQueryImageInfo now returns imageinfo for the redirect target + when queried with &redirects=. +* (bug 31849) ApiQueryImageInfo no longer gets confused when asked for info on + a redirect and its target. +* (bug 43849) ApiQueryImageInfo no longer throws exceptions with ForeignDBRepo + redirects. +* On error, any warnings generated before that error will be shown in the result. +* action=help supports generalized submodules (modules=query+value), querymodules obsolete +* ApiQueryImageInfo continuation is more reliable. The only major change is + that the imagerepository property will no longer be set on page objects not + processed in the current query (i.e. non-images or those skipped due to + iicontinue). +* Add supports for all pageset capabilities - generators, redirects, converttitles to + action=purge and action=setnotificationtimestamp. +* (bug 43251) prop=pageprops&ppprop= now accepts multiple props to query. +* ApiQueryImageInfo will now limit the number of calls to File::transform made + in any one query. If there are too many, iicontinue will be returned. +* action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=general will now return the regexes used for + link trails and link prefixes. Added for Parsoid support. +* Added an API query module list=pageswithprop, which lists pages using a + particular page property. +* Added an API query module list=pagepropnames, which lists all page prop names + currently in use on the wiki. +* (bug 44921) ApiMain::execute() will now return after the CORS check for an + HTTP OPTIONS request. +* (bug 44923) action=upload works correctly if the entire file is uploaded in + the first chunk. +* Added 'continue=' parameter to streamline client iteration over complex query results +* (bug 44909) API parameters may now be marked as type "upload", which is now + used for action=upload's 'file' and 'chunk' parameters. This type will raise + an error during parameter validation if the parameter is given but not + recognized as an uploaded file. +* (bug 44244) prop=info may now return the number of people watching each page. +* (bug 33304) list=allpages will no longer return duplicate entries when + querying protection. +* (bug 33304) list=allpages will now find really old indefinite protections. +* (bug 45937) meta=allmessages will report a syntactically invalid lang as a + proper error instead of as an uncaught exception. +* (bug 25325) added support for wlshow filtering (bots/anon/minor/patrolled) + to action=feedwatchlist +* WDDX formatted output will actually be formatted (and normal output will no + longer be), and will no longer choke on booleans. + +=== API internal changes in 1.21 === +* For debugging only, a new global $wgDebugAPI removes many API restrictions when true. + Never use on the production servers, as this flag introduces security holes. + Whenever enabled, a warning will also be added to all output. +* ApiModuleManager now handles all submodules (actions,props,lists) and instantiation +* Query stores prop/list/meta as submodules +* ApiPageSet can now be used in any action to process titles/pageids/revids or any generator. +* BREAKING CHANGE: ApiPageSet constructor now has two params instead of three, with only the + first one keeping its meaning. ApiPageSet is now derived from ApiBase. +* BREAKING CHANGE: ApiQuery::newGenerator() and executeGeneratorModule() were deleted. +* ApiQueryGeneratorBase::setGeneratorMode() now requires a pageset param. +* $wgAPIGeneratorModules is now obsolete and will be ignored. +* Added flags ApiResult::OVERRIDE and ADD_ON_TOP to setElement() and addValue() +* Internal API calls will now include <warnings> in case of unused parameters + +=== Languages updated in 1.21 === + +MediaWiki supports over 350 languages. Many localisations are updated +regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as +changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports. + +* South Azerbaijani (azb) added. +* (bug 30040) Autonym for nds-nl is now 'Nedersaksies' (was 'Nedersaksisch'). +* (bug 45436) Autonym for pi (Pali) is now 'पालि' (was ''पाळि'). +* (bug 34977) Now formatted numbers in Spanish use space as separator + for thousands, as mandated by the Real Academia Española. +* (bug 35031) Kurdish formatted numbers now use period and comma + as separators for thousands and decimals respectively. + +=== Other changes in 1.21 === +* BREAKING CHANGE: (bug 44385) Removed the jquery.collapsibleTabs module and + moved it to the Vector extension. It was entirely Vector-extension-specific, + deeply interconnected with the extension, and this functionality really + belongs to the extension instead of the skin anyway. In the unlikely case you + were using it, you have to either copy it to your extension, or install the + Vector extension (and possibly disable its features using config settings if + you don't want them). +* Experimental IBM DB2 support was removed due to lack of interest and maintainership +* BREAKING CHANGE: Filenames of maintenance scripts were standardized into + lowerCamelCase format, and made more explicit: + - clear_stats.php -> clearCacheStats.php + - clear_interwiki_cache.php -> clearInterwikiCache.php + - initStats.php -> initSiteStats.php + - proxy_check.php -> proxyCheck.php + - stats.php -> showCacheStats.php + - showStats.php -> showSiteStats.php. + Class names were renamed accordingly: + - clear_stats -> ClearCacheStats + - InitStats -> InitSiteStats + - CacheStats -> ShowCacheStats + - ShowStats -> ShowSiteStats. +* BREAKING CHANGE: (bug 38244) Removed the mediawiki.api.titleblacklist module + and moved it to the TitleBlacklist extension. == MediaWiki 1.20 == |