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diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES index 7ce61f90..f6d2523e 100644 --- a/RELEASE-NOTES +++ b/RELEASE-NOTES @@ -3,11 +3,11 @@ 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 1.14.0 == +== MediaWiki 1.15.0 == -February 22, 2009 +2009-06-10 -This is the first stable release of the 2009 Q1 branch of MediaWiki. +This is a stable release of the the 2009 Q2 branch of MediaWiki. MediaWiki is now using a "continuous integration" development model with quarterly snapshot releases. The latest development code is always kept @@ -20,616 +20,385 @@ will be made on the development trunk and appear in the next quarterly release. Those wishing to use the latest code instead of a branch release can obtain it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN -NOTE: Installation of MediaWiki on SQLite has been temporarily disabled in this -release due to the discovery of serious problems with the schema. We expect to -fix this problem for the release of 1.15.0. - -== Changes since 1.14.0rc1 == - -* Fixed the performance of the backlinks API module +=== Changes since 1.15.0rc1 === + +* Removed category redirect feature, implementation was incomplete. +* (bug 18846) Remove update_password_format(), unnecessary, destroys all + passwords if a wiki with $wgPasswordSalt=false is upgraded with the web + installer. +* (bug 19127) Documentation warning for PostgreSQL users who run update.php: + use the same user in AdminSettings.php as in LocalSettings.php. +* Fixed possible web invocation of some maintenance scripts, due to the use of + include() instead of require(). A full exploit would require a very strange + web server configuration. +* Localisation updates. + +=== Configuration changes in 1.15 === + +* Added $wgNewPasswordExpiry, to specify an expiry time (in seconds) to + temporary passwords +* Added $wgUseTwoButtonsSearchForm to choose the Search form behavior/look +* Added $wgNoFollowDomainExceptions to allow exempting particular domain names + from rel="nofollow" on external links +* (bug 12970) Brought back $wgUseImageResize. +* Added $wgRedirectOnLogin to allow specifying a specifc page to redirect users + to upon logging in (ex: "Main Page") +* Add $wgExportFromNamespaces for enabling/disabling the "export all from + namespace" option (disabled by default) + +=== New features in 1.15 === + +* (bug 2242) Add an expiry time to temporary passwords +* (bug 9947) Add PROTECTIONLEVEL parser function to return the protection level + for the current page for a given action +* (bug 17002) Add &minor= and &summary= as parameters in the url when editing, + to automatically add a summary or a minor edit. +* (bug 16852) padleft and padright now accept multiletter pad characters +* When using 'UserCreateForm' hook to add new checkboxes into + Special:UserLogin/signup, the messages can now contain HTML to allow + hyperlinking to the site's Terms of Service page, for example +* Add new hook 'UserLoadFromDatabase' that is called while loading a user + from the database. +* (bug 17045) Options on the block form are prefilled with the options of the + existing block when modifying an existing block. +* (bug 17055) "(show/hide)" links to Special:RevisionDelete now use a CSS class + rather than hardcoded HTML tags +* Added new hook 'WantedPages::getSQL' into SpecialWantedpages.php to allow + extensions to alter the SQL query which is used to get the list of wanted + pages +* (bugs 16957/16969) Add show/hide to preferences for RC patrol options on + specialpages +* (bug 11443) Auto-noindex user/user talk pages for blocked user +* (bug 11644) Add $wgMaxRedirects variable to control how many redirects are + recursed through until the "destination" page is reached. +* Add $wgInvalidRedirectTargets variable to prevent redirects to certain + special pages. +* Use HTML5 rel attributes for some links, where appropriate +* Added optional alternative Search form look - Go button & Advanced search + link instead of Go button & Search button +* (bug 2314) Add links to user custom CSS and JS to Special:Preferences +* More helpful error message on raw page access if PHP_SELF isn't set +* (bug 13040) Gender switch in user preferences +* (bug 13040) {{GENDER:}} magic word for interface messages +* (bug 3301) Optionally sort user list according to account creation time +* Remote description pages for foreign file repos are now fetched in the + content language. +* (bug 17180) If $wgUseFileCache is enabled, $wgShowIPinHeader is automatically + set to false. +* (bug 16604) Mark non-patrolled edits in feeds with "!" +* (bug 16604) Show title/rev in IRC for patrol log +* (bug 16854) Whether a page is being parsed as a preview or section preview + can now be determined and set with ParserOptions. +* Wrap message 'confirmemail_pending' into a div with CSS classes "error" and + "mw-confirmemail-pending" +* (bug 8249) The magic words for namespaces and pagenames can now be used as + parser functions to return the desired namespace or normalized title/title + part for a given title. +* (bug 17110) Styled #mw-data-after-content in cologneblue.css to match the + rest of the font +* (bug 7556) Time zone names in signatures lack i18n +* (bug 3311) Automatic category redirects +* (bug 17236) Suppress 'watch user page link' for IP range blocks +* Wrap message 'searchresulttext' (Special:Search) into a div with + class "mw-searchresult" +* (bug 15283) Interwiki imports can now fetch included templates +* Treat svn:// URLs as external links by default +* New function to convert namespace text for display (only applies on wiki with + LanguageConverter class) +* (bug 17379) Contributions-title is now parsed for magic words. +* Preprocessor output now cached in memcached. +* (bug 14468) Lines in classic RecentChanges and Watchlist have classes + "mw-line-odd" and "mw-line-even" to make styling using css possible. +* (bug 17311) Add a note beside the gender selection menu to tell users that + this information will be public +* Localize time zone regions in Special:Preferences +* Add NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS magic word, which is like NUMBEROFUSERS, but uses + the active users data from site_stats. +* Add a <link rel="canonical"> tag on redirected page views +* Replace hardcoded '...' as indication of a truncation with the + 'ellipsis' message +* Wrap warning message 'editinginterface' into a div with class + 'mw-editinginterface' +* (bug 17497) Oasis opendocument added to mime.types +* Remove the link to Special:FileDuplicateSearch from the "file history" section + of image description pages as the list of duplicated files is shown in the + next section anyway. +* Added $wgRateLimitsExcludedIPs, to allow specific IPs to be whitelisted from + rate limits. +* (bug 14981) Shared repositories can now have display names, located at + Mediawiki:Shared-repo-name-REPONAME, where REPONAME is the name in + $wgForeignFileRepos +* Special:ListUsers: Sort list of usergroups by alphabet +* (bug 16762) Special:Movepage now shows a list of subpages when possible +* (bug 17585) Hide legend on Special:Specialpages from non-privileged users +* Added $wgUseTagFilter to control enabling of filter-by-change-tag +* (bug 17291) MediaWiki:Nocontribs now has an optional $1 parameter for the + username +* Wrap special page summary message '$specialPageName-summary' into a div + with class 'mw-specialpage-summary' +* $wgSummarySpamRegex added to handle edit summary spam. This is used *instead* + of $wgSpamRegex for edit summary checks. Text checks still use $wgSpamRegex. +* New function to convert content text to specified language (only applies on wiki with + LanguageConverter class) +* (bug 17844) Redirect users to a specific page when they log in, see + $wgRedirectOnLogin +* Added a link to Special:UserRights on Special:Contributions for privileged users +* (bug 10336) Added new magic word {{REVISIONUSER}}, which displays the editor + of the displayed revision's author user name +* LinkerMakeExternalLink now has an $attribs parameter for link attributes and + a $linkType parameter for the type of external link being made +* (bug 17785) Dynamic dates surrounded with a <span> tag, fixing sortable tables + with dynamic dates. +* (bug 4582) Provide preference-based autoformatting of unlinked dates with the + dateformat parser function. +* (bug 17886) Special:Export now allows you to export a whole namespace (limited + to 5000 pages) +* (bug 17714) Limited TIFF upload support now built in if 'tif' extension is + enabled. Image width and height are now recognized, and when using ImageMagick, + optional flattening to PNG or JPEG for inline display can be enabled by setting + $wgTiffThumbnailType +* Renamed two input IDs on Special:Log from 'page' and 'user' to 'mw-log-page' and + 'mw-log-user', respectively +* Added $wgInvalidUsernameCharacters to disallow certain characters in + usernames during registration (such as "@") +* Added $wgUserrightsInterwikiDelimiter to allow changing the delimiter + used in Special:UserRights to denote the user should be searched for + on a different database +* Add a class if 'missingsummary' is triggered to allow styling of the summary + line + +=== Bug fixes in 1.15 === + +* (bug 16968) Special:Upload no longer throws useless warnings. +* (bug 17000) Special:RevisionDelete now checks if the database is locked + before trying to delete the edit. +* (bug 16852) padleft and padright now handle multibyte characters correctly +* (bug 17010) maintenance/namespaceDupes.php now add the suffix recursively if + the destination page exists +* (bug 17035) Special:Upload now fails gracefully if PHP's file_uploads has + been disabled +* Fixing the caching issue by using -{T|xxx}- syntax (only applies on wiki with + LanguageConverter class) +* Improving the efficiency by using -{A|xxx}- syntax (only applies on wiki with + LanguageConverter class) +* (bug 17054) Added more descriptive errors in Special:RevisionDelete +* (bug 11527) Diff on page with one revision shows "Next" link to same diff +* (bug 8065) Fix summary forcing for new pages +* (bug 10569) redirects to Special:Mypage and Special:Mytalk are no longer + allowed by default. Change $wgInvalidRedirectTargets to re-enable. +* (bug 3043) Feed links of given page are now preceded by standard feed icon +* (bug 17150) escapeLike now escapes literal \ properly +* Inconsistent use of sysop, admin, administrator in system messages changed + to 'administrator' +* (bug 14423) Check block flag validity for block logging +* DB transaction and slave-lag avoidance tweaks for Email Notifications +* (bug 17104) Removed [Mark as patrolled] link for already patrolled revisions +* (bug 17106) Added 'redirect=no' and 'mw-redirect' class to redirects at + "user contributions" +* Rollback links on new pages removed from "user contributions" +* (bug 15811) Re-upload form tweaks: license fields removed, destination locked, + comment label uses better message +* Whole HTML validation ($wgValidateAllHtml) now works with external tidy +* Parser tests no longer fail when $wgExternalLinkTarget is set in + LocalSettings +* (bug 15391) catch DBQueryErrors on external storage insertion. This avoids + error messages on save were the edit in fact is saved. +* (bug 17184) Remove duplicate "z" accesskey in MonoBook +* Parser tests no longer fail when $wgAlwaysUseTidy is set in LocalSettings.php +* Removed redundant dupe warnings on reupload for the same title. Dupe warnings + for identical files at different titles are still given. +* Add 'change tagging' facility, where changes can be tagged internally with + certain designations, which are displayed on various summaries of changes, + and the entries can be styled with CSS. +* (bug 17207) Fix regression breaking category page display on PHP 5.1 +* Categoryfinder utility class no longer fails on invalid input or gives wrong + results for category names that include pseudo-namespaces +* (bug 17252) Galician numbering format +* (bug 17146) Fix for UTF-8 and short word search for some possible MySQL + configs +* (bug 7480) Internationalize database error message +* (bug 16555) Number of links to mediawiki.org scaled back on post-installation +* (bug 14938) Removing a section no longer leaves excess whitespace +* (bug 17304) Fixed fatal error when thumbnails couldn't be generated for file + history +* (bug 17283) Remove double URL escaping in show/hide links for log entries + and RevisionDeleteForm::__construct +* (bug 17105) Numeric table sorting broken +* (bug 17231) Transcluding special pages on wikis using language conversion no + longer affects the page title +* (bug 6702) Default system messages updated/improved +* (bug 17190) User ID on preference page no longer has delimeters +* (bug 17341) "Powered by MediaWiki" should be on the left on RTL wikis +* (bug 17404) "userrights-interwiki" right was missing in User::$mCoreRights +* (bug 7509) Separation strings should be configurable * (bug 17420) Send the correct content type from action=raw when the HTML file cache is enabled. +* (bug 12746) Do not allow new password e-mails when wiki is in read-only mode +* (bug 17478) Fixed a PHP Strict standards error in + maintenance/cleanupWatchlist.php +* (bug 17488) RSS/Atom links in left toolbar are now localized in classic skin +* (bug 17472) use print <<<EOF in maintenance/importTextFile.php +* Special:PrefixIndex: Move table styling to shared.css, add CSS IDs to tables + use correct message 'allpagesprefix' for input form label, replace _ with ' ' + in next page link +* (bug 17506) Exceptions within exceptions now respect $wgShowExceptionDetails +* Fixed excessive job queue utilisation +* File dupe messages for remote repos are now shown only once. +* (bug 14980) Messages 'shareduploadwiki' and 'shareduploadwiki-desc' are now + used as a parameter in 'sharedupload' for easier styling and customization. +* (bug 17482) Formatting error in Special:Preferences#Misc (Opera) +* (bug 17556) <link> parameters in Special:Contributions feeds (RSS and Atom) + now point to the actual contributors' feed. +* ForeignApiRepos now fetch MIME types, rather than trying to figure it locally +* Special:Import: Do not show input field for import depth if + $wgExportMaxLinkDepth == 0 +* (bug 17570) $wgMaxRedirects is now correctly respected when following + redirects (was previously one more than $wgMaxRedirects) +* (bug 16335) __NONEWSECTIONLINK__ magic word to suppress new section link. +* (bug 17581) Wrong index name in PostgreSQL's updater: was rc_timestamp_nobot, + changed to rc_timestamp_bot * (bug 17437) Fixed incorrect link to web-based installer -* (bug 17527) Fixed missing MySQL-specific options in installer - -=== Configuration changes in 1.14 === - -* $wgExemptFromUserRobotsControl is an array of namespaces to be exempt from - the effect of the new __INDEX__/__NOINDEX__ magic words. (Default: null, ex- - empt all content namespaces.) -* $wgForwardSearchUrl has been removed entirely. Documented setting since 1.4 - has been $wgSearchForwardUrl. -* (bug 15080) $wgOverrideSiteFeed has been added. Setting either - $wgSiteFeed['rss'] or 'atom' to a URL will override the default Recent - Changes feed that appears on all pages. -* $wgSQLiteDataDirMode has been introduced as the default directory mode for - SQLite data directories on creation. Note that this setting is separate from - $wgDirectoryMode, which applies to all normal dirs created by MediaWiki. -* $wgGroupsAddToSelf and $wgGroupsRemoveFromSelf now work more like - $wgAddGroups and $wgRemoveGroups, where the user must belong to a specified - group in order to add or remove those groups from themselves. - Backwards compatibility is maintained. -* $wgRestrictDisplayTitle controls if the use of the {{DISPLAYTITLE}} magic - word is restricted to titles equivalent to the actual page title. This - is true per default, but can be set to false to allow any title. -* $wgSpamRegex may now be an array of multiple regular expressions. -* $wgAjaxSearch has been removed; use $wgEnableMWSuggest instead. -* Editing the MediaWiki namespace is now unconditionally restricted to people - with the editinterface right, configuring this in $wgNamespaceProtection - is not required. -* $wgAllowExternalImagesFrom may now be an array of multiple strings. -* Introduced $wgEnableImageWhitelist to toggle the on-wiki external image - whitelist on or off. -* Added $wgRenderHashAppend to append some string to the parser cache and the - sitenotice cache keys. -* $wgRCChangedSizeThreshold is now a positive integer by default, -* (bug 16006) $wgEnableWriteAPI is now true by default. Authorized can perform - write actions using the API. -* Added $wgRC2UDPInterwikiPrefix which adds an interwiki prefix - ($wgLocalInterwiki) onto the page names in the UDP feed. -* Added $wgAllowUserSkin to let the wiki's owner disable user selectable skins - on the wiki. If it's set to true, then the skin used will *always* be - $wgDefaultSkin. -* Added $wgEnotifUseRealName, which allows UserMailer to send out e-mails based - on the user's real name if one is set. Defaults to false (use the username) -* Removed the 'apiThumbCacheDir' option from $wgForeignFileRepos (only used in - ForeignAPIRepo) -* (bug 44) Image namespace and accompanying talk namespace renamed to File. - For backward compatibility purposes, Image still works. External tools may - need to be updated. -* The constants NS_FILE and NS_FILE_TALK can now be used instead of NS_IMAGE and - NS_IMAGE_TALK. The old constants are retained as aliases for compatibility, - and should still be used in code meant to be compatible with v1.13 or older. -* MediaWiki can be forced to use private IPs forwarded by a proxy server by - using $wgUsePrivateIPs. -* The 'BeforeWatchlist' hook has been removed due to internal changes in - Special:Watchlist. 'SpecialWatchlistQuery' should now be used by extensions - to customize the watchlist database query. - - -=== Migrated extensions === -The following extensions are migrated into MediaWiki 1.14: - -* Special:DeletedContributions to show deleted user contributions (was - extension DeletedContributions) -* Special:Log/newusers recording new users (was extension Newuserlog) -* Special:LinkSearch to search for external links (was extension LinkSearch) -* RenderHash -* NoMoveUserPages -* UniversalEditButton - -=== New features in 1.14 === - -* New URL syntaxes for Special:ListUsers - 'Special:ListUsers/USER' and - 'Special:ListUsers/GROUP/USER', in addition to the older syntax - 'Special:ListUsers/GROUP' where GROUP is a valid group name. -* Configurable per-namespace and per-page notices for the edit form, - respectively MediaWiki:Editnotice-# where # is the namespace number, and - MediaWiki:Editnotice-#-PAGENAME where # is the page's namespace number and - PAGENAME is the page name minus the namespace prefix. -* (bug 8068) New __INDEX__ and __NOINDEX__ magic words allow user control of - search engine indexing on a per-article basis. -* Handheld stylesheet options -* Added 'DoEditSectionLink' hook as a cleaner unified version of the old - 'EditSectionLink' and 'EditSectionLinkForOther' hooks. Note that the - 'EditSectionLinkForOther' hook has been removed, but 'EditSectionLink' is - run in all cases instead, so extensions using the old hooks should still work - if they ran roughly the same code for both hooks (as is almost certain). -* Signature (~~~~) "cleaning", i.e. template removal, can be disabled with - $wgCleanSignatures=false -* Extensions can use the SkinBuildSidebar hook to modify the content of the - sidebar and add custom portlets to it -* Added 'MakeGlobalVariablesScript' hook for extensions to be able to add vari- - ables into into the output of Skin::makeVariablesScript -* (bug 13846) Added $wgAddGroups and $wgRemoveGroups display on - Special:ListGroupRights -* (bug 14377) Add a date selector to history pages -* (bug 15007) New 'pagetitle-view-mainpage' message allows the HTML <title> of - the main page to be customized -* Added $wgDisableTitleConversion to disabling the conversion for all pages on - the wiki -* Added 'noconvertlink' toggle that can be set per user preferences, also - added 'convertlink=no|yes' on GET requests whether have the link titles - being converted or not -* (bug 14921) Special:Contributions/: add user name to <title> - Patch by Emufarmers -* Unescape more "safe" characters when producing URLs, for added prettiness -* Introduced a new hook 'SkinAfterContent' that allows extensions to add text - after the page content and article metadata. Updated all skins and skin - templates to work with that hook. -* (bug 14929) removeUnusedAccounts.php now supports 'ignore-touched' and - 'ignore-groups'. Patch by Louperivois -* (bug 15127) Work around minor display glitch in Opera. -* By default, reject file uploads that look like ZIP files, to avoid the - so-called GIFAR vulnerability. -* (bug 15141) Give ability to only list protected pages with the cascading - option enabled on Special:ProtectedPages -* (bug 15157) Special:Watchlist has the same options as Special:Watchlist: - Show/Hide logged in users, Show/Hide anonymous, Invert namespace selection -* Added hook 'UserrightsChangeableGroups' to allow modification of what - groups may be added or removed via the Special:UserRights interface. -* HTML entities like now work (are not escaped) in edit summaries. -* (bug 13815) In the comment for page moves, use the colon-separator message - instead of a hardcoded colon. -* Allow <gallery> to accept image names without an Image: prefix -* Add tooltips to rollback and undo links -* BMP images are now displayed as PNG -* (bug 13471) Added NUMBERINGROUP magic word -* (bug 11884) Now support Flash EXIF attribute -* Show thumbnails in the file history list, patch by User:Agbad -* Added support of piped wikilinks using double-width brackets -* Added an on-wiki external image whitelist. Items in this whitelist are - treated as regular expression fragments to match for when possibly - displaying an external image inline. -* (bugs 15405, 15436) Sort more currency types correctly in sortable tables -* (bug 15422) Sort more different types of numbers in sortable tables -* (bug 2889) MediaWiki:Print.css applies to the printable version -* Category counts (e.g. from {{PAGESINCATEGORY:}}) should be more accurate for - small categories -* After logging in, automatically redirect to wherever you logged in from -* (bug 5619) Break messages used in Special:Statistics down further -* (bug 11029) Add link to Special:Listusers?group=sysop etc at - Special:Statistics -* (bug 15514) Setting $wgRightsText without $wgRightsUrl now produces a - plaintext copyright notice. Patch by Juliano F. Ravasi. -* (bug 15551) Deletion log excerpt is now shown whenever a user vists a - deleted page, even if they are unable to edit it. -* Added Wantedfiles special pages, allowing users to find image links with no - image. -* (bug 12650) It is now possible to set different expiration times for - different restriction types on the protection form. -* (bug 8440) Allow preventing blocked users from editing their talk pages -* Improved upload file type detection for OpenDocument formats -* Added the ability to set the target attribute on external links with - $wgExternalLinkTarget -* api.php now sends "Retry-After" and "X-Database-Lag" HTTP headers if the - maxlag check fails, just like index.php does -* Added "link" parameter to image links, to allow images to link to an - arbitrary title or URL. This should replace inaccessible and incomplete - solutions such as CSS-based overlays and ImageMap. -* (bug 368) Don't use caption for alt attribute; allow manual specification - using new "alt=" parameter for images -* (bug 44) The {{ns:}} core parser function now also accepts localized - namespace names and aliases; also, its output now uses spaces instead of - underscores to match the behavior of the {{NAMESPACE}} magic word -* Added the ability to display user edit counts in Special:ListUsers. Off by - default, enabled with $wgEdititis = true (named after the medical condition - marked by unhealthy obsession with edit counts). -* Added a file cache to the parser to improve page rendering time on pages with - several uses of the same image. -* (bug 1250) Users can still use "show preview" and "show changes" even if the - wiki is set to read-only mode. -* Added a call to the 'UnwatchArticleComplete' hook to the watchlist editor. - This should make it so that ALL user-accessible methods of removing a page - from a watchlist lead to this hook being called (it was previously only - called from within Article.php -* Maximum execution time for shell processes on linux is now configured with - $wgMaxShellTime (180 seconds by default) -* (bug 1306) 'Email user' link no longer shown on user page when emailing - is not available due to lack of confirmed address or disabled preference -* Special:Wanted templates special page added to display missing templates - linked from articles -* Make search matches bold only, not red as well -* (bug 10080) Blocks can be modified without unblocking first -* (bug 15820) Special:BlockIP shows a notice if the user being blocked is - already directly blocked -* (bug 13710) Allow to force "watch this" checkbox via URL using parameter - "watchthis" -* (bug 15125) Add Public Domain to default options when installing. Patch by - Nathan Larson. -* Set a special temporary directory for ImageMagick with $wgImageMagickTempDir -* (bug 16113) Show/hide for redirects in Special:NewPages -* (bug 15903) Upload link was added to Nostalgia skin -* (bug 15761) Add user toggle to omit diff after rollback -* Added the BitmapHandler_ClientOnly media handler, which allows server-side - image scaling to be completely disabled for specific media types, via the - $wgMediaHandlers configuration variable. -* New 'AbortDiffCache' hook can be used to cancel the caching of a diff -* (bug 15835) Added Content-Style-Type meta tag -* (bug 11027) Add parameter to MW:Randompage-nopages so that user can see the - namespace. -* Add id="mw-user-domain-section" to <tr> tag in Userlogin.php template so that - admins with a single domain can hide the domain section using CSS -* Dropped old Paser_OldPP class. Only new parser with preprocessor is used. -* Moved password reset form from Special:Preferences to Special:ResetPass -* Added Special:ChangePassword as a special page alias for Special:ResetPass -* Added complimentary function for addHandler() called removeHandler() for removing events -* Improved security of file uploads for IE clients, using a reverse-engineered - algorithm very similar to IE's content detection algorithm. -* Cascading protection no longer requires that both edit and move are restricted - to sysop, just edit=sysop is enough -* (bug 2391) A warning is now shown for invalid ISBN numbers on Special:Booksources. -* Installer has been updated to reflect the release of the GFDL 1.3. The URL for 1.2 - has been updated, and the 1.3 URL has been given. 1.2 is still Wikipedia-compatible. - RightsCode was changed from 'gfdl' to 'gfdl1_2', so we can now support 1.2 as well - as 1.3 (gfdl1_3). -* (bug 16293) PD URL was changed to the CreativeCommons site on PD (which auto-detects - your language) instead of Wikipedia. -* (bug 16635) The "view and edit watchlist" page (Special:Watchlist/edit) now - includes a table of contents -* File objects returned by wfFindFile() are now cached by default -* (bug 7492) Rights can now be assigned to specific IP addresses and ranges by - using $wgAutopromote (new defines: APCOND_ISIP and APCOND_IPINRANGE) -* Add a 'change block' link to Special:IPBlockList and Special:Log -* (bug 16459) Use native getElementsByClassName where possible, for better - performance in modern browsers -* Enable \cancel and \cancelto in texvc (recompile required) -* Added 'UserCryptPassword' and 'UserComparePasswords' hooks to allow extensions to implement - their own password hashing methods. -* (bug 16760) Add CSS-class to action links of Special:Log -* (bug 505) Time zones can now be specified by location in user preferences, - avoiding the need to manually update for DST. Patch by Brad Jorsch. -* (bug 2585) HTTP 404 return code is now given for a page view if the page - does not exist, allowing spiders and link checkers to detect broken links. -* Special:Log: Add 'change protection' link for unprotected pages too -* Special:Log: Add log type specific CSS classes 'mw-logline-$logtype' to - 'li' elements -* (bug 16754) Making arbitrary rows of sortable tables sticky: - |- class="unsortable" -* Show subversion too even if a "normal" version number is available -* (bug 16121) Add a note that a page move was without creating a redirect in the - move log -* Image moving is now enabled for sysops by default -* Make "Did you mean" search feature more noticeable -* (bug 16720) Transcluded Special:NewPages processes "/username=" - -=== Bug fixes in 1.14 === - -* (bug 14907) DatabasePostgres::fieldType now defined. -* (bug 14659) Passing the default limit param to Special:Recentchanges no more - falls back to the user option -* (bug 14954) Fix regression in Modern and Simple skins -* Recursion loop check added to Categoryfinder class -* Fixed few performance troubles of large job queue processing -* Not setting various parameters in Foreign Repos now fails more gracefully -* (bug 2333) Redirects are properly rendered when previewing an edit. -* (bug 14972) Use localized alias of Special:Search on all search forms -* (bug 11035) Special:Search should have descriptive <title> -* Special pages are now not subject to special handling for "self-links" -* (bug 15053) Syntactically incorrect redirects with another link in them - no longer redirect to the second link -* (bug 15049) Fix for CheckUser extension's log search: usernames containing - a "-" were incorrectly turned into bogus IP range searches. - Patch by Max Semenik. -* (bug 15055) Talk page notifications no longer attempt to send mail when - user's e-mail address is invalid or unconfirmed -* (bug 12370) Add throttle on password attempts. Defaults to max 5 attempts in - 5 minutes. -* (bug 15016) 'Templates used on this page' list in view source should be - wrapped in a div with class "templatesUsed" -* (bug 14868) Setting $wgFeedDiffCutoff to 0 now disables generation of the - diff entirely, not just the display of it. -* (bug 6387) Introduced new setting $wgCategoryPrefixedDefaultSortkey which - allows having the unprefixed page title as the default category sortkey -* (bug 15079) Add class="ns-talk" / "ns-subject" to <body>. Also added - ns-special to special pages. -* (bug 15052) Skins should add their name as a class in <body> -* (bug 14165, bug 14294) Wikimedia specific configuration in convertGrammar() - for several languages was removed. The settings have been put in extension - WikimediaMessages. Patch for Czech by Danny B. -* (bug 15101) Displaying only bots edits in Special:Recentchanges now works - again -* (bug 13770) Fixed incorrect detection of PHP's DOM module -* (bug 14790) Export of category pages when using Category: prefix now actually - gives results -* Avoid recursive crazy expansions in section edit comments for pages which - contain '/*' in the title -* Fix excessive memory usage when parsing pages with lots of links -* $wgSpamRegex now matches the edit summary and page move descriptions in - addition to body text. -* Navigation links to images available from a shared repository (like Commons) - from their local talk pages no longer appear as redlinks -* Action=purge on ForeignApiFiles now works (purges their thumbnails and - description pages). -* (bug 15303) Title conversion for templates wasn't working in some cases. -* (bug 15264) Underscores in Special:Search/Foo_bar parameters were taken - literally; now converting them to spaces per expectation. -* (bug 15342) "Invert" checkbox now works correctly when selecting main - namespace in Special:Watchlist -* (bug 15172) 'Go' button of Special:Recentchanges now on the same line as the - last input element (like Special:Watchlist too) -* (bug 15351) Fix fatal error for invalid section fragments in autocomments -* Fixed intermittent deadlock errors involving objectcache table queries. - Use a separate database connection for the objectcache table to avoid - long-lasting locks on that table. -* Respect file restrictions in the file history list -* (bug 15399) Odd/even classes on sortable tables' rows could be slow for large - tables, and have been disabled by default. -* (bug 15482) Special:Recentchangeslinked has no longer two submit buttons -* (bug 15292) New message notification for unregistred users now works again -* (bug 14398) mwsuggest.js: Let width of container be configurable -* (bug 15543) Only include user touched timestamp to generated CSS -* (bug 15497) Removed encoding attribute from <?xml ?> tag -* (bug 12284) Special:Preferences now sets a returnto parameter on the link to - Special:UserLogin. Patch by Marooned. -* Fixed the HTTP accept language string detection length in - LanguageConverter.php, instead of the fixed length language codes. -* Special:RecentChangesLinked no longer shows outgoing links for nonexistent - pages even if there are broken link records with source article id 0 in the - database -* (bug 15598) Special:Newpages default limit uses user preference for - recentchanges limit instead of hardcoded 50. -* (bug 15617) $wgFeedClassesOutputPage::getHeadLinks() respects $wgFeedClasses, - instead of hardcoding rss and atom. Patch by Juliano F. Ravasi. -* (bug 14638) Special:Blockip now provides a link to the block log if the user - has been blocked more than 10 times. Patch by Matt Johnston. -* (bug 12678) Skins don't show Upload link if the user isn't allowed to upload. -* Fixed incorrect usage of DB_LAST in Special:Export. Deprecated DB_LAST. -* (bug 15642) Blocked sysops can no longer block other users -* Http::request() now respects $wgHTTPtimeout when not using cURL -* (bug 15158) Userinvalidcssjstitle not shown on preview -* (bug 15196) Free external links should be numbered in a localised manner -* (bug 15388) Title of Special:PrefixIndex -* Links with no title but a curid parameter now use the curid to pick a page -* (bug 10323) Special:Undelete should have "inverse selection" button -* (bug 15831) Modern skin RTL support is bugous -* (bug 15869) Nostalgia skin does not show page title in printable mode -* (bug 15795) Special:Userrights is now listed on Special:SpecialPages when the - user can only change his rights -* (bug 15846) Categories "leak" from older revisions in certain circumstances -* (bug 15928) Special pages dropdown should be inline in non-MonoBook skins -* (bug 14178) Some uses of UserLoadFromSession hook cause segfault -* (bug 15925) Postitive bytes added on recentchanges and watchlists are now - bolded if above the threshold, previously it only worked for negatives -* Specify apple-touch-icon before favicon in HTML head section to make the - Konqueror browser correctly use the latter -* (bug 15717) Set $separatorTransformTable for language 'eu' -* (bug 15605) Enabled $datePreferences for language 'hr'. Added standard date - preferences. -* (bug 13701) {{NUMBEROFVIEWS}} magic word to show number of total views. -* (bug 5101) Image from Commons doesn't show up when searched in Wikipedia - search box -* (bug 14609) User's namespaces to be searched default not updated after adding - new namespace -* Purge form uses valid XHTML -* (bug 12764) Special:LonelyPages shows transcluded pages -* (bug 16073) Enhanced RecentChanges uses onclick handler with better fallback - if JavaScript is disabled -* (bug 4253) Recentchanges IRC messages no longer include title in diff URLs -* Allow '0' to be an accesskey. -* (bug 8063) Use language-dependent sorting in client-side sortable tables -* (bug 16160) Suggestions box should be resized from left for RTL wikis -* (bug 11533) Fixed insane slowdown when in read-only mode for long periods - of time with CACHE_NONE (default objectcache table configuration). -* Trying to set two different default category sort keys for one page now - produces a warning -* (bug 16143) Fix redirect loop on special pages starting with lower case - letters -* (bug 15737) Fix notices while expanding using PPCustomFrame -* (bug 15544) Non-index entry points cause the "Wiki not set up" message to - have corrupt URLs -* (bug 5101) Image from Commons doesn't show up when searched in Wikipedia - search box -* (bug 4362) [[MediaWiki:History copyright]] no more used with most recent - revision when passing oldid parameter in the url -* (bug 16265) When caching thumbs with the ForeignApiRepo, we now use the same - filename as the remote site. -* (bug 8345) Don't autosummarize where a redirect was left unchanged -* Made thumb caching in ForeignApiFile objects integrated with normal thumb - path naming (/thumbs/hash/file), retired 'apiThumbCacheDir' as a result. -* (bug 5530) Consistency between character encoding in {{PAGENAMEE}}, - {{SUBPAGENAMEE}} and {{FULLPAGENAMEE}} -* Safer handling of non-MediaWiki exceptions -- now obeys our settings for - formatting and path exposure. -* Less verbose errors from profileinfo.php when not configured -* Blacklist redirects via Special:Filepath, hard to use. -* Improved input validation on Special:Import form -* Add a .htaccess to deleted images directory for additional protection - against exposure of deleted files with known SHA-1 hashes on default - installations. -* Improved scripting safety heuristics for IE 5/6 content-type detection. -* Improved scripting safety heuristics on SVG uploads. -* (bug 11728) Unify layout of enhanced watchlist/recent changes -* (bug 8702) Properly update stats when running nukePage maintenance script -* (bug 7726) Searches for words less than 4 characters now work without - requiring customization of MySQL server settings -* Honour unchecked "Leave a redirect behind" for moved subpages -* (bug 16440) Broken 0-byte math renderings are now deleted and re-rendered - when page is re-parsed. -* (bug 6100) Unicode BiDi embedding/override characters (U+202A - U+202E) are - now automatically removed from titles; these characters can accidentally end - up in copy-and-pasted titles, and, by overriding normal bidirectional text - handling, can lead to annoying behavior such as text rendering backwards -* Fixed minor bug where the memcached value for how many accounts an IP had - created that day would be increased even if $wgAccountCreationThrottle was - hit. This meant if an IP hit the throttle and then the throttle was raised - later that day, the IP still couldn't create another account, because it - had marked them as having created another account, when their last account - creation had actually failed. -* (bug 12647) Allow autogenerated edit summary messages to be blanked with '-' -* (bug 16026) 'Revision-info' and 'revision-info-current' both accept wiki - markup now. -* (bug 16529) Fix for search suggestions with some third-party JS libraries -* (bug 13342) importScript() generates more consistent URI encoding -* (bug 16577) When a blocked user tries to rollback a page, the block message - is now only displayed once -* (bug 14268) SVG image sizes now extracted with proper XML parser -* (bug 14365) RepoGroup::findFiles() no longer crashes if passed an invalid - title via the API -* (bug 4253, bug 16586) Revision ID is now given instead of title in URLs for - new pages in the recent changes IRC feed -* Ugly tooltips in Special:Statistics were phased out in favor of more direct - information. Went ahead and rewrote SpecialStatistics to subclass SpecialPage -* (bug 5506) Links to files on foreign repositories are now shown consistently - as bluelinks e.g. in logs and edit summaries -* (bug 16623) Add missing </p> tag in Special:LockDB -* (bug 15849) Special:Movepage now throws a more specific error when trying to - move a title to an interwiki target -* (bug 16638) 8-bit URL fallback encoding now set on additional languages using - Arabic script (Persian, Urdu, Sindhi, Punjabi) -* (bug 16656) cleanupTitles and friends should now work in load-balanced - DB environments when $wgDBserver isn't set. -* (bug 3691) Aspect ratio from viewBox attribute is now preserved for SVG - images which do not specify width and height attributes. -* (bug 15027) Internet domain names and IP addresses can now be indexed and - searched sensibly with the default MySQL search backend. -* (bug 11733) Fixed parameter validation in importTextFile.php -* (bug 16712) Special:NewFiles updated to use "newer"/"older" paging messages - for clarity over "previous/next" -* (bug 16612) Fixed "noprint" class for Modern skin print style -* Section anchors now have an "id" attribute as well as a "name" attribute, - even when Tidy is not used -* (bug 16026) revision-info, revision-info-current, cannotdelete, - redirectedfrom, historywarning and difference messages now use Wiki text - rather than raw HTML markup -* (bug 13835) Fix rendering of {{filepath:Wiki.png|nowiki}} -* (bug 16772) Special:Upload now correctly rejects files with spaces in the - file extension (e.g. Foo. jpg). -* Image moving over an existing file no longer throws a database error -* (bug 16786) Restored "redundant" links recently removed from Classic sidebar -* (bug 16850) $wgActionPaths can have query strings now, previously, this broke - local URLs -* (bug 16376) Mention in deleteBatch.php and moveBatch.php maintenance scripts - that STDIN can be used for page list -* (bug 16560) Special:Random returns a page from ContentNamespaces, and no - longer from NS_MAIN -* (bug 16123) Fixed Special:Import on SQLite. -* (bug 16937) Show appropriate error message for attempted installs on - PostgreSQL 7.3 or earlier. -* Disabled SQLite support in the installer. -* Fixed XSS vulnerabilities in the web-based installer. -* Added a meta robots tag to the installer to prevent indexing of potentially - sensitive configuration data. -* (bug 16483) Prevented a filesort in ApiQueryBacklinks caused by missing parentheses. +* (bug 17538) Use shorter URLs in <link> elements +* (bug 13778) Hidden input added to the search form so that using the Enter key + on IE will do a fulltext search like clicking the button does +* (bug 1061) CSS-added icons next to links display through the text and makes + it unreadable in RTL +* Special:Wantedtemplates now works on PostgreSQL +* (bug 14414) maintenance/updateSpecialPages.php no longer throws error with + PostgreSQL +* (bug 17546) Correct Tongan language native name is "lea faka-Tonga" +* (bug 17621) Special:WantedFiles has no link to Special:Whatlinkshere +* (bug 17460) Client ecoding is now correctly set for PostgreSQL +* (bug 17648) Prevent floats from intruding into edit area in previews if no + toolbar present +* (bug 17692) Added (list of members) link to 'user' in Special:Listgrouprights +* (bug 17707) Show file destination as plain text if &wpForReUpload=1 +* (bug 10172) Moved setting of "changed since last visit" flags out of the job + queue +* (bug 17761) "show/hide" link in page history in now works for the first + displayed revision if it's not the current one +* (bug 17722) Fix regression where users are unable to change temporary passwords +* (bug 17799) Special:Random no longer throws a database error when a non- + namespace is given, silently falls back to NS_MAIN +* (bug 17751) The message for bad titles in WantedPages is now localized +* (bug 17860) Moving a page in the "MediaWiki" namespace using SuppressRedirect + no longer corrupts the message cache +* (bug 17900) Fixed User Groups interface log display after saving groups. +* (bug 17897) Fixed string offset error in <pre> tags +* (bug 17778) MediaWiki:Catseparator can now have HTML entities +* (bug 17676) Error on Special:ListFiles when using Postgres +* Special:Export doesn't use raw SQL queries anymore +* (bug 14771) Thumbnail links to individual DjVu pages have two no longer have + two "page" parameters +* (bug 17972) Special:FileDuplicateSearch form now works correctly on wikis that + don't use PathInfo or short urls +* (bug 17990) trackback.php now has a trackback.php5 alias and works with + $wgScriptExtension +* (bug 14990) Parser tests works again with PostgreSQL +* (bug 11487) Special:Protectedpages doesn't list protections with pr_expiry + IS NULL +* (bug 18018) Deleting a file redirect leaves behind a malfunctioning redirect +* (bug 17537) Disable bad zlib.output_compression output on HTTP 304 responses +* (bug 11213) [edit] section links in printable version no longer appear when + you cut-and-paste article text +* (bug 17405) "Did you mean" to mirror Go/Search behavior of original request +* (bug 18116) 'edittools' is now output identically on edit and upload pages +* (bug 17241) The diffonly URI parameter should cascade to "Next edit" and + "Previous edit" diff links +* (bug 16823) 'Sidebar search form should not use Special:Search view URL as + target' +* (bug 16343) Non-existing, but in use, category pages can be "go" match hits +* Fixed the circular template inclusion check, was broken when the loop + involved redirects. Without this, infinite recursion within the parser is + possible. +* (bug 17611) Provide a sensible error message on install when the SQLite data + directory is wrong. +* (bug 16937) Fixed PostgreSQL installation on Windows, workaround for upstream + pg_version() bug. +* (bug 11451) Fix upgrade from MediaWiki 1.2 or earlier (imagelinks schema). +* Fixed SQLite indexes, installation and upgrade. Reintroduced it as an option + to the installer. +* (bug 18170) Fixed a PHP warning in Parser::preSaveTransform() in PHP 5.3 +* (bug 8873) Enable variant conversion in text on 'alt' and 'title' attributes + +== API changes in 1.15 == + +* (bug 16858) Revamped list=deletedrevs to make listing deleted contributions + and listing all deleted pages possible +* (bug 16844) Added clcategories parameter to prop=categories +* (bug 17025) Add "fileextension" parameter to meta=siteinfo&siprop= +* (bug 17048) Show the 'new' flag in list=usercontribs for the revision that + created the page, even if it's not the top revision +* (bug 17069) Added ucshow=patrolled|!patrolled to list=usercontribs +* action=delete respects $wgDeleteRevisionsLimit and the bigdelete user right +* (bug 15949) Add undo functionality to action=edit +* (bug 16483) Kill filesort in ApiQueryBacklinks caused by missing parentheses. Building query properly now using makeList() - -=== API changes in 1.14 === - -* Registration time of users registered before the DB field was created is now - shown as empty instead of the current time. -* API search now falls back to fulltext search by default when using Lucene - or other engine which doesn't support a separate title search function. - This means you can use API search on Wikipedia without explicitly adding - &srwhat=text to the query. -* Added iiprop=bitdepth to imageinfo and aiprop=bitdepth to allimages -* (bug 14713) API-specific permissions (such as 'writeapi' and 'apihighlimits' - are now listed on action=help -* (bug 15044) Added requestid parameter to api.php to facilitate distinguishing - between requests -* (bug 15048) Added limit field for multivalue parameters to action=paraminfo - output. -* When the limit on multivalue parameters is exceeded, a warning is issued -* list=search doesn't list missing pages any more -* (bug 15178) Added clshow to prop=categories to allow filtering for hidden/ - non-hidden categories -* (bug 15228) Combining revids= and redirects now throws a warning instead of - an error, and still resolves redirects generated by the generator. -* list={backlinks,embeddedin,imageusage} now return arrays with keys 0, 1, 2, - etc. (AKA lists) instead of arrays with pageIDs as keys (AKA hash tables) - for consistency with other list modules. -* Added action=watch -* (bug 15275) apprefix and related parameters ignore spaces at the end -* action=edit no longer throws unknown error 228 when trying to create an - empty section with section=new -* Database replication lag doesn't cause all action=edit requests to return the - nochange flag any more -* (bug 15392) ApiFormatBase::formatHTML now uses $wgUrlProtocols. -* (bug 15444) action=edit returns "Unknown error: ``AS_END''" where it should - return just "Unknown error" -* (bug 15448) YAML output returns empty values instead of 0 -* (bug 15445) Added action=patrol -* (bug 15466) Added action=purge -* (bug 15486) action=block ignores autoblock parameter -* (bug 15492) added rcprop=loginfo to list=recentchanges -* (bug 15527) action=rollback can now revert anonymous editors -* (bug 15535) prop=info&inprop=protection doesn't list pre-1.10 protections - if the page is also protected otherwise (1.10+ style or cascading) -* list=random now has rnredirect parameter, to get random redirects. -* Added APIAfterExecute, APIQueryAfterExecute and APIQueryGeneratorAfterExecute - hooks which allow for extending core modules in a cleaner way -* action=protect checks for invalid protection types and levels -* (bug 15673) Added indentation to format=wddxfm output and improved built-in - WDDX formatter to resemble PHP's more -* (bug 15706) Empty values for apprtype and apprlevel are now silently ignored - rather than causing an exception -* Added uiprop=preferencestoken to meta=userinfo -* (bug 15609) Add inprop=url and inprop=readable to prop=info -* Add ApiDisabled and ApiQueryDisabled classes so individual modules can - be disabled in LocalSettings.php -* (bug 15653) Add prop=duplicatefiles -* (bug 15768) Add list=watchlistraw -* (bug 15647) action=edit with basetimestamp fails if the page has been deleted - and undeleted since the last edit -* (bug 15785) Allow for different expiry times for different protections in - action=protect -* Added allowsduplicates attribute to action=paraminfo output -* (bug 15767) apfilterlanglinks returns duplicate results -* (bug 15845) Added pageid/fromid parameter to action=delete/move, making - manipulation of legacy pages with invalid titles possible -* (bug 15881) Empty or invalid parameters cause database errors -* The maxage and smaxage parameters are now properly validated -* (bug 15945) list=recentchanges doesn't check $wgUseRCPatrol, $wgUseNPPatrol - and patrolmarks right -* (bug 15985) acfrom and aifrom parameters didn't work when sorting in - descending order. -* (bug 15995) Add cmstartsortkey and cmendsortkey parameters to - list=categorymembers -* (bug 16017) list=categorymembers sets invalid continue parameters for - sortkeys containing pipes -* (bug 16018) Added uccontinue parameter to list=usercontribs so paging - works properly when multiple users are queried or a userprefix is used -* (bug 16047) Added activeusers attribute to meta=siteinfo&siprop=statistics - output -* Added redirect resolution to action=parse -* (bug 16074) rvprop=content combined with a generator with a high limit causes - an error -* (bug 16105) Image metadata attributes containing spaces result in invalid XML -* (bug 16126) Added siprop=magicwords to meta=siteinfo -* (bug 16159) Added wlshow=patrolled|!patrolled to list=watchlist -* (bug 16225) Titles like Talk:Talk:Foo broke apfrom and friends -* meta=siteinfo&siprop=interwikimap no longer throws an exception for empty - sifilter parameter. -* (bug 12760) meta=userinfo&uiprop=ratelimits doesn't list group-specific rate - limits -* (bug 16398) meta=userinfo&uiprop=rights lists some rights twice in some cases -* (bug 16408) Added rvgeneratexml to prop=revisions -* (bug 16421) Made list=logevents's leuser accept user names with underscores - instead of spaces -* (bug 16516) Made rvsection=T-2 work -* (bug 16526) Added usprop=emailable to list=users -* (bug 16548) list=search threw errors with an invalid error code -* (bug 16515) Added pst and onlypst parameters to action=parse -* (bug 16541) Added block expiry timestamp to list=logevents output -* (bug 16613) action=protect doesn't tell when &cascade was set but cascading - protection wasn't allowed -* (bug 16626) action=delete now correctly handles empty "reason" param -* (bug 15579) clshow considers all categories !hidden -* (bug 16647) list=allcategories, prop=categories don't return "hidden" - property for hidden categories -* New siprop parameter of 'extensions' to list all installed extensions -* (bug 16672) Include canonical namespace name in - meta=siteinfo&siprop=namespaces. -* (bug 16726) siprop=namespacealiases should also list localized aliases -* (bug 16730) Added apprfiltercascade parameter to list=allpages to filter - cascade-protected pages -* (bug 16798) JSON encoding errors for some characters outside the BMP -* (bug 16629) prop=info&inprop=protection lists empty legacy protections - incorrectly -* (bug 15261, 16262) API no longer outputs invalid UTF-8 -* Fix broken list=alllinks paging and make alunique actually work - -=== Languages updated in 1.14 === +* (bug 17182) Fix pretty printer so URLs with parentheses in them are + autolinked correctly +* (bug 17224) Added siprop=rightsinfo to meta=siteinfo +* (bug 17239) Added prop=displaytitle to action=parse +* (bug 17317) Added watch parameter to action=protect +* (bug 17007) Added export and exportnowrap parameters to action=query +* (bug 17326) BREAKING CHANGE: Changed output format for iiprop=metadata +* (bug 17355) Added auwitheditsonly parameter to list=allusers +* (bug 17007) Added action=import +* BREAKING CHANGE: Removed rctitles parameter from list=recentchanges because + of performance concerns +* Listing (semi-)deleted revisions and log entries as well in prop=revisions + and list=logevents +* (bug 11430) BREAKING CHANGE: Modules may return fewer results than the + limit and still set a query-continue in some cases +* (bug 17357) Added movesubpages parameter to action=move +* (bug 17433) Added bot flag to list=watchlist&wlprop=flags output +* (bug 16740) Added list=protectedtitles +* Added mainmodule and pagesetmodule parameters to action=paraminfo +* (bug 17502) meta=siteinfo&siprop=namespacealiases no longer lists namespace + aliases already listed in siprop=namespaces +* (bug 17529) rvend ignored when rvstartid is specified +* (bug 17626) Added uiprop=email to list=userinfo +* (bug 13209) Added rvdiffto parameter to prop=revisions +* Manual language conversion improve: Now we can include both ";" and ":" in + conversion rules +* (bug 17795) Don't report views count on meta=siteinfo if $wgDisableCounters + is set +* (bug 17774) Don't hide read-restricted modules like action=query from users + without read rights, but throw an error when they try to use them. +* Don't hide write modules when $wgEnableWriteAPI is false, but throw an error + when someone tries to use them +* BREAKING CHANGE: action=purge requires write rights and, for anonymous users, + a POST request +* (bug 18099) Using appendtext to edit a non-existent page causes an interface + message to be included in the page text +* (bug 18601) generator=backlinks returns invalid continue parameter +* (bug 18597) Internal error with empty generator= parameter +* (bug 18617) Add xml:space="preserve" attribute to relevant tags in XML output + +=== Languages updated in 1.15 === MediaWiki supports over 300 languages. Many localisations are updated -regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed. - -* Bakhtiari (bqi) (new) -* Fiji Hindi (Devanagari script) (hif-deva) (new) -* Krio (kri) (new) -* Lezghian (lez) (new) -* Laz (lzz) (new) -* Eastern Mari (mhr) (new) -* Niuean (niu) (new) -* Oromo (om) (new) -* Plautdietsch (pdt) (new) -* Western Punjabi (pnb) (new) -* Tarantino (roa-tara) (new) -* Serbo-Croatian (sh) (new) -* Tulu (tcy) (new) +regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as +changes to languages because of MediaZilla reports. + +* Austrian German (de-at) (new) +* Swiss Standard German (de-ch) (new) +* Simplified Gan Chinese (gan-hans) (new) +* Traditional Gan Chinese (gan-hant) (new) +* Literary Chinese (lzh) (new) +* Uyghur (Latin script) (ug-latn) (renamed from 'ug') +* Veps (vep) (new) +* Võro (vro) (renamed from fiu-vro) +* (bug 17151) Add magic word alias for #redirect for Vietnamese +* (bug 17288) Messages improved for default language (English) +* (bug 12937) Update native name for Afar +* (bug 16909) 'histlegend' now reuses messages instead of copying them +* (bug 17832) action=delete returns 'unknownerror' instead of 'permissiondenied' + when the user is blocked +* Traditional/Simplified Gan Chinese conversion support == Compatibility == -MediaWiki 1.14 requires PHP 5 (5.2 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer supported. +MediaWiki 1.15 requires PHP 5 (5.2 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer supported. PHP 5.0.x fails on 64-bit systems due to serious bugs with array processing: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=34879 @@ -641,7 +410,7 @@ At this time we still recommend 4.0, but 4.1/5.0 will work fine in most cases. == Upgrading == -1.14 has several database changes since 1.13, and will not work without schema +1.15 has several database changes since 1.14, and will not work without schema updates. If upgrading from before 1.11, and you are using a wiki as a commons reposito- @@ -666,7 +435,7 @@ 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.) -For notes on 1.13.x and older releases, see HISTORY. +For notes on 1.14.x and older releases, see HISTORY. === Online documentation === |