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diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES deleted file mode 100644 index d4eb8bf4..00000000 --- a/RELEASE-NOTES +++ /dev/null @@ -1,891 +0,0 @@ -= MediaWiki release notes = - -Security reminder: MediaWiki does not require PHP's register_globals -setting since version 1.2.0. If you have it on, turn it '''off''' if you can. - -== MediaWiki 1.17.1 == - -2011-11-24 - -This a maintenance and security release of the MediaWiki 1.17 branch. - -=== Security changes === -* (bug 32276) Skins were generating output using the internal page title which - would allow anonymous users to determine wheter a page exists, potentially - leaking private data. In fact, the curid and oldid request parameters would - allow page titles to be enumerated even when they are not guessable. -* (bug 32616) action=ajax requests were dispatched to the relevant internal - functions without any read permission checks being done. This could lead to - data leakage on private wikis. - -=== Summary of selected changes in 1.17 === - -Selected changes since MediaWiki 1.16 that may be of interest: - -* A new installer has been introduced. It has a wizard-style interface which is - translated into many languages. Many shortcomings in the old installer were - addressed with this rewrite. Note that it is no longer required for the config - directory to be made writable by the webserver. Instead the generated - LocalSettings.php file is offered as a download, which you must then upload - to the wiki's base directory. - -* ResourceLoader, a new framework for delivering client-side resources such as - JavaScript and CSS, has been introduced. These resources are now delivered - through the new entry point script "load.php", instead of as static files - served directly by the web server. This allows minification, compression and - client-side caching to be used more effectively, which should provide a net - performance improvement for most users. - -* Category sorting has been improved. -** Sorting is now case insensitive. -** Sub-categories, pages and files can now be paged separately. -** When several pages are given the same sort key, they sort by their - names instead of randomly. - -* The lowest supported version of PHP is now 5.2.3. If necessary, please - upgrade PHP prior to upgrading MediaWiki. - -=== Changes since 1.17.0 === - -* (bug 29535) Added missing Creative Commons CC0 icon. -* (bug 29726) Fixed failure to load internationalization messages in - client-side scripts on WebKit-based browsers. -* Fixed a bug in message transformation where the previous language could leak - into later transformations in the UI language. -* (bug 29091) Fixed form of native name for Ossetic language (Иронау -> Ирон) -* Fixed maintenance scripts upgrade1_5.php and rebuildImages.php, they did not - work at all since 1.17 beta 1. -* (bug 29531) Fixed img_auth.php for thumbnails and other filenames with - multiple dots, was broken by the fix for bug 28840. -* In the maintenance script purgeList.php, fixed a fatal error when a page - title is given, instead of a URL. -* (bug 19514) Unordered list list-style-image should be IE6-compatible (8-bit). -* Installer checked for magic_quotes_runtime instead of register_globals. -* $wgSVGMaxSize is now applied to the smaller of width or height, making very - wide pano/timeline/diagram SVGs renderable at saner sizes. -* (bug 29959) Installer fatal when cURL and allow_url_fopen is disabled and user - tries to subsribe to mediawiki-announce. -* Installer checked for magic_quotes_runtime instead of register_globals -* (bug 30131) XCache with variable caching disabled no longer used for variable - caching (CACHE_ACCEL) -* (bug 30264) Changed installer-generated LocalSettings.php to use require_once() - instead require() for included extensions. -* (bug 26486) ResourceLoader modules with paths to nonexistent files cause PHP - warnings/notices to be thrown -* (bug 30907) Special:Unusedcategories should sort ascendingly. -* (bug 30219) The page shown when LocalSettings.php does not exist was broken on - Windows servers. - -=== Changes since 1.17.0rc1 === - -* Fixed syntax error in generated LocalSettings.php when a non-default user - rights profile is chosen. -* (bug 29399) Fixed PostgreSQL installation when the DB user for installation - is the same as the one for web access. -* (bug 29233) Fixed failover for DB slave servers. When a DB slave went down, - an error was immediately shown to the user, instead of trying another slave. - Was broken since 1.17 beta 1. -* (bug 29278) Fixed PHP fatal error when attempting to add text to a page via a - redirect. -* (bug 29408) Fixed uploads of files with MIME types that aren't detected by - MediaWiki. -* Removed DEFAULT '' NOT NULL field definitions from Oracle DB schema because - using the DEFAULT value ('') in DML broke Oracle backend as it treats an - empty VARCHAR2 value as NULL. Indexes on Oracle do not require NOT NULL - fields. - -=== Changes since 1.17 beta 1 === - -* Fixed warning about missing file "password.js". -* When installing on MySQL, don't attempt to create a new database user if the - same user is used for installation and web access. -* Fixed SQL query errors in queries with table aliases. -* (bug 27891) Fixed the "chronology protector", broken since 1.17beta1, which - ensures that when database replication is used, the new version is seen by - the user immediately after they create or edit an article. -* (bug 28845) Allow PostgreSQL installation using a non-root user account which - has role creation abilities. -* When installing on PostgreSQL and the install account is the same as the web - account, check to make sure that the account has suitable privileges in the - mediawiki schema. -* (bug 28172) Fixed error in PostgreSQL installation when creating the wiki - sysop account. -* Fixed an issue with the Oracle installer in cases where the user is different - to the database name. -* Added "unblockself" to the list of available rights. -* In the installer, fixed the "user rights profile" option, it never worked. -* (bug 29117) Fixed Hebrew localisation of the installer. -* (bug 28840) Reduce the collateral damage caused by the fix for bug 28235 (XSS - on Internet Explorer 6 due to a file extension in the query string) by - reducing the number of URLs that are blocked, and by redirecting the request - to a safer URL where possible instead of blocking it. -* (bug 28812) Fixed documentation of API action=parse. -* (bug 28979) Fixed styling of <abbr> and <acronym>. -* Fixed the error message displayed when you try to create an account by email, - but an email address is not given. -* Fixed JS error due to missing dependency for jquery.suggestions. -* Exposed $wgExtensionAssetsPath in JavaScript. -* (bug 28738) Made ResourceLoader support environments with small URL length - limits. The length limit can be configured via $wgResourceLoaderMaxQueryLength, - and this is set automatically in the generated LocalSettings.php when the - php.ini variable "suhosin.get.max_value_length" is set. When a URL exceeds - this limit, the request is split up. Also, reduced the average length of - load.php URLs by using a more compact parameter format. -* (bug 25262) Fix for minification of hardcoded data: URIs in CSS. -* (bug 25124) Respect $wgStyleDirectory in ResourceLoader. -* Allow installation when no HTTP client is available, don't throw an exception. -* (bug 27465) Fix metadata extraction for SVG files using unusual namespace - names. -* (bug 29174) Fix regression in upload-by-URL: uploading files larger than the - PHP memory limit should work again. -* Fixed the display of comments in the new user log. -* (bug 28237) When installing extensions using the web-based installer, create - any necessary database tables. -* (bug 28983) Fixed automated installation of extensions that overwrite $path. -* Fixed error caused by missing magic words. -* Fixed breakage of article editing in PostgreSQL due to text search - configuration errors. -* Fixed the HTTPS client used when Curl is not available. This avoids an error - during install about failure of the mediawiki-announce subscription. -* (bug 28162) When installing to PostgreSQL, respect the "database port" input, - it was ignored. - -=== Configuration changes in 1.17 === - -* $wgLogAutocreatedAccounts controls whether autocreation of accounts is logged - to new users log. -* (bug 22858) $wgLocalStylePath is by default set to the same value as - $wgStylePath but should never point to a different domain than the site is - on, allowing skins to use .htc files which are not cross-domain friendly. -* $wgFileStore has been deprecated. The only usage $wgFileStore['deleted'] has - been turned into $wgDeletedDirectory. -* $wgDeletedDirectory has been added to specify what directory to place deleted - uploads in. -* IBM DB2 database no longer uses the db specific $wgDBport_db2 variable but the - normal $wgDBport. -* $wgCategoryPrefixedDefaultSortkey was removed and is now always false. This - provides more sensible sorting behavior for categories. -* Removed unused globals: $wgEnableSerializedMessages, $wgCheckSerialized, - $wgUseMemCached, $wgDisableSearchContext, $wgColorErrors, $wgUseZhdaemon, - $wgZhdaemonHost and $wgZhdaemonPort. -* (bug 24408) The include_path is not modified in the default LocalSettings.php -* $wgVectorExtraStyles was removed, and is no longer in use. -* Removed $wgUpdates for database updates; extensions should use - DatabaseUpdater::addExtensionUpdate() via the LoadExtensionSchemaUpdates hook. -* Removed $wgServerName. It doesn't need to be set anymore and is no longer - available as input for other configuration items, either. -* It's no longer necessary for LocalSettings.php to include DefaultSettings.php. -* It's no longer necessary to set $wgCacheEpoch to the file modification time - of LocalSettings.php, in LocalSettings.php itself. Instead, this is done - automatically if $wgInvalidateCacheOnLocalSettingsChange is true (which is - the default). -* $wgCopyrightIcon is deprecated and $wgFooterIcons['copyright']['copyright'] - should be used instead. -* $wgSysopUserBans is deprecated, and will be made permanently true in 1.18. - If you need this functionality, you should use the BlockIp hook to filter and - reject such blocks. -* $wgSysopRangeBans is deprecated, you should set $wgBlockCIDRLimit to maximum - (32 for IPv4, 128 for IPv6), equivalent to allowing rangeblocks of only 1 - address at a time. - -=== New features in 1.17 === - -* (bug 10183) Users can now add personal styles and scripts to all skins via - User:<name>/common.css and /common.js (if user css/js is enabled). -* (bug 22748) Add anchors on Special:ListGroupRights. -* (bug 21981) Add parameter 'showfilename' to <gallery> to automatically - apply the names of the individual files within the gallery. -* Future-proof redirection to fragments in Gecko, so things work a little nicer - if they fix <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=516293>. -* Support git:// and mms:// protocols by default for external links. -* (bug 15810) Blocked admins can no longer unblock themselves without the - 'unblockself' permission (which they have by default). -* (bug 18499) Added "enhanced" URL parameter to switch between old and enhanced - changes list. -* (bug 22925) "sp-contributions-blocked-notice-anon" message now displayed when - viewing contributions of a blocked IP address. -* (bug 22474) {{urlencode:}} now takes an optional second parameter for type of - escaping. -* Special:Listfiles now supports a username parameter. -* Special:Random carries over query string parameters. -* (bug 23206) Add Special::Search hook for detecting successful "Go". -* When visiting a "red link" of a deleted file, a deletion and move log excerpt - is provided on the Upload form. -* (bug 22647) Add category details in search results. -* (bug 23276) Add hook to Special:NewPages to modify query. -* Add accesskey 's' and tooltip to 'Save' button at Special:Preferences. -* Add accesskey 'b' and tooltip to the summary field of edit mode. -* (bug 20186) Allow filtering Special:Contributions for RevisionDeleted edits. -* ajaxwatch now uses the API and JQuery, and can be used to animate arbitrary - watch links, not just to watch the page the link is on. -* (bug 20976) "searchmenu-new-nocreate" message now displayed when when there - is no title match in search and the user has no rights to create pages. -* (bug 23429) Added new hook WatchlistEditorBuildRemoveLine. -* (bug 22844) Added support for WinCache object caching (for IIS). -* (bug 23580) Add two new events to LivePreview so that scripts can be notified - about the beginning and finishing of LivePreview actions. -* (bug 21278) Now the sidebar allows inclusion of wiki markup. -* (bug 23733) Add IDs to messages used on CSS/JS pages. -* Show validity period of the login cookie in Special:UserLogin and - Special:Preferences. -* Interlanguage links display the page title in their tooltip. -* (bug 23621) New Special:ComparePages to compare (diff) two articles. -* (bug 4597) Provide support in Special:Contributions to show only "current" - contributions -* (bug 17857) {{anchorencode}} acts more like how the parser creates section ids -* (bug 21477) \& can now be used in <math> -* (bug 11641) \dotsc \dotsm \dotsi \dotso can now be used in <math> -* (bug 21475) \mathtt and \textsf can now be used in <math> -* texvc is now run via ulimit4.sh, to limit execution time. -* SQLite now supports $wgSharedDB. -* (bug 8507) Group file links by namespace:title on image pages. -* Stop emitting named entities, so we can use <!DOCTYPE html> while still being - well-formed XML. -* texvc now supports \bcancel and \xcancel in addition to \cancel and \cancelto -* Added scriptExtension setting to $wgForeignFileRepos. -* ForeignApiRepo uses scriptDirUrl if apiBase not set. -* (bug 24212) Added MediaWiki:Filepage.css which is also included on foreign - client wikis. -* (bug 14685) Double underscore magic word usage is now tracked in the - page_props table, as well as the behavioral magic words {{DEFAULTSORT}} and - {{DISPLAYTITLE}} -* (bug 24045) MediaWiki:Ipb-needreblock is now wrapped in a div with class - "mw-ipb-needreblock" -* Non-file pages can no longer be moved to the file namespace, nor vice versa. -* (bug 671) The <dfn>, <kbd> and <samp> elements have been whitelisted in user - input. -* (bug 21503) There's now a "reason" field when creating account for other users. -* (bug 24418) action=markpatrolled now requires a token. -* A variety of category sort-related fixes, including: -** (bug 164) In English, lowercase and uppercase letters now sort the same. -** (bug 1211) Subcategories, ordinary pages, and files now page separately. -** When several pages are given the same sort key, they sort by their names - instead of randomly. -* (bug 23848) Add {{ARTICLEPATH}} Magic Word. -* (bug 8140) Add dedicated CSS classes to Special:Newpages elements. -* (bug 11005) Add CSS class to empty pages in Special:Newpages. -* The parser cache is now shared amongst users whose different settings aren't - used in the page. -* Any attribute beginning with "data-" can now be used in wikitext, per HTML5. -* (bug 24007) Diff pages now mention the number of users having edited - intermediate revisions. -* Added new hook GetIP. -* Special:Version now displays whether a SQLite database supports full-text - search. -* TS_ISO_8691_BASIC was added as a time format, which is used by ResourceLoader - for versioning. -* Maintenance scripts get a --memory-limit option to override defaults (which - is usually to set it to -1 to disable the limit). -* (bug 25397) Allow uploading (not displaying) of WebP images, disabled - by default. -* (bug 23194) Special:ListFiles now has thumbnails. -* Use hreflang to specify canonical and alternate links, search engine friendly - when a wiki has multiple variant languages. -* (bug 19593) Specifying --server in now works for all maintenance scripts. -* Now rebuildtextindex.php warns if SQLite doesn't support full-text search. -* (bug 10541) Front/backend separation of installation/upgrade code. -* (bug 10596) Allow installer to enable extensions already in extensions folder. -* (bug 20627) Installer should be in languages other than English. -* Support for metadata in SVG files (title, description). -* Special:Search: Add CSS classes to 'none found' and 'create link' messages. -* Add CSS classes (including namespace and pagename) to the enhanced recent - changes/watchlist entries. -* (bug 22463) Add hook 'SkinGetPoweredBy' to make 'powered by' icon/text - customizable. -* Added CSS print pagination to the print stylesheets. -* (bug 25960) Add <link rel=canonical"> for File pages of shared/foreign - file repositories. -* When viewing a redirect, the redirect arrow and redirection target are both - wrapped in a div that has the class "redirectMsg" so that the redirection - arrow can be customized with CSS. -* (bug 21911) Hard coded limit for long page warning removed. New message - [[MediaWiki:Longpage-hint]] (empty per default) can be used instead. - Parameters: $1 shows the formatted textsize in Byte/KB/MB, $2 is the raw - number of the textsize in Byte. -* (bug 3276) Give image <gallery>s fluid width. -* Added uploads link to page subtitle in Special:Contributions. -* Added Special:Myuploads special page that redirects to Special:Listfiles. -* The footerlinks used in Monobook/Vector/Modern are now part of common skin - code, SkinTemplateOutputPageBeforeExec can be used to customize the list. -* Special wrapping setups can now define MW_CONFIG_FILE to load a config file - other than LocalSettings.php. This is like MW_CONFIG_CALLBACK but works in - some cases where MW_CONFIG_CALLBACK will not work. -* (bug 26574) Added 'upload' to $wgRestrictionTypes, allowing upload protected - pages to be queried via the API and Special:ProtectedPages, and allowing - disabling upload protection by removing it from $wgRestrictionTypes. -* The name attribute of HTMLForm fields can now be overridden by passing a - 'name' key in the descriptor array. Hidden field names are now treated - consistently with other fields and, by default, prefixed with 'wp'. -* (bug 27402) Add support for disabling MWSuggest. -* (bug 26563) Add bytes changed per revision for stub and full article dumps. -* (bug 27508) Add $wgSVGMetadataCutoff to limit the maximum amount of an svg we - look at when finding metadata to prevent excessive resource usage. -* (bug 198) $wgUpgradeKey allows unlocking the web installer for upgrades - without having to move LocalSettings.php -* Added $wgAllowImageTag, which can be set to true to whitelist the <img> tag - in wikitext. -* (bug 12797) Add $wgGalleryOptions for adjusting of default gallery display - options. -* Added the $wgAllowUserCssPrefs option which allows disabling CSS-based - preferences; which can improve page loading speed. -* Added $wgSQLMode for setting database SQL modes - either performance (null) - or other reasons (such as enabling stricter checks). -* (bug 20193) Added $wgVectorShowVariantName global configuration variable - which causes Vector to render the variants drop-down menu with a label - showing the current variant name. This is off by default, pending further - research into its user experience implications. -* The upload link for missing files can now be set separately from the - navigation link with $wgUploadMissingFileUrl. -* $wgAdditionalMailParams added to allow setting extra options to mail() calls. -* Added $wgSecureLogin to optionally login using HTTPS. -* (bug 25728) Added $wgPasswordSenderName to make the name associated - with $wgPasswordSender configurable. -* (bug 22463) $wgFooterIcons added to allow configuration of the icons shown in - the footers of skins. -* $wgFileCacheDepth can be used to set the depth of the subdirectory hierarchy. - used for the file cache. Default value is 2, which matches former behavior. - -=== Bug fixes in 1.17 === - -* (bug 17560) Half-broken deletion moved image files to deletion archive - without updating database. -* (bug 22666) Submitting user block form with an invalid user name no longer - throws an error. -* (bug 22665, bug 22667) User '0' can now be unblocked and have its block - settings changed. -* (bug 22606) The body of e-mail address confirmation message is now different - when the address changed. -* (bug 22664) Special:Userrights now accepts '0' as a valid user name. -* (bug 5210) Preload parser now parses <noinclude>, <includeonly> and - redirects. -* (bug 22709) IIS7 mishandles redirects generated by OutputPage::output() when - the URL contains a colon. -* (bug 22353) Categorised recent changes now works again. -* (bug 22747) "Reveal my e-mail address in notification e-mails" preference is - now only displayed when relevant. -* (bug 22772) {{#special:}} parser function now works with subpages. -* (bug 18664) Relative URIs in interwiki links cause failed redirects. -* (bug 19270) Relative URIs in interwiki links break interwiki transclusion. -* (bug 22903) Revdelete log entries now show in the user preferred language. -* (bug 22905) Correctly handle <abbr> followed by ISBN. -* (bug 22940) Namespace aliases pointing to main namespace don't work. -* (bug 15810) Blocked admins can no longer block/unblock other users. -* (bug 22876) Avoid possible PHP Notice if $wgDefaultUserOptions is not - correctly set. -* (bug 14952) Page titles are renormalized after html entities are removed so - that links with non-NFC character references work correctly. -* (bug 22991) wgUserGroups JavaScript variable now reports * group for - anonymous users instead of null. -* (bug 22627) Remove PHP notice when deleting a page only hidden users edited. -* (bug 21520) Anonymous previews now also gives a warning about not being - logged in (anonpreviewwarning). -* (bug 22935) image/x-ms-bmp mime type added for BMP files. -* (bug 23024) Special:ListFiles now escapes file names correctly. -* (bug 22867) "View source" tab is now only displayed if there's source text. -* (bug 19393) Feeds now format dates in user language rather than content - language. -* (bug 22852) "Served in" comment is now the time used to cache a single page - when using rebuildFileCache.php -* (bug 22496) Viewing diff of a redirect page without specifying "oldid". - parameter no longer makes the page displayed as being the redirect target. -* (bug 22918) Feed cache keys now use $wgRenderHashAppend. -* (bug 21916) Last-Modified header is now correct when outputting cached feed. -* (bug 20049) Fixed PHP notice in search highlighter that occurs in some cases. -* (bug 23017) Special:Disambiguations now list pages in content namespaces - rather than only main namespace. -* (bug 23063) $wgMaxAnimatedGifArea is checked against the total size of all. - frames, and $wgMaxImageArea against the size of the first frame, rather than - the other way around. Both now default to 12.5 megapixels. Also, images - exceeding $wgMaxImageArea can still be embedded at original size. -* (bug 23078) "All public logs" option on Special:Log is now always the first - item. -* (bug 16817) Group names in user rights log are now singular and in lowercase. -* Special:Preferences no longer crashes if the wiki default date formatting - style is not valid for the user's interface language. -* (bug 23167) Check the watch checkbox by default if the watchcreations - preference is set. -* Maintenance script cleanupTitles is now able to fix titles stored - in a negative namespace (which is invalid). -* (bug 19858) Removed obsolete <big> in interface messages. -* (bug 21456) "Bad title" error when showing non-local interwiki pages no longer - displays incorrect tabs. -* (bug 23190) Improved math representation for text browsers. -* (bug 22015) Improved upload-by-url error handling and error display. -* (bug 17941) $wgMaxUploadSize is now honored by all upload sources. -* (bug 23080) New usernames now limited to 235 bytes so that custom skin files - work. -* (bug 23075) Correct MediaTransformError default width in gallery. -* (bug 16487) The Anonymous user account used on Postgres is no longer - displayed on Special:Listusers. -* (bug 23313) Move watchlisthidepatrolled above token in watchlist preferences - to enhance preference grouping. -* (bug 23298) Interwiki links with prefix only in log summaries now link to the - correct link. -* (bug 23284) Times are now rounded correctly. -* (bug 23375) Added ogv, oga, spx as extensions for ogg files. -* (bug 18408) All required permissions for uploading (upload, edit, create). - are now checked when loading Special:Upload. Toolbar link for Special:Upload - is no longer shown if the user does not have the required permissions. -* (bug 23397) texvc in html mode renders \sim as ˜ not ∼ -* (bug 23241) License selector should be disabled during upload of a new - version. -* (bug 23240) Add ID to namespace selector form on Special:Watchlist. -* The pipe | character in urls is now escaped. -* (bug 23422) mp3 files can now be moved. -* (bug 23448) MediaWiki:Summary-preview is now displayed instead of - MediaWiki:Subject-preview when previewing summary. -* (bug 23426) The {{REVISIONMONTH}} variable is now zero-padded and added - new variable {{REVISIONMONTH1}} when unpadded version is needed. -* Special:Userrights didn't recognize user as changing his/her own rights if - user did not capitalize first letter of username. -* (bug 23507) Add styles for printing wikitables. -* (bug 19586) Avoid JS errors in mwsuggest when using old browsers such - as Opera 8. -* (bug 23563) Old skins now support $wgUploadNavigationUrl and take into - account upload rights. -* (bug 1347) Render \phi in math using images, in order to create consistent - and correct render results. -* (bug 16573) Render \epsilon in math using images, in order to create - consistent and correct render results. -* (bug 22541) Support image redirects when using ForeignAPIRepo. -* (bug 22967) Make edit summary length cut-off behave correctly for multibyte - characters. -* (bug 8689) Long numeric lines no longer kill the parser. -* (bug 23740) Article::doRedirect() now use $extraQuery parameter correctly if - the $noRedir parameter is set to true. -* (bug 23688) Correct mime types for Office 2007 OpenXML documents. -* (bug 23787) Corrected $wgDefaultSkin's comment in DefaultSettings.php. -* (bug 23797) Xml::input() now allows '0' for the value parameter. -* (bug 23747) Make sure that on History pages, the RevDel button is not - accidentally activated when hitting enter. -* (bug 23845) Special:ListFiles now uses correct file names without underscores. -* Ask for permanent login in Special:Preferences only if $wgCookieExpiration > 0. -* (bug 16356) Repair dumpInterwiki.inc to use proper normalization. -* (bug 24006) deleteArchivedRevisions.php maintenance script now longer throws - a fatal error. -* (bug 23465) Don't ignore the predefined destination filename on - Special:Upload after following a red link. -* (bug 23642) Recognize mime types of MS OpenXML documents. -* (bug 22784) Normalise underscores and spaces in autocomments. -* (bug 19910) Headings of the form ===+\s+ are now displayed as valid headings. -* (bug 24022) Only check file extensions on the uploadpage when needed. -* (bug 24076) Recognize Office 2003 files with OpenXML trailers. -* (bug 24244) Updated comments in DefaultSettings.php to reflect. - Image: --> File: namespace rename. -* Make wfTimestamp recognize negative unix timestamp values. -* (bug 24401) SimpleSearch: No button/text indicating 'Search' if image is - disabled. -* (bug 23293) Do not show change tags when Special:RecentChanges(linked) or - Special:Newpages is transcluded into another page as it messes up the page. -* (bug 24517) LocalFile::newFromKey() and OldLocalFile::newFromKey() no longer - throw fatal errors. -* (bug 23380) Uploaded files that are larger than allowed by PHP now show a - useful error message. -* Uploading to a protected title will allow the user to choose a new name - instead of showing an error page. -* (bug 24425) Use Database::replace instead of delete/insert in - SqlBagOStuff::set to avoid query errors about duplicate keynames. -* (bug 15470) First letters of filenames are always capitalized by upload JS. -* (bug 21215) NoLocalSettings.php doesn't tolerate rewrite rules. -* (bug 21052) Fix link color for stubs in NewPages. -* (bug 24714) Usage of {{#dateformat: }} in wikis without $wgUseDynamicDates no - longer pollutes the parser cache. -* (bug 17031) Correct which characters the parser allows in tag attributes (a - letter, colon or underscore followed by 0 or more letters, numbers, colons, - underscores, hyphens, and/or periods). -* Save 200 useless queries on each category page view. -* Shell commands will now work on Linux in filesystems mounted noexec. -* (bug 24804) Corrected commafying in Polish and Ukrainian. -* "Difference between pages" is now displayed instead of "Difference between - revisions" on diffs when appropriate. -* (bug 23703) ForeignAPIRepo fails on findBySha1() when using a 1.14 install as - a repository due to missing 'name' attribute from the API list=allimages. -* (bug 24898) MediaWiki uses /tmp even if a vHost-specific tempdir is set, also - make wfTempDir() return a sane value for Windows on worst-case. -* (bug 24824) Support ImageMagick 6.5.6-2+ JPEG decoder size hint, to reduce - memory usage when such an ImageMagick is used for scaling. -* Disable multithreaded behaviour in recent ImageMagick, to avoid a deadlock - when a resource limit such as $wgMaxShellMemory is hit. -* (bug 24981) Allow extensions to access SpecialUpload variables again. -* (bug 20744) Wiki forgets about an uploaded file. -* (bug 17913) Don't show "older edit" when no older edit available. -* (bug 6204) TOC not properly rendered when using $wgMaxTocLevel. -* (bug 24977) The accesskey in history page now lead directly to the diff. - instead of alternating focus between the two buttons. -* (bug 24987) Special:ListUsers does not take external groups into account. -* (bug 20633) update.php has mixed language output. -* SQLite system table names are now never prefixed. -* (bug 25292) SkinSubPageSubtitle hook now passes the Skin object as second - parameter. -* (bug 25167) Correctly load JS fixes for IE6 (fixing a regression in 1.16). -* (bug 25367) wfShellExec() is more explicit when failing due to disabled - passthru(). -* (bug 25462) Fix double-escaping for section edit link tooltips. -* action=raw was removed for Special:Statistics. This information is still - available via the API. -* (bug 23934) Groups defined in $wgRevokePermissions but not in - $wgGroupPermissions now appear on Special:ListGroupRights. -* (bug 23923) Special:Prefixindex no longer shows results if nothing was - requested. -* (bug 22308) Search now finds text in default main page immediately after setup. -* (bug 25697) Make sure empty lines render in diff view. -* Use an actual minus sign in diff views, instead of a hyphen. -* (bug 23732) Clarified "n links" message on Special:MostLinkedFiles. -* (bug 23731) Clarified "n links" message on Special:MostLinkedTemplates. -* (bug 25642) A exception is now thrown instead of a fatal error when using - $wgSMTP without PEAR mail package. -* (bug 19633) When possible, Upscale small SVGs when creating thumbnails. -* (bug 11013) Database driver detection needs rewriting for robustness. -* (bug 13409) Installer prompts could use clarification--now has help boxes. -* (bug 16902) Installer spews warnings when exec() and dl() are not available. -* (bug 19129) Only show MyISAM/InnoDB when supported. -* (bug 17762) Only show other e-mail options when e-mail is globally enabled. -* Cache multiple sizes of InstantCommons thumbnails. -* (bug 25488) Disallowing anonymous users to read pages no longer throws error - on discussion pages with vector as default skin. -* (bug 24833) Files name in includes/diff/ are now less confusing. -* (bug 25713) SpecialPage::resolveAlias() now normalise spaces to underscores. -* (bug 25829) Special:Mypage and Special:Mytalk now forward oldid, diff and dir - parameters. -* (bug 25175) HTML file cache now honor $wgCacheDirectory if - $wgFileCacheDirectory is not set. -* (bug 13353) Diff3 version checks were too strict, did not detect working diff3. -* (bug 25843) Links to special pages using link= attribute on images are now. - normalised like normal links to special pages. -* (bug 21364) External links using link= attribute on images now respect - $wgExternalLinkTarget. -* (bug 17789) Added a note to the total views on Special:Statistics saying that - is doesn't count non-existing pages and special pages. -* (bug 17996) HTTP redirects are now combined when requesting a special page. -* (bug 19944) Link on image thumbnails no longer link to "Media:" namespace in - some cases. -* (bug 25670) wfFindFile() now checks the namespace of the given title, only - "File" and "Media" are allowed now. -* (bug 25872) Rename the HttpRequest class to MWHttpRequest to avoid conflict - with php extension that defines same class. -* (bug 20591) There's now a different message on Special:MovePage when - $wgFixDoubleRedirects is set to false. -* Fixed PHP warnings when updating a broken MySQL database. -* (bug 26023) Corrected deleteBacth.php's documentation. -* (bug 25451) Improved datetime representation in 32 bit php >= 5.2. -* Show "skin does not exist error" only when the skin is inputted in the wrong - case. -* (bug 26164) Potential html injection when the database server isn't available. -* (bug 26160) Upload description set by extensions are not propagated. -* (bug 9675) generateSitemap.php now takes an --urlpath parameter to allow - absolute URLs in the sitemap index (as required e.g. by Google). -* Partial workaround for bug 6220: at least make files on shared repositories - show up as (struck-out) bluelinks instead of redlinks on Special:WantedFiles. -* rebuildFileCache.php no longer creates inappropriate cache files for redirects. -* (bug 25512) Subcategory list should not include category prefix for members. -* (bug 10871) Javascript and CSS pages in MediaWiki namespace are no longer - treated as wikitext on preview. -* Page existence is now not revealed (in the colour of the tabs) to users who - cannot read the page in question. -* (bug 22753) Output from update.php is more clear when things changed, entries - indicating nothing changed are now all prefixed by "..." -* (bug 16019) $wgArticlePath = "/$1" no longer breaks API edit/watch actions. -* (bug 18372) File types blacklisted by $wgFileBlacklist will no longer be shown as - "Permitted file types" on the upload form. -* (bug 26540) Fixed wrong call to applyPatch in MysqlUpdater. -* (bug 26034) Make the "View / Read" tab in content_navigation style tabs remain - selected when the action is "purge". -* (bug 26733) Wrap initial table creation in transaction. -* (bug 26208) Mark directionality of some interlanguage links. -* (bug 26716) Provide link to instructions for external editor related preferences. -* (bug 26961) Hide anon edits in watchlist preference now actually works. -* (bug 1379) Installer directory conflicts with some hosts' configuration panel. -* (bug 27781) Installer does not warn about 5.1.x. Added a compatibility function - for array_key_exists(). -* Fix XML well-formedness on a few pages when $wgHtml5 is true (the default). -* (bug 28069) MediaWiki fails streaming files when mod_deflate and ob_gzhandler - are also set. -* (bug 26223) Concurrently moving an article to different titles leaks a - redirect revision with no page. -* (bug 15641) Fixed permissions checks in Special:Import which allowed users - without the 'import' permission to import pages from configured import sources. -* (bug 26449) Keep underlines from headings outside of tables and thumbs by - adding overflow:hidden to h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6 (also fixes editsection bunching). -* (bug 26708) Remove background-color:white from tables in Monobook and Vector. -* (bug 26781) {{PAGENAME}} and related parser functions escape their output better. -* (bug 26716) Provide link to instructions for external editor related preferences - and add a comment to the ini control file explaining what is going on. -* (bug 28422) Remove color:black from tables in Monobook and Vector. And add it - to table.wikitable instead. -* (bug 27560) Search queries no longer fail in walloon language. -* (bug 27700) The upload protection can now also be set for files that do not - exist. -* (bug 28034) uploading file to local wiki when file exists on shared repository - (commons) gives spurious info in the warning message. -* Usernames get lost when selecting different sorts on Special:listfiles. -* (bug 28166) UploadBase assumes that 'edit' and 'upload' rights are not per - page restrictions. -* (bug 28242) Make redirects generated by urls containing a local interwiki - prefix be a 301 instead of a 302. -* (bug 28568) Entries in the iwlinks table are now removed on page deletion. -* (bug 28306) Fix exposure of suppressed usernames in ForeignDBRepo. -* (bug 28444) Fix regression: edit-on-doubleclick retains revision id again. -* UtfNormal::cleanUp on an invalid utf-8 sequence no longer returns false if - intl installed. -* (bug 26729) Category pages should return 404 if they do not exist and have no - members. -* (bug 28214) When page not found, sends malformed HTTP/1.x instead of HTTP/1.1 - in header of response. -* (bug 27634) TOC title appears in wrong language. -* (bug 27761) Fix regression: pages with Esperanto titles containing convertible - character sequences became unreachable. -* (bug 27508) SVGMetadataExtractor takes too much resources on huge svgs. -* (bug 27465) SVG thumbnail generation. -* (bug 27467) preload can leave UNIQ. -* (bug 27539) Allow attributes beginning with a digit in wiktext tag parameters. -* (bug 27328) using relative paths in CSS imports in MediaWiki:Common.css broken - in 1.17. -* (bug 27333) Fix repetitive last-seen time queries on page history. -* (bug 26250, bug 23817) Fix wfObjectToArray() to descend into arrays; fixes - processing of JSON return values for ForeignAPIRepo when native json module - not present. -* (bug 25675) Fix search suggestions for Special: pages with spaces. -* (bug 25571) Xml::encodeJsVar now passes floats natively instead of converting - to strings. -* (bug 27338) Gallery in 1.17 breaks for audio/video + ogghandler. -* (bug 27302) Don't append the current timestamp for user/site modules when no - user/site JS/CSS is present. -* (bug 27016) dumpTextPass.php now consider the "output" parameter. -* (bug 22606) don't send the "someone registred an account" message when setting - email address (i.e. old one empty) in user preferences. -* (bug 26458) Section edit links appear on pages that user does not have right - to edit. -* (bug 28611) Don't die in SqlBagOStuff::incr() if there's a race condition. -* (bug 16886) Sister projects box moves down the extract of the first result - in IE 7. -* (bug 17398) Fixed "link" parameter in image links with "thumb" or "frame" - parameter. - -=== API changes in 1.17 === - -* BREAKING CHANGE: action=patrol now requires POST. -* BREAKING CHANGE: patrol token is no longer the same as edit token. -* BREAKING CHANGE: Session keys returned by ApiUpload are now strings instead - of integers. -* BREAKING CHANGE: (bug 25303) Fix API parameter integer validation to actually - enforce validation on the input values in addition to giving a warning. - Also add flag to enforce (die) if integer out of range. -* (bug 24650) Fix API to work with categorylinks changes. -* action=parse now correctly returns an error for nonexistent pages. -* (bug 27201) Special:WhatLinksHere output no longer contains duplicate IDs. -* (bug 26560) On allusers if limit < total number of users, last user gets - duplicated. -* (bug 27715) imageinfo didn't respect revdelete. -* (bug 27479) API error when using both prop=pageprops and - prop=info&inprop=displaytitle. -* (bug 27862) Useremail module didn't properly return success on success. -* (bug 27590) prop=imageinfo now allows querying the media type. -* (bug 27587) list=filearchive now outputs full title info. -* (bug 27897) list=allusers and list=users list hidden users. -* (bug 22738) Allow filtering by action type on query=logevent. -* (bug 22764) uselang parameter for action=parse. -* (bug 22944) API: watchlist options are inconsistent. -* (bug 22868) don't list infinite block expiry date as "now" in API logevents. -* (bug 22290) prop=revisions now outputs "comment" field even when comment. - is empty, for consistency with list=recentchanges. -* (bug 19721) API action=help should have a way to just list for a specific - module. -* (bug 23458) Add support for pageid parameter to action=parse requests. -* (bug 23460) Parse action should have a section option. -* (bug 21346) Make deleted images searchable by hash. -* (bug 23461) Normalise usage of parameter names in parameter descriptions. -* (bug 23548) Allow access of another users watchlist through watchlistraw - using token and username. -* (bug 23524) Api Modules as followup to bug 14473 (Add iwlinks table to - track inline interwiki link usage). -* Add pltitles and tltemplates to prop=links and prop=templates respectively, - similar to prop=categories's clcategorie. -* (bug 23834) Invalid "thumbwidth" and "thumbheight" in "imageinfo" query when - thumbnailing larger than original image. -* (bug 23835) Need "thumbmime" result in "imageinfo" query. -* (bug 23851) Repair diff for file redirect pages. -* (bug 24009) Include implicit groups in action=query&list=users&usprop=groups. -* (bug 24016) API: Handle parameters specified in simple string syntax - ( 'paramname' => 'defaultval' ) correctly when outputting help. -* (bug 24089) Logevents causes PHP Notice if leprop=title isn't supplied. -* (bug 23473) Give description of properties on all modules. -* (bug 24136) unknownerror when adding new section without summary, but - forceditsummary. -* (bug 22339) Added srwhat=nearmatch to list=search to get a "go" result. -* (bug 24303) Added new &servedby parameter to all actions which adds the - hostname that served the request to the result. It is also added - unconditionally on error. -* (bug 24185) Titles in the Media and Special namespace are now supported for - title normalization in action=query. Special pages have their name resolved - to the local alias. -* (bug 24296) Added converttitles parameter to convert titles to their - canonical language variant. -* (bug 23936) Add "displaytitle" to query/info API. -* (bug 24485) Make iwbacklinks a generator, optionally display iwprefix and - iwtitle. -* (bug 24564) Fix fatal errors when using list=deletedrevs, prop=revisions or - one of the backlinks generators with limit=max. -* (bug 24656) API's parse module needs option to disable PP report. -* PARAM_REQUIRED parameter flag added. If this flag is set, and the end user - does not set the parameter, the API will automatically throw an error. -* (bug 24665) When starttimestamp is not specified, fake it by setting it to - NOW, not to the timestamp of the last edit. -* (bug 24677) axto= parameters added to allcategories, allimages, alllinks, - allmessages, allpages, and allusers. -* (bug 24236) Add add, remove, add-self, remove-self tags to - meta=siteinfo&siprop=usergroups. -* (bug 24484) Add prop=pageprops module. -* (bug 24330) Add &redirect parameter to ?action=edit. -* (bug 24722) For list=allusers&auprop=blockinfo, only show blockedby and - blockreason if the user is actually blocked. -* Add format=dump and format=dumpfm, outputs results in PHP's var_dump() format. -* For required string parameters, if '' is provided, this is now classed as - missing. -* (bug 24724) list=allusers is out by 1 (shows total users - 1). -* (bug 24166) API error when using rvprop=tags. -* Introduced "asynchronous download" mode for upload-by-url. Requires - $wgAllowAsyncCopyUploads to be true. -* sinumberingroup correctly gives size of 'user' group, and omits size of - implicit groups rather than showing 0. -* (bug 25248) API: paraminfo errors with certain modules. -* (bug 24792) API help for action=purge sometimes wrongly stated whether a - POST request was needed due to cache pollution. -* Added iiprop=parsedcomment to prop=imageinfo, similar to prop=revisions. -* Added rvparse to parse revisions. For performance reasons if this option is - used, rvlimit is enforced to 1. -* (bug 25748) If a action=parse request provides an oldid that is actually the - current revision id, try the parser cache, and save it to it if necessary. -* (bug 25463) Export header should not be shown if no pages were requested, to - reduce confusion. -* (bug 25648) API discovery information has been added as RSD link in page. - <head> and by providing an API module action=rsd. Added hook - ApiRsdServiceApis for extensions to add their own service to the services - list. -* The HTML of diff output markers has changed. Hyphens are now minus signs, - empty markers are now filled with non-breaking-space characters. -* (bug 25741) Add more data to list=search's srprop. -* (bug 25760) counter property still reported by the API when - $wgDisableCounters enabled. -* (bug 25987) prop=info&inprop=watched now also works for missing pages. -* (bug 26006) prop=langlinks now allows obtaining full URL. -* (bug 26075) ApiDelete.php now calls correctly ArticleDelete hook. -* (bug 26089) add block expiration to blockinfo. -* (bug 26125) prop=imageinfo&iiprop=size now returns the page count if the - file is a multi-page file. -* (bug 10268) Added linktodiffs parameter on action=feedwatchlist. -* (bug 26219) Show API limits for multi values in description. -* (bug 28070) Fix watchlist RSS for databases that store timestamps in a - real timestamp field. -* (bug 27722) list=filearchive now supports revdel. - -=== Language support changes in 1.17 === - -MediaWiki supports over 330 languages. Many localizations are updated regularly. - -The following languages were added: - -* Moroccan Spoken Arabic (ary) -* Banjar (bjn) -* Kabardian (kdb) -* Kabardian (Cyrillic) (kbd-cyrl) -* Latgalian (ltg) -* Minangkabau (min) -* Dutch (informal) (nl-informal) -* Rusyn (rue) - -Other significant changes to MediaWiki's language support: - -* Fiji Hindi (Devangari script) was removed. -* Removed deprecated language code "dk" (Danish), use "da" instead. -* Link trail added for sl and sh. -* (bug 27633) Add characters to linkTrail for Portuguese (pt and pt-br). -* (bug 23156) Commafy and search normalization updated for Belarusian - (Taraškievica). -* (bug 23283) Native name for Old English -> Ænglisc. -* (bug 23364) Native name for Azerbaijani -> Azərbaycanca. -* (bug 24593) Native name for Sorani now uses only Arabic script. -* (bug 24628) Generic translations for NS_USER/NS_USER_TALK for Esperanto. -* (bug 24917) Polish as fallback for Kashubia. -* (bug 24794) Tatar link trail updated. -* Esperanto date format corrected. -* (bug 28159) Change interwiki name of language kbd to Къэбэрдеибзэ / - Qabardjajəbza. -* (bug 28184) Namespaces for the Latgalian Wikipedia. -* (bug 25010) Bashkir-language interwikis: linktext change from Башҡорт - to Башҡортса. -* (bug 26395) Change name of Cornish language to Kernowek. - -=== Other changes in 1.17 === - -* DatabaseFunctions.php that was needed for compatibility with pre-1.3 - extensions has been removed. -* XmlFunctions.php has been removed. Use the Xml or Html classes as appropriate. -* The FailFunction "error handling" method has now been removed -* Sysops now have the "suppressredirect" right by default -* Removed $wgRemoteUploads. It was not well supported and superseded by - $wgUploadNavigationUrl. -* (bug 26253) $wgPostCommitUpdateList has been removed -* The PHPUnit test suite has been removed from this release due to serious issues - which should be resolved by the 1.18 release. -* Oracle DB now uses the __destruct fuction to commit/close connection as it - doesn't commit on close if transation is triggered in OCI. - -== Compatibility == - -MediaWiki 1.17 requires PHP 5.2.3 or later. - -MySQL is the recommended DBMS. PostgreSQL or SQLite can also be used, but -support for them is somewhat less mature. There is experimental support for IBM -DB2 and Microsoft SQL Server. - -The supported versions are: - -* MySQL 4.0 or later -* PostgreSQL 8.3 or later -* SQLite 3 -* Oracle 9.0.1 or later - -== Upgrading == - -1.17 has several database changes since 1.16, and will not work without schema -updates. - -If upgrading from before 1.11, and you are using a wiki as a commons repository, -make sure that it is updated as well. Otherwise, errors may arise due to -database schema changes. - -If upgrading from before 1.7, you may want to run refreshLinks.php to ensure -new database fields are filled with data. - -If you are upgrading from MediaWiki 1.4.x or earlier, some major database -changes are made, and there is a slightly higher chance that things could -break. Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading! - -See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions. - -For notes on 1.16.x and older releases, see HISTORY. - -== Online documentation == - -Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is available on -MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation License (except -for pages that explicitly state that their contents are in the public domain): - - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation - -== Mailing list == - -A mailing list is available for MediaWiki user support and discussion: - - http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l - -A low-traffic announcements-only list is also available: - - http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce - -It's highly recommended that you sign up for one of these lists if you're -going to run a public MediaWiki, so you can be notified of security fixes. - -== IRC help == - -There's usually someone online in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net |