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Change notes from older releases. For current info see RELEASE-NOTES.
== MediaWiki 1.17 ==
=== PHP 5.2 now required ==
Since 1.17, the lowest supported version of MediaWiki is now 5.2.3. Please
upgrade PHP if you have not done so prior to upgrading MediaWiki.
=== New installer in 1.17 ===
MediaWiki 1.17 is shipping with a completely redesigned installer to fix
a lot of outstanding bugs, cleanup the code quality, and make it easier to
use. Notably, you can now run upgrades from the web without having to move
LocalSettings.php. Also, configuration script directory has been renamed
from config/ to mw-config/. The specific bugs are listed below in the
general notes.
=== New ResourceLoader in 1.17 ===
MediaWiki 1.17 ships with a ResourceLoader which combines and minifies css and
javascript attached to the page. They are served from the new entry point load.php
If the page is served with the &debug=true parameter, the non-minified files
are used instead.
=== Configuration changes in 1.17 ===
* DatabaseFunctions.php that was needed for compatibility with pre-1.3
extensions has been removed.
* $wgAllowImageTag can be set to true to whitelist the <img> tag in wikitext.
* (bug 12797) Add $wgGalleryOptions for adjusting of default gallery display
options.
* $wgAllowUserCssPrefs option allows disabling CSS-based preferences; which can
improve page loading speed.
* (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.
* (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.
* XmlFunctions.php has been removed. Use the Xml or Html classes as appropriate.
* Added $wgSQLMode for setting database SQL modes - either performance (null)
or other reasons (such as enabling stricter checks)
* $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.
* The upload link for missing files can now be set separately from the
navigation link with $wgUploadMissingFileUrl.
* $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.
* $wgLoadScript was added to specify alternative locations for ResourceLoader
requests.
* $wgResourceLoaderMaxage was added to specify maxage and smaxage times for
responses from ResourceLoader based on whether the request's URL contained a
version parameter or not.
* $wgResourceLoaderDebug was added to specify the default state of debug mode;
this will still be overridden with the debug URL parameter a la
$wgLanguageCode.
* $wgResourceLoaderInlinePrivateModules was added to specify whether private
modules such as user.options should be embedded in the HTML output or
delivered through a resource loader request, which bypasses server cache (like
squid) and checks the user parameter against $wgUser. The former adds more
data to all pages, while the latter adds a request which cannot be cached
server side.
* Removed $wgUpdates for database updates; extension should use
DatabaseUpdater::addExtensionUpdate().
* Removed $wgServerName. It doesn't need to be set anymore and is no longer
available as input for other configuration items, either.
* Remove $wgRemoteUploads. It was not well supported and superseded by
$wgUploadNavigationUrl.
* (bug 198) $wgUpgradeKey allows unlocking the web installer for upgrades
without having to move LocalSettings.php
* The FailFunction "error handling" method has now been removed
* $wgAdditionalMailParams added to allow setting extra options to mail() calls.
* $wgSecureLogin to optionaly login using HTTPS
* (bug 25728) Added $wgPasswordSenderName to allow customise the name associed
with $wgPasswordSender
* Sysops now have the "suppressredirect" right by default
* (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
* 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).
* (bug 26253) $wgPostCommitUpdateList has been removed
=== 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 paramter 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.
* (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
* (bug 21312) RevisionMove allows moving individual revisions of a page to
another page. Introducing 'revisionmove' user right; disabled by default;
experimental feature.
* 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 24563) Entries on Special:WhatLinksHere now have a link to their history
* (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.
(This should be expanded to proper sorting for other languages before the
1.17 release.)
** (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.
* JavaScript-based password complexity checker on account creation and
password change.
* (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 17394) Make installer check for latest version against MediaWiki.org
* (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 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) Remove License selector, because it is not used when uploading 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
accidently 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 alterning 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 18372) $wgFileExtensions will now override $wgFileBlacklist
* (bug 25512) Subcategory list should not include category prefix for members.
* (bug 20244) Installer does not validate SQLite database directory for stable path
* (bug 1379) Installer directory conflicts with some hosts' configuration panel.
* (bug 12070) After Installation MySQL was blocked
* Fix XML well-formedness on a few pages when $wgHtml5 is true (the default)
* (bug 28568) Entries in the iwlinks table are now removed on page deletion
=== API changes in 1.17 ===
* (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 16886) Sister projects box moves down the extract of the first result
in IE 7.
* (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 17398) Fixed "link" parameter in image links with "thumb" or "frame"
parameter.
* (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 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 (breaking change!)
* (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
=== Languages updated in 1.17 ===
MediaWiki supports over 330 languages. Many localisations are updated
regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
* Moroccan Spoken Arabic (ary) (new)
* Banjar (bjn) (new)
* Danish (dk) (removed deprecated language code)
* Fiji Hindi (Devangari script) (removed)
* Kabardian (kdb) (new, dummy)
* Kabardian (Cyrillic) (kbd-cyrl) (new)
* Latgalian (ltg) (new)
* Minangkabau (min) (new)
* Dutch (informal) (nl-informal) (new)
* Rusyn (rue) (new)
* (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.
== MediaWiki 1.16 ==
=== Configuration changes in 1.16 ===
* (bug 18222) $wgMinimalPasswordLength default is now 1
* $wgSessionHandler can be used to configure session.save_handler
* $wgLocalFileRepo/$wgForeignFileRepos now have a 'fileMode' parameter to
be used when uploading/moving files
* (bug 18761) $wgHiddenPrefs is a new array for specifying preferences not
to be shown to users
* $wgAllowRealName and $wgAllowUserSkin were deprecated in favor of
$wgHiddenPrefs[] = 'realname', but the former are still retained
for backwards-compatibility
* (bug 9257) $wgRCMaxAge now defaults to three months
* $wgDevelopmentWarnings can be set to true to show warnings about deprecated
functions and other potential errors when developing.
* Subpages are now enabled in the MediaWiki namespace by default. This is
mainly a cosmetic change, and does not in any way affect the MessageCache,
which was already effectively treating the namespace as if it had subpages.
* Oracle: maintenance/ora/user.sql script for creating DB user on oracle with
appropriate privileges. Creating this user with web-install page requires
oci8.privileged_connect set to On in php.ini.
* Removed UserrightsChangeableGroups hook introduced in 1.14
* Added $wgCacheDirectory, to replace $wgFileCacheDirectory,
$wgLocalMessageCache, and any other local caches which need a place to put
files.
* $wgFileCacheDirectory is no longer set to anything by default, and so either
needs to be set explicitly, or $wgCacheDirectory needs to be set instead.
* $wgLocalMessageCache has been removed. Instead, set $wgUseLocalMessageCache
to true
* Removed $wgEnableSerializedMessages and $wgCheckSerialized. Similar
functionality is now available via $wgLocalisationCacheConf.
* $wgMessageCache->addMessages() is deprecated. Messages added via this
interface will not appear in Special:AllMessages.
* $wgRegisterInternalExternals can be used to record external links pointing
to same server
* (bug 19907) $wgCrossSiteAJAXdomains and $wgCrossSiteAJAXdomainExceptions added
to control which external domains may access the API via cross-site AJAX.
* $wgMaintenanceScripts for extensions to add their scripts to the default list
* $wgMemoryLimit has been added, default value '50M'
* $wgExtraRandompageSQL is deprecated, the SpecialRandomGetRandomTitle hook
should be used instead
* (bug 20489) $wgIllegalFileChars added to override the default list of illegal
characters in file names.
* (bug 19646) $wgImgAuthDetails added to display reason access to uploaded file
was denied to users(img_auth only)
* (bug 19646) $wgImgAuthPublicTest added to test to see if img_auth set up
correctly (img_auth only)
* $wgUploadMaintenance added to disable file deletions and restorations during
maintenance
* $wgCapitalLinkOverrides added to configure per-namespace capitalization
* (bug 21172) $wgSorbsUrl can now be an array with multiple DNSBL and renamed
to $wgDnsBlacklistUrls (backward compatibility kept)
* $wgEnableHtmlDiff has been removed
* (bug 3340) $wgBlockCIDRLimit added (default: 16) to configure the low end of
CIDR ranges for blocking
* $wgUseInstantCommons added for quick and easy enabling of Commons as a remote
file repository
* $wgDBAhandler added to choose a DBA handler when using CACHE_DBA
* $wgPreviewOnOpenNamespaces for extensions that create namespaces that behave
similarly to the category namespace.
* $wgEnableSorbs renamed to $wgDnsBlacklistUrls ($wgEnableSorbs kept for
backward compatibility)
* $wgUploadNavigationUrl now also affects images inline images that do not
exist. In that case the URL will get (?|&)wpDestFile=<filename> appended to
it as appropriate.
* If $wgLocaltimezone is null, use the server's timezone as the default for
signatures. This was always the behaviour documented in DefaultSettings.php
but has not been the actual behaviour for some time: instead, UTC was used
by default.
* Added $wgExtensionAssetsPath, to decouple assets serving from $wgScriptPath.
If not specified it will default to $wgScriptPath/extensions
* Added $wgCountTotalSearchHits to make search UI display total number of hits
with some search engines.
* Added $wgAdvertisedFeedTypes to decide what feed types (RSS, Atom, both, or
neither) MediaWiki advertises. Default is array( 'atom' ), so RSS is no
longer advertised by default (but it still works).
* Added $wgMemCachedTimeout, controls how long to wait for data from the
memcached servers.
* New configuration variables $wgDebugTimestamps and $wgDebugPrintHttpHeaders
for controlling debug output.
* New $wgBlockDisablesLogin when set to true disallows blocked users from
logging in.
* (bug 8790) Metadata edition ($wgUseMetadataEdit) has been moved to a separate
extension "MetadataEdit".
=== New features in 1.16 ===
* Add CSS defintion of the 'wikitable' class to shared.css
* (bug 17163) Added MediaWiki:Talkpageheader which will be displayed when
viewing talk pages
* Superfluous border="0" removed from images
* Added new hook 'MessageCacheReplace' into MessageCache.php. For instance
to allow extensions to update caches in similar way as MediaWiki invalidates
a cached MonoBook sidebar
* Special:AllPages: Move hardcoded styles from code to CSS
* (bug 18529) New hook: SoftwareInfo for adding information about the software
to Special:Version
* Added $wgExtPGAlteredFields to allow extensions to easily alter the data
type of columns when using the Postgres backend.
* (bug 16950) Show move log when viewing/creating a deleted page
* (bug 18242) Show the Subversion revision number per extensions in
Special:Version
* (bug 18420) Missing file revisions are handled gracefully now
* (bug 9219) Auth plugins can control editing RealName/Email/Nick preferences
* (bug 18466) Add note or warning when overruling a move (semi-)protection
* (bug 18342) insertTags works in edit summary box
* (bug 18411) The upload form also checks post_max_size
* Watchlist now has a specialized <div> tag that contains a unique class for
each page
* Added Minguo calendar support for the Taiwan Chinese language
* Database: unionQueries function to be used for UNION sql construction, so
it can be overloaded on DB abstraction level for DB specific functionality
* (bug 18849) Implement Japanese and North Korean calendars
* (bug 5755) Introduce {{CURRENTMONTH1}} and {{LOCALMONTH1}} to display the
month number without the leading zero
* (bug 13456) categoriespagetext supports PLURAL
* (bug 18860) Blocks of IPs affecting registered users can now block email
* (bug 17093) Date and time are separate parameters in Special:BlockList
* (bug 11484) Added ISO speed rating to default collapsed EXIF metadata view
* (bug 14866) Messages 'recentchangeslinked-toolbox' and
'recentchangeslinked-toolbox' were added to allow more fine grained
customisation of the user interface
* DISPLAYTITLE now accepts a limited amount of wiki markup (the single-quote
items)
* Special:Search now could search terms in all variant-forms. ONLY apply on
wikis enabled LanguageConverter.
* Add autopromote condition APCOND_BLOCKED to autopromote blocked users to
various user groups.
* Add $wgRevokePermissions as a means of restricting a group's rights. The
syntax is identical to $wgGroupPermissions, but users in these groups will
have these rights stripped from them.
* Added a PHP port of CDB (constant database), for improved local caching when
the DBA extension is not available.
* Introduced a new system for localisation caching. The system is based around
fast fetches of individual messages, minimising memory overhead and startup
time in the typical case. The database backend will be used by default, but
set $wgCacheDirectory to get a faster CDB-based implementation.
* Expanded the number of variables which can be set in the extension messages
files.
* Added a feature to allow per-article process pool size control for the parsing
task, to limit resource usage when the cache for a heavily-viewed article is
invalidated. Requires an external daemon.
* (bug 19576) Moved the id attribues from the anchors accompanying section
headers to the <span class="mw-headline"> elements within the section headers,
removing the redundant anchor elements.
* Parser::setFunctionTagHook now can be used to add a new tag which is parsed at
preprocesor level.
* Added $wgShowArchiveThumbnails, allowing sysadmins to disable thumbnail
display for old versions of images.
* In watchlists and Special:RecentChanges, the difference in page size now
appears in dark green if bytes were added and dark red if bytes were removed.
* Added FSRepo configuration properties thumbUrl and thumbDir, to allow the
thumbnails to be stored in a separate location to the source images.
* If config/ directory is not executable, the command to make it executable
now asks the user to cd to the correct directory
* Add experimental new external authentication framework, ExternalAuth
* (bug 18768) Remove AdminSettings requirements. Maintenance environment
will still load it if it exists, but it's not required for anything
* (bug 19900) The "listgrouprights-key" message is now wrapped in a div with
class "mw-listgrouprights-key"
* (bug 471) Allow RSS feeds for watchlist, using an opt-in security token
* (bug 10812) Interwiki links can have names and descriptions, fetched from
message 'interwiki-desc-PREFIX', not really used anywhere yet though
* (bug 9691) Add type (signup or login) parameter to
AuthPlugin::ModifyUITemplate()
* (bug 14454) "Member of group(s)" in Special:Preferences causes language
difficulties
* (bug 16697) Unicode combining characters are difficult to edit in some
browsers
* Parser test supports uploading results to remote CodeReview instance
* (bug 20013) Added CSS class "mw-version-ext-version" is wrapped on the
extension version in Special:Version
* (bug 20014) Added CSS class "mw-listgrouprights-right-name" is wrapped on the
right name in Special:ListGroupRights
* (bug 12920) New CoreParserFunction {{nse:...}} as an url-friendly equivalent
to {{ns:...}}
* (bug 16322) Allow maintenance scripts to accept DB user/pass over input or
params
* (bug 18566) Maintenance script to un/protect pages
* (bug 671) The HTML <abbr> tag is now permitted.
* RecentChanges now has a legend to explain what the Nmb! flags mean, and the
flags have tooltips.
* (bug 15209) New hook BeforeInitialize called after everything has been setup
but before Mediawiki::performRequestForTitle()
* wgMainPageTitle variable now available to JavaScript code to identify the main
page link, so it doesn't have to be extracted from the link URLs.
* (bug 16836) Display preview of signature in user preferences and describe its
use
* The default output format is now HTML 5 instead of XHTML 1.0 Transitional.
This can be disabled by setting $wgHtml5 = false;. Specific features enabled
if HTML 5 is used:
** Some extra inputs will be autofocused, in supporting browsers.
** The summary attribute has been removed from tables of contents. summary is
obsolete in HTML 5 and wasn't useful here anyway.
** Unnecessary type="" attribute removed for CSS and JS.
** If $wgWellFormedXml is set to false, some bytes will be shaved off of HTML
output by omitting some things like quotation marks where HTML 5 allows.
** (bug 16921) maxlength enabled for page move comments
* The description message in $wgExtensionCredits can be an array with parameters
* New hook SpecialRandomGetRandomTitle allows extensions to modify the selection
criteria used by Special:Random and subclasses, or substitute a custom result,
deprecating the $wgExtraRandompageSQL config variable
* (bug 20318) Distinct CSS classes for ISBN/RFC/PMID special links added
* (bug 20404) Custom fields in the user creation form template can now have
detail labels in prefsectiontip divs.
* MakeSysop and MakeBot are now aliases for Special:UserRights
* IndexPager->mLimitsShown can now be an associative array of limit => text-to-
display-in-limit-form.
* (bug 18880) LogEventsList::showLogExtract() can now take a string-by-reference
and add its HTML to it, rather than having to go straight to $wgOut.
* Added $wgShowDBErrorBacktrace, to allow users to easily gather backtraces for
database connection and query errors.
* Show change block / unblock link on Special:Contributions if user is blocked
* Display note on Special:Contributions if the user is blocked, and provide an
excerpt from the block log.
* (bug 19646) New hook: ImgAuthBeforeStream for tests and functionality before
file is streamed to user, but only when using img_auth
* Note on non-existing user and user talk pages if user does not exist
* New hook ShowMissingArticle so extensions can modify the output for
non-existent pages.
* Admins could disable some variants using $wgDisabledVariants now. ONLY apply
on wikis enabled LanguageConverter.
* (bug 16310) Credits page now lists IP addresses rather than saying the number
of anonymous users that edited the page
* New permission 'sendemail' added. Default right for all registered users. Can
for example be used to prevent new accounts from sending spam.
* (bug 16979) Tracking categories for __INDEX__ and __NOINDEX__
* Two new hooks, ConfirmEmailComplete and InvalidateEmailComplete, which are
called after a user's email has been successfully confirmed or invalidated.
* (bug 19741) Moved the XCF files out of the main MediaWiki distribution, for
a smaller subversion checkout.
* (bug 13750) First letter capitalization can now be a per-namespace setting
* (bug 21073) "User does not exist" message no longer displayed on sub-sub-pages
of existing users
* (bug 21095) Tracking categories produced by the parser (expensive parser
function limit exceeded, __NOINDEX__ tracking, etc) can now be disabled by
setting the system message ([[MediaWiki:expensive-parserfunction-category]]
etc) to "-".
* Added maintenance script sqlite.php for SQLite-specific maintenance tasks.
* Rewrote Special:Upload to allow easier extension.
* Upload errors that can be solved by changing the filename now do not require
reuploading.
* Added $wgRateLimitsExcludedIPs, to allow specific IPs to be whitelisted from
rate limits.
* (bug 21222) When $wgUseTeX is not enabled, <math> is no longer registered with
the parser so extensions are free to implement their own <math> tag
* (bug 21047) Wrap 'cannotdelete' into a div with the generic 'error' class and
an own 'mw-error-cannotdelete' class
* New hook AbortNewAccountAuto, called before account creation from AuthPlugin-
or ExtUser-driven requests.
* (bug 3480) The warning saying that the page has a history when deleting it now
contains the number of revisions in the history
* $wgStylePath and $wgLogo are now set in the default LocalSettings.php file.
* (bug 20186) Allow filtering history for revision deletion.
* New hook OtherBlockLogLink, called in Special:IPBlockList and Special:Block
to show links to block logs of other blocking extensions, i.e. GlobalBlocking
* Added search capabilities to SQLite backend
* rebuildtextindex.php maintenance script now supports databases other than
MySQL
* upgrade1_5.php now requires to be run --update option to prevent confusion
* (bug 17662) Customizable default preload/editintro for new sections in the
respective addsection-preload and addsection-editintro messages
* Added maintenance script checkSyntax.php that checks for PHP syntax errors
and common coding mistakes
* Updated Unicode normalization tables
* (bug 21604) Spellcheck attribute for editsummary
* New wgCategories JavaScript global variable for userscripts.
* (bug 20717) Added checkboxes to hide users with bot and/or sysop group
membership in SpecialActiveusers
* Allow \pagecolor and \definecolor in texvc
* $wgTexvcBackgroundColor contains background color for texvc call
* (bug 21574) Redirects can now have "303 See Other" HTTP status
* EditPage refactored to allow extensions to derive new edit modes much easier.
* (bug 21826) Subsections of Special:Version now also have anchors
* (bug 19791) Add URL of file source as comment to thumbs (for ImageMagick)
* (bug 21946) Sorted wikitables do not properly handle minus signs
* (bug 18885) Red links for media files do not support shared repositories
* Added $wgFixArabicUnicode, to convert deprecated presentation forms in
Arabic text to their modern equivalents, and $wgFixMalayalamUnicode, to
convert ZWJ-based chillu sequences in Malayalam text to their Unicode 5.1
equivalents.
* (bug 22051) Returing false in SpecialContributionsBeforeMainOutput hook now
stops normal output
* Send new password e-mail in users preference language
* LanguageConverter now support nested using of manual convert syntax like
"-{-{}-}-"
* Upload license preview now uses the API instead of action=ajax
* (bug 7346) Add <guid> to RSS to avoid duplicates
* (bug 19996) Added new hooks for Special:Search, which allow to further
restrict/expand it.
* (bug 21936) When a revision has been patrolled, there's now a link back to the
article
* (bug 22315) SpecialRecentChangesQuery hook now pass $query_options and checks
the return value
* Separate unit test suites under t/ and tests/ were merged and moved to
maintenance/tests/.
* importImages.php maintenance script can now use the original uploader and
comment from another wiki.
* Support for Turck MMCache was removed
* (bug 14592) Warn users when they try to move their user page that their
account will not be renamed
* Show block log on non-existing user (talk) pages of currently blocked users
=== Bug fixes in 1.16 ===
* (bug 18031) Make namespace selector on Special:Export remember the previous
selection
* The svn-version version numbers on Special:Version have been removed
* (bug 17374) Special:Export no longer exports two copies of the same page
* (bug 18190) Proper parsing in MediaWiki:Sharedupload message
* (bug 17617) HTML cleanup for ImagePage
* (bug 17964) namespaceDupes.php no longer fails on an empty interwiki table
* Improved error handling for image moving
* (bug 17974) On Special:SpecialPages, restricted special pages are now marked
with <strong> tags, helps with text-based browsers
* (bug 18259) Special:DeletedContributions now also uses
MediaWiki:Sp-contributions-logs for the link to Special:Log
* Don't add empty title="" attributes to links to anchors on the current page
* (bug 18291) rebuildrecentchanges.php failed to add deletion log entries
* (bug 18304) rebuildrecentchanges.php got size changes wrong
* (bug 18170) Fixed a PHP warning in Parser::preSaveTransform() in PHP 5.3
* (bug 18289) Database connection error page now returns correct HTML
* "successbox", "errorbox" and related CSS classes are now available in all
skins
* (bug 18316) Removed superfluous name="fulltext" from Special:Search
* (bug 18331) MediaWiki:Undelete-revision can now have wikitext
* The "noautoblock" flag is no longer displayed in the block log when blocking
an IP address
* (bug 18009) $wgHooks and $wgExtensionFunctions now support closures
* (bug 17948) Maintenance scripts now exit(0) or exit(1) as appropriate
* (bug 18377) Time in Enhanced ChangesList lacking localisation
* (bug 12998) Allow <sup>, <sub>, etc. in DISPLAYTITLE
* (bug 1553) Lowercase navigation headings in German
* (bug 7830) Pending transactions failed to commit on loginToUse() error
* (bug 11613) session.save_handler being over-ridden
* (bug 11381) session.save_handler being set twice (causes error)
* (bug 17835) ForeignAPIRepo throwing error on first page load for file
* (bug 18115) ForeignAPIRepo cache isn't working
* Fixed a bug caused by LanguageConverter.php, which brings an abnormal '}-'
after some parsed math syntax.
* (bug 18441) rebuildrecentchanges.inc no longer ignores $wgLogRestrictions
* (bug 18317) Bolded selections in 1 | 3 | etc days on RecentChanges now use
<strong> instead of hardcoded styles
* (bug 18449) Fixed items number per column on category pages when the total is
divisible by 3
* (bug 18121) maintenance/deleteArchivedRevisions.php no longer deletes
revisions when --delete is not passed
* (bug 13172) GPS coordinates in image Exif data are now actually displayed
* Overhaul of preferences system, includes the following bug fixes:
** (bug 5363) Changes to default preferences now impact registered users.
** (bug 14806) Hook to enable putting preferences in existing tabs.
** (bug 17191) Registration date now listed on preferences page.
** The user_properties table (now used for storing preferences) has been added
to $wgSharedTables.
** Note that this change will break some extensions which have not been adapted
for it.
* (bug 17020) Adding fallback encodings for Traditional and Simplified Chinese
languages while the the text is typed as URLs.
* (bug 17614) Prev / Next links are not shown if all results are shown
* (bug 18207) Strange spacing before [[irc:...]] links
* Removed float from the user login form in RTL interface - caused display
problems in FF2
* (bug 15008) Redirect images are now subject to Bad image list rules
* (bug 6802) profileinfo.php now also work on other database servers than MySQL
* (bug 16925) Diffs no longer fail when $wgExternalDiffEngine is set to
'wikidiff' or 'wikidiff2' but extension is not installed
* (bug 18326) Chmod errors in file repos have been hidden
* (bug 18718) Comma after a } create a error in IE
* (bug 18716) Removed redundant class in Modern skin CSS for category links and
tweaked spacing.
* (bug 18656) Use proper directory separators in wfMkdirParents()
* (bug 18549) Make Special:Blockip respect $wgEnableUserEmail and
$wgSysopEmailBans
* (bug 16912) Tooltips on images with link= disappear
* (bug 18389) Localise numbers in EXIF data
* (bug 18522) Wrap MediaWiki:Protect-cascadeon in a div for identification
* (bug 18438) Tweak HTML for preview bar for consistency and accessibility
* (bug 18432) Updated documentation for dumpBackup.php
* Fix array logic in Sanitizer::removeHTMLtags so that it doesn't strip good
tags that were redundantly defined.
* (bug 14118) SpecialPage::getTitleFor does not return a localised name
* (bug 18698) Renaming non entry point maintenance scripts from .inc.php to
.inc
* Deprecated methods Title::getInterwikiLink, Title::userCanCreate(),
Title::userCanEdit() and Title::userCanMove() have been removed
* Only show upload links on file description if $wgEnableUploads = true
and user can upload
* Don't say "You need to log in to upload/move", because it's possible that
uploading/moving is disabled for registered users as well (e.g. only sysops)
* (bug 18943) Handle invalid titles gracefully at Special:Mostlinked
* (bug 8873) Enable variant conversion in text on 'alt' and 'title' attributes
* (bug 10837) Introducing the StubUserVariant class to determine the variant
variable instead of using this to overrules the user language preference.
* (bug 19014) If user had deletedhistory right, but not undeleted right, then
show "view" instead of "view/restore" on logs.
* (bug 19017) TOC level calculation error in an odd case
* (bug 18999) CSS update for RTL interwiki links
* (bug 18925) history.js removes class names of list elements on initialization
* Multiple whitespace in TOC anchors is now stripped, for consistency with the
link from the edit comment
* (bug 19112) Preferences now respects $wgUseExternalEditor
* (bug 18173) MediaWiki now fails when unable to determine a client IP
* (bug 19170) Special:Version should follow the content language direction
* (bug 19160) maintenance/purgeOldText.inc is now compatible with PostgreSQL
* Fixed performance regression in "bad image list" feature
* Show user preference 'Use live preview' if $wgLivePreview is enabled only