| Index: trunk/phase3/RELEASE-NOTES |
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| 21 | 21 | |
| 22 | 22 | == Configuration changes == |
| 23 | 23 | |
| 24 | | -* $wgUseETag, to enable/disable sending of HTTP ETag headers |
| 25 | | - (default: disabled) |
| 26 | | -* $wgLegalTitleChars now includes '+' by default for better compatibility |
| 27 | | - with importing data dumps from Wikipedia |
| 28 | | -* $wgDefaultUserOptions now includes all default option settings instead |
| 29 | | - of only overrides. |
| 30 | 24 | |
| 31 | | - |
| 32 | 25 | == Major new features == |
| 33 | 26 | |
| 34 | | -* (bug 7098) Add an option to disable/enable sending of HTTP ETag headers, |
| 35 | | - as it seems to result in broken behaviour in combination with Squid 2.6 |
| 36 | | - (disabled by default). |
| 37 | | -* (bug 550) Allow blocks on anonymous users only. |
| 38 | | -* (bug 6420) Render thumbnails for DJVU images, support multipage DJVU display |
| 39 | | - on image pages. Added new 'page=' thumbnail option to select a page from a |
| 40 | | - multipage djvu for thumbnail generation. |
| 41 | | -* Full Postgres support is now enabled. It requires version 8.1 or better, and |
| 42 | | - needs to have both plpgsql and tsearch2 already installed. |
| 43 | | -* (bug 6386) fix grammatical errors in danish naming of talk namespaces. |
| 44 | 27 | |
| 45 | | -== Changes since 1.7 == |
| | 28 | +== Changes since 1.8 == |
| 46 | 29 | |
| 47 | | -* Introduced AjaxResponse object, superceding AjaxCachePolicy |
| 48 | | -* Changes to sajax_do_call: optionally accept an element to fill instead of a |
| 49 | | - callback function; take the target function or element as a third parameter; |
| 50 | | - pass the full XMLHttpRequest object to the handler function, instead of just |
| 51 | | - the resultText value; use HTTP response codes to report errors. |
| 52 | | -* (bug 6562) Removed unmaintained ParserXml.php for now |
| 53 | | -* History paging overlap bug fixed |
| 54 | | -* (bug 6586) Regression in "unblocked" subtitle |
| 55 | | -* Don't put empty-page message into view-source when page text is blank |
| 56 | | -* (bug 6587) Remove redundant "allnonarticles" message |
| 57 | | -* Block improvements: Allow blocks on anonymous users only. Optionally allow |
| 58 | | - or disallow account creation from blocked IP addresses. Prevent duplicate |
| 59 | | - blocks. Fixed the problem of expiry and unblocking erroneously affecting |
| 60 | | - multiple blocks. Fixed confusing lack of error message when a blocked user |
| 61 | | - attempts to create an account. Fixed inefficiency of Special:Ipblocklist in |
| 62 | | - the presence of large numbers of blocks; added indexes and implemented an |
| 63 | | - indexed pager. |
| 64 | | -* (bug 6448) Allow filtering of Special:Newpages according to username |
| 65 | | -* (bug 6618) Improve permissions/error detection in Special:Lockdb |
| 66 | | -* Quick hack for extension testing: parser test doesn't create new message |
| 67 | | - cache object. |
| 68 | | -* (bug 6299) Maintain parser's revision ID across recursive calls to fix |
| 69 | | - {{REVISIONID}} when Cite extension is used |
| 70 | | -* (bug 6622) Removed deprecated function Image::newFromTitle |
| 71 | | -* (bug 6627) Fix regression in Special:Ipblocklist with table prefix |
| 72 | | -* Removed forced dereferencements (new() returns a reference in PHP5) |
| 73 | | -* Note about $wgUploadSizeWarning using byte |
| 74 | | -* (bug 6592) Add most viewed pages summary to Special:Statistics |
| 75 | | -* Pre-strip characters ignored in IDNs from URLs so they can't be used |
| 76 | | - to break the blacklists for regular URLs |
| 77 | | -* Fix regression in blocking of user accounts |
| 78 | | -* (bug 6635) Fix regression searching for range blocks on Ipblocklist |
| 79 | | -* Fix regression searching Ipblocklist with ugly URLs |
| 80 | | -* (bug 6639) Use a consistent default for upload directories |
| 81 | | -* Preserve entered reason when reporting unconfirmed lock on Special:Lockdb |
| 82 | | -* (bug 6642) Don't offer to unlock the database when it isn't locked |
| 83 | | -* cleanupTitles.php changed from --dry-run option to --fix, so default |
| 84 | | - behavior is now a non-invasive check as with namespaceDupes.php |
| 85 | | -* (bug 6660) Fix behaviour of EditPage::blockedPage() when the article does |
| 86 | | - not exist; now doesn't show the source box if the user hasn't provided it |
| 87 | | - (blocked mid-edit) and the page doesn't exist |
| 88 | | -* Improve default value of "blockedtext" |
| 89 | | -* (bug 6680) Added localisation for Dutch bookstore list (nl) |
| 90 | | -* Renamed maintainace script redundanttrans.php to unusedMessages.php - clearer usage |
| 91 | | -* Fix regression which allowed some blocked users to create additional accounts |
| 92 | | -* (bug 6657) Fix Hungarian linktrail |
| 93 | | -* (bug 6751) Fix preview of blanked section with edit on first preview option |
| 94 | | -* (bug 5456) Separate MediaWiki:Search into messages for both noun and verb, |
| 95 | | - introduced 'MediaWiki:Searchbutton' |
| 96 | | -* Made lines from initialiseMessages() appear as list items during installation |
| 97 | | -* Moved the bulk of the localisation data from the Language*.php files to the |
| 98 | | - Messages*.php files. Deleted most of the Languages*.php files. |
| 99 | | -* Introduced "stub global" framework to provide deferred initialisation of core |
| 100 | | - modules. |
| 101 | | -* Removed placeholder values for $wgTitle and $wgArticle, these variables will |
| 102 | | - now be null during the initialisation process, until they are set by index.php |
| 103 | | - or another entry point. |
| 104 | | -* Added DBA cache type, for BDB-style caches. |
| 105 | | -* Removed custom date format functions, replacing them with a format string in |
| 106 | | - the style of PHP's date(). Used string identifiers instead of integer |
| 107 | | - identifiers, in both the language files and user preferences. Migration should |
| 108 | | - be transparent in most cases. |
| 109 | | -* Simplified the initialisation API for LoadBalancer objects. |
| 110 | | -* Removed the broken altencoding feature. |
| 111 | | -* Moved default user options and toggles from Language to User. Language objects |
| 112 | | - are still able to define default preference overrides and extra user toggles, |
| 113 | | - via a slightly different interface. |
| 114 | | -* Don't include the date option in the parser cache rendering hash unless |
| 115 | | - $wgUseDynamicDates is enabled. |
| 116 | | -* Merged LanguageUtf8 with Language. Removed LanguageUtf8.php. |
| 117 | | -* Removed inclusion of language files from the bottom of Language.php. This is |
| 118 | | - now consistently done from Language::factory(). |
| 119 | | -* Add the name of the executing maintenance script to the debug log. Start the |
| 120 | | - profiler during maintenance scripts. |
| 121 | | -* Added "serialized" directory, for storing precompiled data in serialized form. |
| 122 | | -* Fix regression in auto-set NS_PROJECT_TALK namespace |
| 123 | | -* Fix regression in ordering of namespaces |
| 124 | | -* (bug 6806, 6030) Added several global JS variables for article path, user name, |
| 125 | | - page title, etc. |
| 126 | | -* hooks registered with addOnloadHook are now called at the one of the html body |
| 127 | | - by all skins. |
| 128 | | -* Split ajax aided search from core ajax framework. Use wgUseAjax to enable the |
| 129 | | - framework and wgAjaxSearch to enable the suggest feature for the search box. |
| 130 | | -* Added experimental installer for extensions. |
| 131 | | - See maintenance/installExtension.php |
| 132 | | -* Added Tajic (tg) language file. |
| 133 | | -* (bug 6903) Added Cantonese localisation (zh-yue) |
| 134 | | -* Fix regression in Korean and Japanese date formatting (day of week) |
| 135 | | -* (bug 6919) Add English alias magic words for Tatar (tt) language file. |
| 136 | | -* (bug 6753) Fixed broken Kazakh linktrail (kk) |
| 137 | | -* (bug 6700) Added Kazakh language variants to Names.php |
| 138 | | -* (bug 6827) some i18n specific maintenance scripts fails after merge of localisation-work branch |
| 139 | | -* Throwed an exception for the deprecated functions OutputPage::sysopRequired and |
| 140 | | - OutputPage::developerRequired - use OutputPage::permissionRequired instead. |
| 141 | | -* Removed the deprecated functions User::isSysop, User::isBureaucrat and User::isDeveloper - |
| 142 | | - use User::isAllowed instead. |
| 143 | | -* (bug 769) OutputPage::permissionRequired() should suggest groups with the needed permission |
| 144 | | -* (bug 6971) Fix regression in Special:Export history view |
| 145 | | -* Revamped Special:Imagelist |
| 146 | | -* (bug 7000) updated MessagesPl.php |
| 147 | | -* (bug 6946) Fix unexpected behavior change with GET hits to Special:Export |
| 148 | | -* (bug 1866) Improve navigation on Special:Listusers; user now a starting |
| 149 | | - point as with Special:Allpages, rather than a pure limit. |
| 150 | | -* Clean up tab order on Special:Blockip |
| 151 | | -* (bug 5969) Clean up tab order on Special:Userlogin forms |
| 152 | | -* (bug 3512) namespaceDupes now handles spaces and initial caps properly |
| 153 | | -* (bug 7037) Fix regression in login tab order |
| 154 | | -* (bug 7031) Report missing email on 'email password' instead of false success |
| 155 | | -* (bug 7010) Don't send email notifications for watched talk pages when user |
| 156 | | - has selected to receive only updates for their own talk page |
| 157 | | -* Added {{CURRENTHOUR}} |
| 158 | | -* Added [[:Image:Foo.png]] style links to the pagelinks table |
| 159 | | -* Avoid duplicate revision imports with Special:Import |
| 160 | | -* (bug 7054) Validate email address before sending email confirmation message |
| 161 | | -* (bug 7061) Format title on "from (page)" links on Special:Allpages |
| 162 | | -* (bug 7044) Introduce "padleft" and "padright" colon functions |
| 163 | | -* Pass page title as parameters to "linkshere" and "nolinkshere" and update |
| 164 | | - default message text |
| 165 | | -* Allows to upload from publicy accessible URL. Set $wgAllowCopyUploads = true ; in LocalSettings.php |
| 166 | | - Limited to $wgMaxUploadSize (default:100MB); URL upload is limited to sysops by default, and displayed as a second line if appropriate |
| 167 | | -* (bug 832) Return to user page after emailing a user |
| 168 | | -* (bug 366) Add local-system-timezone equivalents for date/time variables |
| 169 | | -* (bug 7109) Fix Atom feed version number in header links |
| 170 | | -* (bug 7075) List registered parser function hooks on Special:Version |
| 171 | | -* (bug 7059) Introduce "anchorencode" colon function |
| 172 | | -* Include SVN revision number in {{CURRENTVERSION}} output, where applicable |
| 173 | | -* Fix bug in wfRunHooks which caused corruption of objects in the hook list |
| 174 | | -* (bug 4979) Use simplified email addresses when running on Windows |
| 175 | | -* (bug 4434) Show block log fragment on Special:Blockip |
| 176 | | -* [[MediaWiki:Disambiguationspage]] may optionally contain wiki links to any number |
| 177 | | - of disambiguation templates. |
| 178 | | -* [[Special:Disambiguations]] now shows pages in NS:0 that link to any pages that embed |
| 179 | | - any of the templates listed at [[MediaWiki:Disambiguationspage]]. |
| 180 | | -* Fix formatting of titles on Special:Undelete |
| 181 | | -* (bug 7026) Fix action=raw&templates=expand |
| 182 | | -* (bug 6976) Add namespace and direction classes to classic skins |
| 183 | | -* (bug 7144) Don't "return to main" from OutputPage::loginToUse() if the the user can't |
| 184 | | - read the main page in the first place |
| 185 | | -* (bug 7188) Fix minor borkage in HTMLForm |
| 186 | | -* (bug 6675) Replaced message 'watchthis' with new message 'watchthisupload in Special:Upload |
| 187 | | -* Add a quickie script dumpSisterSites.php for generating a page list in the |
| 188 | | - format for WSR-1 SisterSites support |
| 189 | | -* (bug 7223) Monobook.js is used for site content, should not be localized |
| 190 | | -* Set default disabled values for DjVu render options |
| 191 | | -* Added Xml::option() for generating <option>s easily |
| 192 | | -* Localized page numbers in drop-down for DjVu page selection |
| 193 | | -* Fixed linktrail for vi |
| 194 | | -* (bug 6893) "Call to a member function exists() on a non-object" on trackback.php with bad input |
| 195 | | -* (bug 6886) PHP undefined offset on bad input to Special:Revisiondelete |
| 196 | | -* (bug 6887) PHP error for call to getId() on bad input to Special:Revisiondelete |
| 197 | | -* (bug 6888) PHP error for call to getTimestamp() on bad input to Special:Revisiondelete |
| 198 | | -* (bug 7252) Use dvipng support in texvc math rastrization. dvipng is required if texvc is rebuilt. |
| 199 | | -* (bug 7279) Use wfBaseName in place of basename() in more places |
| 200 | | -* Clear newtalk marker on diff links with explicit current revision number |
| 201 | | -* (bug 7064) Replace hard-coded empty message checks with wfEmptyMsg calls |
| 202 | | -* (bug 6777) Remove some PHP 4 compat cruft |
| 203 | | -* Add --user, --comment, and --license options to importImages.php |
| 204 | | -* (bug 6216) The immobile namespace message does not mention the source page |
| 205 | | -* (bug 7299) Normalize username filter on Special:Newpages |
| 206 | | -* (bug 7306) RTL text in an LTR wiki breaks appearance of Special:Recentchanges |
| 207 | | -* (bug 7312) Don't emit SET NAMES utf8 if connection failed |
| 208 | | -* (bug 7305) Proper compare for bot check on RC notify, should fix overrides |
| 209 | | - that force edits by non-bot users to bot mode |
| 210 | | -* Set Vary: Cookie on action=raw generated CSS and JS, to ensure that user |
| 211 | | - preferences don't get stuck in proxy caches for other people |
| 212 | | -* (bug 7324) Fix error message for failure of Database::sourceFile() |
| 213 | | -* (bug 7309) Plurals: use singular form for zero in French and Brazilian Portuguese |
| 214 | | -* Add page_no_title_convert field to support language variant conversion |
| 215 | | - for page titles which shouldn't be converted on display/linking |
| 216 | | -* Lazy extraction of text chunks in Revision objects, may reduce hits to |
| 217 | | - external storage when actual text content is not used |
| 218 | | -* Added experimental $wgRevisionCacheExpiry to cache extracted revision text |
| 219 | | - in $wgMemc, to further reduce hits to external storage. |
| 220 | | - Set to 0 (disabled) by default. |
| 221 | | -* Minor changes to the installer. |
| 222 | | -* Remove ":" for 'youremail' and 'yourrealname' in includes/templates/Userlogin.php |
| 223 | | - so that ":" could be used in i18n for Special:Preferences (like 'username' and 'uid'). |
| 224 | | -* Fix layout for Special:Preferences->Date and Time (position for 'timezonetext'). |
| 225 | | -* Updates to language variant code for Serbian et al |
| 226 | | -* (bug 6756) Enabling RTL direction for kk-cn |
| 227 | | -* (bug 6701) Kazakh language variants in MessagesEn.php |
| 228 | | -* (bug 7335) SVN revision check in Special:Version fails on SVN 1.4 working copy |
| 229 | | -* (bug 6518) Replaced 'lastmodified' with 'lastmodifiedat' and 'lastmodifiedby' with 'lastmodifiedatby' |
| 230 | | - with seperated parameters for date and time to allow better localisation. Updated all message files |
| 231 | | - to display the old format for compatibility. |
| 232 | | -* (bug 7357) Make supposedly static methods of Skin actually static |
| 233 | | -* Added info text to Special:Deadendpages and Special:Lonelypages |
| 234 | | -* Fix regression in cachability of generated CSS and JS for MonoBook skin, |
| 235 | | - while avoiding clobbering of different users' cached data |
| 236 | | -* (bug 6849) Block @ from usernames; interferes with multi-database tools and |
| 237 | | - was meant to be banned years ago... For now existing accounts will not be |
| 238 | | - prevented fromm login. |
| 239 | | -* (bug 6092) Introduce magic words {{REVISIONDAY}}, {{REVISIONDAY2}, {{REVISIONMONTH}}, |
| 240 | | - {{REVISIONYEAR}} and {{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}} |
| 241 | | -* (bug 7425) Preceeding whitespace in [[...]] breaks subpages |
| 242 | | -* Try to reconnect after transitory database errors in dumpTextPass.php |
| 243 | | -* (bug 6023) Fixed mismatch of 0/NULL for wl_notificationtimestamp; now notification |
| 244 | | - mails are working after 'Mark all pages visited' button on Special:Watchlist is clicked |
| 245 | | -* Made {{INT:}} a core parser function instead of a special case. The syntax |
| 246 | | - and behaviour is largely unchanged. |
| 247 | | -* (bug 7448) Fixing the native name for Ewe (ee) |
| 248 | | -* (bug 6864) Replace message 'editing' with new message 'editinguser' in Special:Userrights |
| 249 | | - to allow better localisation |
| 250 | | -* Add '*-summary' for special pages to MessagesEn.php to allow customizing/translation |
| 251 | | - directly through Special:Allmessages |
| 252 | | -* (bug 6130, bug 5818) Replaced message 'go' with the new message 'searcharticle' in skins |
| 253 | | - to allow better localisation |
| 254 | | -* Add + to $wgLegalTitleChars by default. Some sites may have occasional |
| 255 | | - problems with hard-to-reach pages, but it should be less trouble than |
| 256 | | - "I can't import dumps from Wikipedia" complaints |
| 257 | | -* (bug 7460) Revert broken patch for bug 7226 which slows down |
| 258 | | - Special:Allmessages by a factor of 16 |
| 259 | | -* Committed a bunch of live hacks from Wikimedia servers |
| 260 | | -* (bug 6889) PHP notices in thumb.php with missing params |
| 261 | | -* Cleaner error behavior on thumb.php with invalid page selection |
| 262 | | -* (bug 6617) Validate timestamps on Special:Undelete |
| 263 | | -* Do fewer unnecessary full writes of user rows; only update user_touched |
| 264 | | - for watch/unwatch, group membership change, and login operations |
| 265 | | -* Restructured the languages directory, to avoid problems when people |
| 266 | | - untar MW 1.8 over the top of a 1.7 installation. |
| 267 | | -* (bug 6890) SQL query error on bad input to Pager lists |
| 268 | | - due to negative LIMIT clause, caused by integer wraparound. |
| 269 | | -* Fixed various bugs related to table prefixes, especially the interaction |
| 270 | | - between table prefixes and memcached, which was formerly completely broken. |
| 271 | | -* (bug 7004) PHP iconv() notice on bad password input to Special:Userlogin. |
| 272 | | -* (bug 6826) Extend pre-save transform context link ("pipe trick") |
| 273 | | - syntax to pages with commas in title |
| 274 | | -* Use ImageMagick -thumbnail option instead of -resize to avoid including |
| 275 | | - excessive metadata in thumbs (requires ImageMagick 6.0.0 or newer). |
| 276 | | -* (bug 7499) Corrections to Swedish talk namespace names |
| 277 | | -* (bug 7508) Added option to compress HTML pages by dumpHTML.php |
| 278 | | -* (bug 7519) Add plural in SpecialWatchlist |
| 279 | | -* (bug 7459) Magic word variables are always case sensitive |
| 280 | | -* Replaced {{SERVER}}{{localurl:xxx}} with {{fullurl:xxx}} in localisation files |
| 281 | | -* Fix regression in Special:Watchlist text header |
| 282 | | -* (bug 7510) Update article counts etc on undelete |
| 283 | | -* (bug 7520) Update article counts on XML import |
| 284 | | -* (bug 7526) Make $wgDefaultUserOptions work again |
| 285 | | -* (bug 7472) Localize Help namespace for Basque |
| 286 | | -* (bug 7529) Including a non-existent category in an article places that article in the category |
| 287 | | -* (bug 4528) Lack of important LaTeX functions stackrel, rightleftharpoon |
| 288 | | -* (bug 6721) missing symbols ulcorner, urcorner, llcorner, lrcorner, twoheadrightarrow, twoheadleftarrow |
| 289 | | -* (bug 7367) Hyphens sometimes erroneously appended to equations when not converted to PNG |
| 290 | | -* Add "title" to the opensearch link to allow automatic adding of the search engine in Firefox 2 |
| 291 | | -* (bug 7537) Add php5 to $wgFileBlacklist |
| 292 | | -* (bug 6929) Restore AutoAuthenticate hook |
| | 30 | +* (bug 6835) Removing the includes/Parser.php::getTemplateArgs() function, |
| | 31 | + because it seems to be unused. |
| 293 | 32 | |
| 294 | 33 | |
| 295 | 34 | == Languages updated == |
| 296 | 35 | |
| 297 | | -* Albanian (sq) |
| 298 | | -* Bashkir (ba) |
| 299 | | -* Bavarian (bar) stub file |
| 300 | | -* Belarusian (be) |
| 301 | | -* Bishnupriya (bpy) stub file |
| 302 | | -* Brazilian Portuguese (pt-br) |
| 303 | | -* Cantonese (zh-yue) |
| 304 | | -* Catalan (ca) |
| 305 | | -* Czech (cs) |
| 306 | | -* Dutch (nl) |
| 307 | | -* English (en) |
| 308 | | -* Finnish (fi) |
| 309 | | -* French (fr) |
| 310 | | -* Georgian (ka) |
| 311 | | -* German (de) |
| 312 | | -* Hebrew (he) |
| 313 | | -* Hungarian (hu) |
| 314 | | -* Indonesian (id) |
| 315 | | -* Japanese (ja) |
| 316 | | -* Korean (ko) |
| 317 | | -* Latin (la) |
| 318 | | -* Lojban (jbo) |
| 319 | | -* Macedonian (mk) |
| 320 | | -* Mazandarani (mzn) |
| 321 | | -* Polish (pl) |
| 322 | | -* Portuguese (pt) |
| 323 | | -* Ripuarian (ksh) |
| 324 | | -* Romani (rmy) |
| 325 | | -* Russian (ru) |
| 326 | | -* Slovak (sk) |
| 327 | | -* Spanish (es) |
| 328 | | -* Tajic (tg) |
| 329 | | -* Tatar (tt) |
| 330 | | -* Telugu (te) |
| 331 | | -* Uzbek (uz) |
| 332 | | -* Yiddish (yi) |
| 333 | 36 | |
| 334 | 37 | == Compatibility == |
| 335 | 38 | |
| Index: trunk/phase3/includes/Parser.php |
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| 2790 | 2790 | return $text; |
| 2791 | 2791 | } |
| 2792 | 2792 | |
| 2793 | | - # Split template arguments |
| 2794 | | - function getTemplateArgs( $argsString ) { |
| 2795 | | - if ( $argsString === '' ) { |
| 2796 | | - return array(); |
| 2797 | | - } |
| 2798 | | - |
| 2799 | | - $args = explode( '|', substr( $argsString, 1 ) ); |
| 2800 | | - |
| 2801 | | - # If any of the arguments contains a '[[' but no ']]', it needs to be |
| 2802 | | - # merged with the next arg because the '|' character between belongs |
| 2803 | | - # to the link syntax and not the template parameter syntax. |
| 2804 | | - $argc = count($args); |
| 2805 | | - |
| 2806 | | - for ( $i = 0; $i < $argc-1; $i++ ) { |
| 2807 | | - if ( substr_count ( $args[$i], '[[' ) != substr_count ( $args[$i], ']]' ) ) { |
| 2808 | | - $args[$i] .= '|'.$args[$i+1]; |
| 2809 | | - array_splice($args, $i+1, 1); |
| 2810 | | - $i--; |
| 2811 | | - $argc--; |
| 2812 | | - } |
| 2813 | | - } |
| 2814 | | - |
| 2815 | | - return $args; |
| 2816 | | - } |
| 2817 | | - |
| 2818 | 2793 | /** |
| 2819 | 2794 | * Return the text of a template, after recursively |
| 2820 | 2795 | * replacing any variables or templates within the template. |