| Index: trunk/phase3/maintenance/update.php |
| — | — | @@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ |
| 19 | 19 | |
| 20 | 20 | echo( "MediaWiki {$wgVersion} Updater\n\n" ); |
| 21 | 21 | |
| | 22 | +install_version_checks(); |
| | 23 | + |
| 22 | 24 | # Do a pre-emptive check to ensure we've got credentials supplied |
| 23 | 25 | # We can't, at this stage, check them, but we can detect their absence, |
| 24 | 26 | # which seems to cause most of the problems people whinge about |
| Index: trunk/phase3/install-utils.inc |
| — | — | @@ -14,6 +14,16 @@ |
| 15 | 15 | echo "PHP 5.0.0 or higher is required. ABORTING.\n"; |
| 16 | 16 | die( -1 ); |
| 17 | 17 | } |
| | 18 | + |
| | 19 | + // Test for PHP bug which breaks PHP 5.0.x on 64-bit... |
| | 20 | + // As of 1.8 this breaks lots of common operations instead |
| | 21 | + // of just some rare ones like export. |
| | 22 | + $borked = str_replace( 'a', 'b', array( -1 => -1 ) ); |
| | 23 | + if( !isset( $borked[-1] ) ) { |
| | 24 | + echo "PHP 5.0.x is buggy on your 64-bit system; you must upgrade to PHP 5.1.x\n" . |
| | 25 | + "or higher. ABORTING. (http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=34879 for details)\n"; |
| | 26 | + die( -1 ); |
| | 27 | + } |
| 18 | 28 | |
| 19 | 29 | global $wgCommandLineMode; |
| 20 | 30 | $wgCommandLineMode = true; |
| Index: trunk/phase3/RELEASE-NOTES |
| — | — | @@ -171,7 +171,13 @@ |
| 172 | 172 | $wgParserTestFiles. This can now be appended to by extensions or local |
| 173 | 173 | configuration files so that extension or custom tests can be automatically |
| 174 | 174 | run along with the main batch. |
| | 175 | +* Run PHP install version checks on update.php so command-line updaters see |
| | 176 | + new version requirements |
| | 177 | +* Do a check for the PHP 5.0.x 64-bit bug, since this is much more disruptive |
| | 178 | + as of MW 1.8 than it used to be. Install or upgrade now aborts with a |
| | 179 | + warning and a request to upgrade. |
| 175 | 180 | |
| | 181 | + |
| 176 | 182 | == Languages updated == |
| 177 | 183 | |
| 178 | 184 | * Bishnupriya Manipuri (bpy) |
| — | — | @@ -193,6 +199,10 @@ |
| 194 | 200 | |
| 195 | 201 | MediaWiki 1.9 requires PHP 5 (5.1 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer supported. |
| 196 | 202 | |
| | 203 | +PHP 5.0.x fails on 64-bit systems due to serious bugs with array processing: |
| | 204 | +http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=34879 |
| | 205 | +Upgrade affected systems to PHP 5.1 or higher. |
| | 206 | + |
| 197 | 207 | MySQL 3.23.x is no longer supported; some older hosts may need to upgrade. |
| 198 | 208 | At this time we still recommend 4.0, but 4.1/5.0 will work fine in most cases. |
| 199 | 209 | |