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| 2 | 2 | Change notes from older releases. For current info see RELEASE-NOTES. |
| 3 | 3 | |
| | 4 | +== MediaWiki 1.15 == |
| | 5 | + |
| | 6 | +=== Configuration changes in 1.15 === |
| | 7 | + |
| | 8 | +* Added $wgNewPasswordExpiry, to specify an expiry time (in seconds) to |
| | 9 | + temporary passwords |
| | 10 | +* Added $wgUseTwoButtonsSearchForm to choose the Search form behavior/look |
| | 11 | +* Added $wgNoFollowDomainExceptions to allow exempting particular domain names |
| | 12 | + from rel="nofollow" on external links |
| | 13 | +* (bug 12970) Brought back $wgUseImageResize. |
| | 14 | +* Added $wgRedirectOnLogin to allow specifying a specifc page to redirect users |
| | 15 | + to upon logging in (ex: "Main Page") |
| | 16 | +* Add $wgExportFromNamespaces for enabling/disabling the "export all from |
| | 17 | + namespace" option (disabled by default) |
| | 18 | + |
| | 19 | +=== New features in 1.15 === |
| | 20 | + |
| | 21 | +* (bug 2242) Add an expiry time to temporary passwords |
| | 22 | +* (bug 9947) Add PROTECTIONLEVEL parser function to return the protection level |
| | 23 | + for the current page for a given action |
| | 24 | +* (bug 17002) Add &minor= and &summary= as parameters in the url when editing, |
| | 25 | + to automatically add a summary or a minor edit. |
| | 26 | +* (bug 16852) padleft and padright now accept multiletter pad characters |
| | 27 | +* When using 'UserCreateForm' hook to add new checkboxes into |
| | 28 | + Special:UserLogin/signup, the messages can now contain HTML to allow |
| | 29 | + hyperlinking to the site's Terms of Service page, for example |
| | 30 | +* Add new hook 'UserLoadFromDatabase' that is called while loading a user |
| | 31 | + from the database. |
| | 32 | +* (bug 17045) Options on the block form are prefilled with the options of the |
| | 33 | + existing block when modifying an existing block. |
| | 34 | +* (bug 17055) "(show/hide)" links to Special:RevisionDelete now use a CSS class |
| | 35 | + rather than hardcoded HTML tags |
| | 36 | +* Added new hook 'WantedPages::getSQL' into SpecialWantedpages.php to allow |
| | 37 | + extensions to alter the SQL query which is used to get the list of wanted |
| | 38 | + pages |
| | 39 | +* (bugs 16957/16969) Add show/hide to preferences for RC patrol options on |
| | 40 | + specialpages |
| | 41 | +* (bug 11443) Auto-noindex user/user talk pages for blocked user |
| | 42 | +* (bug 11644) Add $wgMaxRedirects variable to control how many redirects are |
| | 43 | + recursed through until the "destination" page is reached. |
| | 44 | +* Add $wgInvalidRedirectTargets variable to prevent redirects to certain |
| | 45 | + special pages. |
| | 46 | +* Use HTML5 rel attributes for some links, where appropriate |
| | 47 | +* Added optional alternative Search form look - Go button & Advanced search |
| | 48 | + link instead of Go button & Search button |
| | 49 | +* (bug 2314) Add links to user custom CSS and JS to Special:Preferences |
| | 50 | +* More helpful error message on raw page access if PHP_SELF isn't set |
| | 51 | +* (bug 13040) Gender switch in user preferences |
| | 52 | +* (bug 13040) {{GENDER:}} magic word for interface messages |
| | 53 | +* (bug 3301) Optionally sort user list according to account creation time |
| | 54 | +* Remote description pages for foreign file repos are now fetched in the |
| | 55 | + content language. |
| | 56 | +* (bug 17180) If $wgUseFileCache is enabled, $wgShowIPinHeader is automatically |
| | 57 | + set to false. |
| | 58 | +* (bug 16604) Mark non-patrolled edits in feeds with "!" |
| | 59 | +* (bug 16604) Show title/rev in IRC for patrol log |
| | 60 | +* (bug 16854) Whether a page is being parsed as a preview or section preview |
| | 61 | + can now be determined and set with ParserOptions. |
| | 62 | +* Wrap message 'confirmemail_pending' into a div with CSS classes "error" and |
| | 63 | + "mw-confirmemail-pending" |
| | 64 | +* (bug 8249) The magic words for namespaces and pagenames can now be used as |
| | 65 | + parser functions to return the desired namespace or normalized title/title |
| | 66 | + part for a given title. |
| | 67 | +* (bug 17110) Styled #mw-data-after-content in cologneblue.css to match the |
| | 68 | + rest of the font |
| | 69 | +* (bug 7556) Time zone names in signatures lack i18n |
| | 70 | +* (bug 3311) Automatic category redirects |
| | 71 | +* (bug 17236) Suppress 'watch user page link' for IP range blocks |
| | 72 | +* Wrap message 'searchresulttext' (Special:Search) into a div with |
| | 73 | + class "mw-searchresult" |
| | 74 | +* (bug 15283) Interwiki imports can now fetch included templates |
| | 75 | +* Treat svn:// URLs as external links by default |
| | 76 | +* New function to convert namespace text for display (only applies on wiki with |
| | 77 | + LanguageConverter class) |
| | 78 | +* (bug 17379) Contributions-title is now parsed for magic words. |
| | 79 | +* Preprocessor output now cached in memcached. |
| | 80 | +* (bug 14468) Lines in classic RecentChanges and Watchlist have classes |
| | 81 | + "mw-line-odd" and "mw-line-even" to make styling using css possible. |
| | 82 | +* (bug 17311) Add a note beside the gender selection menu to tell users that |
| | 83 | + this information will be public |
| | 84 | +* Localize time zone regions in Special:Preferences |
| | 85 | +* Add NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS magic word, which is like NUMBEROFUSERS, but uses |
| | 86 | + the active users data from site_stats. |
| | 87 | +* Add a <link rel="canonical"> tag on redirected page views |
| | 88 | +* Replace hardcoded '...' as indication of a truncation with the |
| | 89 | + 'ellipsis' message |
| | 90 | +* Wrap warning message 'editinginterface' into a div with class |
| | 91 | + 'mw-editinginterface' |
| | 92 | +* (bug 17497) Oasis opendocument added to mime.types |
| | 93 | +* Remove the link to Special:FileDuplicateSearch from the "file history" section |
| | 94 | + of image description pages as the list of duplicated files is shown in the |
| | 95 | + next section anyway. |
| | 96 | +* Added $wgRateLimitsExcludedIPs, to allow specific IPs to be whitelisted from |
| | 97 | + rate limits. |
| | 98 | +* (bug 14981) Shared repositories can now have display names, located at |
| | 99 | + Mediawiki:Shared-repo-name-REPONAME, where REPONAME is the name in |
| | 100 | + $wgForeignFileRepos |
| | 101 | +* Special:ListUsers: Sort list of usergroups by alphabet |
| | 102 | +* (bug 16762) Special:Movepage now shows a list of subpages when possible |
| | 103 | +* (bug 17585) Hide legend on Special:Specialpages from non-privileged users |
| | 104 | +* Added $wgUseTagFilter to control enabling of filter-by-change-tag |
| | 105 | +* (bug 17291) MediaWiki:Nocontribs now has an optional $1 parameter for the |
| | 106 | + username |
| | 107 | +* Wrap special page summary message '$specialPageName-summary' into a div |
| | 108 | + with class 'mw-specialpage-summary' |
| | 109 | +* $wgSummarySpamRegex added to handle edit summary spam. This is used *instead* |
| | 110 | + of $wgSpamRegex for edit summary checks. Text checks still use $wgSpamRegex. |
| | 111 | +* New function to convert content text to specified language (only applies on wiki with |
| | 112 | + LanguageConverter class) |
| | 113 | +* (bug 17844) Redirect users to a specific page when they log in, see |
| | 114 | + $wgRedirectOnLogin |
| | 115 | +* Added a link to Special:UserRights on Special:Contributions for privileged users |
| | 116 | +* (bug 10336) Added new magic word {{REVISIONUSER}}, which displays the editor |
| | 117 | + of the displayed revision's author user name |
| | 118 | +* LinkerMakeExternalLink now has an $attribs parameter for link attributes and |
| | 119 | + a $linkType parameter for the type of external link being made |
| | 120 | +* (bug 17785) Dynamic dates surrounded with a <span> tag, fixing sortable tables with |
| | 121 | + dynamic dates. |
| | 122 | +* (bug 4582) Provide preference-based autoformatting of unlinked dates with the dateformat |
| | 123 | + parser function. |
| | 124 | +* (bug 17886) Special:Export now allows you to export a whole namespace (limited to 5000 pages) |
| | 125 | +* (bug 17714) Limited TIFF upload support now built in if 'tif' extension is |
| | 126 | + enabled. Image width and height are now recognized, and when using ImageMagick, |
| | 127 | + optional flattening to PNG or JPEG for inline display can be enabled by setting |
| | 128 | + $wgTiffThumbnailType |
| | 129 | +* Renamed two input IDs on Special:Log from 'page' and 'user' to 'mw-log-page' and |
| | 130 | + 'mw-log-user', respectively |
| | 131 | +* Added $wgInvalidUsernameCharacters to disallow certain characters in |
| | 132 | + usernames during registration (such as "@") |
| | 133 | +* Added $wgUserrightsInterwikiDelimiter to allow changing the delimiter |
| | 134 | + used in Special:UserRights to denote the user should be searched for |
| | 135 | + on a different database |
| | 136 | +* Add a class if 'missingsummary' is triggered to allow styling of the summary |
| | 137 | + line |
| | 138 | + |
| | 139 | +=== Bug fixes in 1.15 === |
| | 140 | +* (bug 16968) Special:Upload no longer throws useless warnings. |
| | 141 | +* (bug 17000) Special:RevisionDelete now checks if the database is locked |
| | 142 | + before trying to delete the edit. |
| | 143 | +* (bug 16852) padleft and padright now handle multibyte characters correctly |
| | 144 | +* (bug 17010) maintenance/namespaceDupes.php now add the suffix recursively if |
| | 145 | + the destination page exists |
| | 146 | +* (bug 17035) Special:Upload now fails gracefully if PHP's file_uploads has |
| | 147 | + been disabled |
| | 148 | +* Fixing the caching issue by using -{T|xxx}- syntax (only applies on wiki with |
| | 149 | + LanguageConverter class) |
| | 150 | +* Improving the efficiency by using -{A|xxx}- syntax (only applies on wiki with |
| | 151 | + LanguageConverter class) |
| | 152 | +* (bug 17054) Added more descriptive errors in Special:RevisionDelete |
| | 153 | +* (bug 11527) Diff on page with one revision shows "Next" link to same diff |
| | 154 | +* (bug 8065) Fix summary forcing for new pages |
| | 155 | +* (bug 10569) redirects to Special:Mypage and Special:Mytalk are no longer |
| | 156 | + allowed by default. Change $wgInvalidRedirectTargets to re-enable. |
| | 157 | +* (bug 3043) Feed links of given page are now preceded by standard feed icon |
| | 158 | +* (bug 17150) escapeLike now escapes literal \ properly |
| | 159 | +* Inconsistent use of sysop, admin, administrator in system messages changed |
| | 160 | + to 'administrator' |
| | 161 | +* (bug 14423) Check block flag validity for block logging |
| | 162 | +* DB transaction and slave-lag avoidance tweaks for Email Notifications |
| | 163 | +* (bug 17104) Removed [Mark as patrolled] link for already patrolled revisions |
| | 164 | +* (bug 17106) Added 'redirect=no' and 'mw-redirect' class to redirects at |
| | 165 | + "user contributions" |
| | 166 | +* Rollback links on new pages removed from "user contributions" |
| | 167 | +* (bug 15811) Re-upload form tweaks: license fields removed, destination locked, |
| | 168 | + comment label uses better message |
| | 169 | +* Whole HTML validation ($wgValidateAllHtml) now works with external tidy |
| | 170 | +* Parser tests no longer fail when $wgExternalLinkTarget is set in |
| | 171 | + LocalSettings |
| | 172 | +* (bug 15391) catch DBQueryErrors on external storage insertion. This avoids |
| | 173 | + error messages on save were the edit in fact is saved. |
| | 174 | +* (bug 17184) Remove duplicate "z" accesskey in MonoBook |
| | 175 | +* Parser tests no longer fail when $wgAlwaysUseTidy is set in LocalSettings.php |
| | 176 | +* Removed redundant dupe warnings on reupload for the same title. Dupe warnings |
| | 177 | + for identical files at different titles are still given. |
| | 178 | +* Add 'change tagging' facility, where changes can be tagged internally with |
| | 179 | + certain designations, which are displayed on various summaries of changes, |
| | 180 | + and the entries can be styled with CSS. |
| | 181 | +* (bug 17207) Fix regression breaking category page display on PHP 5.1 |
| | 182 | +* Categoryfinder utility class no longer fails on invalid input or gives wrong |
| | 183 | + results for category names that include pseudo-namespaces |
| | 184 | +* (bug 17252) Galician numbering format |
| | 185 | +* (bug 17146) Fix for UTF-8 and short word search for some possible MySQL |
| | 186 | + configs |
| | 187 | +* (bug 7480) Internationalize database error message |
| | 188 | +* (bug 16555) Number of links to mediawiki.org scaled back on post-installation |
| | 189 | +* (bug 14938) Removing a section no longer leaves excess whitespace |
| | 190 | +* (bug 17304) Fixed fatal error when thumbnails couldn't be generated for file |
| | 191 | + history |
| | 192 | +* (bug 17283) Remove double URL escaping in show/hide links for log entries |
| | 193 | + and RevisionDeleteForm::__construct |
| | 194 | +* (bug 17105) Numeric table sorting broken |
| | 195 | +* (bug 17231) Transcluding special pages on wikis using language conversion no |
| | 196 | + longer affects the page title |
| | 197 | +* (bug 6702) Default system messages updated/improved |
| | 198 | +* (bug 17190) User ID on preference page no longer has delimeters |
| | 199 | +* (bug 17341) "Powered by MediaWiki" should be on the left on RTL wikis |
| | 200 | +* (bug 17404) "userrights-interwiki" right was missing in User::$mCoreRights |
| | 201 | +* (bug 7509) Separation strings should be configurable |
| | 202 | +* (bug 17420) Send the correct content type from action=raw when the HTML file |
| | 203 | + cache is enabled. |
| | 204 | +* (bug 12746) Do not allow new password e-mails when wiki is in read-only mode |
| | 205 | +* (bug 17478) Fixed a PHP Strict standards error in |
| | 206 | + maintenance/cleanupWatchlist.php |
| | 207 | +* (bug 17488) RSS/Atom links in left toolbar are now localized in classic skin |
| | 208 | +* (bug 17472) use print <<<EOF in maintenance/importTextFile.php |
| | 209 | +* Special:PrefixIndex: Move table styling to shared.css, add CSS IDs to tables |
| | 210 | + use correct message 'allpagesprefix' for input form label, replace _ with ' ' |
| | 211 | + in next page link |
| | 212 | +* (bug 17506) Exceptions within exceptions now respect $wgShowExceptionDetails |
| | 213 | +* Fixed excessive job queue utilisation |
| | 214 | +* File dupe messages for remote repos are now shown only once. |
| | 215 | +* (bug 14980) Messages 'shareduploadwiki' and 'shareduploadwiki-desc' are now |
| | 216 | + used as a parameter in 'sharedupload' for easier styling and customization. |
| | 217 | +* (bug 17482) Formatting error in Special:Preferences#Misc (Opera) |
| | 218 | +* (bug 17556) <link> parameters in Special:Contributions feeds (RSS and Atom) |
| | 219 | + now point to the actual contributors' feed. |
| | 220 | +* ForeignApiRepos now fetch MIME types, rather than trying to figure it locally |
| | 221 | +* Special:Import: Do not show input field for import depth if |
| | 222 | + $wgExportMaxLinkDepth == 0 |
| | 223 | +* (bug 17570) $wgMaxRedirects is now correctly respected when following |
| | 224 | + redirects (was previously one more than $wgMaxRedirects) |
| | 225 | +* (bug 16335) __NONEWSECTIONLINK__ magic word to suppress new section link. |
| | 226 | +* (bug 17581) Wrong index name in PostgreSQL's updater: was rc_timestamp_nobot, |
| | 227 | + changed to rc_timestamp_bot |
| | 228 | +* (bug 17437) Fixed incorrect link to web-based installer |
| | 229 | +* (bug 17538) Use shorter URLs in <link> elements |
| | 230 | +* (bug 13778) Hidden input added to the search form so that using the Enter key |
| | 231 | + on IE will do a fulltext search like clicking the button does |
| | 232 | +* (bug 1061) CSS-added icons next to links display through the text and makes |
| | 233 | + it unreadable in RTL |
| | 234 | +* Special:Wantedtemplates now works on PostgreSQL |
| | 235 | +* (bug 14414) maintenance/updateSpecialPages.php no longer throws error with |
| | 236 | + PostgreSQL |
| | 237 | +* (bug 17546) Correct Tongan language native name is "lea faka-Tonga" |
| | 238 | +* (bug 17621) Special:WantedFiles has no link to Special:Whatlinkshere |
| | 239 | +* (bug 17460) Client ecoding is now correctly set for PostgreSQL |
| | 240 | +* (bug 17648) Prevent floats from intruding into edit area in previews if no |
| | 241 | + toolbar present |
| | 242 | +* (bug 17692) Added (list of members) link to 'user' in Special:Listgrouprights |
| | 243 | +* (bug 17707) Show file destination as plain text if &wpForReUpload=1 |
| | 244 | +* (bug 10172) Moved setting of "changed since last visit" flags out of the job |
| | 245 | + queue |
| | 246 | +* (bug 17761) "show/hide" link in page history in now works for the first |
| | 247 | + displayed revision if it's not the current one |
| | 248 | +* (bug 17722) Fix regression where users are unable to change temporary passwords |
| | 249 | +* (bug 17799) Special:Random no longer throws a database error when a non- |
| | 250 | + namespace is given, silently falls back to NS_MAIN |
| | 251 | +* (bug 17751) The message for bad titles in WantedPages is now localized |
| | 252 | +* (bug 17860) Moving a page in the "MediaWiki" namespace using SuppressRedirect |
| | 253 | + no longer corrupts the message cache |
| | 254 | +* (bug 17900) Fixed User Groups interface log display after saving groups. |
| | 255 | +* (bug 17897) Fixed string offset error in <pre> tags |
| | 256 | +* (bug 17778) MediaWiki:Catseparator can now have HTML entities |
| | 257 | +* (bug 17676) Error on Special:ListFiles when using Postgres |
| | 258 | +* Special:Export doesn't use raw SQL queries anymore |
| | 259 | +* (bug 14771) Thumbnail links to individual DjVu pages have two no longer have |
| | 260 | + two "page" parameters |
| | 261 | +* (bug 17972) Special:FileDuplicateSearch form now works correctly on wikis that |
| | 262 | + don't use PathInfo or short urls |
| | 263 | +* (bug 17990) trackback.php now has a trackback.php5 alias and works with |
| | 264 | + $wgScriptExtension |
| | 265 | +* (bug 14990) Parser tests works again with PostgreSQL |
| | 266 | +* (bug 11487) Special:Protectedpages doesn't list protections with pr_expiry |
| | 267 | + IS NULL |
| | 268 | +* (bug 18018) Deleting a file redirect leaves behind a malfunctioning redirect |
| | 269 | +* (bug 17537) Disable bad zlib.output_compression output on HTTP 304 responses |
| | 270 | +* (bug 11213) [edit] section links in printable version no longer appear when you cut-and-paste article text |
| | 271 | +* (bug 17405) "Did you mean" to mirror Go/Search behavior of original request |
| | 272 | +* (bug 18116) 'edittools' is now output identically on edit and upload pages |
| | 273 | +* (bug 17241) The diffonly URI parameter should cascade to "Next edit" and "Previous edit" diff links |
| | 274 | +* (bug 16823) 'Sidebar search form should not use Special:Search view URL as target' |
| | 275 | +* (bug 16343) Non-existing, but in use, category pages can be "go" match hits |
| | 276 | + |
| | 277 | +== API changes in 1.15 == |
| | 278 | +* (bug 16858) Revamped list=deletedrevs to make listing deleted contributions |
| | 279 | + and listing all deleted pages possible |
| | 280 | +* (bug 16844) Added clcategories parameter to prop=categories |
| | 281 | +* (bug 17025) Add "fileextension" parameter to meta=siteinfo&siprop= |
| | 282 | +* (bug 17048) Show the 'new' flag in list=usercontribs for the revision that |
| | 283 | + created the page, even if it's not the top revision |
| | 284 | +* (bug 17069) Added ucshow=patrolled|!patrolled to list=usercontribs |
| | 285 | +* action=delete respects $wgDeleteRevisionsLimit and the bigdelete user right |
| | 286 | +* (bug 15949) Add undo functionality to action=edit |
| | 287 | +* (bug 16483) Kill filesort in ApiQueryBacklinks caused by missing parentheses. |
| | 288 | + Building query properly now using makeList() |
| | 289 | +* (bug 17182) Fix pretty printer so URLs with parentheses in them are |
| | 290 | + autolinked correctly |
| | 291 | +* (bug 17224) Added siprop=rightsinfo to meta=siteinfo |
| | 292 | +* (bug 17239) Added prop=displaytitle to action=parse |
| | 293 | +* (bug 17317) Added watch parameter to action=protect |
| | 294 | +* (bug 17007) Added export and exportnowrap parameters to action=query |
| | 295 | +* (bug 17326) BREAKING CHANGE: Changed output format for iiprop=metadata |
| | 296 | +* (bug 17355) Added auwitheditsonly parameter to list=allusers |
| | 297 | +* (bug 17007) Added action=import |
| | 298 | +* BREAKING CHANGE: Removed rctitles parameter from list=recentchanges because |
| | 299 | + of performance concerns |
| | 300 | +* Listing (semi-)deleted revisions and log entries as well in prop=revisions |
| | 301 | + and list=logevents |
| | 302 | +* (bug 11430) BREAKING CHANGE: Modules may return fewer results than the |
| | 303 | + limit and still set a query-continue in some cases |
| | 304 | +* (bug 17357) Added movesubpages parameter to action=move |
| | 305 | +* (bug 17433) Added bot flag to list=watchlist&wlprop=flags output |
| | 306 | +* (bug 16740) Added list=protectedtitles |
| | 307 | +* Added mainmodule and pagesetmodule parameters to action=paraminfo |
| | 308 | +* (bug 17502) meta=siteinfo&siprop=namespacealiases no longer lists namespace |
| | 309 | + aliases already listed in siprop=namespaces |
| | 310 | +* (bug 17529) rvend ignored when rvstartid is specified |
| | 311 | +* (bug 17626) Added uiprop=email to list=userinfo |
| | 312 | +* (bug 13209) Added rvdiffto parameter to prop=revisions |
| | 313 | +* Manual language conversion improve: Now we can include both ";" and ":" in |
| | 314 | + conversion rules |
| | 315 | +* (bug 17795) Don't report views count on meta=siteinfo if $wgDisableCounters |
| | 316 | + is set |
| | 317 | +* (bug 17774) Don't hide read-restricted modules like action=query from users |
| | 318 | + without read rights, but throw an error when they try to use them. |
| | 319 | +* Don't hide write modules when $wgEnableWriteAPI is false, but throw an error |
| | 320 | + when someone tries to use them |
| | 321 | +* BREAKING CHANGE: action=purge requires write rights and, for anonymous users, |
| | 322 | + a POST request |
| | 323 | +* (bug 15935) Added action=userrights to add/remove users to/from groups |
| | 324 | +* (bug 18099) Using appendtext to edit a non-existent page causes an interface |
| | 325 | + message to be included in the page text |
| | 326 | + |
| | 327 | +=== Languages updated in 1.15 === |
| | 328 | + |
| | 329 | +MediaWiki supports over 300 languages. Many localisations are updated |
| | 330 | +regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as |
| | 331 | +changes to languages because of MediaZilla reports. |
| | 332 | + |
| | 333 | +* Austrian German (de-at) (new) |
| | 334 | +* Swiss Standard German (de-ch) (new) |
| | 335 | +* Simplified Gan Chinese (gan-hans) (new) |
| | 336 | +* Traditional Gan Chinese (gan-hant) (new) |
| | 337 | +* Literary Chinese (lzh) (new) |
| | 338 | +* Uyghur (Latin script) (ug-latn) (renamed from 'ug') |
| | 339 | +* Veps (vep) (new) |
| | 340 | +* Võro (vro) (renamed from fiu-vro) |
| | 341 | +* (bug 17151) Add magic word alias for #redirect for Vietnamese |
| | 342 | +* (bug 17288) Messages improved for default language (English) |
| | 343 | +* (bug 12937) Update native name for Afar |
| | 344 | +* (bug 16909) 'histlegend' now reuses messages instead of copying them |
| | 345 | +* (bug 17832) action=delete returns 'unknownerror' instead of 'permissiondenied' when |
| | 346 | + the user is blocked |
| | 347 | +* Traditional/Simplified Gan Chinese conversion support |
| | 348 | + |
| 4 | 349 | == MediaWiki 1.14 == |
| 5 | 350 | |
| 6 | 351 | === Configuration changes in 1.14 === |
| Index: trunk/phase3/includes/DefaultSettings.php |
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| 34 | 34 | } |
| 35 | 35 | |
| 36 | 36 | /** MediaWiki version number */ |
| 37 | | -$wgVersion = '1.15alpha'; |
| | 37 | +$wgVersion = '1.16alpha'; |
| 38 | 38 | |
| 39 | 39 | /** Name of the site. It must be changed in LocalSettings.php */ |
| 40 | 40 | $wgSitename = 'MediaWiki'; |
| Index: trunk/phase3/RELEASE-NOTES |
| — | — | @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ |
| 4 | 4 | Security reminder: MediaWiki does not require PHP's register_globals |
| 5 | 5 | setting since version 1.2.0. If you have it on, turn it *off* if you can. |
| 6 | 6 | |
| 7 | | -== MediaWiki 1.15 == |
| | 7 | +== MediaWiki 1.16 == |
| 8 | 8 | |
| 9 | 9 | THIS IS NOT A RELEASE YET |
| 10 | 10 | |
| — | — | @@ -18,142 +18,13 @@ |
| 19 | 19 | Those wishing to use the latest code instead of a branch release can obtain |
| 20 | 20 | it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN |
| 21 | 21 | |
| 22 | | -=== Configuration changes in 1.15 === |
| | 22 | +=== Configuration changes in 1.16 === |
| 23 | 23 | |
| 24 | | -* Added $wgNewPasswordExpiry, to specify an expiry time (in seconds) to |
| 25 | | - temporary passwords |
| 26 | | -* Added $wgUseTwoButtonsSearchForm to choose the Search form behavior/look |
| 27 | | -* Added $wgNoFollowDomainExceptions to allow exempting particular domain names |
| 28 | | - from rel="nofollow" on external links |
| 29 | | -* (bug 12970) Brought back $wgUseImageResize. |
| 30 | | -* Added $wgRedirectOnLogin to allow specifying a specifc page to redirect users |
| 31 | | - to upon logging in (ex: "Main Page") |
| 32 | | -* Add $wgExportFromNamespaces for enabling/disabling the "export all from |
| 33 | | - namespace" option (disabled by default) |
| 34 | 24 | * (bug 18222) $wgMinimalPasswordLength default is now 1 |
| 35 | 25 | * $wgSessionHandler can be used to configure session.save_handler |
| 36 | 26 | |
| 37 | | -=== New features in 1.15 === |
| | 27 | +=== New features in 1.16 === |
| 38 | 28 | |
| 39 | | -* (bug 2242) Add an expiry time to temporary passwords |
| 40 | | -* (bug 9947) Add PROTECTIONLEVEL parser function to return the protection level |
| 41 | | - for the current page for a given action |
| 42 | | -* (bug 17002) Add &minor= and &summary= as parameters in the url when editing, |
| 43 | | - to automatically add a summary or a minor edit. |
| 44 | | -* (bug 16852) padleft and padright now accept multiletter pad characters |
| 45 | | -* When using 'UserCreateForm' hook to add new checkboxes into |
| 46 | | - Special:UserLogin/signup, the messages can now contain HTML to allow |
| 47 | | - hyperlinking to the site's Terms of Service page, for example |
| 48 | | -* Add new hook 'UserLoadFromDatabase' that is called while loading a user |
| 49 | | - from the database. |
| 50 | | -* (bug 17045) Options on the block form are prefilled with the options of the |
| 51 | | - existing block when modifying an existing block. |
| 52 | | -* (bug 17055) "(show/hide)" links to Special:RevisionDelete now use a CSS class |
| 53 | | - rather than hardcoded HTML tags |
| 54 | | -* Added new hook 'WantedPages::getSQL' into SpecialWantedpages.php to allow |
| 55 | | - extensions to alter the SQL query which is used to get the list of wanted |
| 56 | | - pages |
| 57 | | -* (bugs 16957/16969) Add show/hide to preferences for RC patrol options on |
| 58 | | - specialpages |
| 59 | | -* (bug 11443) Auto-noindex user/user talk pages for blocked user |
| 60 | | -* (bug 11644) Add $wgMaxRedirects variable to control how many redirects are |
| 61 | | - recursed through until the "destination" page is reached. |
| 62 | | -* Add $wgInvalidRedirectTargets variable to prevent redirects to certain |
| 63 | | - special pages. |
| 64 | | -* Use HTML5 rel attributes for some links, where appropriate |
| 65 | | -* Added optional alternative Search form look - Go button & Advanced search |
| 66 | | - link instead of Go button & Search button |
| 67 | | -* (bug 2314) Add links to user custom CSS and JS to Special:Preferences |
| 68 | | -* More helpful error message on raw page access if PHP_SELF isn't set |
| 69 | | -* (bug 13040) Gender switch in user preferences |
| 70 | | -* (bug 13040) {{GENDER:}} magic word for interface messages |
| 71 | | -* (bug 3301) Optionally sort user list according to account creation time |
| 72 | | -* Remote description pages for foreign file repos are now fetched in the |
| 73 | | - content language. |
| 74 | | -* (bug 17180) If $wgUseFileCache is enabled, $wgShowIPinHeader is automatically |
| 75 | | - set to false. |
| 76 | | -* (bug 16604) Mark non-patrolled edits in feeds with "!" |
| 77 | | -* (bug 16604) Show title/rev in IRC for patrol log |
| 78 | | -* (bug 16854) Whether a page is being parsed as a preview or section preview |
| 79 | | - can now be determined and set with ParserOptions. |
| 80 | | -* Wrap message 'confirmemail_pending' into a div with CSS classes "error" and |
| 81 | | - "mw-confirmemail-pending" |
| 82 | | -* (bug 8249) The magic words for namespaces and pagenames can now be used as |
| 83 | | - parser functions to return the desired namespace or normalized title/title |
| 84 | | - part for a given title. |
| 85 | | -* (bug 17110) Styled #mw-data-after-content in cologneblue.css to match the |
| 86 | | - rest of the font |
| 87 | | -* (bug 7556) Time zone names in signatures lack i18n |
| 88 | | -* (bug 3311) Automatic category redirects |
| 89 | | -* (bug 17236) Suppress 'watch user page link' for IP range blocks |
| 90 | | -* Wrap message 'searchresulttext' (Special:Search) into a div with |
| 91 | | - class "mw-searchresult" |
| 92 | | -* (bug 15283) Interwiki imports can now fetch included templates |
| 93 | | -* Treat svn:// URLs as external links by default |
| 94 | | -* New function to convert namespace text for display (only applies on wiki with |
| 95 | | - LanguageConverter class) |
| 96 | | -* (bug 17379) Contributions-title is now parsed for magic words. |
| 97 | | -* Preprocessor output now cached in memcached. |
| 98 | | -* (bug 14468) Lines in classic RecentChanges and Watchlist have classes |
| 99 | | - "mw-line-odd" and "mw-line-even" to make styling using css possible. |
| 100 | | -* (bug 17311) Add a note beside the gender selection menu to tell users that |
| 101 | | - this information will be public |
| 102 | | -* Localize time zone regions in Special:Preferences |
| 103 | | -* Add NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS magic word, which is like NUMBEROFUSERS, but uses |
| 104 | | - the active users data from site_stats. |
| 105 | | -* Add a <link rel="canonical"> tag on redirected page views |
| 106 | | -* Replace hardcoded '...' as indication of a truncation with the |
| 107 | | - 'ellipsis' message |
| 108 | | -* Wrap warning message 'editinginterface' into a div with class |
| 109 | | - 'mw-editinginterface' |
| 110 | | -* (bug 17497) Oasis opendocument added to mime.types |
| 111 | | -* Remove the link to Special:FileDuplicateSearch from the "file history" section |
| 112 | | - of image description pages as the list of duplicated files is shown in the |
| 113 | | - next section anyway. |
| 114 | | -* Added $wgRateLimitsExcludedIPs, to allow specific IPs to be whitelisted from |
| 115 | | - rate limits. |
| 116 | | -* (bug 14981) Shared repositories can now have display names, located at |
| 117 | | - Mediawiki:Shared-repo-name-REPONAME, where REPONAME is the name in |
| 118 | | - $wgForeignFileRepos |
| 119 | | -* Special:ListUsers: Sort list of usergroups by alphabet |
| 120 | | -* (bug 16762) Special:Movepage now shows a list of subpages when possible |
| 121 | | -* (bug 17585) Hide legend on Special:Specialpages from non-privileged users |
| 122 | | -* Added $wgUseTagFilter to control enabling of filter-by-change-tag |
| 123 | | -* (bug 17291) MediaWiki:Nocontribs now has an optional $1 parameter for the |
| 124 | | - username |
| 125 | | -* Wrap special page summary message '$specialPageName-summary' into a div |
| 126 | | - with class 'mw-specialpage-summary' |
| 127 | | -* $wgSummarySpamRegex added to handle edit summary spam. This is used *instead* |
| 128 | | - of $wgSpamRegex for edit summary checks. Text checks still use $wgSpamRegex. |
| 129 | | -* New function to convert content text to specified language (only applies on |
| 130 | | - wiki with LanguageConverter class) |
| 131 | | -* (bug 17844) Redirect users to a specific page when they log in, see |
| 132 | | - $wgRedirectOnLogin |
| 133 | | -* Added a link to Special:UserRights on Special:Contributions for privileged |
| 134 | | - users |
| 135 | | -* (bug 10336) Added new magic word {{REVISIONUSER}}, which displays the editor |
| 136 | | - of the displayed revision's author user name |
| 137 | | -* LinkerMakeExternalLink now has an $attribs parameter for link attributes and |
| 138 | | - a $linkType parameter for the type of external link being made |
| 139 | | -* (bug 17785) Dynamic dates surrounded with a <span> tag, fixing sortable tables |
| 140 | | - with dynamic dates. |
| 141 | | -* (bug 4582) Provide preference-based autoformatting of unlinked dates with the |
| 142 | | - dateformat parser function. |
| 143 | | -* (bug 17886) Special:Export now allows you to export a whole namespace (limited |
| 144 | | - to 5000 pages) |
| 145 | | -* (bug 17714) Limited TIFF upload support now built in if 'tif' extension is |
| 146 | | - enabled. Image width and height are now recognized, and when using |
| 147 | | - ImageMagick, optional flattening to PNG or JPEG for inline display can be |
| 148 | | - enabled by setting $wgTiffThumbnailType |
| 149 | | -* Renamed two input IDs on Special:Log from 'page' and 'user' to 'mw-log-page' |
| 150 | | - and 'mw-log-user', respectively |
| 151 | | -* Added $wgInvalidUsernameCharacters to disallow certain characters in |
| 152 | | - usernames during registration (such as "@") |
| 153 | | -* Added $wgUserrightsInterwikiDelimiter to allow changing the delimiter |
| 154 | | - used in Special:UserRights to denote the user should be searched for |
| 155 | | - on a different database |
| 156 | | -* Add a class if 'missingsummary' is triggered to allow styling of the summary |
| 157 | | - line |
| 158 | 29 | * Add CSS defintion of the 'wikitable' class to shared.css |
| 159 | 30 | * (bug 17163) Added MediaWiki:Talkpageheader which will be displayed when |
| 160 | 31 | viewing talk pages |
| — | — | @@ -177,147 +48,8 @@ |
| 178 | 49 | * (bug 18420) Missing file revisions are handled gracefully now |
| 179 | 50 | * (bug 9219) Auth plugins can control editing RealName/Email/Nick preferences |
| 180 | 51 | |
| 181 | | -=== Bug fixes in 1.15 === |
| 182 | | -* (bug 16968) Special:Upload no longer throws useless warnings. |
| 183 | | -* (bug 17000) Special:RevisionDelete now checks if the database is locked |
| 184 | | - before trying to delete the edit. |
| 185 | | -* (bug 16852) padleft and padright now handle multibyte characters correctly |
| 186 | | -* (bug 17010) maintenance/namespaceDupes.php now add the suffix recursively if |
| 187 | | - the destination page exists |
| 188 | | -* (bug 17035) Special:Upload now fails gracefully if PHP's file_uploads has |
| 189 | | - been disabled |
| 190 | | -* Fixing the caching issue by using -{T|xxx}- syntax (only applies on wiki with |
| 191 | | - LanguageConverter class) |
| 192 | | -* Improving the efficiency by using -{A|xxx}- syntax (only applies on wiki with |
| 193 | | - LanguageConverter class) |
| 194 | | -* (bug 17054) Added more descriptive errors in Special:RevisionDelete |
| 195 | | -* (bug 11527) Diff on page with one revision shows "Next" link to same diff |
| 196 | | -* (bug 8065) Fix summary forcing for new pages |
| 197 | | -* (bug 10569) redirects to Special:Mypage and Special:Mytalk are no longer |
| 198 | | - allowed by default. Change $wgInvalidRedirectTargets to re-enable. |
| 199 | | -* (bug 3043) Feed links of given page are now preceded by standard feed icon |
| 200 | | -* (bug 17150) escapeLike now escapes literal \ properly |
| 201 | | -* Inconsistent use of sysop, admin, administrator in system messages changed |
| 202 | | - to 'administrator' |
| 203 | | -* (bug 14423) Check block flag validity for block logging |
| 204 | | -* DB transaction and slave-lag avoidance tweaks for Email Notifications |
| 205 | | -* (bug 17104) Removed [Mark as patrolled] link for already patrolled revisions |
| 206 | | -* (bug 17106) Added 'redirect=no' and 'mw-redirect' class to redirects at |
| 207 | | - "user contributions" |
| 208 | | -* Rollback links on new pages removed from "user contributions" |
| 209 | | -* (bug 15811) Re-upload form tweaks: license fields removed, destination locked, |
| 210 | | - comment label uses better message |
| 211 | | -* Whole HTML validation ($wgValidateAllHtml) now works with external tidy |
| 212 | | -* Parser tests no longer fail when $wgExternalLinkTarget is set in |
| 213 | | - LocalSettings |
| 214 | | -* (bug 15391) catch DBQueryErrors on external storage insertion. This avoids |
| 215 | | - error messages on save were the edit in fact is saved. |
| 216 | | -* (bug 17184) Remove duplicate "z" accesskey in MonoBook |
| 217 | | -* Parser tests no longer fail when $wgAlwaysUseTidy is set in LocalSettings.php |
| 218 | | -* Removed redundant dupe warnings on reupload for the same title. Dupe warnings |
| 219 | | - for identical files at different titles are still given. |
| 220 | | -* Add 'change tagging' facility, where changes can be tagged internally with |
| 221 | | - certain designations, which are displayed on various summaries of changes, |
| 222 | | - and the entries can be styled with CSS. |
| 223 | | -* (bug 17207) Fix regression breaking category page display on PHP 5.1 |
| 224 | | -* Categoryfinder utility class no longer fails on invalid input or gives wrong |
| 225 | | - results for category names that include pseudo-namespaces |
| 226 | | -* (bug 17252) Galician numbering format |
| 227 | | -* (bug 17146) Fix for UTF-8 and short word search for some possible MySQL |
| 228 | | - configs |
| 229 | | -* (bug 7480) Internationalize database error message |
| 230 | | -* (bug 16555) Number of links to mediawiki.org scaled back on post-installation |
| 231 | | -* (bug 14938) Removing a section no longer leaves excess whitespace |
| 232 | | -* (bug 17304) Fixed fatal error when thumbnails couldn't be generated for file |
| 233 | | - history |
| 234 | | -* (bug 17283) Remove double URL escaping in show/hide links for log entries |
| 235 | | - and RevisionDeleteForm::__construct |
| 236 | | -* (bug 17105) Numeric table sorting broken |
| 237 | | -* (bug 17231) Transcluding special pages on wikis using language conversion no |
| 238 | | - longer affects the page title |
| 239 | | -* (bug 6702) Default system messages updated/improved |
| 240 | | -* (bug 17190) User ID on preference page no longer has delimeters |
| 241 | | -* (bug 17341) "Powered by MediaWiki" should be on the left on RTL wikis |
| 242 | | -* (bug 17404) "userrights-interwiki" right was missing in User::$mCoreRights |
| 243 | | -* (bug 7509) Separation strings should be configurable |
| 244 | | -* (bug 17420) Send the correct content type from action=raw when the HTML file |
| 245 | | - cache is enabled. |
| 246 | | -* (bug 12746) Do not allow new password e-mails when wiki is in read-only mode |
| 247 | | -* (bug 17478) Fixed a PHP Strict standards error in |
| 248 | | - maintenance/cleanupWatchlist.php |
| 249 | | -* (bug 17488) RSS/Atom links in left toolbar are now localized in classic skin |
| 250 | | -* (bug 17472) use print <<<EOF in maintenance/importTextFile.php |
| 251 | | -* Special:PrefixIndex: Move table styling to shared.css, add CSS IDs to tables |
| 252 | | - use correct message 'allpagesprefix' for input form label, replace _ with ' ' |
| 253 | | - in next page link |
| 254 | | -* (bug 17506) Exceptions within exceptions now respect $wgShowExceptionDetails |
| 255 | | -* Fixed excessive job queue utilisation |
| 256 | | -* File dupe messages for remote repos are now shown only once. |
| 257 | | -* (bug 14980) Messages 'shareduploadwiki' and 'shareduploadwiki-desc' are now |
| 258 | | - used as a parameter in 'sharedupload' for easier styling and customization. |
| 259 | | -* (bug 17482) Formatting error in Special:Preferences#Misc (Opera) |
| 260 | | -* (bug 17556) <link> parameters in Special:Contributions feeds (RSS and Atom) |
| 261 | | - now point to the actual contributors' feed. |
| 262 | | -* ForeignApiRepos now fetch MIME types, rather than trying to figure it locally |
| 263 | | -* Special:Import: Do not show input field for import depth if |
| 264 | | - $wgExportMaxLinkDepth == 0 |
| 265 | | -* (bug 17570) $wgMaxRedirects is now correctly respected when following |
| 266 | | - redirects (was previously one more than $wgMaxRedirects) |
| 267 | | -* (bug 16335) __NONEWSECTIONLINK__ magic word to suppress new section link. |
| 268 | | -* (bug 17581) Wrong index name in PostgreSQL's updater: was rc_timestamp_nobot, |
| 269 | | - changed to rc_timestamp_bot |
| 270 | | -* (bug 17437) Fixed incorrect link to web-based installer |
| 271 | | -* (bug 17538) Use shorter URLs in <link> elements |
| 272 | | -* (bug 13778) Hidden input added to the search form so that using the Enter key |
| 273 | | - on IE will do a fulltext search like clicking the button does |
| 274 | | -* (bug 1061) CSS-added icons next to links display through the text and makes |
| 275 | | - it unreadable in RTL |
| 276 | | -* Special:Wantedtemplates now works on PostgreSQL |
| 277 | | -* (bug 14414) maintenance/updateSpecialPages.php no longer throws error with |
| 278 | | - PostgreSQL |
| 279 | | -* (bug 17546) Correct Tongan language native name is "lea faka-Tonga" |
| 280 | | -* (bug 17621) Special:WantedFiles has no link to Special:Whatlinkshere |
| 281 | | -* (bug 17460) Client ecoding is now correctly set for PostgreSQL |
| 282 | | -* (bug 17648) Prevent floats from intruding into edit area in previews if no |
| 283 | | - toolbar present |
| 284 | | -* (bug 17692) Added (list of members) link to 'user' in Special:Listgrouprights |
| 285 | | -* (bug 17707) Show file destination as plain text if &wpForReUpload=1 |
| 286 | | -* (bug 10172) Moved setting of "changed since last visit" flags out of the job |
| 287 | | - queue |
| 288 | | -* (bug 17761) "show/hide" link in page history in now works for the first |
| 289 | | - displayed revision if it's not the current one |
| 290 | | -* (bug 17722) Fix regression where users are unable to change temporary |
| 291 | | - passwords |
| 292 | | -* (bug 17799) Special:Random no longer throws a database error when a non- |
| 293 | | - namespace is given, silently falls back to NS_MAIN |
| 294 | | -* (bug 17751) The message for bad titles in WantedPages is now localized |
| 295 | | -* (bug 17860) Moving a page in the "MediaWiki" namespace using SuppressRedirect |
| 296 | | - no longer corrupts the message cache |
| 297 | | -* (bug 17900) Fixed User Groups interface log display after saving groups. |
| 298 | | -* (bug 17897) Fixed string offset error in <pre> tags |
| 299 | | -* (bug 17778) MediaWiki:Catseparator can now have HTML entities |
| 300 | | -* (bug 17676) Error on Special:ListFiles when using Postgres |
| 301 | | -* Special:Export doesn't use raw SQL queries anymore |
| 302 | | -* (bug 14771) Thumbnail links to individual DjVu pages have two no longer have |
| 303 | | - two "page" parameters |
| 304 | | -* (bug 17972) Special:FileDuplicateSearch form now works correctly on wikis that |
| 305 | | - don't use PathInfo or short urls |
| 306 | | -* (bug 17990) trackback.php now has a trackback.php5 alias and works with |
| 307 | | - $wgScriptExtension |
| 308 | | -* (bug 14990) Parser tests works again with PostgreSQL |
| 309 | | -* (bug 11487) Special:Protectedpages doesn't list protections with pr_expiry |
| 310 | | - IS NULL |
| 311 | | -* (bug 18018) Deleting a file redirect leaves behind a malfunctioning redirect |
| 312 | | -* (bug 17537) Disable bad zlib.output_compression output on HTTP 304 responses |
| 313 | | -* (bug 11213) [edit] section links in printable version no longer appear when |
| 314 | | - you cut-and-paste article text |
| 315 | | -* (bug 17405) "Did you mean" to mirror Go/Search behavior of original request |
| 316 | | -* (bug 18116) 'edittools' is now output identically on edit and upload pages |
| 317 | | -* (bug 17241) The diffonly URI parameter should cascade to "Next edit" and |
| 318 | | - "Previous edit" diff links |
| 319 | | -* (bug 16823) 'Sidebar search form should not use Special:Search view URL as |
| 320 | | - target' |
| 321 | | -* (bug 16343) Non-existing, but in use, category pages can be "go" match hits |
| | 52 | +=== Bug fixes in 1.16 === |
| | 53 | + |
| 322 | 54 | * (bug 18031) Make namespace selector on Special:Export remember the previous |
| 323 | 55 | selection |
| 324 | 56 | * The svn-version version numbers on Special:Version have been removed |
| — | — | @@ -374,55 +106,8 @@ |
| 375 | 107 | * (bug 17614) Prev / Next links not need on ImagePage file history if less than limit |
| 376 | 108 | * (bug 18069) Fixed some CSS validation issues with colors |
| 377 | 109 | |
| 378 | | -== API changes in 1.15 == |
| 379 | | -* (bug 16858) Revamped list=deletedrevs to make listing deleted contributions |
| 380 | | - and listing all deleted pages possible |
| 381 | | -* (bug 16844) Added clcategories parameter to prop=categories |
| 382 | | -* (bug 17025) Add "fileextension" parameter to meta=siteinfo&siprop= |
| 383 | | -* (bug 17048) Show the 'new' flag in list=usercontribs for the revision that |
| 384 | | - created the page, even if it's not the top revision |
| 385 | | -* (bug 17069) Added ucshow=patrolled|!patrolled to list=usercontribs |
| 386 | | -* action=delete respects $wgDeleteRevisionsLimit and the bigdelete user right |
| 387 | | -* (bug 15949) Add undo functionality to action=edit |
| 388 | | -* (bug 16483) Kill filesort in ApiQueryBacklinks caused by missing parentheses. |
| 389 | | - Building query properly now using makeList() |
| 390 | | -* (bug 17182) Fix pretty printer so URLs with parentheses in them are |
| 391 | | - autolinked correctly |
| 392 | | -* (bug 17224) Added siprop=rightsinfo to meta=siteinfo |
| 393 | | -* (bug 17239) Added prop=displaytitle to action=parse |
| 394 | | -* (bug 17317) Added watch parameter to action=protect |
| 395 | | -* (bug 17007) Added export and exportnowrap parameters to action=query |
| 396 | | -* (bug 17326) BREAKING CHANGE: Changed output format for iiprop=metadata |
| 397 | | -* (bug 17355) Added auwitheditsonly parameter to list=allusers |
| 398 | | -* (bug 17007) Added action=import |
| 399 | | -* BREAKING CHANGE: Removed rctitles parameter from list=recentchanges because |
| 400 | | - of performance concerns |
| 401 | | -* Listing (semi-)deleted revisions and log entries as well in prop=revisions |
| 402 | | - and list=logevents |
| 403 | | -* (bug 11430) BREAKING CHANGE: Modules may return fewer results than the |
| 404 | | - limit and still set a query-continue in some cases |
| 405 | | -* (bug 17357) Added movesubpages parameter to action=move |
| 406 | | -* (bug 17433) Added bot flag to list=watchlist&wlprop=flags output |
| 407 | | -* (bug 16740) Added list=protectedtitles |
| 408 | | -* Added mainmodule and pagesetmodule parameters to action=paraminfo |
| 409 | | -* (bug 17502) meta=siteinfo&siprop=namespacealiases no longer lists namespace |
| 410 | | - aliases already listed in siprop=namespaces |
| 411 | | -* (bug 17529) rvend ignored when rvstartid is specified |
| 412 | | -* (bug 17626) Added uiprop=email to list=userinfo |
| 413 | | -* (bug 13209) Added rvdiffto parameter to prop=revisions |
| 414 | | -* Manual language conversion improve: Now we can include both ";" and ":" in |
| 415 | | - conversion rules |
| 416 | | -* (bug 17795) Don't report views count on meta=siteinfo if $wgDisableCounters |
| 417 | | - is set |
| 418 | | -* (bug 17774) Don't hide read-restricted modules like action=query from users |
| 419 | | - without read rights, but throw an error when they try to use them. |
| 420 | | -* Don't hide write modules when $wgEnableWriteAPI is false, but throw an error |
| 421 | | - when someone tries to use them |
| 422 | | -* BREAKING CHANGE: action=purge requires write rights and, for anonymous users, |
| 423 | | - a POST request |
| 424 | | -* (bug 15935) Added action=userrights to add/remove users to/from groups |
| 425 | | -* (bug 18099) Using appendtext to edit a non-existent page causes an interface |
| 426 | | - message to be included in the page text |
| | 110 | +== API changes in 1.16 == |
| | 111 | + |
| 427 | 112 | * Added uiprop=changeablegroups to meta=userinfo |
| 428 | 113 | * Added usprop=gender to list=users |
| 429 | 114 | * (bug 18311) action=purge now works for images too |
| — | — | @@ -438,31 +123,18 @@ |
| 439 | 124 | * (bug 16422) Don't display help for format=jsonfm unless specifically requested |
| 440 | 125 | * (bug 18617) Add xml:space="preserve" attribute to relevant tags in XML output |
| 441 | 126 | |
| 442 | | -=== Languages updated in 1.15 === |
| | 127 | +=== Languages updated in 1.16 === |
| 443 | 128 | |
| 444 | 129 | MediaWiki supports over 300 languages. Many localisations are updated |
| 445 | 130 | regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as |
| 446 | 131 | changes to languages because of MediaZilla reports. |
| 447 | 132 | |
| 448 | | -* Austrian German (de-at) (new) |
| 449 | | -* Swiss Standard German (de-ch) (new) |
| 450 | | -* Simplified Gan Chinese (gan-hans) (new) |
| 451 | | -* Traditional Gan Chinese (gan-hant) (new) |
| 452 | | -* Literary Chinese (lzh) (new) |
| 453 | | -* Uyghur (Latin script) (ug-latn) (renamed from 'ug') |
| 454 | | -* Veps (vep) (new) |
| 455 | | -* Võro (vro) (renamed from fiu-vro) |
| 456 | | -* (bug 17151) Add magic word alias for #redirect for Vietnamese |
| 457 | | -* (bug 17288) Messages improved for default language (English) |
| 458 | | -* (bug 12937) Update native name for Afar |
| 459 | | -* (bug 16909) 'histlegend' now reuses messages instead of copying them |
| 460 | | -* Traditional/Simplified Gan Chinese conversion support |
| 461 | 133 | * (bug 18474) Sorani (ckb - Central Kurdish) (renamed from ku-arab) |
| 462 | 134 | * Add PLURAL function for Scots Gaelic (gd) |
| 463 | 135 | |
| 464 | 136 | == Compatibility == |
| 465 | 137 | |
| 466 | | -MediaWiki 1.15 requires PHP 5 (5.2 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer supported. |
| | 138 | +MediaWiki 1.16 requires PHP 5 (5.2 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer supported. |
| 467 | 139 | |
| 468 | 140 | PHP 5.0.x fails on 64-bit systems due to serious bugs with array processing: |
| 469 | 141 | http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=34879 |
| — | — | @@ -474,7 +146,7 @@ |
| 475 | 147 | |
| 476 | 148 | == Upgrading == |
| 477 | 149 | |
| 478 | | -1.15 has several database changes since 1.14, and will not work without schema |
| | 150 | +1.16 has several database changes since 1.15, and will not work without schema |
| 479 | 151 | updates. |
| 480 | 152 | |
| 481 | 153 | If upgrading from before 1.11, and you are using a wiki as a commons reposito- |
| — | — | @@ -499,7 +171,7 @@ |
| 500 | 172 | cases, but this is not recommended on live sites. (This must be set for |
| 501 | 173 | MathML to display properly in Mozilla.) |
| 502 | 174 | |
| 503 | | -For notes on 1.14.x and older releases, see HISTORY. |
| | 175 | +For notes on 1.15.x and older releases, see HISTORY. |
| 504 | 176 | |
| 505 | 177 | |
| 506 | 178 | === Online documentation === |