r92487 MediaWiki - Code Review archive

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Date:22:27, 18 July 2011
Author:reedy
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Move current RELEASE-NOTES-1.18 to RELEASE-NOTES-1.18.old

Moved RELEASE-NOTES-1.19 to RELEASE-NOTES-1.18

Wipe RELEASE-NOTES-1.19

Updating text where necessary

Keeping RELEASE-NOTES-1.18.old till we've established there's nothing that just went into that changelog
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1212 production.
1313
1414 === Configuration changes in 1.18 ===
15 -* The WantedPages::getSQL hook has been removed and replaced with
16 - WantedPages::getQueryInfo. This may break older extensions.
17 -* $wgUseCombinedLoginLink controls whether to output a combined
18 - login / create account link in the personal bar, or to output separate login
19 - and create account links.
20 -* Skin names are no longer created based on a ucfirst version of the key in
21 - $wgValidSkinNames but now the value. This means for
22 - $wgValidSkinNames["monobook"] = "MonoBook"; the skin loader will no longer try
23 - loading SkinMonobook and will instead load SkinMonoBook.
24 -* $wgMaxUploadSize may now be set to an array to specify the upload size limit
25 - per upload type.
26 -* $wgAPICacheHelp added in 1.16 is now removed. To disable API help caching, set
27 - $wgAPICacheHelpTimeout = 0;
28 -* OutputPage::isUserJsAllowed() no longer returns false when scripts are allowed
29 - by the page, but $wgAllowUserJs is set to false.
30 -* Pure "Skin" class based custom skins are no longer supported, all custom skins
31 - should be put together using SkinTemplate and BaseTemplate or QuickTemplate.
32 -* The transliteration for passwords in case they were migrated from an old
33 - Latin-1 install (previous to MediaWiki 1.5) is now only done for wikis with
34 - $wgLegacyEncoding set.
35 -* (bug 27508) Add $wgSVGMetadataCutoff to limit the maximum amount of an SVG we
36 - look at when finding metadata to prevent excessive resource usage.
37 -* $wgSysopUserBans and $wgSysopRangeBans (deprecated in 1.17) are now removed.
38 - Use $wgBlockCIDRLimit = array( 'IPv4' => 43, 'IPv6' => 128 ) to achieve the
39 - same functionality as $wgSysopRangeBans; you can use the BlockIp hook to
40 - replicate $wgSysopUserBans functionality.
41 -* The options on the block form have been standardised such that checking a box
42 - makes the block 'more serious'; so while "check to prevent account creation"
43 - and "check to enable autoblock" remain the same, "check to allow user-talk
44 - edit" is reversed to "check to *disable* user-talk edit", and "check to block
45 - anon-only" becomes "check to block logged-in users too". The default settings
46 - remain the same.
47 -* Most of the field names on the Special:Block form have been changed, which
48 - will probably break screen-scraping bots.
49 -* (bug 26866) The 'trackback' right is no longer granted to sysops by default.
50 - $wgUseTrackbacks is already false by default.
51 -* (bug 17009) the hiddenStructure CSS class, a highly hackish way of at least
52 - *appearing* to hide article elements, has been removed. Use the
53 - ParserFunctions extension to actually remove unwanted elements from the
54 - output.
55 -* (bug 14202) $wgUseTeX has been superseded by the Math extension. To re-enable
56 - math conversion after upgrading, obtain the Math extension from SVN or from
57 - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Math and add to LocalSettings.php:
58 - require_once "$IP/extensions/Math/Math.php";
59 -* $wgProfiler is now a configuration array, see StartProfiler.sample for
60 - details.
61 -* $wgProfiling has been removed.
62 -* The spyc library is now no longer included in phase3.
63 -* (bug 28343) Unused preferences contextlines/contextchars have been removed
64 -* $wgSkinExtensionFunctions has been removed. Use $wgExtensionFunctions instead.
65 -* $wgProto has been removed. You now only need to set $wgServer to change the
66 - URL protocol.
 15+* $wgRateLimitsExcludedGroups (deprecated in 1.13) has been removed
 16+* $wgInputEncoding and $wgOutputEncoding (deprecated in 1.5) have now been removed
 17+* $wgAllowUserSkin (deprecated in 1.16) has now been removed
 18+* $wgExtraRandompageSQL (deprecated in 1.16) has now been removed
 19+* LogReader and LogViewer classes (deprecated in 1.14) have now been removed
 20+* (bug 26033) Added $wgArticleCountMethod to select the method to use to say
 21+ whether a page is an article or not. $wgUseCommaCount is now deprecated.
 22+* $wgEnableDublinCoreRdf and $wgEnableCreativeCommonsRdf no longer work in core,
 23+ and the functionality has been moved to the relevant extensions. See
 24+ http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DublinCoreRdf and
 25+ http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CreativeCoreRdf as appropriate
 26+* (bug 21107) Split error "customcssjsprotected" into separate messages for JS and CSS
 27+* Removed $wgCheckCopyrightUpload from DefaultSettings, since the relevant feature
 28+ was removed in about 1.5.
 29+* LogPageValidTypes, LogPageLogName, LogPageLogHeader and LogPageActionText
 30+ hooks have been removed.
 31+* New hook "Collation::factory" to allow extensions to create custom
 32+ category collations.
 33+* $wgGroupPermissions now supports per namespace permissions.
6734
6835 === New features in 1.18 ===
69 -* (bug 8130) Query pages should limit to content namespaces, not just main
70 - namespace.
71 -* Search suggestions (other than in the Vector skin) will now use the HTML5
72 - datalist feature where supported, currently only Firefox 4.
73 -* Special:Contribs now redirects to Special:Contributions.
74 -* (bug 6672) Images are now autorotated according to their EXIF orientation.
75 - This only affects thumbnails; the source remains unrotated.
76 -* (bug 25708) Update case mappings and normalization to Unicode 6.0.0
77 -* New hook ArticlePrepareTextForEdit added, called when preparing text to be
78 - saved.
79 -* New parser option PreSaveTransform added, allows the pre-save transformation
80 - to be selectively disabled.
81 -* Alternative to $wgHooks implemented, using the new Hooks class.
82 -* Add width parameter to Special:Filepath to allow getting the file path of a
83 - thumbnail.
84 -* (bug 26870) Add size to {{filepath:}}.
85 -* Upload warnings now show a thumbnail of the uploaded file.
86 -* Introduced the edittools-upload message, which will be inserted under the
87 - upload form instead of edittools if available.
88 -* (bug 26285) Extensions will be automatically generated on upload if the user
89 - specified a filename without extension.
90 -* (bug 26851) Special:UserRights now allows to prefill the reason field
91 -* New maintenance script to fix double redirects
92 - (maintenance/fixDoubleRedirects.php).
93 -* (bug 23315) New body classes to allow easier styling of special pages.
94 -* (bug 27159) Make email confirmation code expiration time configurable.
95 -* CSS/JS for each user group is imported from MediaWiki:Group-sysop.js,
96 - MediaWiki:Group-autoconfirmed.css, etc.
97 -* (bug 24230) Uploads of ZIP types, such as MS Office or OpenOffice can now be
98 - safely enabled. A ZIP file reader was added which can scan a ZIP file for
99 - potentially dangerous Java applets. This allows applets to be blocked
100 - specifically, rather than all ZIP files being blocked.
101 -* (bug 2429) Allow selection of associated namespace in recent changes.
102 -* (bug 26217) File size is now checked before uploading in HTML5 browsers.
103 -* CSS stylesheet MediaWiki:Noscript.css is now loaded for users with JavaScript
104 - disabled (enclosed in the head in a <noscript> tag).
105 -* Added UserGetLanguageObject hook to change the language used in $wgLang.
106 -* (bug 14645) When $wgMiserMode is on, expensive special pages are styled
107 - differently (italicized by default) on Special:SpecialPages.
108 -* Added $wgAggregateStatsID, which allows UDP stats to be aggregated over
109 - several wikis.
110 -* When $wgAllowMicrodataAttributes is true, all itemtypes are allowed, not just
111 - the three that were defined in the original specification.
112 -* (bug 14706) Added support for the Imagick PHP extension.
113 -* (bug 18691) Added support for SVG rasterization using the Imagick PHP
114 - extension.
115 -* (bug 2581, bug 6834) Added links to thumbnail in several resolutions to the
116 - file description page. The sizes are set by $wgImageLimits.
117 -* (bug 28031) Add pageCount support to ArchivedFile.
118 -* (bug 27924) PhpHttpRequest doesn't return response body if HTTP != 200.
119 -* Added hook BitmapHandlerTransform to allow extension to transform a file
120 - without overriding the entire handler.
121 -* The parser now attempts to output markers for editsection tokens and defer the
122 - rendering of them post-cache to reduce parser cache fragmentation and ensure
123 - skin customizability of edit section links.
124 -* (bug 24755) AuthPlugin auto-creation of local accounts can now be aborted by
125 - other extensions by handling the 'AbortAutoAccount' hook, similar to the
126 - 'AbortNewAccount' triggered by explicit account creations. (They are separate
127 - to avoid loops and confusion; auth plugins like CentralAuth need to handle
128 - AbortNewAccount separately.
129 -* Special:ListFiles is now transcludable.
130 -* (bug 13879) Special:Emailuser asks for suitable target user if called without.
131 -* (bug 16956) IPTC and XMP metadata now extracted from images.
132 -* (bug 23816) A tracking category is now added for any pages with broken images.
133 -* (bug 23495) Allow createAndPromote.php to create non-sysop users
 36+* BREAKING CHANGE: action=watch / action=unwatch now requires a token.
 37+* (bug 28916) A way to to toggle mw.config legacy globals settings from
 38+ LocalSettings.php has been created by introducing $wgLegacyJavaScriptGlobals.
 39+* (bug 28503) Support for ircs:// URL protocols
 40+* (bug 26033) It is now possible to count all non-redirect pages in content
 41+ namespaces as articles
 42+* Images can now be embedded in an XML dump stream using backupDump.php
 43+ --include-files and can be imported using importDump.php --uploads;
 44+ furthermore, it can import files from the filesystem using --image-base-path
 45+* Three new hooks in Special:Undelete, 'UndeleteForm::showHistory',
 46+ 'UndeleteForm::showRevision' and 'UndeleteForm::undelete', so that extensions
 47+ may override the usage of PageArchive class and replace it with their own
 48+ class that extends PageArchive.
 49+* (bug 28915) Implement QUnit test suite for MediaWiki JavaScript.
 50+ Also built-in support for distribution through a TestSwarm instance.
 51+* (bug 29036) For cascade-protected pages, the mw-textarea-cprotected class is
 52+ added to the textarea on the edit form.
 53+* mw.util.wikiScript has been implemented (like wfScript in GlobalFunctions.php)
 54+* (bug 29067) Expose user.tokens (like we do user.options) in ResourceLoader.
 55+* New 'Debug' hook used by wfDebug() and wfDebugLog()
 56+* (bug 27655) Require token for watching/unwatching pages)
 57+* (bug 28904) (bug 29773) Update jQuery version from 1.4.4 to 1.6.2 (the latest version)
 58+* (bug 29441) Expose CapitalLinks config in JS to allow modules to properly
 59+ handle titles on case-sensitive wikis.
 60+* (bug 29397) Implement mw.Title module in core.
 61+* In MySQL 4.1.9+ with replication enabled, the slave lag should come from
 62+ SHOW SLAVE STATUS instead of SHOW PROCESSLIST.
 63+* Language codes in $wgDummyLanguageCodes are now excluded on localization
 64+ statistics (maintenance/language/transstat.php)
 65+* (bug 29586) Make the (next 200) links on categories link directly to
 66+ the relevant section of the category.
 67+* (bug 29109) Allow the automatic edit summary for redirect creation
 68+ show the first bit of the new redirect page.
 69+* (bug 5800) Added $formCallback as a parameter to the hook
 70+ EditPage::showEditForm:initial.
 71+* (bug 29723) mw.util.wikiGetlink() now defaults to wgPageName.
 72+* (bug 29680) Add GetDefaultSortkey hook to override the default sortkey.
 73+* (bug 16699) {{#language:}} accepts second parameter to specify the language in
 74+ which the language name is wanted. Coverage depends on the cldr extension.
 75+* (bug 15802) An easy way to look up messages: language qqx which returns
 76+ the message keys.
 77+* (bug 29868) Add support for passing parameters to mw.msg in jquery.localize.
 78+* (bug 29558) $wgMiserMode now disables update.php by default
 79+* AjaxCategories: Easily add, edit or delete categories on article pages.
 80+ Suggests possible categories when typing, all saves are done via AJAX.
 81+ Supports editing of multiple categories and then saving them in one batch.
13482
13583 === Bug fixes in 1.18 ===
136 -* mw.util.getScript has been implemented (like wfScript in GlobalFunctions.php)
137 -* (bug 23119) WikiError class and subclasses are now marked as deprecated.
138 -* (bug 10871) Javascript and CSS pages in MediaWiki namespace are no longer
139 - treated as wikitext on preview.
140 -* (bug 22753) Output from update.php is more clear when things changed, entries
141 - indicating nothing changed are now all prefixed by "...".
142 -* Page existence is now not revealed (in the colour of the tabs) to users who
143 - cannot read the page in question.
144 -* (bug 19006) {{REVISIONUSER}} no longer acts like {{CURRENTUSER}} in some
145 - cases.
146 -* (bug 16019) $wgArticlePath = "/$1" no longer breaks API edit/watch actions.
147 -* (bug 18372) File types blacklisted by $wgFileBlacklist will no longer be shown
148 - as "Permitted file types" on the upload form.
149 -* (bug 26379) importImages.php gives more descriptive error message on failure.
150 -* (bug 26410) + signs are no longer treated as spaces in internal links if
151 - link has a % sign in it.
152 -* (bug 26412) Search results headers no longer show a bogus edit link.
153 -* (bug 26540) Fixed wrong call to applyPatch in MysqlUpdater.
154 -* (bug 26574) Added 'upload' to $wgRestrictionTypes, allowing upload protected
155 - pages to be queried via the API and Special:ProtectedPages, and allowing
156 - disabling upload protection by removing it from $wgRestrictionTypes.
157 -* If an edit summary exceeds 250 bytes and is truncated, add an ellipse.
158 -* (bug 26638) Database error pages display correctly in RTL languages.
159 -* (bug 26187) Confirmrecreate no longer parses the edit summary.
160 -* (bug 25506) Exception is thrown if OutputPage::parse is called inside a tag
161 - hook, which would reset parser state.
162 -* (bug 26208) Mark directionality of some interlanguage links.
163 -* (bug 26034) Make the "View / Read" tab in content_navigation style tabs remain
164 - selected when the action is "purge".
165 -* (bug 14267) Support a MediaWiki:Mainpage-nstab override for the subject
166 - namespace tab on the mainpage of a wiki.
167 -* (bug 10158) Do not mention allowing others to contact you when the feature
168 - is disabled ($wgEnableUserEmail=false).
169 -* (bug 26733) Wrap initial table creation in transaction.
170 -* (bug 26729) Category pages should return 404 if they do not exist and have no
171 - members.
172 -* (bug 2585) Image pages should send 404 if no image, no shared image and no
173 - description page.
174 -* Custom editintro's using the editintro url parameter will no longer show
175 - <noinclude> sections on pages they are included on.
176 -* (bug 26449) Keep underlines from headings outside of tables and thumbs by
177 - adding overflow:hidden to h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6 (also fixes editsection bunching).
178 -* (bug 26708) Remove background-color:white from tables in Monobook and Vector.
179 -* (bug 28422) Remove color:black from tables in Monobook and Vector. And add it
180 - to table.wikitable instead.
181 -* (bug 26781) {{PAGENAME}} and related parser functions escape their output
182 - better.
183 -* (bug 26716) Provide link to instructions for external editor related
184 - preferences and add a comment to the ini control file explaining what is
185 - going on.
186 -* Trying to upload a file with no extension or with a disallowed MIME type now
187 - gives the right message instead of complaining about a MIME/extension
188 - mismatch.
189 -* (bug 26809) Uploading files with multiple extensions where one of the
190 - extensions is blacklisted now gives the proper extension in the error message.
191 -* (bug 26961) Hide anon edits in watchlist preference now actually works.
192 -* (bug 19751) Filesystem is now checked during image undeletion.
193 -* Send last modified headers for Special:Recentchanges when RC patrol is
194 - enabled, but user cannot see rc patrol links.
195 -* (bug 26548) ForeignAPIRepo (InstantCommons) now works with PDF files
196 - and other multi-paged file formats.
197 -* Files with a mime type that does not match the extension are now properly
198 - thumbnailed.
199 -* (bug 27201) Special:WhatLinksHere output no longer contains duplicate IDs.
200 -* (bug 15905) Nostalgia skin could become more usable by including a Talk:
201 - link at the top of the page.
202 -* (bug 27560) Search queries no longer fail in Walloon language.
203 -* (bug 27679) Broken embedded files with special characters are no longer
204 - double HTML escaped.
205 -* (bug 27700) The upload protection can now also be set for files that do not
206 - exist.
207 -* (bug 27763) Article::getParserOutput() no longer throws a fatal given when an
208 - incorrect revision ID is passed.
209 -* Trim the form field for uploading by url to remove extra spaces which could
210 - cause confusing error messages.
211 -* (bug 27854) Http::isValidURI is way too lax.
212 -* Do not show enotifminoredits preference, if disabled by $wgEnotifMinorEdits.
213 -* AbortLogin returning "ABORTED" now handled. Also allows message identifier
214 - for "ABORTED" reason to be returned and displayed to user.
215 -* (bug 28034) uploading file to local wiki when file exists on shared repository
216 - (commons) gives spurious info in the warning message.
217 -* Usernames get lost when selecting different sorts on Special:listfiles.
218 -* (bug 14005) editing section 0 of an existing but empty page gives no such
219 - section error.
220 -* (bug 26939) Installer does not set $wgMetaNamespace.
221 -* (bug 28166) UploadBase assumes that 'edit' and 'upload' rights are not per
222 - page restrictions.
223 -* Make truncate function automatically consider length of '...' string,
224 - since length can vary by localization.
225 -* (bug 28242) Make redirects generated by urls containing a local interwiki
226 - prefix be a 301 instead of a 302.
227 -* (bug 15641) blocked administrators are now prevented from deleting or
228 - protecting their own talk page; and all blocked users are more
229 - comprehensively prevented from performing other actions.
230 -* (bug 27893) Edit-on-doubleclick now applies only on view and purge actions;
231 - no longer triggers unexpectedly on delete, history etc.
232 -* (bug 28417) Fix PHP notice when importing revision without a listed id.
233 -* (bug 28430) Make html and TeX output of <math> always be left-to-right.
234 -* (bug 28306) Fix exposure of suppressed usernames in ForeignDBRepo.
235 -* (bug 28372) Fix bogus link to suppressed file versions in ForeignDBRepo.
236 -* (bug 27473) Fix regression: bold, italic no longer interfere with linktrail
237 - for ca, kaa.
238 -* (bug 28444) Fix regression: edit-on-doubleclick retains revision id again.
239 -* &apos; character entity is now allowed in wikitext.
240 -* UtfNormal::cleanUp on an invalid utf-8 sequence no longer returns false if
241 - intl installed.
242 -* (bug 28561) The css class small will no longer make nested elements even
243 - smaller.
244 -* (bug 13172) Array type exif data (like GPS) was not being extracted from
245 - images.
246 -* (bug 28532) wfMsgExt() and wfMsgWikiHtml() use $wgOut->parse()
247 -* (bug 16129) Transcluded special pages expose strip markers when they output
248 - parsed messages.
249 -* (bug 27249) "Installed software" table in Special:Version should always be
250 - left-to-right.
251 -* (bug 28719) Do not call mLinkHolders __destruct explicitly
252 -* (bug 21196) Article::getContributors() no longer fails on PostgreSQL.
253 -* (bug 28752) XCache doesn't work in CLI mode.
254 -* (bug 28076) Thumbnail height limited to 360 pixels on Special:Listfiles
255 -* (bug 22227) Special:Listfiles no longer throws an error on bogus file entries
256 -* (bug 19408) user_properties.up_property: 32 bytes is not enough.
257 -* (bug 25262) Fix for minification of hardcoded data: URIs in CSS
258 -* (bug 29263) Add LTR class to the shared CSS to be used for left-to-right text
259 - such as SQL queries shown in dberrortext and similar messages in RTL
260 - environments
261 -* (bug 14977) Fixed $wgServer detection in cases where an IPv6 address is used
262 - as the server name.
263 -* (bug 19725) Do not list suppressed edits in the "View X deleted edits" link
264 - if user cannot view suppressed edits.
265 -* The View X deleted revisions is now shown again on Special:Upload.
266 -* (bug 29071) mediawiki.action.watch.ajax.js should pass uselang to API.
 84+* (bug 28868) Show total pages in the subtitle of an image on the
 85+ file description page for multi-paged documents.
 86+* (bug 28883) Message names for different compression types commonly
 87+ used in Tiff files.
 88+* When translcuding a special page, do not let it interpret url parameters.
 89+* (bug 28887) Special page classes are no longer re-used during 1 request.
 90+* (bug 28888) Searching for something starting with a # sign no longer tells
 91+ the user a page named [[:]] already exists.
 92+* (bug 23002) Imagelinks table not updated after imagemove.
 93+* (bug 27864) Transcluding {{Special:Prefix}} with empty prefix now lists all
 94+ pages.
 95+* (bug 18803) JPEG2000 images should not be uploadable as .jpg files.
 96+* (bug 11868) If using links to count articles, the checking will now be based
 97+ on the real presence of an internal link instead of the "[[" string
 98+* (bug 28287) The "your changes" box for edit conflicts is now read-only.
 99+* (bug 28940) When making a thumb of an SVG, and only specifying the height
 100+ make the width be the max SVG size, not the natrual width of the SVG.
 101+* (bug 1780) Uploading files with non-ascii characters are now forbidden on
 102+ Windows.
 103+* (bug 23464) File: prefixes are now chopped off during uploading.
 104+* (bug 28174) Message config-logo-help amended to not explicitly assume any
 105+ LTR/RTL screen layout.
 106+* (bug 28992) Revision numbers in the patrol log are transformed in the user
 107+ language.
 108+* (bug 27073) ResourceLoaderDynamicStyles marker should be dynamically appended to
 109+ the document head if it doesn't exist.
 110+* (bug 27023) After the document is ready, mw.loader is broken (calls callback
 111+ before module is parsed).
 112+* (bug 4330) External URLs without a custom title should be treated as LTR,
 113+ even in RTL text.
 114+* (bug 29055) Make "don't send email on minor edits" preference apply to
 115+ changes to talk page in addition to watchlist edits.
 116+* (bug 28272) Special:AllMessages should have only one "Go" button.
 117+* (bug 29101) Special:FileDuplicateSearch no longer shows silly message.
 118+* (bug 29048) jQuery.tabIndex: firstTabIndex() should not output the same
 119+ as lastTabIndex().
 120+* (bug 29332) Warn if user requests mediawiki-announce subscription but does not
 121+ enter an e-mail address.
 122+* (bug 25375) Add canonical namespaces to "wgNamespaceIds" in mw.config.
 123+* The class JpegOrTiffHandler was renamed ExifBitmapHandler.
 124+* (bug 29443) Special:Undelete should use JavaScript to invert all checkboxes
 125+ instead of reloading the page.
 126+* (bug 29325) Setting $wgStrictFileExtensions to false no longer gives incorrect warning
 127+* (bug 29437) Multiple apostrophes in deleted article title cause odd rendering
 128+* (bug 29485) RSS feed of Special:RecentChange grouped together multiple
 129+ consecutive edits by same user in included diff, but then linked to
 130+ a single ungrouped diff.
 131+* Do not try to group together a page creation and edit in the RSS feed of RC.
 132+* (bug 29342) Patrol preferences shouldn't be visible to users who don't have
 133+ patrol permissions
 134+* (bug 29471) Exception no longer thrown for files with invalid date in metadata
 135+* (bug 29492) Long-running steps in the installer (such as Upgrade and Install)
 136+ no longer cause timeouts
 137+* (bug 29507) Change 'image link' to 'file link' in Special:Whatlinkshere
 138+* If the db is really screwed up, and doesn't have a recentchanges table,
 139+ make the updater throw an exception instead of a fatal.
 140+* wfArrayToCGI() and wfCgiToArray() now handle nested and associative arrays
 141+ correctly.
 142+* (bug 29567) mw.util.addPortletLink should only wrap link in <span> for
 143+ "vectorTabs" portlets.
 144+* (bug 8556) Incorrect session failure warning on preview-on-open
 145+ namespaces (categories) when combined with $wgRawHtml.
 146+* Use content language in formatting of dates in revertpage message
 147+ (rollback revert edit summary) and do not adjust for user timezone.
 148+* (bug 29277) MediaWiki:Filepage.css is also shown on the local wiki
 149+* Make sure Backlink cache does not retrieve interwiki redirects when looking for
 150+ redirects to a local page.
 151+* (bug 6100) Allow different directionality (LTR/RTL) for user interface
 152+ and wiki content, along with many other RTL and directionality improvements
 153+ (such as bugs 28030, 12406, 28349)
 154+* (bug 29712) Removed broken defaultUserOptionOverrides in MessagesXx files and
 155+ unneeded CSS flipping of quickbar. Instead, introduce option 5 which sets
 156+ left/right according to the directionality of your interface language.
 157+* (bug 19514) Unordered list list-style-image should be IE6-compatible (8-bit)
 158+* (bug 27410) The tag filter on a history page is now within a <label> element
 159+* (bug 29779) DairikiDiff/WikiDiff <ins> and <del> should undo browser default
 160+ styling (strike/underline).
 161+* Translate the block expiry date
 162+* (bug 28630) Add iwlinks, langlinks, redirect to
 163+ RefreshLinks::deleteLinksFromNonexistent
 164+* (bug 29797) Error: "Tried to load block with invalid type" when subpages
 165+ are disabled for user pages.
 166+* (bug 12205) Bidirectional names in action=credits are split and displayed
 167+ incorrectly when wrapped to the next line.
 168+* (bug 20781) Move 'mainpagetext' messages to installer's .i18n file.
 169+* (bug 29737) "MediaWiki:Qbsettings-directionality" should refer to script,
 170+ not language.
 171+* (bug 26360) $wgSessionHandler was overriding system settings unconditionally.
 172+* Removed AjaxFunctions.php. The last remaining function js_unescape() was moved
 173+ to the FCKEditor extension.
 174+* (bug 28762) Resizing to specified height broken for very thin images
 175+* (bug 29959) Installer fatal when cURL and allow_url_fopen is disabled and user
 176+ tries to subsribe to mediawiki-announce
267177
268178 === API changes in 1.18 ===
269 -* (bug 26339) Throw warning when truncating an overlarge API result.
270 -* (bug 14869) Add API module for accessing QueryPage-based special pages.
271 -* (bug 14020) API for Special:Unwatchedpages.
272 -* (bug 24287) Wrap API Help output at 100 characters.
273 -* Add a realname uiprop option to query=userinfo so a user's realname can be
274 - extracted.
275 -* Add a &watchuser option to ApiBlock.
276 -* (bug 26541) Generator-ise ApiQueryRecentChanges.
277 -* action=parse now correctly returns an error for nonexistent pages.
278 -* (bug 25767) Add userrights properties to allusers and users query lists.
279 -* (bug 26558) list=allusers auprop=groups does not list groups a user is
280 - automatically a member of.
281 -* (bug 26559) list=allusers auprop=rights does not match
282 - list=users usprop=rights.
283 -* (bug 26560) On allusers if limit < total number of users, last user gets
284 - duplicate.
285 -* (bug 25135) add "normalized" to action=parse.
286 -* (bug 26460) Add support for listing category members by category pageid.
287 -* (bug 26482) add a imimages param to prop=images.
288 -* (bug 26498) allow LinksUpdate with API.
289 -* (bug 26485) add a elextlinks param to prop=extlinks.
290 -* (bug 26483) add a iwtitles param to prop=iwlinks.
291 -* (bug 26484) add a lltitles param to prop=langlinks.
292 -* (bug 26480) add a pppageprops param to prop=pageprops.
293 -* (bug 26650) Remove $wgAPICacheHelp in favour of $wgAPICacheHelpTimeout.
294 -* (bug 24650) Fix API to work with categorylinks changes.
295 -* Expose list of skins in meta=siteinfo.
296 -* (bug 26548) Add iiurlparam param to query=imageinfo and query=stashimageinfo.
297 -* (bug 27205) aiprop=metadata and aiprop=parsedcomment need help text.
298 -* Add a amtitle param to meta=allmessages.
299 -* (bug 25832) query=allimages now outputs ns/title as well.
300 -* (bug 27199) Thumbnail urls can be fetched for old files as well.
301 -* (bug 27376) when using ApiBase::PARAM_TYPE => 'integer' without a min or
302 - max value, API doesn't validate the input is actually an integer.
303 -* (bug 27479) API error when using both prop=pageprops and
304 - prop=info&inprop=displaytitle.
305 -* (bug 27554) Update API information text to reflect change in bug 26125.
306 -* (bug 27611) list=blocks: Use ipb_by_text instead of join with user table.
307 -* (bug 27616) Add userid of blocked user and blocker to list=blocks.
308 -* (bug 27688) Simplify queries to list user block information.
309 -* (bug 27708) list=users does not have a property to return user id.
310 -* (bug 27715) imageinfo didn't respect revdelete.
311 -* (bug 27862) Useremail module didn't properly return success on success.
312 -* (bug 27590) prop=imageinfo now allows querying the media type.
313 -* (bug 27587) list=filearchive now outputs full title info.
314 -* (bug 27018) Added action=filerevert to revert files to an old version.
315 -* (bug 27897) list=allusers and list=users list hidden users.
316 -* (bug 27717) API's exturlusage module does not respect $wgMiserMode.
317 -* (bug 27588) list=filearchive&faprop=sha1 returns empty attribute.
318 -* (bug 28010) Passing a non existant user to list=users gives internal error.
319 -* (bug 27549) action=query&list=users&usprop=groups doesn't show implicit
320 - groups if a user doesn't have explicit groups.
321 -* (bug 27670) Ordering by timestamp (and usage of start and end) isn't as clear
322 - in auto generated document, as it is on mediawiki.org.
323 -* (bug 27182) API: Add filter by prefix for meta=allmessages.
324 -* (bug 27183) API: Add filter by customisation state for meta=allmessages.
325 -* (bug 27340) API: Allow listing of "small" categories.
326 -* (bug 27342) Add audir param to list=allusers.
327 -* (bug 27203) add fato param to list=filearchive.
328 -* (bug 27341) Add drto param to list=deletedrevs.
329 -* (bug 26630) Add API for Special:ActiveUsers.
330 -* (bug 27020) API: Allow title prefix search of logevents (only when not in
331 - miser mode).
332 -* (bug 26629) add Special:MIMESearch to API.
333 -* (bug 27585) add pagecount to list=filearchive.
334 -* (bug 28104) Namespace for local pages in interwiki backlinks (iwbacklinks)
335 - is missing.
336 -* (bug 27343) Add parseddescription to list=filearchive.
337 -* (bug 27469) label implicit groups in list=allusers&auprop=groups/
338 - list=users&usprop=groups.
339 -* Addition of APIQuerySiteInfoGeneralInfo hook to add extra information to
340 - the general site info results.
341 -* (bug 16288) API: consider making closure status of wikis more clear
342 - with meta=siteinfo.
343 -* (bug 27589) list=allimages&aiprop=archivename is useless.
344 -* (bug 27586) Remove duplication of props in ApiQueryStashImageInfo
345 - by using ApiQueryImageInfo.
346 -* (bug 28226) prop=extlinks&eloffset should be an integer.
347 -* (bug 28070) Fix watchlist RSS for databases that store timestamps in a
348 - real timestamp field.
349 -* API upload errors may now return the parameter that needs to be changed and
350 - a sessionkey to fix the error.
351 -* (bug 28249) allow dupes in meta=allmessages&amargs.
352 -* (bug 28263) cannot import xml with the API, when have not "import" user
353 - right, but "importupload".
354 -* (bug 28365) Added description for uiprop=preferencestoken in meta=userinfo.
355 -* (bug 28394) Set forgotten parameters types in ApiUnblock.
356 -* (bug 28395) Set forgotten parameters types in ApiParse.
357 -* (bug 28368) add hint for multipart/form-data to API information of
358 - action=import&xml=.
359 -* (bug 28391) action=feedwatchlist&allrev should be a bool.
360 -* (bug 28364) add registration date to meta=userinfo.
361 -* (bug 28254) action=paraminfo: Extract type from PARAM_DFLT if
362 - PARAM_TYPE is not set.
363 -* (bug 27712) add parent_id to list=deletedrevs.
364 -* (bug 28455) Add 'toponly' to recentchanges API module.
365 -* (bug 26873) API: Add 'toponly' filter in usercontribs module.
366 -* (bug 28586) YAML: strings that are the same as boolean literals.
367 -* (bug 28591) Update/replace/supplement spyc (YAML parsing library).
368 -* YAML API output is now 1.2 compliant, using JSON as the formatter.
369 -* (bug 28672) give information about misermode on API.
370 -* (bug 28558) Add iw_api and iw_wikiid to meta=siteinfo&siprop=interwikimap
371 -* (bug 26882) Allow listing of indefinite protections with the API.
372 -* (bug 27344) add drprefix param to list=deletedrevs.
373 -* (bug 28560) list=deletedrevs should die, if combination of param is invalid.
374 -* (bug 28238) paraminfo: output both limits for multi param
375 -* (bug 27179) API: List of extension tags through meta=siteinfo
376 -* Get a list of function hooks through meta=siteinfo
377 -* Get a list of all subscribed hooks, and those subscribers
378 -* (bug 28225) Allow hiding of user groups in list=allusers
379 -* (bug 27185) API: Add Special:ComparePages
380 -* (bug 28265) allow outputting of comments for action=expandtemplates
 179+* BREAKING CHANGE: action=watch now requires POST and token.
 180+* (bug 27790) Add query type for querymodules to output of ApiParamInfo
 181+* (bug 28963) Add langbacklinks query module to the api
 182+* (bug 27593) API should return error message when sha1/sha1base36 is invalid
 183+* (bug 28578) API's parse module should not silently override invalid
 184+ title inputs
 185+* (bug 20699) Watchlist API should list log-events
 186+* (bug 29070) Require a token in API action=watch
 187+* (bug 29221) Expose oldrevid in ApiQueryWatchlist output
 188+* (bug 29267) Always give the servername for meta=siteinfo&siprop=dbrepllag
 189+* (bug 28897) rvparse now respects rvsection for action=query&prop=revisions
 190+* (bug 25734) API: Possible issue with revids validation
 191+* (bug 28002) Internal error in ApiFormatRaw::getMimeType
 192+* (bug 29237) ApiQuery now has an option to output the "iwurl" attribute.
 193+* (bug 28392) Mark action=undelete&timestamps as type "timestamp"
 194+* (bug 21346) Make deleted images searchable by hash (disabled in Miser Mode)
 195+* (bug 27595) sha1 search of list=filearchive does not work
 196+* (bug 26763) Make RSS/Atom of user contributions more visible
 197+* (bug 25133) Allow redirects also for action=parse&pageid
 198+* (bug 29745) Fatal error in API search
 199+* (bug 29476) API returns page title instead of sectiontitle for
 200+ srprop=sectiontitle
 201+* Correct the documentation of srprop properties
 202+* (bug 28817) Add reference help page link to API Modules
 203+* (bug 29935) Improve formatting of examples in ApiParamInfo
 204+* (bug 29938) list=users&usprop=rights shows rights the user doesn't have
381205
382206 === Languages updated in 1.18 ===
383207
@@ -384,26 +208,18 @@
385209 regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
386210 changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
387211
388 -* Angika (anp) (new).
389 -* Brahui (brh) (new).
390 -* Central Dusun (new).
391 -* Jamaican Creole English (jam) (new).
392 -* Khowar (khw) (new).
393 -* Liv (liv) (new).
394 -* Tokipona (tp) (removed) 'tokipona' is still valid.
395 -* (bug 17160) Gender specific display text for User namespace.
396 -* Link trail added for sl and sh.
397 -* (bug 27633) Add characters to linkTrail for Potuguese (pt and pt-br).
398 -* (bug 27426) Set $namespaceGenderAliases for Arabic (ar).
399 -* (bug 27385) Set Polish $namespaceGenderAliases.
400 -* (bug 27681) Set $namespaceGenderAliases for Portuguese (pt and pt-br).
401 -* (bug 27785) Fallback language for Kabardian (kbd) is English now.
402 -* (bug 27825) Raw watchlist edit message now uses formatted numbers.
403 -* (bug 28040) Turkish: properly lower case 'I' to 'ı' (dotless i) and
404 - uppercase 'i' to 'İ' (dotted i).
405 -* Conversion script between Syllabics and Latin for the Inuktitut language.
406 -* Date formats for Indonesian (id) updated.
 212+* Bhojpuri (bho) (renamed from "bh").
 213+* (bug 29031) When translating block log entries, indefinite, infinite, and
 214+ infinity are now considered the same.
 215+* Aromanian (rup) (renamed from "rua-rup").
 216+* Kashmiri (ks) split into Kashmiri (Perso-Arabic) (ks-arab) and Kashmiri
 217+ (Devanagari) (ks-deva). Defaults to ks-arab.
407218
 219+=== Other changes in 1.18 ===
 220+* Removed legacy wgAjaxWatch javascript global object, no longer in use.
 221+* (bug 28556) Upload support for MacBinary files has been removed (Used by
 222+ Internet Explorer 5 for Mac OS 9)
 223+
408224 == Compatibility ==
409225
410226 MediaWiki 1.18 requires PHP 5.2.3. PHP 4 is no longer supported.
@@ -437,7 +253,7 @@
438254
439255 See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions.
440256
441 -For notes on 1.17.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
 257+For notes on 1.15.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
442258
443259 == Online documentation ==
444260
Index: trunk/phase3/RELEASE-NOTES-1.19
@@ -11,196 +11,12 @@
1212 production.
1313
1414 === Configuration changes in 1.19 ===
15 -* $wgRateLimitsExcludedGroups (deprecated in 1.13) has been removed
16 -* $wgInputEncoding and $wgOutputEncoding (deprecated in 1.5) have now been removed
17 -* $wgAllowUserSkin (deprecated in 1.16) has now been removed
18 -* $wgExtraRandompageSQL (deprecated in 1.16) has now been removed
19 -* LogReader and LogViewer classes (deprecated in 1.14) have now been removed
20 -* (bug 26033) Added $wgArticleCountMethod to select the method to use to say
21 - whether a page is an article or not. $wgUseCommaCount is now deprecated.
22 -* $wgEnableDublinCoreRdf and $wgEnableCreativeCommonsRdf no longer work in core,
23 - and the functionality has been moved to the relevant extensions. See
24 - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DublinCoreRdf and
25 - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CreativeCoreRdf as appropriate
26 -* (bug 21107) Split error "customcssjsprotected" into separate messages for JS and CSS
27 -* Removed $wgCheckCopyrightUpload from DefaultSettings, since the relevant feature
28 - was removed in about 1.5.
29 -* LogPageValidTypes, LogPageLogName, LogPageLogHeader and LogPageActionText
30 - hooks have been removed.
31 -* New hook "Collation::factory" to allow extensions to create custom
32 - category collations.
33 -* $wgGroupPermissions now supports per namespace permissions.
3415
3516 === New features in 1.19 ===
36 -* BREAKING CHANGE: action=watch / action=unwatch now requires a token.
37 -* (bug 28916) A way to to toggle mw.config legacy globals settings from
38 - LocalSettings.php has been created by introducing $wgLegacyJavaScriptGlobals.
39 -* (bug 28503) Support for ircs:// URL protocols
40 -* (bug 26033) It is now possible to count all non-redirect pages in content
41 - namespaces as articles
42 -* Images can now be embedded in an XML dump stream using backupDump.php
43 - --include-files and can be imported using importDump.php --uploads;
44 - furthermore, it can import files from the filesystem using --image-base-path
45 -* Three new hooks in Special:Undelete, 'UndeleteForm::showHistory',
46 - 'UndeleteForm::showRevision' and 'UndeleteForm::undelete', so that extensions
47 - may override the usage of PageArchive class and replace it with their own
48 - class that extends PageArchive.
49 -* (bug 28915) Implement QUnit test suite for MediaWiki JavaScript.
50 - Also built-in support for distribution through a TestSwarm instance.
51 -* (bug 29036) For cascade-protected pages, the mw-textarea-cprotected class is
52 - added to the textarea on the edit form.
53 -* mw.util.wikiScript has been implemented (like wfScript in GlobalFunctions.php)
54 -* (bug 29067) Expose user.tokens (like we do user.options) in ResourceLoader.
55 -* New 'Debug' hook used by wfDebug() and wfDebugLog()
56 -* (bug 27655) Require token for watching/unwatching pages)
57 -* (bug 28904) (bug 29773) Update jQuery version from 1.4.4 to 1.6.2 (the latest version)
58 -* (bug 29441) Expose CapitalLinks config in JS to allow modules to properly
59 - handle titles on case-sensitive wikis.
60 -* (bug 29397) Implement mw.Title module in core.
61 -* In MySQL 4.1.9+ with replication enabled, the slave lag should come from
62 - SHOW SLAVE STATUS instead of SHOW PROCESSLIST.
63 -* Language codes in $wgDummyLanguageCodes are now excluded on localization
64 - statistics (maintenance/language/transstat.php)
65 -* (bug 29586) Make the (next 200) links on categories link directly to
66 - the relevant section of the category.
67 -* (bug 29109) Allow the automatic edit summary for redirect creation
68 - show the first bit of the new redirect page.
69 -* (bug 5800) Added $formCallback as a parameter to the hook
70 - EditPage::showEditForm:initial.
71 -* (bug 29723) mw.util.wikiGetlink() now defaults to wgPageName.
72 -* (bug 29680) Add GetDefaultSortkey hook to override the default sortkey.
73 -* (bug 16699) {{#language:}} accepts second parameter to specify the language in
74 - which the language name is wanted. Coverage depends on the cldr extension.
75 -* (bug 15802) An easy way to look up messages: language qqx which returns
76 - the message keys.
77 -* (bug 29868) Add support for passing parameters to mw.msg in jquery.localize.
78 -* (bug 29558) $wgMiserMode now disables update.php by default
79 -* AjaxCategories: Easily add, edit or delete categories on article pages.
80 - Suggests possible categories when typing, all saves are done via AJAX.
81 - Supports editing of multiple categories and then saving them in one batch.
8217
8318 === Bug fixes in 1.19 ===
84 -* (bug 28868) Show total pages in the subtitle of an image on the
85 - file description page for multi-paged documents.
86 -* (bug 28883) Message names for different compression types commonly
87 - used in Tiff files.
88 -* When translcuding a special page, do not let it interpret url parameters.
89 -* (bug 28887) Special page classes are no longer re-used during 1 request.
90 -* (bug 28888) Searching for something starting with a # sign no longer tells
91 - the user a page named [[:]] already exists.
92 -* (bug 23002) Imagelinks table not updated after imagemove.
93 -* (bug 27864) Transcluding {{Special:Prefix}} with empty prefix now lists all
94 - pages.
95 -* (bug 18803) JPEG2000 images should not be uploadable as .jpg files.
96 -* (bug 11868) If using links to count articles, the checking will now be based
97 - on the real presence of an internal link instead of the "[[" string
98 -* (bug 28287) The "your changes" box for edit conflicts is now read-only.
99 -* (bug 28940) When making a thumb of an SVG, and only specifying the height
100 - make the width be the max SVG size, not the natrual width of the SVG.
101 -* (bug 1780) Uploading files with non-ascii characters are now forbidden on
102 - Windows.
103 -* (bug 23464) File: prefixes are now chopped off during uploading.
104 -* (bug 28174) Message config-logo-help amended to not explicitly assume any
105 - LTR/RTL screen layout.
106 -* (bug 28992) Revision numbers in the patrol log are transformed in the user
107 - language.
108 -* (bug 27073) ResourceLoaderDynamicStyles marker should be dynamically appended to
109 - the document head if it doesn't exist.
110 -* (bug 27023) After the document is ready, mw.loader is broken (calls callback
111 - before module is parsed).
112 -* (bug 4330) External URLs without a custom title should be treated as LTR,
113 - even in RTL text.
114 -* (bug 29055) Make "don't send email on minor edits" preference apply to
115 - changes to talk page in addition to watchlist edits.
116 -* (bug 28272) Special:AllMessages should have only one "Go" button.
117 -* (bug 29101) Special:FileDuplicateSearch no longer shows silly message.
118 -* (bug 29048) jQuery.tabIndex: firstTabIndex() should not output the same
119 - as lastTabIndex().
120 -* (bug 29332) Warn if user requests mediawiki-announce subscription but does not
121 - enter an e-mail address.
122 -* (bug 25375) Add canonical namespaces to "wgNamespaceIds" in mw.config.
123 -* The class JpegOrTiffHandler was renamed ExifBitmapHandler.
124 -* (bug 29443) Special:Undelete should use JavaScript to invert all checkboxes
125 - instead of reloading the page.
126 -* (bug 29325) Setting $wgStrictFileExtensions to false no longer gives incorrect warning
127 -* (bug 29437) Multiple apostrophes in deleted article title cause odd rendering
128 -* (bug 29485) RSS feed of Special:RecentChange grouped together multiple
129 - consecutive edits by same user in included diff, but then linked to
130 - a single ungrouped diff.
131 -* Do not try to group together a page creation and edit in the RSS feed of RC.
132 -* (bug 29342) Patrol preferences shouldn't be visible to users who don't have
133 - patrol permissions
134 -* (bug 29471) Exception no longer thrown for files with invalid date in metadata
135 -* (bug 29492) Long-running steps in the installer (such as Upgrade and Install)
136 - no longer cause timeouts
137 -* (bug 29507) Change 'image link' to 'file link' in Special:Whatlinkshere
138 -* If the db is really screwed up, and doesn't have a recentchanges table,
139 - make the updater throw an exception instead of a fatal.
140 -* wfArrayToCGI() and wfCgiToArray() now handle nested and associative arrays
141 - correctly.
142 -* (bug 29567) mw.util.addPortletLink should only wrap link in <span> for
143 - "vectorTabs" portlets.
144 -* (bug 8556) Incorrect session failure warning on preview-on-open
145 - namespaces (categories) when combined with $wgRawHtml.
146 -* Use content language in formatting of dates in revertpage message
147 - (rollback revert edit summary) and do not adjust for user timezone.
148 -* (bug 29277) MediaWiki:Filepage.css is also shown on the local wiki
149 -* Make sure Backlink cache does not retrieve interwiki redirects when looking for
150 - redirects to a local page.
151 -* (bug 6100) Allow different directionality (LTR/RTL) for user interface
152 - and wiki content, along with many other RTL and directionality improvements
153 - (such as bugs 28030, 12406, 28349)
154 -* (bug 29712) Removed broken defaultUserOptionOverrides in MessagesXx files and
155 - unneeded CSS flipping of quickbar. Instead, introduce option 5 which sets
156 - left/right according to the directionality of your interface language.
157 -* (bug 19514) Unordered list list-style-image should be IE6-compatible (8-bit)
158 -* (bug 27410) The tag filter on a history page is now within a <label> element
159 -* (bug 29779) DairikiDiff/WikiDiff <ins> and <del> should undo browser default
160 - styling (strike/underline).
161 -* Translate the block expiry date
162 -* (bug 28630) Add iwlinks, langlinks, redirect to
163 - RefreshLinks::deleteLinksFromNonexistent
164 -* (bug 29797) Error: "Tried to load block with invalid type" when subpages
165 - are disabled for user pages.
166 -* (bug 12205) Bidirectional names in action=credits are split and displayed
167 - incorrectly when wrapped to the next line.
168 -* (bug 20781) Move 'mainpagetext' messages to installer's .i18n file.
169 -* (bug 29737) "MediaWiki:Qbsettings-directionality" should refer to script,
170 - not language.
171 -* (bug 26360) $wgSessionHandler was overriding system settings unconditionally.
172 -* Removed AjaxFunctions.php. The last remaining function js_unescape() was moved
173 - to the FCKEditor extension.
174 -* (bug 28762) Resizing to specified height broken for very thin images
175 -* (bug 29959) Installer fatal when cURL and allow_url_fopen is disabled and user
176 - tries to subsribe to mediawiki-announce
17719
17820 === API changes in 1.19 ===
179 -* BREAKING CHANGE: action=watch now requires POST and token.
180 -* (bug 27790) Add query type for querymodules to output of ApiParamInfo
181 -* (bug 28963) Add langbacklinks query module to the api
182 -* (bug 27593) API should return error message when sha1/sha1base36 is invalid
183 -* (bug 28578) API's parse module should not silently override invalid
184 - title inputs
185 -* (bug 20699) Watchlist API should list log-events
186 -* (bug 29070) Require a token in API action=watch
187 -* (bug 29221) Expose oldrevid in ApiQueryWatchlist output
188 -* (bug 29267) Always give the servername for meta=siteinfo&siprop=dbrepllag
189 -* (bug 28897) rvparse now respects rvsection for action=query&prop=revisions
190 -* (bug 25734) API: Possible issue with revids validation
191 -* (bug 28002) Internal error in ApiFormatRaw::getMimeType
192 -* (bug 29237) ApiQuery now has an option to output the "iwurl" attribute.
193 -* (bug 28392) Mark action=undelete&timestamps as type "timestamp"
194 -* (bug 21346) Make deleted images searchable by hash (disabled in Miser Mode)
195 -* (bug 27595) sha1 search of list=filearchive does not work
196 -* (bug 26763) Make RSS/Atom of user contributions more visible
197 -* (bug 25133) Allow redirects also for action=parse&pageid
198 -* (bug 29745) Fatal error in API search
199 -* (bug 29476) API returns page title instead of sectiontitle for
200 - srprop=sectiontitle
201 -* Correct the documentation of srprop properties
202 -* (bug 28817) Add reference help page link to API Modules
203 -* (bug 29935) Improve formatting of examples in ApiParamInfo
204 -* (bug 29938) list=users&usprop=rights shows rights the user doesn't have
20521
20622 === Languages updated in 1.19 ===
20723
@@ -208,17 +24,8 @@
20925 regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
21026 changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
21127
212 -* Bhojpuri (bho) (renamed from "bh").
213 -* (bug 29031) When translating block log entries, indefinite, infinite, and
214 - infinity are now considered the same.
215 -* Aromanian (rup) (renamed from "rua-rup").
216 -* Kashmiri (ks) split into Kashmiri (Perso-Arabic) (ks-arab) and Kashmiri
217 - (Devanagari) (ks-deva). Defaults to ks-arab.
21828
21929 === Other changes in 1.19 ===
220 -* Removed legacy wgAjaxWatch javascript global object, no longer in use.
221 -* (bug 28556) Upload support for MacBinary files has been removed (Used by
222 - Internet Explorer 5 for Mac OS 9)
22330
22431 == Compatibility ==
22532
@@ -237,7 +44,7 @@
23845
23946 == Upgrading ==
24047
241 -1.19 has several database changes since 1.17, and will not work without schema
 48+1.19 has several database changes since 1.18, and will not work without schema
24249 updates.
24350
24451 If upgrading from before 1.11, and you are using a wiki as a commons
Index: trunk/phase3/RELEASE-NOTES-1.18.old
@@ -0,0 +1,465 @@
 2+= MediaWiki release notes =
 3+
 4+Security reminder: MediaWiki does not require PHP's register_globals
 5+setting since version 1.2.0. If you have it on, turn it '''off''' if you can.
 6+
 7+== MediaWiki 1.18 ==
 8+
 9+THIS IS NOT A RELEASE YET
 10+
 11+MediaWiki 1.18 is an alpha-quality branch and is not recommended for use in
 12+production.
 13+
 14+=== Configuration changes in 1.18 ===
 15+* The WantedPages::getSQL hook has been removed and replaced with
 16+ WantedPages::getQueryInfo. This may break older extensions.
 17+* $wgUseCombinedLoginLink controls whether to output a combined
 18+ login / create account link in the personal bar, or to output separate login
 19+ and create account links.
 20+* Skin names are no longer created based on a ucfirst version of the key in
 21+ $wgValidSkinNames but now the value. This means for
 22+ $wgValidSkinNames["monobook"] = "MonoBook"; the skin loader will no longer try
 23+ loading SkinMonobook and will instead load SkinMonoBook.
 24+* $wgMaxUploadSize may now be set to an array to specify the upload size limit
 25+ per upload type.
 26+* $wgAPICacheHelp added in 1.16 is now removed. To disable API help caching, set
 27+ $wgAPICacheHelpTimeout = 0;
 28+* OutputPage::isUserJsAllowed() no longer returns false when scripts are allowed
 29+ by the page, but $wgAllowUserJs is set to false.
 30+* Pure "Skin" class based custom skins are no longer supported, all custom skins
 31+ should be put together using SkinTemplate and BaseTemplate or QuickTemplate.
 32+* The transliteration for passwords in case they were migrated from an old
 33+ Latin-1 install (previous to MediaWiki 1.5) is now only done for wikis with
 34+ $wgLegacyEncoding set.
 35+* (bug 27508) Add $wgSVGMetadataCutoff to limit the maximum amount of an SVG we
 36+ look at when finding metadata to prevent excessive resource usage.
 37+* $wgSysopUserBans and $wgSysopRangeBans (deprecated in 1.17) are now removed.
 38+ Use $wgBlockCIDRLimit = array( 'IPv4' => 43, 'IPv6' => 128 ) to achieve the
 39+ same functionality as $wgSysopRangeBans; you can use the BlockIp hook to
 40+ replicate $wgSysopUserBans functionality.
 41+* The options on the block form have been standardised such that checking a box
 42+ makes the block 'more serious'; so while "check to prevent account creation"
 43+ and "check to enable autoblock" remain the same, "check to allow user-talk
 44+ edit" is reversed to "check to *disable* user-talk edit", and "check to block
 45+ anon-only" becomes "check to block logged-in users too". The default settings
 46+ remain the same.
 47+* Most of the field names on the Special:Block form have been changed, which
 48+ will probably break screen-scraping bots.
 49+* (bug 26866) The 'trackback' right is no longer granted to sysops by default.
 50+ $wgUseTrackbacks is already false by default.
 51+* (bug 17009) the hiddenStructure CSS class, a highly hackish way of at least
 52+ *appearing* to hide article elements, has been removed. Use the
 53+ ParserFunctions extension to actually remove unwanted elements from the
 54+ output.
 55+* (bug 14202) $wgUseTeX has been superseded by the Math extension. To re-enable
 56+ math conversion after upgrading, obtain the Math extension from SVN or from
 57+ http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Math and add to LocalSettings.php:
 58+ require_once "$IP/extensions/Math/Math.php";
 59+* $wgProfiler is now a configuration array, see StartProfiler.sample for
 60+ details.
 61+* $wgProfiling has been removed.
 62+* The spyc library is now no longer included in phase3.
 63+* (bug 28343) Unused preferences contextlines/contextchars have been removed
 64+* $wgSkinExtensionFunctions has been removed. Use $wgExtensionFunctions instead.
 65+* $wgProto has been removed. You now only need to set $wgServer to change the
 66+ URL protocol.
 67+
 68+=== New features in 1.18 ===
 69+* (bug 8130) Query pages should limit to content namespaces, not just main
 70+ namespace.
 71+* Search suggestions (other than in the Vector skin) will now use the HTML5
 72+ datalist feature where supported, currently only Firefox 4.
 73+* Special:Contribs now redirects to Special:Contributions.
 74+* (bug 6672) Images are now autorotated according to their EXIF orientation.
 75+ This only affects thumbnails; the source remains unrotated.
 76+* (bug 25708) Update case mappings and normalization to Unicode 6.0.0
 77+* New hook ArticlePrepareTextForEdit added, called when preparing text to be
 78+ saved.
 79+* New parser option PreSaveTransform added, allows the pre-save transformation
 80+ to be selectively disabled.
 81+* Alternative to $wgHooks implemented, using the new Hooks class.
 82+* Add width parameter to Special:Filepath to allow getting the file path of a
 83+ thumbnail.
 84+* (bug 26870) Add size to {{filepath:}}.
 85+* Upload warnings now show a thumbnail of the uploaded file.
 86+* Introduced the edittools-upload message, which will be inserted under the
 87+ upload form instead of edittools if available.
 88+* (bug 26285) Extensions will be automatically generated on upload if the user
 89+ specified a filename without extension.
 90+* (bug 26851) Special:UserRights now allows to prefill the reason field
 91+* New maintenance script to fix double redirects
 92+ (maintenance/fixDoubleRedirects.php).
 93+* (bug 23315) New body classes to allow easier styling of special pages.
 94+* (bug 27159) Make email confirmation code expiration time configurable.
 95+* CSS/JS for each user group is imported from MediaWiki:Group-sysop.js,
 96+ MediaWiki:Group-autoconfirmed.css, etc.
 97+* (bug 24230) Uploads of ZIP types, such as MS Office or OpenOffice can now be
 98+ safely enabled. A ZIP file reader was added which can scan a ZIP file for
 99+ potentially dangerous Java applets. This allows applets to be blocked
 100+ specifically, rather than all ZIP files being blocked.
 101+* (bug 2429) Allow selection of associated namespace in recent changes.
 102+* (bug 26217) File size is now checked before uploading in HTML5 browsers.
 103+* CSS stylesheet MediaWiki:Noscript.css is now loaded for users with JavaScript
 104+ disabled (enclosed in the head in a <noscript> tag).
 105+* Added UserGetLanguageObject hook to change the language used in $wgLang.
 106+* (bug 14645) When $wgMiserMode is on, expensive special pages are styled
 107+ differently (italicized by default) on Special:SpecialPages.
 108+* Added $wgAggregateStatsID, which allows UDP stats to be aggregated over
 109+ several wikis.
 110+* When $wgAllowMicrodataAttributes is true, all itemtypes are allowed, not just
 111+ the three that were defined in the original specification.
 112+* (bug 14706) Added support for the Imagick PHP extension.
 113+* (bug 18691) Added support for SVG rasterization using the Imagick PHP
 114+ extension.
 115+* (bug 2581, bug 6834) Added links to thumbnail in several resolutions to the
 116+ file description page. The sizes are set by $wgImageLimits.
 117+* (bug 28031) Add pageCount support to ArchivedFile.
 118+* (bug 27924) PhpHttpRequest doesn't return response body if HTTP != 200.
 119+* Added hook BitmapHandlerTransform to allow extension to transform a file
 120+ without overriding the entire handler.
 121+* The parser now attempts to output markers for editsection tokens and defer the
 122+ rendering of them post-cache to reduce parser cache fragmentation and ensure
 123+ skin customizability of edit section links.
 124+* (bug 24755) AuthPlugin auto-creation of local accounts can now be aborted by
 125+ other extensions by handling the 'AbortAutoAccount' hook, similar to the
 126+ 'AbortNewAccount' triggered by explicit account creations. (They are separate
 127+ to avoid loops and confusion; auth plugins like CentralAuth need to handle
 128+ AbortNewAccount separately.
 129+* Special:ListFiles is now transcludable.
 130+* (bug 13879) Special:Emailuser asks for suitable target user if called without.
 131+* (bug 16956) IPTC and XMP metadata now extracted from images.
 132+* (bug 23816) A tracking category is now added for any pages with broken images.
 133+* (bug 23495) Allow createAndPromote.php to create non-sysop users
 134+
 135+=== Bug fixes in 1.18 ===
 136+* mw.util.getScript has been implemented (like wfScript in GlobalFunctions.php)
 137+* (bug 23119) WikiError class and subclasses are now marked as deprecated.
 138+* (bug 10871) Javascript and CSS pages in MediaWiki namespace are no longer
 139+ treated as wikitext on preview.
 140+* (bug 22753) Output from update.php is more clear when things changed, entries
 141+ indicating nothing changed are now all prefixed by "...".
 142+* Page existence is now not revealed (in the colour of the tabs) to users who
 143+ cannot read the page in question.
 144+* (bug 19006) {{REVISIONUSER}} no longer acts like {{CURRENTUSER}} in some
 145+ cases.
 146+* (bug 16019) $wgArticlePath = "/$1" no longer breaks API edit/watch actions.
 147+* (bug 18372) File types blacklisted by $wgFileBlacklist will no longer be shown
 148+ as "Permitted file types" on the upload form.
 149+* (bug 26379) importImages.php gives more descriptive error message on failure.
 150+* (bug 26410) + signs are no longer treated as spaces in internal links if
 151+ link has a % sign in it.
 152+* (bug 26412) Search results headers no longer show a bogus edit link.
 153+* (bug 26540) Fixed wrong call to applyPatch in MysqlUpdater.
 154+* (bug 26574) Added 'upload' to $wgRestrictionTypes, allowing upload protected
 155+ pages to be queried via the API and Special:ProtectedPages, and allowing
 156+ disabling upload protection by removing it from $wgRestrictionTypes.
 157+* If an edit summary exceeds 250 bytes and is truncated, add an ellipse.
 158+* (bug 26638) Database error pages display correctly in RTL languages.
 159+* (bug 26187) Confirmrecreate no longer parses the edit summary.
 160+* (bug 25506) Exception is thrown if OutputPage::parse is called inside a tag
 161+ hook, which would reset parser state.
 162+* (bug 26208) Mark directionality of some interlanguage links.
 163+* (bug 26034) Make the "View / Read" tab in content_navigation style tabs remain
 164+ selected when the action is "purge".
 165+* (bug 14267) Support a MediaWiki:Mainpage-nstab override for the subject
 166+ namespace tab on the mainpage of a wiki.
 167+* (bug 10158) Do not mention allowing others to contact you when the feature
 168+ is disabled ($wgEnableUserEmail=false).
 169+* (bug 26733) Wrap initial table creation in transaction.
 170+* (bug 26729) Category pages should return 404 if they do not exist and have no
 171+ members.
 172+* (bug 2585) Image pages should send 404 if no image, no shared image and no
 173+ description page.
 174+* Custom editintro's using the editintro url parameter will no longer show
 175+ <noinclude> sections on pages they are included on.
 176+* (bug 26449) Keep underlines from headings outside of tables and thumbs by
 177+ adding overflow:hidden to h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6 (also fixes editsection bunching).
 178+* (bug 26708) Remove background-color:white from tables in Monobook and Vector.
 179+* (bug 28422) Remove color:black from tables in Monobook and Vector. And add it
 180+ to table.wikitable instead.
 181+* (bug 26781) {{PAGENAME}} and related parser functions escape their output
 182+ better.
 183+* (bug 26716) Provide link to instructions for external editor related
 184+ preferences and add a comment to the ini control file explaining what is
 185+ going on.
 186+* Trying to upload a file with no extension or with a disallowed MIME type now
 187+ gives the right message instead of complaining about a MIME/extension
 188+ mismatch.
 189+* (bug 26809) Uploading files with multiple extensions where one of the
 190+ extensions is blacklisted now gives the proper extension in the error message.
 191+* (bug 26961) Hide anon edits in watchlist preference now actually works.
 192+* (bug 19751) Filesystem is now checked during image undeletion.
 193+* Send last modified headers for Special:Recentchanges when RC patrol is
 194+ enabled, but user cannot see rc patrol links.
 195+* (bug 26548) ForeignAPIRepo (InstantCommons) now works with PDF files
 196+ and other multi-paged file formats.
 197+* Files with a mime type that does not match the extension are now properly
 198+ thumbnailed.
 199+* (bug 27201) Special:WhatLinksHere output no longer contains duplicate IDs.
 200+* (bug 15905) Nostalgia skin could become more usable by including a Talk:
 201+ link at the top of the page.
 202+* (bug 27560) Search queries no longer fail in Walloon language.
 203+* (bug 27679) Broken embedded files with special characters are no longer
 204+ double HTML escaped.
 205+* (bug 27700) The upload protection can now also be set for files that do not
 206+ exist.
 207+* (bug 27763) Article::getParserOutput() no longer throws a fatal given when an
 208+ incorrect revision ID is passed.
 209+* Trim the form field for uploading by url to remove extra spaces which could
 210+ cause confusing error messages.
 211+* (bug 27854) Http::isValidURI is way too lax.
 212+* Do not show enotifminoredits preference, if disabled by $wgEnotifMinorEdits.
 213+* AbortLogin returning "ABORTED" now handled. Also allows message identifier
 214+ for "ABORTED" reason to be returned and displayed to user.
 215+* (bug 28034) uploading file to local wiki when file exists on shared repository
 216+ (commons) gives spurious info in the warning message.
 217+* Usernames get lost when selecting different sorts on Special:listfiles.
 218+* (bug 14005) editing section 0 of an existing but empty page gives no such
 219+ section error.
 220+* (bug 26939) Installer does not set $wgMetaNamespace.
 221+* (bug 28166) UploadBase assumes that 'edit' and 'upload' rights are not per
 222+ page restrictions.
 223+* Make truncate function automatically consider length of '...' string,
 224+ since length can vary by localization.
 225+* (bug 28242) Make redirects generated by urls containing a local interwiki
 226+ prefix be a 301 instead of a 302.
 227+* (bug 15641) blocked administrators are now prevented from deleting or
 228+ protecting their own talk page; and all blocked users are more
 229+ comprehensively prevented from performing other actions.
 230+* (bug 27893) Edit-on-doubleclick now applies only on view and purge actions;
 231+ no longer triggers unexpectedly on delete, history etc.
 232+* (bug 28417) Fix PHP notice when importing revision without a listed id.
 233+* (bug 28430) Make html and TeX output of <math> always be left-to-right.
 234+* (bug 28306) Fix exposure of suppressed usernames in ForeignDBRepo.
 235+* (bug 28372) Fix bogus link to suppressed file versions in ForeignDBRepo.
 236+* (bug 27473) Fix regression: bold, italic no longer interfere with linktrail
 237+ for ca, kaa.
 238+* (bug 28444) Fix regression: edit-on-doubleclick retains revision id again.
 239+* &apos; character entity is now allowed in wikitext.
 240+* UtfNormal::cleanUp on an invalid utf-8 sequence no longer returns false if
 241+ intl installed.
 242+* (bug 28561) The css class small will no longer make nested elements even
 243+ smaller.
 244+* (bug 13172) Array type exif data (like GPS) was not being extracted from
 245+ images.
 246+* (bug 28532) wfMsgExt() and wfMsgWikiHtml() use $wgOut->parse()
 247+* (bug 16129) Transcluded special pages expose strip markers when they output
 248+ parsed messages.
 249+* (bug 27249) "Installed software" table in Special:Version should always be
 250+ left-to-right.
 251+* (bug 28719) Do not call mLinkHolders __destruct explicitly
 252+* (bug 21196) Article::getContributors() no longer fails on PostgreSQL.
 253+* (bug 28752) XCache doesn't work in CLI mode.
 254+* (bug 28076) Thumbnail height limited to 360 pixels on Special:Listfiles
 255+* (bug 22227) Special:Listfiles no longer throws an error on bogus file entries
 256+* (bug 19408) user_properties.up_property: 32 bytes is not enough.
 257+* (bug 25262) Fix for minification of hardcoded data: URIs in CSS
 258+* (bug 29263) Add LTR class to the shared CSS to be used for left-to-right text
 259+ such as SQL queries shown in dberrortext and similar messages in RTL
 260+ environments
 261+* (bug 14977) Fixed $wgServer detection in cases where an IPv6 address is used
 262+ as the server name.
 263+* (bug 19725) Do not list suppressed edits in the "View X deleted edits" link
 264+ if user cannot view suppressed edits.
 265+* The View X deleted revisions is now shown again on Special:Upload.
 266+* (bug 29071) mediawiki.action.watch.ajax.js should pass uselang to API.
 267+
 268+=== API changes in 1.18 ===
 269+* (bug 26339) Throw warning when truncating an overlarge API result.
 270+* (bug 14869) Add API module for accessing QueryPage-based special pages.
 271+* (bug 14020) API for Special:Unwatchedpages.
 272+* (bug 24287) Wrap API Help output at 100 characters.
 273+* Add a realname uiprop option to query=userinfo so a user's realname can be
 274+ extracted.
 275+* Add a &watchuser option to ApiBlock.
 276+* (bug 26541) Generator-ise ApiQueryRecentChanges.
 277+* action=parse now correctly returns an error for nonexistent pages.
 278+* (bug 25767) Add userrights properties to allusers and users query lists.
 279+* (bug 26558) list=allusers auprop=groups does not list groups a user is
 280+ automatically a member of.
 281+* (bug 26559) list=allusers auprop=rights does not match
 282+ list=users usprop=rights.
 283+* (bug 26560) On allusers if limit < total number of users, last user gets
 284+ duplicate.
 285+* (bug 25135) add "normalized" to action=parse.
 286+* (bug 26460) Add support for listing category members by category pageid.
 287+* (bug 26482) add a imimages param to prop=images.
 288+* (bug 26498) allow LinksUpdate with API.
 289+* (bug 26485) add a elextlinks param to prop=extlinks.
 290+* (bug 26483) add a iwtitles param to prop=iwlinks.
 291+* (bug 26484) add a lltitles param to prop=langlinks.
 292+* (bug 26480) add a pppageprops param to prop=pageprops.
 293+* (bug 26650) Remove $wgAPICacheHelp in favour of $wgAPICacheHelpTimeout.
 294+* (bug 24650) Fix API to work with categorylinks changes.
 295+* Expose list of skins in meta=siteinfo.
 296+* (bug 26548) Add iiurlparam param to query=imageinfo and query=stashimageinfo.
 297+* (bug 27205) aiprop=metadata and aiprop=parsedcomment need help text.
 298+* Add a amtitle param to meta=allmessages.
 299+* (bug 25832) query=allimages now outputs ns/title as well.
 300+* (bug 27199) Thumbnail urls can be fetched for old files as well.
 301+* (bug 27376) when using ApiBase::PARAM_TYPE => 'integer' without a min or
 302+ max value, API doesn't validate the input is actually an integer.
 303+* (bug 27479) API error when using both prop=pageprops and
 304+ prop=info&inprop=displaytitle.
 305+* (bug 27554) Update API information text to reflect change in bug 26125.
 306+* (bug 27611) list=blocks: Use ipb_by_text instead of join with user table.
 307+* (bug 27616) Add userid of blocked user and blocker to list=blocks.
 308+* (bug 27688) Simplify queries to list user block information.
 309+* (bug 27708) list=users does not have a property to return user id.
 310+* (bug 27715) imageinfo didn't respect revdelete.
 311+* (bug 27862) Useremail module didn't properly return success on success.
 312+* (bug 27590) prop=imageinfo now allows querying the media type.
 313+* (bug 27587) list=filearchive now outputs full title info.
 314+* (bug 27018) Added action=filerevert to revert files to an old version.
 315+* (bug 27897) list=allusers and list=users list hidden users.
 316+* (bug 27717) API's exturlusage module does not respect $wgMiserMode.
 317+* (bug 27588) list=filearchive&faprop=sha1 returns empty attribute.
 318+* (bug 28010) Passing a non existant user to list=users gives internal error.
 319+* (bug 27549) action=query&list=users&usprop=groups doesn't show implicit
 320+ groups if a user doesn't have explicit groups.
 321+* (bug 27670) Ordering by timestamp (and usage of start and end) isn't as clear
 322+ in auto generated document, as it is on mediawiki.org.
 323+* (bug 27182) API: Add filter by prefix for meta=allmessages.
 324+* (bug 27183) API: Add filter by customisation state for meta=allmessages.
 325+* (bug 27340) API: Allow listing of "small" categories.
 326+* (bug 27342) Add audir param to list=allusers.
 327+* (bug 27203) add fato param to list=filearchive.
 328+* (bug 27341) Add drto param to list=deletedrevs.
 329+* (bug 26630) Add API for Special:ActiveUsers.
 330+* (bug 27020) API: Allow title prefix search of logevents (only when not in
 331+ miser mode).
 332+* (bug 26629) add Special:MIMESearch to API.
 333+* (bug 27585) add pagecount to list=filearchive.
 334+* (bug 28104) Namespace for local pages in interwiki backlinks (iwbacklinks)
 335+ is missing.
 336+* (bug 27343) Add parseddescription to list=filearchive.
 337+* (bug 27469) label implicit groups in list=allusers&auprop=groups/
 338+ list=users&usprop=groups.
 339+* Addition of APIQuerySiteInfoGeneralInfo hook to add extra information to
 340+ the general site info results.
 341+* (bug 16288) API: consider making closure status of wikis more clear
 342+ with meta=siteinfo.
 343+* (bug 27589) list=allimages&aiprop=archivename is useless.
 344+* (bug 27586) Remove duplication of props in ApiQueryStashImageInfo
 345+ by using ApiQueryImageInfo.
 346+* (bug 28226) prop=extlinks&eloffset should be an integer.
 347+* (bug 28070) Fix watchlist RSS for databases that store timestamps in a
 348+ real timestamp field.
 349+* API upload errors may now return the parameter that needs to be changed and
 350+ a sessionkey to fix the error.
 351+* (bug 28249) allow dupes in meta=allmessages&amargs.
 352+* (bug 28263) cannot import xml with the API, when have not "import" user
 353+ right, but "importupload".
 354+* (bug 28365) Added description for uiprop=preferencestoken in meta=userinfo.
 355+* (bug 28394) Set forgotten parameters types in ApiUnblock.
 356+* (bug 28395) Set forgotten parameters types in ApiParse.
 357+* (bug 28368) add hint for multipart/form-data to API information of
 358+ action=import&xml=.
 359+* (bug 28391) action=feedwatchlist&allrev should be a bool.
 360+* (bug 28364) add registration date to meta=userinfo.
 361+* (bug 28254) action=paraminfo: Extract type from PARAM_DFLT if
 362+ PARAM_TYPE is not set.
 363+* (bug 27712) add parent_id to list=deletedrevs.
 364+* (bug 28455) Add 'toponly' to recentchanges API module.
 365+* (bug 26873) API: Add 'toponly' filter in usercontribs module.
 366+* (bug 28586) YAML: strings that are the same as boolean literals.
 367+* (bug 28591) Update/replace/supplement spyc (YAML parsing library).
 368+* YAML API output is now 1.2 compliant, using JSON as the formatter.
 369+* (bug 28672) give information about misermode on API.
 370+* (bug 28558) Add iw_api and iw_wikiid to meta=siteinfo&siprop=interwikimap
 371+* (bug 26882) Allow listing of indefinite protections with the API.
 372+* (bug 27344) add drprefix param to list=deletedrevs.
 373+* (bug 28560) list=deletedrevs should die, if combination of param is invalid.
 374+* (bug 28238) paraminfo: output both limits for multi param
 375+* (bug 27179) API: List of extension tags through meta=siteinfo
 376+* Get a list of function hooks through meta=siteinfo
 377+* Get a list of all subscribed hooks, and those subscribers
 378+* (bug 28225) Allow hiding of user groups in list=allusers
 379+* (bug 27185) API: Add Special:ComparePages
 380+* (bug 28265) allow outputting of comments for action=expandtemplates
 381+
 382+=== Languages updated in 1.18 ===
 383+
 384+MediaWiki supports over 330 languages. Many localisations are updated
 385+regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
 386+changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
 387+
 388+* Angika (anp) (new).
 389+* Brahui (brh) (new).
 390+* Central Dusun (new).
 391+* Jamaican Creole English (jam) (new).
 392+* Khowar (khw) (new).
 393+* Liv (liv) (new).
 394+* Tokipona (tp) (removed) 'tokipona' is still valid.
 395+* (bug 17160) Gender specific display text for User namespace.
 396+* Link trail added for sl and sh.
 397+* (bug 27633) Add characters to linkTrail for Potuguese (pt and pt-br).
 398+* (bug 27426) Set $namespaceGenderAliases for Arabic (ar).
 399+* (bug 27385) Set Polish $namespaceGenderAliases.
 400+* (bug 27681) Set $namespaceGenderAliases for Portuguese (pt and pt-br).
 401+* (bug 27785) Fallback language for Kabardian (kbd) is English now.
 402+* (bug 27825) Raw watchlist edit message now uses formatted numbers.
 403+* (bug 28040) Turkish: properly lower case 'I' to 'ı' (dotless i) and
 404+ uppercase 'i' to 'İ' (dotted i).
 405+* Conversion script between Syllabics and Latin for the Inuktitut language.
 406+* Date formats for Indonesian (id) updated.
 407+
 408+== Compatibility ==
 409+
 410+MediaWiki 1.18 requires PHP 5.2.3. PHP 4 is no longer supported.
 411+
 412+MySQL is the recommended DBMS. PostgreSQL or SQLite can also be used, but
 413+support for them is somewhat less mature. There is experimental support for IBM
 414+DB2 and Microsoft SQL Server.
 415+
 416+The supported versions are:
 417+
 418+* MySQL 4.0 or later
 419+* PostgreSQL 8.3 or later
 420+* SQLite 3
 421+* Oracle 9.0.1 or later
 422+
 423+== Upgrading ==
 424+
 425+1.18 has several database changes since 1.17, and will not work without schema
 426+updates.
 427+
 428+If upgrading from before 1.11, and you are using a wiki as a commons
 429+repository, make sure that it is updated as well. Otherwise, errors may arise
 430+due to database schema changes.
 431+
 432+If upgrading from before 1.7, you may want to run refreshLinks.php to ensure
 433+new database fields are filled with data.
 434+
 435+If you are upgrading from MediaWiki 1.4.x or earlier, some major database
 436+changes are made, and there is a slightly higher chance that things could
 437+break. Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading!
 438+
 439+See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions.
 440+
 441+For notes on 1.17.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
 442+
 443+== Online documentation ==
 444+
 445+Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is available on
 446+MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation License (except
 447+for pages that explicitly state that their contents are in the public domain):
 448+
 449+ http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation
 450+
 451+== Mailing list ==
 452+
 453+A mailing list is available for MediaWiki user support and discussion:
 454+
 455+ http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
 456+
 457+A low-traffic announcements-only list is also available:
 458+
 459+ http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
 460+
 461+It's highly recommended that you sign up for one of these lists if you're
 462+going to run a public MediaWiki, so you can be notified of security fixes.
 463+
 464+== IRC help ==
 465+
 466+There's usually someone online in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net.
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