Forum:MediaWiki 1.15.1 upgrade/changelog

New features in 1.15
for the current page for a given action to automatically add a summary or a minor edit. Special:UserLogin/signup, the messages can now contain HTML to allow hyperlinking to the site's Terms of Service page, for example from the database. existing block when modifying an existing block. rather than hardcoded HTML tags extensions to alter the SQL query which is used to get the list of wanted pages specialpages recursed through until the "destination" page is reached. special pages. link instead of Go button & Search button content language. set to false. can now be determined and set with ParserOptions. "mw-confirmemail-pending" parser functions to return the desired namespace or normalized title/title part for a given title. rest of the font class "mw-searchresult" LanguageConverter class) "mw-line-odd" and "mw-line-even" to make styling using css possible.  this information will be public  the active users data from site_stats.  'ellipsis' message  'mw-editinginterface'  of image description pages as the list of duplicated files is shown in the   next section anyway.  rate limits.  Mediawiki:Shared-repo-name-REPONAME, where REPONAME is the name in   $wgForeignFileRepos  username  with class 'mw-specialpage-summary'  of $wgSpamRegex for edit summary checks. Text checks still use $wgSpamRegex.  LanguageConverter class) $wgRedirectOnLogin of the displayed revision's author user name a $linkType parameter for the type of external link being made with dynamic dates. dateformat parser function. to 5000 pages) enabled. Image width and height are now recognized, and when using ImageMagick,  optional flattening to PNG or JPEG for inline display can be enabled by setting  $wgTiffThumbnailType  'mw-log-user', respectively  usernames during registration (such as "@")  used in Special:UserRights to denote the user should be searched for  on a different database  line
 * (bug 2242) Add an expiry time to temporary passwords
 * (bug 9947) Add PROTECTIONLEVEL parser function to return the protection level
 * (bug 17002) Add &minor= and &summary= as parameters in the url when editing,
 * (bug 16852) padleft and padright now accept multiletter pad characters
 * When using 'UserCreateForm' hook to add new checkboxes into
 * Add new hook 'UserLoadFromDatabase' that is called while loading a user
 * (bug 17045) Options on the block form are prefilled with the options of the
 * (bug 17055) "(show/hide)" links to Special:RevisionDelete now use a CSS class
 * Added new hook 'WantedPages::getSQL' into SpecialWantedpages.php to allow
 * (bugs 16957/16969) Add show/hide to preferences for RC patrol options on
 * (bug 11443) Auto-noindex user/user talk pages for blocked user
 * (bug 11644) Add $wgMaxRedirects variable to control how many redirects are
 * Add $wgInvalidRedirectTargets variable to prevent redirects to certain
 * Use HTML5 rel attributes for some links, where appropriate
 * Added optional alternative Search form look - Go button & Advanced search
 * (bug 2314) Add links to user custom CSS and JS to Special:Preferences
 * More helpful error message on raw page access if PHP_SELF isn't set
 * (bug 13040) Gender switch in user preferences
 * (bug 13040) magic word for interface messages
 * (bug 3301) Optionally sort user list according to account creation time
 * Remote description pages for foreign file repos are now fetched in the
 * (bug 17180) If $wgUseFileCache is enabled, $wgShowIPinHeader is automatically
 * (bug 16604) Mark non-patrolled edits in feeds with "!"
 * (bug 16604) Show title/rev in IRC for patrol log
 * (bug 16854) Whether a page is being parsed as a preview or section preview
 * Wrap message 'confirmemail_pending' into a div with CSS classes "error" and
 * (bug 8249) The magic words for namespaces and pagenames can now be used as
 * (bug 17110) Styled #mw-data-after-content in cologneblue.css to match the
 * (bug 7556) Time zone names in signatures lack i18n
 * (bug 3311) Automatic category redirects
 * (bug 17236) Suppress 'watch user page link' for IP range blocks
 * Wrap message 'searchresulttext' (Special:Search) into a div with
 * (bug 15283) Interwiki imports can now fetch included templates
 * Treat svn:// URLs as external links by default
 * New function to convert namespace text for display (only applies on wiki with
 * (bug 17379) Contributions-title is now parsed for magic words.
 * Preprocessor output now cached in memcached.
 * (bug 14468) Lines in classic RecentChanges and Watchlist have classes
 * (bug 17311) Add a note beside the gender selection menu to tell users that
 * Localize time zone regions in Special:Preferences
 * Add NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS magic word, which is like NUMBEROFUSERS, but uses
 * Add a tag on redirected page views
 * Replace hardcoded '...' as indication of a truncation with the
 * Wrap warning message 'editinginterface' into a div with class
 * (bug 17497) Oasis opendocument added to mime.types
 * Remove the link to Special:FileDuplicateSearch from the "file history" section
 * Added $wgRateLimitsExcludedIPs, to allow specific IPs to be whitelisted from
 * (bug 14981) Shared repositories can now have display names, located at
 * Special:ListUsers: Sort list of usergroups by alphabet
 * (bug 16762) Special:Movepage now shows a list of subpages when possible
 * (bug 17585) Hide legend on Special:Specialpages from non-privileged users
 * Added $wgUseTagFilter to control enabling of filter-by-change-tag
 * (bug 17291) MediaWiki:Nocontribs now has an optional $1 parameter for the
 * Wrap special page summary message '$specialPageName-summary' into a div
 * $wgSummarySpamRegex added to handle edit summary spam. This is used *instead*
 * New function to convert content text to specified language (only applies on wiki with
 * (bug 17844) Redirect users to a specific page when they log in, see
 * Added a link to Special:UserRights on Special:Contributions for privileged users
 * (bug 10336) Added new magic word, which displays the editor
 * LinkerMakeExternalLink now has an $attribs parameter for link attributes and
 * (bug 17785) Dynamic dates surrounded with a tag, fixing sortable tables
 * (bug 4582) Provide preference-based autoformatting of unlinked dates with the
 * (bug 17886) Special:Export now allows you to export a whole namespace (limited
 * (bug 17714) Limited TIFF upload support now built in if 'tif' extension is
 * Renamed two input IDs on Special:Log from 'page' and 'user' to 'mw-log-page' and
 * Added $wgInvalidUsernameCharacters to disallow certain characters in
 * Added $wgUserrightsInterwikiDelimiter to allow changing the delimiter
 * Add a class if 'missingsummary' is triggered to allow styling of the summary

Bug fixes in 1.15
before trying to delete the edit. the destination page exists been disabled LanguageConverter class) LanguageConverter class) allowed by default. Change $wgInvalidRedirectTargets to re-enable. to 'administrator' "user contributions" comment label uses better message LocalSettings error messages on save were the edit in fact is saved. for identical files at different titles are still given. certain designations, which are displayed on various summaries of changes, and the entries can be styled with CSS. results for category names that include pseudo-namespaces configs history and RevisionDeleteForm::__construct longer affects the page title cache is enabled. maintenance/cleanupWatchlist.php use correct message 'allpagesprefix' for input form label, replace _ with ' ' in next page link used as a parameter in 'sharedupload' for easier styling and customization. now point to the actual contributors' feed. $wgExportMaxLinkDepth == 0 redirects (was previously one more than $wgMaxRedirects) changed to rc_timestamp_bot on IE will do a fulltext search like clicking the button does it unreadable in RTL PostgreSQL toolbar present queue displayed revision if it's not the current one namespace is given, silently falls back to NS_MAIN no longer corrupts the message cache two "page" parameters don't use PathInfo or short urls $wgScriptExtension IS NULL you cut-and-paste article text "Previous edit" diff links target' involved redirects. Without this, infinite recursion within the parser is possible. directory is wrong. pg_version bug. to the installer.
 * (bug 16968) Special:Upload no longer throws useless warnings.
 * (bug 17000) Special:RevisionDelete now checks if the database is locked
 * (bug 16852) padleft and padright now handle multibyte characters correctly
 * (bug 17010) maintenance/namespaceDupes.php now add the suffix recursively if
 * (bug 17035) Special:Upload now fails gracefully if PHP's file_uploads has
 * Fixing the caching issue by using -{T|xxx}- syntax (only applies on wiki with
 * Improving the efficiency by using -{A|xxx}- syntax (only applies on wiki with
 * (bug 17054) Added more descriptive errors in Special:RevisionDelete
 * (bug 11527) Diff on page with one revision shows "Next" link to same diff
 * (bug 8065) Fix summary forcing for new pages
 * (bug 10569) redirects to Special:Mypage and Special:Mytalk are no longer
 * (bug 3043) Feed links of given page are now preceded by standard feed icon
 * (bug 17150) escapeLike now escapes literal \ properly
 * Inconsistent use of sysop, admin, administrator in system messages changed
 * (bug 14423) Check block flag validity for block logging
 * DB transaction and slave-lag avoidance tweaks for Email Notifications
 * (bug 17104) Removed [Mark as patrolled] link for already patrolled revisions
 * (bug 17106) Added 'redirect=no' and 'mw-redirect' class to redirects at
 * Rollback links on new pages removed from "user contributions"
 * (bug 15811) Re-upload form tweaks: license fields removed, destination locked,
 * Whole HTML validation ($wgValidateAllHtml) now works with external tidy
 * Parser tests no longer fail when $wgExternalLinkTarget is set in
 * (bug 15391) catch DBQueryErrors on external storage insertion. This avoids
 * (bug 17184) Remove duplicate "z" accesskey in MonoBook
 * Parser tests no longer fail when $wgAlwaysUseTidy is set in LocalSettings.php
 * Removed redundant dupe warnings on reupload for the same title. Dupe warnings
 * Add 'change tagging' facility, where changes can be tagged internally with
 * (bug 17207) Fix regression breaking category page display on PHP 5.1
 * Categoryfinder utility class no longer fails on invalid input or gives wrong
 * (bug 17252) Galician numbering format
 * (bug 17146) Fix for UTF-8 and short word search for some possible MySQL
 * (bug 7480) Internationalize database error message
 * (bug 16555) Number of links to mediawiki.org scaled back on post-installation
 * (bug 14938) Removing a section no longer leaves excess whitespace
 * (bug 17304) Fixed fatal error when thumbnails couldn't be generated for file
 * (bug 17283) Remove double URL escaping in show/hide links for log entries
 * (bug 17105) Numeric table sorting broken
 * (bug 17231) Transcluding special pages on wikis using language conversion no
 * (bug 6702) Default system messages updated/improved
 * (bug 17190) User ID on preference page no longer has delimeters
 * (bug 17341) "Powered by MediaWiki" should be on the left on RTL wikis
 * (bug 17404) "userrights-interwiki" right was missing in User::$mCoreRights
 * (bug 7509) Separation strings should be configurable
 * (bug 17420) Send the correct content type from action=raw when the HTML file
 * (bug 12746) Do not allow new password e-mails when wiki is in read-only mode
 * (bug 17478) Fixed a PHP Strict standards error in
 * (bug 17488) RSS/Atom links in left toolbar are now localized in classic skin
 * (bug 17472) use print <<<EOF in maintenance/importTextFile.php
 * Special:PrefixIndex: Move table styling to shared.css, add CSS IDs to tables
 * (bug 17506) Exceptions within exceptions now respect $wgShowExceptionDetails
 * Fixed excessive job queue utilisation
 * File dupe messages for remote repos are now shown only once.
 * (bug 14980) Messages 'shareduploadwiki' and 'shareduploadwiki-desc' are now
 * (bug 17482) Formatting error in Special:Preferences#Misc (Opera)
 * (bug 17556) parameters in Special:Contributions feeds (RSS and Atom)
 * ForeignApiRepos now fetch MIME types, rather than trying to figure it locally
 * Special:Import: Do not show input field for import depth if
 * (bug 17570) $wgMaxRedirects is now correctly respected when following
 * (bug 16335) __NONEWSECTIONLINK__ magic word to suppress new section link.
 * (bug 17581) Wrong index name in PostgreSQL's updater: was rc_timestamp_nobot,
 * (bug 17437) Fixed incorrect link to web-based installer
 * (bug 17538) Use shorter URLs in elements
 * (bug 13778) Hidden input added to the search form so that using the Enter key
 * (bug 1061) CSS-added icons next to links display through the text and makes
 * Special:Wantedtemplates now works on PostgreSQL
 * (bug 14414) maintenance/updateSpecialPages.php no longer throws error with
 * (bug 17546) Correct Tongan language native name is "lea faka-Tonga"
 * (bug 17621) Special:WantedFiles has no link to Special:Whatlinkshere
 * (bug 17460) Client ecoding is now correctly set for PostgreSQL
 * (bug 17648) Prevent floats from intruding into edit area in previews if no
 * (bug 17692) Added (list of members) link to 'user' in Special:Listgrouprights
 * (bug 17707) Show file destination as plain text if &wpForReUpload=1
 * (bug 10172) Moved setting of "changed since last visit" flags out of the job
 * (bug 17761) "show/hide" link in page history in now works for the first
 * (bug 17722) Fix regression where users are unable to change temporary passwords
 * (bug 17799) Special:Random no longer throws a database error when a non-
 * (bug 17751) The message for bad titles in WantedPages is now localized
 * (bug 17860) Moving a page in the "MediaWiki" namespace using SuppressRedirect
 * (bug 17900) Fixed User Groups interface log display after saving groups.
 * (bug 17897) Fixed string offset error in tags
 * (bug 17778) MediaWiki:Catseparator can now have HTML entities
 * (bug 17676) Error on Special:ListFiles when using Postgres
 * Special:Export doesn't use raw SQL queries anymore
 * (bug 14771) Thumbnail links to individual DjVu pages have two no longer have
 * (bug 17972) Special:FileDuplicateSearch form now works correctly on wikis that
 * (bug 17990) trackback.php now has a trackback.php5 alias and works with
 * (bug 14990) Parser tests works again with PostgreSQL
 * (bug 11487) Special:Protectedpages doesn't list protections with pr_expiry
 * (bug 18018) Deleting a file redirect leaves behind a malfunctioning redirect
 * (bug 17537) Disable bad zlib.output_compression output on HTTP 304 responses
 * (bug 11213) [edit] section links in printable version no longer appear when
 * (bug 17405) "Did you mean" to mirror Go/Search behavior of original request
 * (bug 18116) 'edittools' is now output identically on edit and upload pages
 * (bug 17241) The diffonly URI parameter should cascade to "Next edit" and
 * (bug 16823) 'Sidebar search form should not use Special:Search view URL as
 * (bug 16343) Non-existing, but in use, category pages can be "go" match hits
 * Fixed the circular template inclusion check, was broken when the loop
 * (bug 17611) Provide a sensible error message on install when the SQLite data
 * (bug 16937) Fixed PostgreSQL installation on Windows, workaround for upstream
 * (bug 11451) Fix upgrade from MediaWiki 1.2 or earlier (imagelinks schema).
 * Fixed SQLite indexes, installation and upgrade. Reintroduced it as an option
 * (bug 18170) Fixed a PHP warning in Parser::preSaveTransform in PHP 5.3
 * (bug 8873) Enable variant conversion in text on 'alt' and 'title' attributes

API changes in 1.15
and listing all deleted pages possible created the page, even if it's not the top revision Building query properly now using makeList autolinked correctly of performance concerns and list=logevents limit and still set a query-continue in some cases aliases already listed in siprop=namespaces conversion rules is set without read rights, but throw an error when they try to use them. when someone tries to use them a POST request message to be included in the page text
 * (bug 16858) Revamped list=deletedrevs to make listing deleted contributions
 * (bug 16844) Added clcategories parameter to prop=categories
 * (bug 17025) Add "fileextension" parameter to meta=siteinfo&siprop=
 * (bug 17048) Show the 'new' flag in list=usercontribs for the revision that
 * (bug 17069) Added ucshow=patrolled|!patrolled to list=usercontribs
 * action=delete respects $wgDeleteRevisionsLimit and the bigdelete user right
 * (bug 15949) Add undo functionality to action=edit
 * (bug 16483) Kill filesort in ApiQueryBacklinks caused by missing parentheses.
 * (bug 17182) Fix pretty printer so URLs with parentheses in them are
 * (bug 17224) Added siprop=rightsinfo to meta=siteinfo
 * (bug 17239) Added prop=displaytitle to action=parse
 * (bug 17317) Added watch parameter to action=protect
 * (bug 17007) Added export and exportnowrap parameters to action=query
 * (bug 17326) BREAKING CHANGE: Changed output format for iiprop=metadata
 * (bug 17355) Added auwitheditsonly parameter to list=allusers
 * (bug 17007) Added action=import
 * BREAKING CHANGE: Removed rctitles parameter from list=recentchanges because
 * Listing (semi-)deleted revisions and log entries as well in prop=revisions
 * (bug 11430) BREAKING CHANGE: Modules may return fewer results than the
 * (bug 17357) Added movesubpages parameter to action=move
 * (bug 17433) Added bot flag to list=watchlist&wlprop=flags output
 * (bug 16740) Added list=protectedtitles
 * Added mainmodule and pagesetmodule parameters to action=paraminfo
 * (bug 17502) meta=siteinfo&siprop=namespacealiases no longer lists namespace
 * (bug 17529) rvend ignored when rvstartid is specified
 * (bug 17626) Added uiprop=email to list=userinfo
 * (bug 13209) Added rvdiffto parameter to prop=revisions
 * Manual language conversion improve: Now we can include both ";" and ":" in
 * (bug 17795) Don't report views count on meta=siteinfo if $wgDisableCounters
 * (bug 17774) Don't hide read-restricted modules like action=query from users
 * Don't hide write modules when $wgEnableWriteAPI is false, but throw an error
 * BREAKING CHANGE: action=purge requires write rights and, for anonymous users,
 * (bug 18099) Using appendtext to edit a non-existent page causes an interface
 * (bug 18601) generator=backlinks returns invalid continue parameter
 * (bug 18597) Internal error with empty generator= parameter
 * (bug 18617) Add xml:space="preserve" attribute to relevant tags in XML output