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@ -5,39 +5,45 @@ setting since version 1.2.0. If you have it on, turn it '''off''' if you can.
== MediaWiki 1.19 ==
THIS IS NOT A RELEASE YET
MediaWiki 1.19 is a large release that contains many new features and bug
fixes. This is a summary of the major changes of interest to users.
You can consult the RELEASE-NOTES-1.19 file for the full list of changes in
this version.
This is a beta release of the MediaWiki 1.19 branch. Please test it and let us
know what you think of it. Beta releases are not recommended for use in
production.
Our thanks go to everyone who helped to improve MediaWiki by testing the beta
release and submitting bug reports.
=== Changes since 1.19 beta 2 ===
* Special:Watchlist no longer sets links to feed when the user is anonymous
* (bug 35565) Special:Log/patrol doesn't indicate whether patrolling was
automatic
* Special:Watchlist no longer sets links to feed when the user is anonymous.
* (bug 35961) Hash comparison should always be strict.
* Fix broken email confirmation expiration caused by MWCryptRand changes.
* (bug 35671) PHP Notice: Undefined index: gettoken in includes/api/ApiMain.php
on line 598.
* (bug 36042) 'show' causes a fatal in blocks API.
=== Changes since 1.19 beta 1 ===
* (bug 35014) Including a special page no longer sets the page's title to the
included page.
* (bug 35019) Edit summaries are no longer transformed in notification e-mails.
* (bug 35152) Help message for e-mail is shown again in user preferences.
included page
* (bug 35019) Edit summaries are no longer transformed in notification e-mails
* (bug 35152) Help message for e-mail is shown again in user preferences
* (bug 34887) $3 and $4 parameters are now substituted correctly in message
"movepage-moved".
"movepage-moved"
* (bug 34841) Edit links are no longer displayed when display old page versions
* (bug 34889) User name should be normalized on Special:Contributions.
* (bug 34889) User name should be normalized on Special:Contributions
* (bug 35051) If heading has a trailing space after == then its name is not
preloaded into edit summary on section edit.
preloaded into edit summary on section edit
* (bug 31417) New ID mw-content-text around the actual page text, without categories,
contentSub, ... The same div often also contains the class mw-content-ltr/rtl.
* (bug 35303) Proxy and DNS blacklist blocking works again
* (bug 35294) jquery.byteLimit shouldn't set element specific variables outside
the "return this.each" loop.
* (bug 22555) Remove or skip strip markers from tag hooks like <nowiki> in
core parser functions which operate on strings, such as padleft.
* (bug 18295) Don't expose strip markers when a tag appears inside a link
inside a heading.
* (bug 34212) ApiBlock/ApiUnblock allow action to take place without a token
parameter present.
* (bug 34907) Fixed exposure of tokens through load.php that could have facilitated
CSRF attacks
CSRF attacks.
* (bug 35317) CSRF in Special:Upload.
=== Configuration changes in 1.19 ===
* Removed SkinTemplateSetupPageCss hook; use BeforePageDisplay instead.
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* (bug 32239) Removed $wgEnableTooltipsAndAccesskeys.
* Removed $wgVectorShowVariantName.
* Removed $wgExtensionAliasesFiles. Use $wgExtensionMessagesFiles.
* Removed $wgResourceLoaderInlinePrivateModules, now always enabled.
* Removed $wgResourceLoaderInlinePrivateModules , now always enabled.
=== New features in 1.19 ===
* (bug 19838) Add ability to get all interwiki prefixes also if the interwiki
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200 status code instead of 404 for nonexistent articles.
* (bug 33447) Link to the broken image tracking category from Special:Wantedfiles.
* (bug 27724) Add timestamp to job queue.
* (bug 30339) Implement SpecialPage for running javascript tests. Disabled by default,
due to tests potentially being harmful, not to be run on a production wiki.
* (bug 30339) Implement SpecialPage for running javascript tests. Disabled by default, due to
tests potentially being harmful, not to be run on a production wiki.
Enable by setting $wgEnableJavaScriptTest to true.
* Extensions can use the RequestContextCreateSkin hook to override what skin is
loaded in some contexts.
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* Special:MovePage now has a dropdown menu for namespaces.
* (bug 34420) Special:Version now shows git HEAD sha1 when available.
* (bug 33952) Refactor mw.toolbar to allow dynamic additions at any time.
* Now possible to specify separate section title and edit summary when adding
a new section to a page via the edit API action.
=== Bug fixes in 1.19 ===
* $wgUploadNavigationUrl should be used for file redlinks if.
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* (bug 28936, bug 5280) Broken or invalid titles can't be removed from watchlist.
* (bug 34600) Older skins using useHeadElement=false were broken in 1.18.
* (bug 34604) [mw.config] wgActionPaths should be an object instead of a numeral
array.
array.* (bug 12262) Indents and lists are now aligned
* (bug 29753) mw.util.tooltipAccessKeyPrefix should be alt-shift for Chrome
on Windows
* (bug 12262) Indents and lists are now aligned
* (bug 25095) Special:Categories should also include the first relevant item
when "from" is filled.
* (bug 34972) An error occurred while changing your watchlist settings for
[[Special:WhatLinksHere/Example]]
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calling action=purge&forcelinkupdate.
* (bug 34377) action=watch now parses messages using the correct title instead
of "API".
* (bug 35036) ResourceLoaderWikiModule should auto-update when messages (created
or overwritten) in the MediaWiki namespace change.
* (bug 35036) WikiLove messages were not automatically updated in JavaScript
after having been changed on-wiki due to a bug in core
=== Languages updated in 1.19 ===
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amount of user/site scripts that are lacking dependency information. In the short to
medium term these user/site scripts should be fixed by adding the used modules to the
dependencies in the module registry and/or wrapping them in a callback to mw.loader.using.
* MediaWiki now requires MySQL 5.0.2 or later when using a MySQL database.
== Compatibility ==