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= MediaWiki release notes =
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Security reminder: MediaWiki does not require PHP's register_globals
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setting since version 1.2.0. If you have it on, turn it '''off''' if you can.
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== MediaWiki 1.19 ==
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THIS IS NOT A RELEASE YET
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MediaWiki 1.19 is an alpha-quality branch and is not recommended for use in
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production.
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=== Configuration changes in 1.19 ===
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* Changed LoginAuthenticateAudit hook so that it may be called before a
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valid user is available. In those cases, an anonymouse user object
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will be supplied.
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* Removed SkinTemplateSetupPageCss hook; use BeforePageDisplay instead.
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* (bug 27132) movefile right granted by default to registered users.
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* Default cookie lifetime ($wgCookieExpiration) is increased to 180 days.
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* (bug 31204) Removed old user.user_options.
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* $wgMaxImageArea now applies to jpeg files if they are not scaled with
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ImageMagick.
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* Introduced $wgQueryPageDefaultLimit (defaults to 50) for the number of
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items to show by default on query pages (special pages such as Whatlinkshere).
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* (bug 32470) Increase the length of ug_group.
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* (bug 32239) Removed wgEnableTooltipsAndAccesskeys.
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* Removed $wgVectorShowVariantName.
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=== New features in 1.19 ===
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* (bug 19838) Possibility to get all interwiki prefixes if the interwiki
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cache is used.
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* $wgDnsBlacklistUrls now accepts an array with url and key as the
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elements to work with DNSBLs that require keys, such as
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Project Honeypot.
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* (bug 30022) Add support for custom loadScript sources to ResourceLoader.
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* (bug 19052) Unicode space separator characters (Zs) now terminates external
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links and images links.
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* (bug 30160) Add public method to mw.loader to get module names from registry.
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* (bug 15558) Parameters to special pages included in wikitext can now be passed
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as with templates.
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* Installer now issues a warning if mod_security is present.
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* (bug 29455) Add support for a filter callback function in jQuery byteLimit
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plugin.
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* Added two new GetLocalURL hooks to better serve extensions working on a
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limited type of titles.
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* Added a --no-updates flag to importDump.php that skips updating the links
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tables.
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* Most presentational html attributes like valign are now converted to inline
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css style rules. These attributes were removed from html5 and so we clean
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them up when $wgHtml5 is enabled. This can be disabled using
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$wgCleanupPresentationalAttributes.
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* Magic words (time and number-formatting ones, plus DIRECTIONMARK, but not
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NAMESPACE) now depend on the page content language instead of the site
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language. In theory this sets the right magic words in system messages,
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although they are not used there.
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* (bug 30451) Add page_props to RefreshLinks::deleteLinksFromNonexistent.
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* (bug 30450) Clear page_props table on page deletion.
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* Hook added to check for exempt from account creation throttle.
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* (bug 30344) Add configuration variable for setting custom priorities when
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generating sitemaps.
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* (bug 96170) Add array support for space-separated list attributes (like
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'class') in the Html helper class.
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* (bug 26470) Add checkered background image on hover on files pages.
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* (bug 30774) mediawiki.html: Add support for numbers and booleans in the
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attribute values and element contents.
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* Conversion script between Tifinagh and Latin for the Tachelhit language.
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* (bug 16755) Add options 'noreplace' and 'noerror' to {{DEFAULTSORT:...}}
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to stop it from replace an already existing default sort, and suppress error.
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* (bug 18578) Rewrote revision delete related messages to allow better
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localisation.
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* (bug 30364) LanguageConverter now depends on the page content language
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instead of the wiki content language.
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* Jump links will now be usable in css-capable browsers instead of only
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in outdated text browsers.
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* New common*.css files usable by skins instead of having to copy piles
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of generic styles from MonoBook or Vector's css.
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* Some deprecated presentational html attributes will now be automatically
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converted to css.
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* (bug 31297) Add support for namespaces in Special:RecentChanges subpage filter
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syntax.
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* The default user signature now contains a talk link in addition to the user link.
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* (bug 25306) Add link of old page title to MediaWiki:Delete_and_move_reason.
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* Added hook BitmapHandlerCheckImageArea.
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* (experimental) $wgRealNameInInterface can be enabled to display a user's
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real name in some parts of the interface instead of a username.
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* (bug 30062) Add $wgDBprefix option to cli installer.
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* getUserPermissionsErrors and getUserPermissionsErrorsExpensive hooks are now
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also called when checking for 'read' permission.
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* Introduce $wgEnableSearchContributorsByIP which controls whether searching
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for an IP address redirects to the contributions list for that IP.
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* (bug 8859) Database::update should take array of tables too.
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* (bug 19698) Inverse selection for Special:Contributions.
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* (bug 24037) Add byte length of revision to Special:Contributions.
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* (bug 1672) Added $wgDisableUploadScriptChecks to allow uploading of files
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containing HTML or JS. DISABLING THESE CHECKS IS VERY DANGEROUS.
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* New path mappings can be added using the WebRequestPathInfoRouter hook
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and adding paths to the PathRouter.
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* (bug 32666) Special:ActiveUsers now allows a subpage to be used as the
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username (eg. Special:ActiveUsers/Username)
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* New JavaScript variable wgPageContentLanguage
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* Added new debugging toolbar, enabled with $wgDebugToolbar
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* Differences in the history page now uses slightly better colors for people
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perceiving colors differently. Colors comes from the French Wikipedia.
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* (bug 32879) Upgrade jQuery to 1.7.1
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* jQuery UI upgraded to 1.8.17
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* Extensions can use the 'Language::getMessagesFileName' hook to define new
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languages using messages files outside of core.
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=== Bug fixes in 1.19 ===
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* $wgUploadNavigationUrl should be used for file redlinks if.
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$wgUploadMissingFileUrl is not set. The first was used for this
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until the second was introduced in 1.17.
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* (bug 25355) Parser generates edit section links for special pages.
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* (bug 27894) Move 'editondblclick' event listener down from body to
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div#bodyContent.
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* (bug 30172) The check for posix_isatty() in maintenance scripts did not detect
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when the function exists but is disabled. Introduced
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Maintenance::posix_isatty().
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* (bug 30264) Changed installer-generated LocalSettings.php to use
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require_once() instead require() for included extensions.
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* Do not convert text in the user interface language to another script.
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* (bug 26283) Previewing user JS/CSS pages didn't load other user JS/CSS pages.
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* (bug 11374) Improved diff readability for colorblind people.
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* (bug 26486) ResourceLoader modules with paths to nonexistent files cause PHP
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warnings/notices to be thrown.
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* (bug 30335) Fix for HTMLForms using GET breaking when non-friendly URLs are
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used.
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* (bug 28649) Avoiding half truncated multi-byte unicode characters when
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truncating log comments.
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* Show --batch-size option in help of maintenance scripts that support it
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* (bug 4381) Magic quotes cleaning was not comprehensive, key strings were not
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unescaped.
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* (bug 23057) Importers no longer can 'edit' or 'create' a fully-protected page by
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importing a new revision into it.
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* Allow moving the associated talk pages of subpages even if the base page
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has no subpage.
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* Per page edit-notices now work in namespaces without subpages enabled.
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* (bug 30245) Use the correct way to construct a log page title.
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* (bug 31081) $wgEnotifUseJobQ caused many unnecessary jobs to be queued.
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* (bug 30202) File names are now restricted on upload to 240 bytes, because of
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restrictions on some of the database fields.
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* Timezones are now recognised in user preferences when offset is different
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due to DST.
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* (bug 31692) "summary" parameter now also work when undoing revisions.
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* (bug 18823) "move succeeded" text displayed bluelinks even when redirect was
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suppressed.
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* (bug 31921) Magic words REVISIONDAY, REVISIONMONTH and REVISIONYEAR now give
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current values on preview.
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* (bug 19186) Special:UserLogin's title on Special:SpecialPages now says
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"create account" when the user cannot create an account.
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* (bug 31818) 'usercreated' message now supports GENDER.
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* (bug 32022) Our phpunit.php script can now be executed from another directory.
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* (bug 26020) Setting $wgEmailConfirmToEdit to true no longer removes diffs
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from recent changes feeds.
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* (bug 30232) add current time to message wlnote on Special:Watchlist.
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* (bug 29110) $wgFeedDiffCutoff did not affect new pages.
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* (bug 32168) Add wfRemoveDotSegments for use in wfExpandUrl.
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* (bug 32358) Do not display "No higher resolution available" for dimensionless
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files (like audio files).
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* (bug 32168) Add wfAssembleUrl for use in wfExpandUrl.
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* (bug 32168) fixed - wfExpandUrl expands dot segments now.
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* (bug 31535) Upload comments now truncated properly, and don't have brackets.
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* (bug 32858) Do not register links, categories, etc. from CSS/JS pages in the
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database.
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* (bug 32086) Special:PermanentLink now show an error message when no subpage
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was specified.
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* (bug 30368) Special:Newpages now shows the new page name for moved pages.
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* (bug 1697) The way to search blocked usernames in block log should be clearer.
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* (bug 29747) eAccelerator shared memory caching has been removed since it is
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now disabled by default and is buggy. APC, XCache and WinCache are not affected.
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* Installer now refuses to install if php was not compiled with Ctype support.
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* (bug 29475) Remove "trackback" feature entirely from core.
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* (bug 32665) Special:BlockList prefills the username in the input field if
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using the Special:BlockList/username URL.
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* (bug 27721) Make JavaScript variables wgSeparatorTransformTable and
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wgDigitTransformTable depend on page content language so the sort script
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sorts correctly more often.
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* (bug 32230) Expose wgRedirectedFrom in JavaScript.
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* (bug 31212) History tab not collapsed when the screen is narrow
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* (bug 15521) Use new section summary when the action of adding a new section
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also happens to create the page.
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* (bug 32960) Remove EmailAuthenticationTimestamp from database when a
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email address is removed.
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* (bug 32414) Empty page get a empty bytes attribute in Export/Dump.
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=== API changes in 1.19 ===
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* (bug 19838) siprop=interwikimap can now use the interwiki cache.
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* (bug 29748) Add API search prefix support.
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* (bug 29684) Set forgotten parameter types in ApiQueryIWLinks.
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* (bug 29685) do not output NULL parentid with list=deletedrevs&drprop=parentid.
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* siprop=interwikimap and siprop=languages can use silanguagecode to have
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a best effort language name translation. Use CLDR extension for best result.
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* (bug 30230) action=expandtemplates should not silently override invalid title
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inputs.
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* (bug 18634) Create API to fetch MediaWiki's language fallback tree structure.
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* (bug 26885) Allow show/hide of account blocks, temporary blocks and single IP
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address blocks for list=blocks.
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* (bug 30591) Add support to only return keys in ApiAllMessages.
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* The API now respects $wgShowHostnames and won't share the hostname in
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severedby if it's set to false.
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* wlexcludeuser parameter added to ApiFeedWatchlist.
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* (bug 7304) Links on redirect pages no longer cause the redirect page to show
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up as a redirect to the linked page on Special:Whatlinkshere.
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* (bug 32609) API: Move captchaid/captchaword of action=edit from core
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to Captcha extension(s).
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* Added 'APIGetDescription' hook.
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* (bug 32688) Paraminfo for parameter "generator" of the query module shows too
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many types.
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* (bug 32415) Empty page get no size attribute in API output.
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* (bug 31759) Undefined property notice in querypages API.
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* (bug 32495) API should allow purge by pageids.
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=== Languages updated in 1.19 ===
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MediaWiki supports over 350 languages. Many localisations are updated
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regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
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changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
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* Canadian English (en-ca) (new).
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* Uighur (Latin) (ug-latn) was incorrectly marked as right-to-left language.
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* (bug 30217) Make pt-br a fallback of pt.
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* (bug 31193) Set fallback language of Assamese from Bengali to English.
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* Update date format for dsb and hsb: month names need the genitive.
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* (bug 28643) Serbian variant conversion improvements (Nikola Smolenski).
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* (bug 29405, bug 30809) Lower diacritics are invisible in titles in Indic
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languages Assamese, Bengali, Hindi, Malyalam and Odiya.
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* (bug 32826) Titles in indic languages are partially cut.
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=== Other changes in 1.19 ===
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* jquery.mwPrototypes module was renamed to jquery.mwExtension.
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* The maintenance script populateSha1.php was renamed to the more concise
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populateImageSha1.php
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* The Client-IP header is no longer checked for when trying to resolve a client's
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real IP address.
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* (bug 22096) Although IE5.x and below was already unsupported officially, stylesheets
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existing exclusively for IE5.0 and IE5.5 have now been removed (which were in skins
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'chick' and 'monobook').
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* The constructor for CategoryView has changed, the second parameter is now a
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Context source and is required.
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== Compatibility ==
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MediaWiki 1.19 requires PHP 5.2.3. PHP 4 is no longer supported.
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MySQL is the recommended DBMS. PostgreSQL or SQLite can also be used, but
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support for them is somewhat less mature. There is experimental support for IBM
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DB2 and Microsoft SQL Server.
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The supported versions are:
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* MySQL 5.0.2 or later
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* PostgreSQL 8.3 or later
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* SQLite 3
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* Oracle 9.0.1 or later
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== Upgrading ==
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1.19 has several database changes since 1.18, and will not work without schema
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updates.
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If upgrading from before 1.11, and you are using a wiki as a commons
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repository, make sure that it is updated as well. Otherwise, errors may arise
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due to database schema changes.
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If upgrading from before 1.7, you may want to run refreshLinks.php to ensure
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new database fields are filled with data.
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If you are upgrading from MediaWiki 1.4.x or earlier, some major database
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changes are made, and there is a slightly higher chance that things could
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break. Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading!
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See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions.
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For notes on 1.18.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
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== Online documentation ==
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Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is available on
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MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation License (except
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for pages that explicitly state that their contents are in the public domain):
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http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation
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== Mailing list ==
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A mailing list is available for MediaWiki user support and discussion:
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http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
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A low-traffic announcements-only list is also available:
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http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
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It's highly recommended that you sign up for one of these lists if you're
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going to run a public MediaWiki, so you can be notified of security fixes.
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== IRC help ==
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There's usually someone online in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net.
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