Mediawiki v1.13.0.rc1 Release Notes
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- ๐ $wgForwardSearchUrl has been removed entirely. Documented setting since 1.4 has been $wgSearchForwardUrl.
- (bug 14907) DatabasePostgres::fieldType now defined.
- (bug 14966) Fix SearchEngineDummy class for silently non-functional search on Sqlite instead of horribly fatal error breaky one.
- ๐ (bug 14987) Only fix double redirects on page move when the checkbox is checked
- (bug 13376) Use $wgPasswordSender, not $wgEmergencyContact, as return address for page update notification mails.
- API: Registration time of users registered before the DB field was created is now shown as empty instead of the current time.
- ๐ (bug 14904): fragments were lost when redirects were fixed.
- Added magic word STATICREDIRECT to suppress the redirect fixer
- โช (bug 15035) Revert English linkTrail to /[a-z]+(.*)$/sD, as it was before r36253. Multiple reports of breakage due to old (pre-5.0) PCRE libraries, both bundled with PHP and packaged with distros such as RHEL.
- (bug 14944) Shell invocation of external programs such as ImageMagick convert was broken in PHP 5.2.6, if the server had a non-UTF-8 locale.
=== ๐ง Configuration changes in 1.13 ===
- ๐ New option $wgFeed can be set false to turn off syndication feeds
- (bug 5745) Special:Whatlinkshere now shows up to $wgMaxRedirectLinksRetrieved links through each redirect instead of hardcoded 500
- โ Set $wgUploadSizeWarning to false by default
- โ Added $wgLBFactoryConf, for generic configuration of multi-master wiki farms
- โ Removed $wgAlternateMaster, use $wgLBFactoryConf
- (bug 13562) Misspelled option $wgUserNotifedOnAllChanges changed to $wgUserNotifiedOnAllChanges
- (bug 12860) New option $wgSitemapNamespaces allows sitemaps to be generated for only some namespaces
- โ Removed the emailconfirmed implicit group by default. To re-add it, use: $wgAutopromote['emailconfirmed'] = APCOND_EMAILCONFIRMED; in your LocalSettings.php.
- ๐ง (bug 2396) New shared database configuration variables. $wgSharedPrefix allows you to use a shared database with a different prefix. Or you can now use a local database and use prefixes to separate wiki and the shared tables. And the new $wgSharedTables variable allows you to specify a list of tables to share.
- Automatic edit summaries can be disabled with $wgUseAutomaticEditSummaries
- Duplicates of images are now shown on the image page
- $wgRCFilterByAge allows for the list of dates in recent changes special pages to be filtered to only those within the range of $wgRCMaxAge
- $wgRCLinkLimits and $wgRCLinkDays allow for customization of the list and limits displayed on the recent changes special pages
- The "createpage" permission is no longer required when uploading if the target image page already exists
- ๐ $wgMaximumMovedPages restricts the number of pages that can be moved at once (default 100) with the new subpage-move functionality of Special:Movepage
- 0๏ธโฃ Hooks display in Special:Version is now disabled by default, use $wgSpecialVersionShowHooks = true; to enable it.
- $wgActiveUserEditCount sets the number of edits that must be performed over a certain number of days to be considered active
- $wgActiveUserDays is that number of days
- ๐ $wgRateLimitsExcludedGroups has been deprecated in favor of $wgGroupPermissions[]['noratelimit']. The former still works, however.
- ๐ New $wgGroupPermissions option 'move-subpages' added to control bulk-moving subpages along with pages. Assigned to 'user' and 'sysop' by default.
- ๐ New $wgRC2UDPOmitBots allows user to omit bot edits from UDP output. Default: false
- โ Removed $wgEnableCascadingProtection option. Disabling cascading protection is no longer possible.
- $wgMessageCacheType defines now the type of cache used by the MessageCache class, previously it was choosen based on $wgParserCacheType
- $wgExtensionAliasesFiles option to simplify adding aliases to special pages provided by extensions, in a similar way to $wgExtensionMessagesFiles
- โ Added $wgXMLMimeTypes, an array of XML mimetypes we can check for with MimeMagic.
- โ Added $wgDirectoryMode, which allows for setting the default CHMOD value when creating new directories.
- 0๏ธโฃ (bug 14843) $wgCookiePrefix can be set by LocalSettings now, false defaults current behavior.
=== ๐ New features in 1.13 ===
- HIDDENCAT on a category page causes the category to be hidden on the article page
- Do not show edit permissions errors on a red link click, just redirect to the article. This is so that readers who don't know what a red link is are not confused when they are told they are range-blocked.
- โ Add a new hook ImageBeforeProduceHTML to allow extensions to modify wikitext image syntax output
- (bug 13100) Added 'preloadtitle' parameter to action=edit§ion=new that pre-fills the section title field
- (bug 13112) Added Special:RelatedChanges alias to Special:RecentChangesLinked
- ๐ (bug 13130) Moved edit token and autosummary fields above edit tools to reduce broken form submissions
- โ Add --old-redirects-only option to maintenance/refreshLinks.php, to add old redirects to the redirect table
- โ Add links to page and file deletion forms to edit predefined delete reasons
- (bug 13269) Added MediaWiki:Uploadfooter to the bottom of Special:Upload
- (bug 2815) Search results for media now use thumbnail instead of text extract
- When a page doesn't exist, the tab should say "create", not "edit"
- (bug 12882) Added a span with class "patrollink" around "Mark as patrolled" link on diffs
- Magic word formatnum can now take raw suffix to undo formatting
- โ Add updatelog table to reliably permit updates that don't change the schema
- โ Add category table to allow better tracking of category membership counts ** (bug 1212) Give correct membership counts on the pages of large categories ** ๐ Use category table for more efficient display of Special:Categories
- (bug 1459) Search for duplicate files by hash: Special:FileDuplicateSearch
- (bug 9447) Added hooks for search result headings
- 0๏ธโฃ Image redirects are now enabled by default
- (bug 13450) Email confirmation can now be canceled before the expiration
- (bug 13490) Show upload/file size limit on upload form
- Redesign of Special:UserRights
- ๐ฒ Make rev_deleted log entries more intelligible
- (bug 6943) Added PAGESINCATEGORY: magic word
- (bug 13604) Added Special:ListGroupRights
- (bug 6332, 8617) Added message 'mainpage-description' as duplicate of 'mainpage' and added it to message 'sidebar'
- Automatically add old redirects to the redirect table when needed
- (bug 6934) Allow inclusions, links, redirects to be separately toggled on or off on Special:WhatLinksHere
- Cache image redirects
- (bug 10457) Organize Special:SpecialPages into sections
- โ Add a new hook EditPageBeforeConflictDiff to allow extensions like FCKeditor to modify the output for edit conflicts
- โ Add class="nested" for s so fieldsets inside fieldsets get a slightly less huge margin and padding
- (bug 13527) Use sitemaps.org format 0.9 instead of a Google-specific format
- ๐ Allow \C and \Q as TeX commands to match \R, \N, \Z
- ๐ On Special:UserRights, when you can add a group you can't remove or remove one you can't add, a notice is printed to warn you
- ๐ (bug 12698) Create PAGESIZE parser function, to return the size of a page
- ๐ Allow the "log in / create account" link in the toolbar to have different text from Special:UserLogin title (new message 'nav-login-createaccount')
- ๐ฒ Say "log in / create account" if an anonymous user can create an account, otherwise just "log in", consistently across skins
- Special:Shortpages and Special:Longpages now returns pages in all content namespaces, not just NS_MAIN.
- (bug 889) Improve conflict-handling between shared upload repository and local one
- ๐ Update documentation links in auto-generated LocalSettings.php
- (bug 13584) The new hook SkinTemplateToolboxEnd was added.
- ๐ (bug 709) Cannot rename/move images and other media files [EXPERIMENTAL]
- โช Custom rollback summaries now accept the same arguments as the default message
- (bug 12542) Added hooks for expansion of Special:Listusers
- โฌ๏ธ Drop-down AJAX search suggestions (turn on $wgEnableMWSuggest)
- More relevant search snippets (turn on $wgAdvancedSearchHighlighting)
- (bug 13950) Allow users to watch the user/talk pages of users they block.
- ๐ (bug 13970) Allow MonoBook-based skins to specify their own print stylesheet
- ๐ Show image links on Special:Whatlinkshere
- ๐ Use rel="start", "prev", "next" appropriately on Pager-based pages
- โ Add support for SQLite
- AutoAuthenticate hook renamed to UserLoadFromSession
- ๐ (bug 13232) importScript(), importStylesheet() funcs available to custom JS
- (bug 13095) Search by first letters or digits in [[Special:Categories]]
- ๐ Users moving a page can now move all subpages automatically as well
- (bug 14259) Localisation message for upload button on Special:Import is now 'import-upload' instead of 'upload'
- โ Add information about user group membership to Special:Preferences
- (bug 14146) Wrap usage section on imagepages into s.
- ๐ New layout for Special:Specialpages. Restricted pages are marked but not separated from other pages in their group.
- โช (bug 14263) Show a diff of the revert on rollback notification page.
- โ (bug 13434) Show a warning when hash identical files exist
- Sidebar is now cached for all languages
- The User class now contains a public function called isActiveEditor. Figures out if a user is active based on at least $wgActiveUserEditCount number of edits in the last $wgActiveUserDays days.
- SpecialSearchResults hook now passes results by reference, so they can be changed by extensions.
- โ Add a new hook LinkerMakeExternalLink to allow extensions to modify the output of external links.
- (bug 14132) Allow user to disable bot edits from being output to UDP.
- (bug 14328) jsMsg() within Wikibits now accepts a DOM object, not just a string
- (bug 14558) New system message (emailuserfooter) is now added to the footer of e-mails sent with Special:Emailuser
- โ Add support for Hijri (Islamic) calendar
- โ Add a new hook LinkerMakeExternalImage to allow extensions to modify the output of external (hotlinked) images.
- (bug 14604) Introduced the following features for the LanguageConverter: Multi-tag support, single conversion flag, remove conversion flag on a single page, description flag, variant name, multi-variant fallbacks.
- โ Add zh-mo and zh-my variants for the zh language
- (bugs 4832, 9481, 12890) Special:Recentchangeslinked now has all options that are in Special:Recentchanges
- ๐ Allow an $error message to be passed to ArticleDelete hook
- ๐ Allow extensions to modify the user creation form by calling addInputItem();
- โ Add meta generator tag to HTML output
- MediawikiPerformAction hook is now passed the Mediawiki object
- โ Added blank special page Special:BlankPage for benchmarking, etc.
- Foreign repo file descriptions and thumbnails are now cached.
- (bug 11732) Allow localisation of edit button images
- ๐ Allow the search box, toolbox and languages box in the Monobook sidebar to be moved around arbitrarily using special sections in [[MediaWiki:Sidebar]]: SEARCH, TOOLBOX and LANGUAGES
- โ Add a new hook NormalizeMessageKey to allow extensions to replace messages before the database is potentially queried
- (bug 9736) Redirects on Special:Fewestrevisions are now marked as such.
- ๐ New date/time formats in Cs localization according to ฤSN and PฤP.
- Special:Recentchangeslinked now includes changes to transcluded pages and displayed images; also, the "Show changes to pages linked" checkbox now works on category pages too, showing all links that are not categorizations
- ๐ (bug 4578) Automatically fix redirects broken by a page move
=== ๐ Bug fixes in 1.13 ===
- (bug 10677) Add link to the file description page on the shared repository
- (bug 13084) Increase size of source/destination filename fields in upload form
- ๐จ (bug 13115) rebuildrecentchanges should print the current value of $wgRCMaxAge
- (bug 13140) Show parent categories in category namespace
- (bug 13149) Correctly format 'fileexists' message on Upload page
- 0๏ธโฃ Make the default filepageexists message accurate
- (bug 12988) $wgMinimalPasswordLength no longer breaks create user by email
- (bug 13022) Fix upload from URL on PHP 5.0.x
- (bug 13132) Unable to unprotect pages protected with earlier versions of MediaWiki
- (bug 12723) OpenSearch description name now uses more compact language code to avoid passing the length limit as often, is customizable per site via 'opensearch-desc' message.
- (bug 13135) Special:Userrights now passes IDs through form submission to allow functionality on not-quite-right usernames
- ๐ฒ (bug 12575) Prevent duplicate patrol log entries from being created
- (bug 13174) HIDDENCAT now applies only to category pages
- (bug 13031) Add links to user pages in e-mail form
- (bug 13147) Description for categoriespagetext (used in Special:Categories) reworded
- โช (bug 11561) Fix fatal error when calling action=revert to non-image page
- (bug 12430) Fix call to private method LinkFilter::makeRegex fatal error in maintenance/cleanupSpam.php
- All skins should have the "mediawiki" class on the body element
- (bug 13019) Message cache for some extensions not loaded at time of editing
- (bug 13247) Prettified ISBN links
- ๐ง maintenance/refreshLinks.php did not fix page_id 1 with the --new-only option
- (bug 13110) Don't show "Permission error" page if the edit is already rolled back when using rollback
- (bug 13012) Use content messages for block options when generating the recentchanges entry
- (bug 13274) Change links for messages to ucfirst
- (bug 13273) Un-hardcode some punctuation (add new messages colon-separator, autocomment-prefix)
- ๐ Parse MediaWiki message translations with a correct language setting on preview
- (bug 13281) Treat X-Forwarded-For, Client-ip and User-Agent headers as case-insensitive names.
- โ Adding the fix for lists in RTL wikis to more skins, and fixing the image toc
- ๐ (bug 8157) Remove redirects from Special:Unusedtemplates. Patch by WebBoy.
- (bug 10721) Duplicate section anchors with differing case now disambiguated for Internet Explorer's sake and standards compliance
- (bug 13298) Tighter limits on Special:Newpages limits when embedding
- ๐ป Email subject in content language instead of sending user's UI language
- ๐ง (bug 13251) Allow maintenance rebuild scripts to work with Postgres
- ๐ (bug 2084) Fixed incorrect regex to match redirects
- (bug 3131) Manually-specified upload destination filename is no longer overwritten by browsing for a file after you wrote it.
- (bug 7251) Sidebars generated by MediaWiki:Sidebar now have the class 'generated-sidebar'.
- (bug 13265) Media handler is missing 'image/x-bmp'
- (bug 13407) MediaWiki:Powersearch is used in two places
- (bug 13403) Fix cache invalidation of history pages when old revisions change
- ๐ (bug 11563) Deprecated SearchMySQL4 class; merged code to SearchMySQL
- (bug 12801) Fix link in subtitle message in AJAX search
- (bug 13428) Fix regression in protection form layout HTML validity
- (bug 9403) Sanitize newlines from search term input
- (bug 13429) Separate date and time in message sp-newimages-showfrom
- (bug 13137) Allow setting 'editprotected' right separately from 'protect', so groups may optionally edit protected pages without having 'protect' perms
- Disallow deletion of big pages by means of moving a page to its title and using the "delete and move" option.
- (bug 13466, 13632) White space differences not shown in diffs
- (bug 1953) Search form now honors namespace selections more reliably
- (bug 12294) Namespace class renamed to MWNamespace for PHP 5.3 compatibility
- PHP 5.3 compatibility fix for wfRunHooks() called with no parameters
- (bug 6447) Trackbacks now work with transactional tables, if enabled
- (bug 6892, 7147) Trackback error handling, optional fields more robust
- (bug 6813) Don't break HTML validator when using trackbacks
- ๐ Fix for size checks on SVG images with global 'stroke-width' attribute
- (bug 11874) Inline CSS with !important no longer borken
- (bug 1600) Strip extra == section markup == in new-comment field
- (bug 11325) Wrapped page titles in MonoBook skin spaced more nicely
- (bug 12077) Fix HTML nesting for TOC
- (bug 344) Purge cache for talk/article pages when deleting the other tab
- (bug 13436) Treat image captions correctly when they include option keywords (like ending with "px" or starting with "upright")
- ๐ Trackback display formatting fixed
- Don't die when single-element arrays are passed to SQL query constructors that have an array index other than 0
- ๐ (bug 13522) Fix fatal error in Parser::extractTagsAndParams
- โช (bug 13532) Use proper timestamp call when reverting images
- โก๏ธ (bug 13543) Updated FAQ link in the installer sidebar
- (bug 13540) Date format in confirmation e-mail now matches message language
- (bug 13554) PHP Notice in old pre-processor when list item is empty.
- (bug 13556) Don't show a blank form if no image is attached in Special:Upload
- ๐ง (bug 13576) maintenance/rebuildrecentchanges.php fails
- (bug 13441) Allow Special:Recentchanges to show bots only
- (bug 13431) Show true message source in Special:Allmessages&ot=php / xml
- (bug 13463) Login successful page doesn't use user's preferred interface language
- โ (bug 13630) Fixed warnings for pass by reference at call time in Special:Revisiondelete when generating the log entry.
- (bug 12064) BeforePageDisplay hook is now called for all skins
- (bug 13624) Fix regression with manual thumb= parameter on images
- (bug 11039) Add missing labels on protection form
- (bug 13458) Preview/edit toolbar spacing now works consistently
- (bug 13433) Fix action=render on Image: pages
- (bug 13678) Fix CSS validation for Monobook
- (bug 13684) Links in Special:ListGroupRights should be in content language
- (bug 13690) Fix PHP notice on accessing some URLs
- Hide (undo) link if user isn't able to edit page
- Invalidate cache of pages that includes images via redirects on upload
- โช (bug 13705) Don't show rollback link in page history on incorrect revisions
- (bug 13708) Don't set "Search results" title when loading Special:Search without query
- (bug 13736) Don't show MediaWiki:Anontalkpagetext on non-existent IP addresses
- (bug 13728) Don't trim initial whitespace during section edits
- ๐ฒ (bug 13727) Don't delete log entries from recentchanges on page deletion
- (bug 13752) Redirects to sections now work again
- (bug 13725) Upload form watch checkbox state set correctly with wpDestFile
- (bug 13756) Don't show the form and navigation links of Special:Newpages if the page is included
- When hiding things on WhatLinksHere, generated URLs should hide them too
- Properly escape search terms with regex chars so they appear highlighted in search results
- ๐ (bug 13768) pt_title field encoding fixed
- Do not display empty columns on Special:UserRights if all groups are changeable or all unchangeable
- ๐ Fix fatal error on calling PAGESINCATEGORY with invalid category name
- (bug 13793) Special:Whatlinkshere filters wrong - after paginating instead of before
- (bug 13796) Show links to parent pages even if some of them are missing
- (bug 13816) Filter by main namespace doesn't work on WhatLinksHere
- (bug 13822) Fatal error on some pages when calculating subpage subtitle
- (bug 13824) AJAX search suggestion now works with non-SkinTemplate skins
- โ Added 'application/x-dia-diagram' MediaWiki's known MIME types
- (bug 13866) skins/common/shared.css - invalid attribute fixing
- Hide edit section links on Special:Undelete
- (bug 13860) Fix "Justify paragraphs" option for Modern skin
- (bug 13168) accessibility links in Modern skin link to wrong anchor id
- (bug 13185) No line break after 'subpages' class in Modern skin
- (bug 13583) No "poweredby" in Modern skin
- ๐จ (bug 13880) "Printable" link in Modern skin now formats as print mode
- 0๏ธโฃ (bug 13885) Bump default $wgSVGMaxSize from 1024 to 2048 pixels
- (bug 13891) Show categories box even if all categories are hidden and user has "show hidden categories" option on
- (bug 13915) Undefined variable $wltsfield in includes/SpecialWatchlist.php
- (bug 13913) Special:Whatlinkshere now has correct HTML markup
- (bug 13905) Blacklist Mac IE from HttpOnly cookies; it eats them sometimes
- (bug 13922) Fix bad HTML on empty Special:Prefixindex and Special:Allpages
- (bug 13924) Fix bad HTML on power search form
- (bug 13820) Fix updater for rev_parent_id population
- (bug 13925) Fix bad HTML on search results list
- (bug 13934) Fixing the link to GNU General Public License Version 2
- ๐ Show correct accesskey prefix for Firefox 3 beta (Alt-Shift-, not Alt-)
- (bug 13949) Special:PrefixIndex/AllPages paging links contain invalid XML
- 0๏ธโฃ (bug 13770) Use Preprocessor_Hash by default to avoid missing DOM module errors
- (bug 13982) Disable ccmeonemails preference when user-to-user mails disabled
- โก๏ธ (bug 13615) Update case mappings and normalization to Unicode 5.1.0 Note that case mappings will only be used if mbstring extension is not present.
- (bug 14044) Don't increment page view counters on views from bot users
- ๐ฒ (bug 14042) Calling Database::limitResult() misplaced the comment in the log file
- (bug 14047) Fix regression in installer which hid DB-specific options Also makes SQLite path configurable in the installer.
- (bug 13546) Follow image redirects on image page
- (bug 12644) Template list on edit page now sorted on preview
- ๐ (bug 14058) Support pipe trick for namespaces and interwikis with "-"
- Message name filter on Special:Allmessages now case-insensitive
- (bug 13943) Fix image redirect behavior on image pages
- ๐ (bug 14093) Do 'sysop' => 'protect' magic in Title::isValidMoveOperation
- (bug 14063) Power search form missing for redirects check
- โ (bug 14111) Similar filename warning links now lead to correct page
- ๐ป (bug 14082) Fix for complex text input vs AJAX suggestions on some browsers
- (bug 13693) Categories sometimes claim to have a negative number of members
- (bug 1701) Korean Hangul syllables now broken down properly in Category lists even if the wiki's overall content language is not Korean
- (bug 12773) addOnloadHook() now calls functions immediately when scripts are loaded after the primary page completion, instead of dropping them
- (bug 14199) Fix deletion form for image redirect pages
- (bug 14220) Disabling $wgCheckFileExtensions now works without also disabling $wgStrictFileExtensions
- (bug 14241) Pages can no longer be protected to levels you are not in
- (bug 14296) Fix local name of ang: (Anglo-Saxon)
- ๐ (bug 4871) Hardcoded superscript in time zone preferences moved to message
- (bug 6957) E-mail confirmation links now using English special page name for better compatibility and keeping the links shorter. Avoids problem with corrupt links in Gmail on IE 6.
- ๐ (bug 14273) Fix for HTTP Accept header parsing with spaces as from Konqueror
- โก๏ธ (bug 14312) Update LanguageKaa.php for handling transform issues with i to ฤฐ and I to ฤฑ
- 0๏ธโฃ (bug 13826) MediaWiki:Defaultns accepts Wikicode
- (bug 14324) Creating an account is again possible with $wgEmailConfirmToEdit set to true
- (bug 13034) Interwiki pages can now be reached using Go search button
- (bug 14362) Change interwiki names of Erzya and Moksha Wikipedias
- (bug 14370) When a grouppage-x message does not exist the entry on the ListGroupRights special page now links to the project namespace page for it, not the main namespace page.
- (bug 11659) Urldecode image names in galleries
- (bug 14258, 14368) Fix for subpage renames in replication environments
- (bug 14367) Failed block no longer adds phantom watchlist entry
- ๐ (bug 14385) "Move subpages" option no longer tries to move to invalid titles
- (bug 14386) Fix subpage namespace oddity when moving a talk page
- (bug 11771) Signup form now not shown if in read-only mode.
- ๐ (bug 12859) $wgRateLimitsExcludedGroups has been deprecated in favor of $wgGroupPermissions[]['noratelimit'].
- (Bug 13828) Split parameter $1 of MediaWiki:Missingarticle into $1 (=title) and $2 (=revision numbers)
- ๐ (bug 14401) Fix Safari access key tooltips for Windows and >3.1 Mac versions
- (bug 14432) Fix notice regression in Special:Newpages feed mode
- (bug 11951) EditPage::getEditToolbar() is now static.
- (bug 14392) Fix regression breaking table prefix in installer
- โก๏ธ (bug 11084) $wgDBprefix replacement for updater SQL will now work for extension tables using uppercase letters or digits in their names.
- (bug 12311) Fix regression with lists at start of undeletion preview
- ๐ (bug 14496) Fix regression with parseinline on Special:Upload.
- We no longer just give up on a missing upload base directory; it's now created automatically if we have sufficient permissions!
- (bug 14479) MediaWiki:upload-maxfilesize should have a div id wrapper
- (bug 14497) Throw visible errors in installer scripts when SQL files fail due to database permission or other error
- (bug 14500) Site feed (Recentchanges) no longer shows up on the actual recent changes page.
- (bug 14511) MediaWiki:Delete-legend is no longer double escaped
- Generate correct section anchors for numeric headers
- (bug 14520) Don't load nonexistent CSS files for Chick/Myskin/Simple skins
- โ (bug 14551) Cancel upload no longer automatically suppresses warnings
- ๐ (bug 13878) Deprecate Article::getDB() in favor of direct wfGetDB() calls
- (bug 4977) Fix for possible squid purging errors when using HTTP purges and multiple servers
- (bug 14572) Redirects listed on file links on image pages no longer redirect.
- (bug 14537) Change interwiki name for Old Church Slavonic (cu)
- (bug 14583) Fix regression in recent changes "limit to certain categories."
- (bug 14515) HTML nesting cleanup on edit form
- ๐ (bug 14647) Removed unused 'townBox' CSS classes
- ๐ (bug 14687) OutputPage::addStyle() now adds type="text/css" like it should.
- OpenSearch cleanup; Firefox now sends you to the search page for empty searches instead of the domain root (which may not even be a wiki).
- ๐ (bug 3481) Pages moved shortly after creation are shown at their new title on Special:Newpages.
- (bug 12716) Trying to unprotect a title that isn't protected no longer generates a log entry.
- (bug 14088) Excessively long block expiry times are rejected as invalid, keeps the log page from being distorted.
- (bug 14708) Emulate INSERT...IGNORE with standard SQL for Postgres backend.
- (bug 14646) Fix some double-escaping of HTML in feed output
- (bug 14709) Fix login success message formatting when using cookie check
- ๐ (bug 14710) Remove "donate" link from default sidebar
- (bug 14745) Image moving works on sites that transform thumbnails via 404
- (bug 2186) Document.write() in wikibits caused failures when using application/xhtml+xml. The calls to this have been removed.
- (bug 14764) Fix regression in from Article::lastModified(), failed to work on non-mySQL schemas.
- (bug 14763) Child classes of Database (DatabasePostgres and DatabaseOracle) had strict standards issues with setFakeSlaveLag() and setFakeMaster().
- (bug 451) Improve the phrase mappings of the Chinese converter arrays.
- ๐ฒ (bug 12487) Rights log is not fully internationalized
- (bug 10837) Language variants no longer override other languages than base
- (bug 14778) 'limit' parameter now applies to history feeds as well as history pages
- (bug 14845) Bug in prefs javascript: Calling an array item without checking its existance.
- Accesskeys for minor edit/watch checkboxes on edit now work in Firefox 3
- ๐ง (bug 12384) Comments in maintenance/*php
- ๐ง (bug 12441) ./maintenance/generateSitemap.php fix -fspath requiring a trailing slash.
- ๐ง (bug 12568) configuration script now produce valid XHTML.
- The accesskey to edit a page is now disabled when editing the page, to pre- vent conflicts with Safari shortcuts.
=== API changes in 1.13 ===
- ๐ Fixing main page display in meta=siteinfo
- (bug 13128) Added patrolled flag to list=recentchanges
- Implemented {bl,ei,iu}redirect (lists links through redirects as well)
- (bug 13154) Introduced subpages flag to meta=siteinfo&siprop=namespaces
- (bug 13157) Added ucuserprefix parameter to list=usercontribs
- (bug 12394) Added rctitles parameter to list=recentchanges, making rcid retrieval easier
- (bug 13218) Fix inclusion of " character in hyperlinks
- โ Added watch and unwatch parameters to action=delete and action=move
- โ Added action=edit
- (bug 11401) Added xmldoublequote to xml formatter
- โ Added rvsection parameter to prop=revisions to allow fetching the content of a certain section only
- Introduced list=allimages
- ๐ (bug 13371) Build page set from image hashes
- Mark non-existent messages in meta=allmessages as missing
- (bug 13390) One invalid title no longer kills an entire API query
- (bug 13419) Fix gblredirect so it actually works
- (bug 13418) Disable eiredirect because it's useless
- (bug 13395) list=allcategories should use category table
- (bug 13442) Missing pages in prop=langlinks and prop=extlinks are now handled properly.
- (bug 13444) Add description to list=watchlist
- (bug 13482) Disabled search types handled properly
- โ Added inprop=talkid,subjectid to prop=info
- โ Added help text message that specifies whether a module is POST-only
- โ Added createonly parameter to action=edit
- Replaced $wgAPIUCUserPrefixMinLength by the more generic $wgAPIMaxDBRows
- ๐ (bug 11719) Remove trailing blanks in YAML output.
- (bug 13541) Added siprop=specialpagealiases to meta=siteinfo
- โ Added fallback8bitEncoding and readonly fields to meta=siteinfo&siprop=general output
- ๐ (bug 13544) Added prop=revid to action=parse
- (bug 13603) Added siprop=usergroups to meta=siteinfo
- Cleaned up redirect resolution
- โ Added possibility to obtain all external links through list=exturlusage
- (bug 13606) Added archivename to iiprop
- (bug 11633) Explicitly convert redirect titles to strings due to PHP's very weak typing on array keys.
- (bug 12136) Extend allowed characters in JSON callback to ][.'"_A-Za-z0-9
- (bug 11673) Return error 'unknown_action' in specified format
- (bug 13618) Added rcprop=redirect and rcshow=redirect to list=recentchanges
- ๐ (bug 13544) Added oldid parameter to action=parse to allow for parsing of old revisions
- (bug 13718) Return the proper continue parameter for cmsort=timestamp
- action=login now returns the correct waiting time in the details property
- (bug 13792) Broken titles are now silently skipped in search results.
- (bug 13819) exturlusage paging skipped an item
- ๐ Fixed handling of usernames containing spaces in list=block
- ๐ (bug 13836) Fixed fatal errors resulting from combining iiprop=metadata with format=xml
- (bug 13735) Added prop=categoryinfo module
- (bug 13945) Retrieve cascading protection sources via inprop=protection
- (bug 13965) Hardcoded 51 limit on titles is too limiting
- (bug 13993) apfrom doesn't work with apdir=descending
- (bug 14018) Introduced alcontinue to list=alllinks to improve paging
- (bug 14013) Added rcshow=patrolled to list=recentchanges
- (bug 14028) Added language attribute to interwiki map in meta=siteinfo
- (bug 14022) Added usprop=registration and auprop=blockinfo
- ๐ (bug 14021) Removed titles= support from list=backlinks (has been obsolete for ages)
- ๐ (bug 13829) Expose parse tree via action=expandtemplates
- (bug 13606) Allow deletion of images
- โ Added iiprop=mime and aiprop=metadata
- ๐ Handled unrecognized values for parameters more gracefully
- ๐ Handled requesting disallowed tokens more gracefully
- (bug 14140) URL-encoded page titles are now decoded in edit summaries
- (bug 14243) Only accept post requests in action=edit; patch by HardDisk
- action=block now returns an ISO8601 timestamp, like all other modules do
- โ Added md5 parameter to action=edit
- ๐ฒ (bug 14335) Logging in to unified account using API not possible
- โ Added action=emailuser to send an email to a user
- ๐ (bug 14471) Use HTMLTidy and generate limit report in action=parse
- (bug 14459) Added prependtext and appendtext parameters to action=edit
- (bug 14526) Unescaped SQL in list=backlinks
- โ Added 'hidden' flag to list=allcategories and prop=categoryinfo output
- โ Added nocreate parameter to action=edit
- (bug 14402) Added maxage and smaxage parameters to api.php
- โ Added bkip parameter to list=blocks
- (bug 14651) apprefix and similar parameters are now canonicalized
- โ Added clprop=timestamp to prop=categories
- (bug 14678) API errors now respects $wgShowExceptionDetails and $wgShowSQLErrors
- (bug 14723) Added time zone and writing direction to meta=siteinfo
- โ Added APIQueryInfoTokens and APIQueryRevisionsTokens hooks so extensions can add their own tokens
- โ Added block and unblock tokens to prop=info as well
- โ Added paging (limit and continue parameters) to prop={links,templatelinks,langlinks,extlinks,categories,images}
- โ Added flag "top" to list=usercontribs if the user is the last contributor to the page
- list=exturlusage in "list all links" mode can now filter by protocol