Extension:Realnames/Release notes

This is the changelog for the Extension: extension.

As of 2019, this page is no longer receiving updates, and the release notes in github are not usually provided either. The CHANGELOG file may also no longer be updated.

If there is a release, you will have to look at the changes made for that release in the code, specifically which PRs were merged on github.

0.6.2 (2019-03-11)

 * FEEDBACK NEEDED TO KEEP CONFIGS, SEE NOTE FOR 0.6.0 **

bugfix:
 * fixes #12: fix support for Cyrillic language links (thanks Max Volkov)

note:
 * split out advanced docs from readme.

0.6.1 (2019-02-09)

 * FEEDBACK NEEDED TO KEEP CONFIGS, SEE NOTE FOR 0.6.0 **

bugfix:
 * incremented version display

0.6.0 (2019-02-09)
FEEDBACK NEEDED TO KEEP CONFIGS, SEE NOTE

features:
 * to keep custom styles, new configuration settings for two error states had to be added
 * When user has no realname: $wgRealnamesLinkStyleNoRealname, $wgRealnamesBareStyleNoRealname
 * when username and realname are same: $wgRealnamesLinkStyleSameName, $wgRealnamesBareStyleSameName

bugfix:
 * when no realname, display standard format

breaking:
 * removed support for now-archived Extension:Configure

note:
 * this extension may suffer from too many options, especially as a result of supporting custom styles.
 * If you use any option other than $wgRealnamesLinkStyle, I want to hear from you! If I don't hear from
 * anyone I will assume nobody cares about the options, and I can significantly simplify the testing of the
 * extension down to just to one configuration parameter, $wgRealnamesLinkStyle and remove the rest.


 * email me ofbeaton at gmail dot com

testing:
 * 1.31.1 (LTS)

0.5.1 (2019-02-04)
bugfix:
 * added PersonalUrls hook to wfLoadExtension method. Does not work with Timeless skin. (thanks )

0.5.0 (2019-02-04)
features:
 * you can now load extension using wfLoadExtension( 'Realnames' );

testing:
 * 1.32.0, 1.31.1 (LTS)

0.4.0 (2019-02-03)
features:
 * new $wgRealnamesStyles: dash-reverse, paren-append, paren-reverse
 * all $wgRealnamesStyles now include all user text in the link (create custom style to restore previous behaviour)
 * $wgRealnamesLinkStyle now defaults to paren-reverse (was reverse)

bugfix:
 * fix non-english namespace detection missing colon (thanks Koty, 193.190.131.67)
 * fix RecentChanges/AllUsers/etc which added more html to links (thanks Syserr0r)

testing:
 * 1.31.1 (LTS)

0.3.2 (2019-01-30)
notes:
 * documentation update

0.3.1 (2011-12-25)
bugfix:
 * custom namespace regex (thanks Cweiske)
 * STRICT error with STATIC (thanks Vgold)

notes:
 * removed contrib-agreement, consensus in discussions indicate it's uneeded to remain BSD in shared environment.
 * some progress is being made into core-features for name display, expect some future version to support things like sorting based on realnames (thanks Daniel Friesen)
 * version 0.3 misreported version as 0.2.1, now 0.3.1 (oops, again)

issues:
 * Consensus is that performance could be an issue using current methods. I am currently working on a 2-pass version of the extension to address these issues that will be released as soon as it is ready.

testing:
 * svn trunk 2011-12-26, stable 1.18.0, 1.17.1, 1.16.5, 1.15.5

0.3 (2011-11-05)
features:
 * you can opt-out of replacements using $wgRealnamesReplacements (thanks Salquint)
 * we now have smarts in the form of not displaying "Marry - Marry" text
 * you can change "smart" features like above using $wgRealnamesSmart

bugfix:
 * version 0.2 misreported version as 0.1.1, now 0.3
 * now tied into main debugging framework
 * a missing return statement was causing titles in append style to get garbled

notes:
 * switched to a more permissive and correct bsd-2-clause license agreement for commits
 * added more metadata files

issues:
 * I continue to be concerned with performance on large recentchanges/history since my initial post about it on 2011-09-19. After receiving a few code reviews recently (finally!) the main feedback has been that there may indeed be scalability problems with using newFromName. In my original post (see extension talk page) I proposed two solutions, but haven't heard from anyone experiencing problems yet. I think I may implement a two-pass as described in the next feature version, however it will make the code significantly more complex. I'll hold off on extending those two specific pages until it's confirmed a two-pass isn't enough.

testing:
 * svn trunk 2011-11-05, 1.18.0beta1, 1.17.0, 1.16.5, 1.15.5

0.2 (2011-09-22)
features:
 * replaces username in personnal url bar (where you click login top right vector)
 * allows custom namespace detection $wgRealnamesNamespaces
 * adds support for Extension:Configure (undoc at release)

bugfix:
 * i18n links User: namespaces (thanks Nilsy)
 * support for upcoming 1.18 gendered namespaces
 * title handling for pre 1.16 wiki's
 * custom namespace names

testing:
 * trunk 2011-09-22 stable 1.17.0, 1.16.0, 1.15.5

0.1.1 (2011-09-17)
bugfix:
 * eliminated use of create_function due speed implications (thanks Dantman)
 * changed user caching to realname cache for a smaller memory footprint (thanks Dantman)
 * moved debug handling into class and uses $wgRequest, can expand later for 1.18+ (thanks Dantman)
 * license change to BSD, cc is not recommended for software (says them) (thanks Dantman)
 * fixed author link (backported to 0.1, thanks Dantman)

issues:
 * It may be that this extension is slow on RecentChanges and History pages. If so, I have a solution, but I'd rather not introduce more code if I don't have to. If you experience noticable slowdowns on these pages please let me know at olivier dot beaton at gmail dot com

0.1 (2011-09-17)
initial tested pages:
 * Special:ListUsers
 * old and new Special:RecentChanges
 * Special:Search of the User: space
 * History of page
 * Revisions list of page
 * Revision view of page
 * Revision Compare
 * Page header + html title (limited)
 * Should integrate into any page where user links are found

issues:
 * Always destructive of User: text, new config in future release?
 * improve bare detection on users with spaces or underscores in names (article titles and html title)