MediaWiki 1.22/Known issues

These are known issues in the current version of that we plan to have fixes for in 1.22.3:


 * Oracle database support is broken.
 * - Status: NEW
 * Problems with Postgres support:
 * - Status: UNCONFIRMED
 * - Status: NEW
 * User:Saper thinks these can be fixed by providing "FOR UPDATE table" support
 * [New UserLogin] Messages 'loginstart', 'loginend' and 'login-https' missing
 * - Status: NEW
 * MediaWiki installer displays broken links
 * - Status: Fixed in master - BACKPORT NEEDED
 * Installer should enable img_auth.php for private wikis
 * : This is a feature request and is inappropriate for a point release. It should be requested for 1.23.
 * mysqli: Non-standard port handling broken
 * - Status: Review in master
 * Job queue handling on each request changed, and it wasn't mentioned in release notes
 * - Status: NEW
 * On-request job queue may cause server to hang in some installations
 * - Status: RESOLVED - BACKPORT NEEDED
 * Job queue on page request does not work for shared code (wiki farms), because it doesn't pass additional required parameters to runJobs.php to identify the wiki that's running the job
 * - Status: NEW
 * - If there are extra extensions added to the extension directory, and one of them doesn't have a descriptionmsg set, fatal error "Non-string key given" occurs
 * - Uncommitted DB writes (transaction from DatabaseBase::query)
 * Mobile front end doesn't use the SkinAfterBottomScripts hook.
 * - Deprecate Skin::bottomScripts, move use of SkinAfterBottomScripts hook to OutputPage::getBottomScripts