Extension:Realnames/Release notes

This is the changelog for the Extension: extension. This extension is pay-what-you want, please consider purchasing it.

http://olivierbeaton.com/mediawiki#realnames

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any comments, issues, suggestions or complaints.

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)