MediaWiki 1.20/wmf1/overview

This is a future version of MediaWiki, which will eventually be deployed in April 2012, and released for other MediaWiki administrators to use sometime after that. Look at the Roadmap for updates and scheduling.

What's new?
Comprehensive list of what's new will be in the release notes.

Probably in 1.20:
 * Gadgets are always loaded through ResourceLoader, which means each module executes in a local (new) scope by default.
 * The upcoming ResourceLoader 2.0 includes a Top load queue (while most of the specifications aren't included in MW 1.19) . This will be first released as part of MediaWiki 1.19. From that release on, the  and   module are loaded from the top, and extensions can add their modules to the top by setting 'position' to 'top' in the array item of

New features in 1.20
generating various tokens.
 * Added TitleIsAlwaysKnown hook which gets called when determining if a page exists. **
 * upload_by_url right can be (globally) restricted to given domains **
 * &useskin=default will now always display the default skin. Useful for users with a preference for the non-default skin to look at something using the default skin.
 * (bug 27619) Remove preference option to display broken links as link?
 * (bug 34896) Update jQuery JSON plugin to v2.3 (2011-09-17)
 * (bug 34302) Add CSS classes to email fields in user preferences.
 * Introduced $wgDebugDBTransactions to trace transaction status (currently PostgreSQL only).
 * (bug 23795) Add parser itself to ParserMakeImageParams hook.
 * Introduce a cryptographic random number generator source api for use when

Bug fixes in 1.20
when we try to set the user's cookies for login. edit which triggered the mail. copy/paste on supporting browsers. history compression method. Special:MyPage and Special:MyTalk. filter. valued parameters in the query string. usages of -s and -n parameters depending on compression type.
 * (bug 30245) Use the correct way to construct a log page title.
 * (bug 34237) Regenerate an empty user_token and save to the database
 * (bug 32210) New edit emails for watched pages always provide a link to the
 * (bug 12021) Added user talk link on Special:Listusers.
 * (bug 34445) section edit and TOC hide/show links are excluded from selection and
 * (bug 34428) Fixed incorrect hash mismatch errors in the DiffHistoryBlob
 * (bug 34702) Localised parentheses are now used in more special pages.
 * (bug 34723) When editing a script page on a RTL wiki the textbox should be LTR.
 * (bug 34762) Calling close on a DatabaseBase object now clears the connection.
 * (bug 34863) Show deletion log extract on non-existent file pages if applicable.
 * (bug 28019) Let ?preloadtitle=foo be passed on to target of
 * (bug 34929) Show the correct diff when a section edit is rejected by the spam
 * (bug 15816) Add a switch for SETting the search_path (Postgres).
 * (bug 34521) Returning to the previous page after logging in loses any array-
 * (bug 34735) Updated compressOld.php documentation to mention the different
 * (bug 13896) Rendering of devanagari numbers in automatic '#' number lists

API changes in 1.20
the format parameter.
 * (bug 34316) Add ability to retrieve maximum upload size from MediaWiki API.
 * (bug 34313) MediaWiki API intro message about "HTML format" should mention

Languages updated in 1.20
MediaWiki supports over 350 languages. Many localisations are updated regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.


 * (bug 34192) Namespace gender aliases for Albanian languages (sq & aln).
 * Mizo (lus) added.

Other changes in 1.20
cookies need to be set. It is also now possible to reset every user's user_token simply by clearing the values in the user_token column.
 * The user_token field is now left empty until a user attempts to login and