VisualEditor/changelog

For each weekly production deployment, the VisualEditor team write up a changelog of improvements made to VisualEditor.

2015-09-29 (MW 1.27.0-wmf.1)
VisualEditor was updated as part of the wider MediaWiki 1.27wmf.1 branch deployment on Tuesday, 29 September. In the week since the last deployment, the team focused mainly providing lots of bug fixes and some design tweaks and changes.

Link suggestions will now appear as search results instead of auto suggested list with description (T101169). This also resolves the page scrolling issue when link inspector was opened towards the end of a page which had a long list of link suggestions (T105418). We also moved the buttons (Open, Remove) down the link suggestions list so that they are visible to user (T71690). We changed the tab behavior for dialogs in a way that when users tab across a dialog they wont end up going outside the dialog (T69156).

We fixed a bad bug which meant user was not being able to select anything further after moving the cursor after a focusable node (comment/reference note etc.) (T108299). Earlier in mobile VE the edit conflict detection was not working, this is now fixed (T111894). We fixed several issues with link inspector in mobile VE. One of them was causing link suggestions open up off to the side of the search text box, we fixed this (T113643). Another one meant, link suggestion drop down would close when user tries to scroll through it to see more of those suggestions since it was only opening up on focus (T113636).

We fixed a bug specific to Firefox and Windows 7 where user was not being able to type Korean with dual script keyboard (T72353). Autolink was not getting applied when user pastes URL/ISBN as a listed item and press enter to go to a new line, now this is fixed (T113535).

You can monitor the live results of the automated browser tests (triggered every twelve hours) on our integration server. A complete list of individual code commits is available in the 1.27/wmf.1 changelog, and all tasks closed in this period are on Phabricator's list.