Release notes/1.22

= MediaWiki release notes =

Security reminder: MediaWiki does not require PHP's register_globals. If you have it on, turn it off if you can.

MediaWiki 1.22
THIS IS NOT A RELEASE YET MediaWiki 1.22 is an alpha-quality branch and is not recommended for use in production.

Configuration changes in 1.22

 * $wgRedirectScript was removed. It was unused.
 * Removed $wgLocalMessageCacheSerialized, it is now always true.
 * $wgVectorUseIconWatch is now enabled by default.
 * $wgCascadingRestrictionLevels was added.
 * ftps, ssh, sftp, xmpp, sip, sips, tel, sms, bitcoin, magnet, urn, and geo have been whitelisted inside of $wgUrlProtocols.
 * $wgDocType and $wgDTD have been removed and are no longer used for the DOCTYPE.
 * $wgHtml5 is no longer used by core. Setting it to false will no longer disable HTML5. It is still set to true for extension compatibility but doing so in extensions is deprecated.
 * $wgXhtmlDefaultNamespace is no longer used by core. Setting it will no longer change the xmlns used by MediaWiki. Reliance on this variable by extensions is deprecated.
 * $wgHandheldStyle was removed.
 * $wgHandheldForIPhone was removed.
 * $wgJsMimeType is no longer used by core. Most usage has been removed since HTML output is now exclusively HTML5.
 * $wgDBOracleDRCP added. True enables persistent connection with DRCP on Oracle.
 * $wgLogAutopatrol added to allow disabling logging of autopatrol edits in the logging table. default for $wgLogAutopatrol is true.
 * The 'edit' right no longer allows for editing a user's own CSS and JS.
 * New rights 'editmyusercss', 'editmyuserjs', 'viewmywatchlist', 'editmywatchlist', 'viewmyprivateinfo', 'editmyprivateinfo', and 'editmyoptions' restrict actions that were formerly allowed by default. They have been added to the default for $wgGroupPermissions['*'].
 * The 'editprotected' right no longer allows bypassing of all page protection restrictions. Any group using it for this purpose will now need to have all the individual rights listed in $wgRestrictionTypes for the same effect.
 * The 'protect' and 'autoconfirmed' rights are no longer used for the default page protection levels. The rights 'editprotected' and 'editsemiprotected' are now used for this purpose instead.

New features in 1.22

 * (bug 44525) mediawiki.jqueryMsg can now parse (whitelisted) HTML elements and attributes.
 * (bug 33454) Language::sprintfDate now has a timezone parameter, and supports the "eIOPTZ" formatting characters.
 * EditWarning: A warning is shown when an editor leaves the edit form without saving (enabled by default, users can opt-out via the 'useeditwarning' preference). This feature was moved from the Vector extension, and is now part of core for all skins. Take care when upgrading that you don't use an older version of the Vector extension as this feature may conflict.
 * New 'mediawiki.ui' CSS module providing mw-ui-* styles for buttons and a compact vertical form layout.
 * New versions of login (Special:UserLogin) and create account (Special:UserLogin/signup) forms using the "vform" compact vertical form layout. These forms use new messages that assume a "Help logging in" link, see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Page_customizations; https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Account_creation_user_experience/Strings lists the message key changes.
 * (bug 23343) Implemented ability to apply IP blocks to the contents of X-Forwarded-For headers by adding a new configuration variable $wgApplyIpBlocksToXff (disabled by default).
 * The new hook 'APIGetPossibleErrors' to modify the list of possible errors was added.
 * (bug 25592) LogEventsList::showLogExtract will now ignore various Pager-related WebRequest parameters by default, as this is overwhelmingly likely to be what was intended by users of the method. If any caller wishes to use these parameters, the new param 'useRequestParams' may be set to true.
 * mw.util.addPortletLink: Tooltip is no longer required to be plain (without an accesskey in it already). As such it now rountrips. Creating a link with a message as tooltip, grabbing the title attribute and using it to create another portlet will work as expected.
 * (bug 6747)   introduced, contains the name of the topmost page without namespace.
 * BREAKING CHANGE: (bug 41729) Display editsection links next to headings. Also change their class name from .editsection to .mw-editsection and place them at the end of the heading element instead of the beginning. Client-side code and screen-scrapers will have to be adjusted to handle both cases (old HTML will still be visible on cached page renders until they are purged); extensions using the DoEditSectionLink or EditSectionLink hooks might need adjustments as well.
 * (bug 45535) introduced the new 'LanguageLinks' hook for manipulating the language links associated with a page before display.
 * Chosen (http://harvesthq.github.io/chosen/) was added as module 'jquery.chosen'
 * HTMLForm will turn multiselect checkboxes into a Chosen interface when setting cssclass 'mw-chosen'
 * rebuildLocalisationCache learned --lang option. Let you rebuild l10n caches of the specified languages instead of all of them.
 * New GetNewMessagesAlert hook allowing extensions to disable or modify the new messages alert
 * New wgUserNewMsgRevisionId JS global for logged in users. This will be null if the user has no new talk page messages. Otherwise it will be set to the revision ID of the oldest new talk page message. This will allow gadgets and extensions to create their own new message alerts on the client side.
 * mediawiki.log: Added log.warn wrapper (uses console.warn and console.trace).
 * mediawiki.log: Implemented log.deprecate. This method defines a property and uses ES5 getter/setter to emit a warning when they are used.
 * $wgCascadingRestrictionLevels was added, allowing one to specify restriction levels which can be cascading (previously 'sysop' was hard-coded as the only one).
 * XHTML5 support has been improved. If you set $wgMimeType = 'application/xhtml+xml' MediaWiki will try outputting markup acording to XHTML5 rules.
 * New hook 'TitleSquidURLs' for manipulating the list of URLs to be purged from HTTP caches when a page is changed.
 * Changed the patrolling system to always show the link for patrolling in case the current revision is patrollable. This also removed the usage of the rcid URI parameters.
 * Oracle DB backend now supports Database Resident Connection Pooling (DRCP). Can be enabled by setting $wgDBOracleDRCP=true. Requires Oracle DB 11gR1 or above, enabled DRCP inside the DB itself and a propper connect string. More about DRCP can be found at: http://www.oracle-base.com/articles/11g/database-resident-connection-pool-11gr1.php
 * Add a new parameter $patrolFooterShown to hook ArticleViewFooter so the hook handlers can take further action based on the status of the patrol footer
 * A new hook TitleQuickPermissions was added to allow overriding of quick permissions in the Title class.
 * LinkCache singleton can now be altered or cleared, letting one to specify another instance that does not rely on a database backend.
 * MediaWiki's PHPUnit tests can now use PHPUnit installed using composer --dev.
 * New user rights have been added to increase granularity in rights management for extensions such as OAuth:
 * editmyusercss controls whether a user may edit their own CSS subpages.
 * editmyuserjs controls whether a user may edit their own JS subpages.
 * viewmywatchlist controls whether a user may view their watchlist.
 * editmywatchlist controls whether a user may edit their watchlist.
 * viewmyprivateinfo controls whether a user may access their private information (e.g. registered email address, real name).
 * editmyprivateinfo controls whether a user may change their private information.
 * editmyoptions controls whether a user may change their preferences.
 * Add new hook AbortTalkPageEmailNotification, this will be used to determine whether to send the regular talk page email notification
 * (bug 46513) Vector: Add the collapsibleTabs script from the Vector extension.
 * Added $wgRecentChangesFlags for defining new flags for RecentChanges and watchlists.
 * (bug 40518) mw.toolbar: Implemented mw.toolbar.addButtons for adding multiple button objects in one call.
 * Rights used for the default protection levels ('sysop' and 'autoconfirmed') are now used just for that purpose, instead of overloading other rights. This allows easy granting of the ability to edit sysop-protected pages without also granting the ability to protect and unprotect.
 * (bug 48256) Make brackets in section edit links accessible to CSS. They are now wrapped in.
 * (bug 8480) Allow handler specific parameters in galleries (like page number)

Bug fixes in 1.22

 * Disable Special:PasswordReset when $wgEnableEmail is false. Previously one could still navigate to the page by entering the URL directly.
 * (bug 47138) Fixed a fatal error when a blocked user tries to automatically create an account on login due external authentication in some circumstances.
 * (bug 23393) HTML  headings containing line breaks are now handled correctly.
 * (bug 45803) Whitespace within == Headline == syntax and within  headings is now non-significant and not preserved in the HTML output.
 * (bug 47218) Special:BlockList now handles correctly user names with spaces when passed as subpage.
 * Pager's properly validate which fields are allowed to be sorted on.
 * mw.util.tooltipAccessKeyRegexp: The regex now matches "option-" as well. Support for Mac "option" was added in 1.16, but the regex was never updated.
 * (bug 46768) Usernames of blocking users now display correctly, even if numeric.
 * (bug 39590) for the current page and self-transclusions now show the most up to date result always instead of being a revision behind.
 * A bias in wfRandomString toward digits 1-7 has been corrected. Generated strings will now start with digits 0 and 8-f as often as they should.
 * (bug 45371) Removed Parser_LinkHooks and CoreLinkFunctions classes.
 * (bug 41545) Allow, , and to be nested like allowed in html.
 * PLURAL magic word no longer causes a PHP notice when no matching form exists.
 * (bug 36641) Patrol page links no longer show on non-existent revisions.
 * (bug 35810) Pages not linked from Special:RecentChanges or Special:NewPages are patrollable now.
 * (bug 30213) JavaScript for search suggestions is now disabled when the API is disabled, and AJAX patrolling and watching are now disabled when use of the write API is not allowed.
 * (bug 48294) API: Fix chunk upload async mode.
 * (bug 46749) Broken files tracking category removed from pages if an image with that name is uploaded.
 * (bug 14176) System messages that are empty were previously incorrectly treated as non-existent, causing a fallback to the default. This stopped users from overriding system messages to make them blank.
 * (bug 48319) action=parse no longer returns an error if passed none of 'oldid', 'pageid', 'page', 'title', and 'text' (e.g. if only passed 'summary'). A warning will instead be issued if 'title' is non-default, unless no props are requested.
 * Special:Recentchangeslinked will now include upload log entries
 * (bug 41281) Fixed ugly output if file size could not be extracted for multi-page media.
 * (bug 50315) list=logevents API module will now output log entries by anonymous users.
 * (bug 38911) Handle headers with rowspan in jquery.tablesorter
 * (bug 658) Converted the table of contents on wiki pages from  to   and adjusted skin CSS accordingly. The CSS was carefully crafted to be backwards-compatible in all reasonable cases (uses of the  magic word, the #toc CSS id and the .toc CSS class). However, particularly bad abuse of the id or the class can possibly break.
 * CSSJanus now supports rgb, hsl, rgba, and hsla color syntaxes.
 * Special:Listfiles can no longer be sorted by image name when filtering by user in miser mode.

API changes in 1.22

 * (bug 25553) The JSON output formatter now leaves forward slashes unescaped to improve human readability of URLs and similar strings. Also, a "utf8" option is now provided to use UTF-8 encoding instead of hex escape codes for most non-ASCII characters.
 * (bug 46626) xmldoublequote parameter was removed. Because of a bug, the parameter has had no effect since MediaWiki 1.16, and so its removal is unlikely to impact existing clients.
 * (bug 47216) action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=skins will now indicate which skin is the default and which are unusable (e.g. listed in $wgSkipSkins).
 * (bug 25325) Added support for wlshow filtering (bots/anon/minor/patrolled) to action=feedwatchlist.
 * WDDX formatted output will actually be formatted (and normal output will no longer be), and will no longer choke on booleans.
 * action=opensearch no longer silently ignores the format parameter.
 * action=opensearch now supports format=jsonfm.
 * list=usercontribs&ucprop=ids will now include the parent revision id.
 * BREAKING CHANGE: action=parse no longer returns all langlinks for the page with prop=langlinks by default. The new effectivelanglinks parameter will request that the LanguageLinks hook be called to determine the effective language links.
 * BREAKING CHANGE: list=allpages, list=langbacklinks, and prop=langlinks do not apply the new LanguageLinks hook, and thus only consider language links stored in the database.
 * (bug 47219) Allow specifying change type of Wikipedia feed items
 * prop=imageinfo now allows setting iiurlheight without setting iiurlwidth
 * prop=info now adds the content model and page language of the title.
 * New upload log entries will now contain information on the relevant image (sha1 and timestamp).
 * (bug 49239) action=parse now can parse in preview and section preview modes.
 * (bug 49259) action=patrol now accepts revision ids.
 * (bug 48129) list=blocks&bkip= now correctly handles IPv6 CIDR ranges and honors $wgBlockCIDRLimit. Note any clients passing invalid values to bkip will now receive an error, rather than the previous behavior listing all user blocks.
 * (bug 48201) action=parse&text=foo now assumes wikitext if no title is given, rather than using the content model of the page "API".
 * action=watch may now return errors.

Languages updated in 1.22
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.
 * Batak Toba (bbc-latn) added.
 * (bug 46751) Made Buryat (Russia) (буряад) (bxr) fallback to Russian.

Other changes in 1.22

 * BREAKING CHANGE: Implementation of MediaWiki's JS and JSON value encoding has changed:
 * MediaWiki no longer supports PHP installations in which the native JSON extension is missing or disabled.
 * XmlJsCode objects can no longer be nested inside objects or arrays. (For Xml::encodeJsCall, this individually applies to each argument.)
 * The sets of characters escaped by default, along with the precise escape sequences used, have changed (except for the Xml::escapeJsString function, which is now deprecated).
 * BREAKING CHANGE: The Services_JSON class has been removed. If necessary, be sure to upgrade affected extensions at the same time (e.g. Collection).
 * redirect.php was removed. It was unused.
 * ClickTracking integration was dropped from the mediaWiki.user.bucket JavaScript function. The 'tracked' option is now ignored.
 * BREAKING CHANGE: Legacy skins Simple, MySkin, Chick, Standard and Nostalgia were all removed. (Nostalgia was moved to an extension.) The SkinLegacy and LegacyTemplate classes that supported them were removed as well and are now a part of the Nostalgia extension.
 * Event namespace used by jquery.makeCollapsible has been changed from 'mw-collapse' to 'mw-collapsible' for consistency with the module name.
 * BREAKING CHANGE: The "ExternalAuth" authentication subsystem was removed, along with its associated globals of $wgExternalAuthType, $wgExternalAuthConf, $wgAutocreatePolicy and $wgAllowPrefChange. Affected users are encouraged to use AuthPlugin for external authentication/authorization needs.
 * The Quickbar feature of the legacy skin model and the last remnants of it throughout the code base have been removed.
 * Externaledit/externaldiff preference was removed. Very few users used this feature, and improper configuration can actually prevent a user from editing
 * Calling Linker methods using a skin will now output deprecation warnings.
 * (bug 46680) "Return to" links are no longer tagged with rel="next".
 * BREAKING CHANGE: mw.util.tooltipAccessKeyRegexp: The match group for the accesskey character is now $6 instead of $5.
 * HipHop compiler (hphpc) support was removed. HipHop VM support (hhvm) was added.
 * A new Special:Redirect page was added, providing lookup by revision ID, user ID, or file name. The old Special:Filepath page was reimplemented to redirect through Special:Redirect.
 * Monobook: Removed the old conditional stylesheets for Opera 6, 7 and 9.
 * Support for XHTML 1.0 has been removed. MediaWiki now only outputs (X)HTML5.
 * wikibits: User-agent related globals have been deprecated. The following properties now default to false and emit mw.log.warn: is_gecko, is_chrome_mac, is_chrome, webkit_version, is_safari_win, is_safari, webkit_match, is_ff2, ff2_bugs, is_ff2_win, is_ff2_x11, opera95_bugs, opera7_bugs, opera6_bugs, is_opera_95, is_opera_preseven, is_opera, and ie6_bugs.
 * (bug 48276) MediaWiki will now flash a confirmation message upon successfully editing a page.
 * (bug 40785) mediawiki.legacy.ajax has been marked as deprecated. The following properties now emit mw.log.warn when accessed: sajax_debug, sajax_init_object, sajax_do_call and wfSupportsAjax.
 * BREAKING CHANGE: meta keywords are no longer supported. A <meta name="keywords" will no longer be output and OutputPage::addKeyword no longer exists.
 * Methods Title::userCanEditCssSubpage and Title::userCanEditJsSubpage, deprecated since 1.19, have been removed.
 * (bug 50134) Hook functions are no longer required to return a value. When a hook function does not return a value (or when it returns an explicit null), processing continues. To abort the hook, a hook function must return an explicit, boolean false or a string error message. Other falsey values are tantamount to a 'return true' in earlier versions of MediaWiki.
 * BREAKING CHANGE: The EditSectionLink hook was removed after being deprecated since MediaWiki 1.14. Use DoEditSectionLink instead.
 * (bug 48256) The 'editsection-brackets' optional message was removed. Section edit links' brackets can now be customized using CSS by styling span.mw-editsection-bracket.

Compatibility
MediaWiki 1.22 requires PHP 5.3.2 or later. MySQL is the recommended DBMS. PostgreSQL or SQLite can also be used, but support for them is somewhat less mature. There is experimental support for Oracle. The supported versions are:
 * MySQL 5.0.2 or later
 * PostgreSQL 8.3 or later
 * SQLite 3.3.7 or later
 * Oracle 9.0.1 or later

Upgrading
1.22 has several database changes since 1.21, and will not work without schema updates. Note that due to changes to some very large tables like the revision table, the schema update may take quite long (minutes on a medium sized site, many hours on a large site). If upgrading from before 1.11, and you are using a wiki as a commons repository, make sure that it is updated as well. Otherwise, errors may arise due to database schema changes. If upgrading from before 1.7, you may want to run refreshLinks.php to ensure new database fields are filled with data. If you are upgrading from MediaWiki 1.4.x or earlier, you should upgrade to 1.5 first. The upgrade script maintenance/upgrade1_5.php has been removed with MediaWiki 1.21. Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading! See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions. For notes on 1.21.x and older releases, see HISTORY.

Online documentation
Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is available on MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation License (except for pages that explicitly state that their contents are in the public domain): https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation

Mailing list
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IRC help
There's usually someone online in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net.