MediaWiki 1.28/wmf.2

Deployment of MediaWiki 1.28.0-wmf.2 to Wikimedia sites

The latest version (labeled "1.28.0-wmf.2") of MediaWiki, the software that powers Wikipedia and its sister sites, is being deployed to all Wikimedia sites in stages, starting on Tuesday, 17 May 2016 (see the roadmap).

Core changes

git #1194aa04 - Updated git submodules
git #9ce2428a - Updated git submodules (task T108721, task T138177, task T137761, task T138875, task T137247, task T136408, task T134286, task T136387, task T136408, task T134286, task T135884, task T134286, task T132251, task T134310, task T132640, task T132639, task T132639, task T132639, task T134366, task T133765, task T133971, task T133765, task T128190, task T128190, task T111456, task T121646)
git #21db1ae1 - Bail out in ApiStashEdit for bots for sanity
git #78846b13 - Revert "Convert Special:WhatLinksHere from XML form to OOUI form" (task T135773)
git #1f3bccae - Update VisualEditor for Ie127cfbd515cd217abd272cb7a81566b91e13f4d
git #efdebbf8 - Make LinksUpdate only wait on the DB with the link tables (task T135690)
git #c447233f - Increase BotPasswordSessionProvider's default priority
git #31de1983 - Improve edit stash hit rate for logged-out users (task T134620)
git #fc1d4d79 - Fix installer issues introduces by MediaWikiServices (task T135169)
git #d79cae68 - Don't override all Moment locales to English (task T135462)
git #de2563d3 - Fix AuthManager login page breakage
git #dc893a2f - Fix Special:Userlogout for $wgAutoloadAttemptLowercase = false (task T135460)
git #837173d4 - Convert CdnCacheUpdate to event per URL (task T134535)
git #c57fe1c4 - Refactor upload dialog to make it configurable (task T118097, task T120998, task T121632, task T121633, task T127895)
git #67881de4 - Avoid unstubbing $wgLang in Title::getLocalURL (task T135389)
git #a2536b3f - AuthManager release notes
git #54d58ef5 - API changes for AuthManager (task T110276, task T110747, task T110751, task T32788, task T67857, task T28597, task T76103)
git #3617c982 - Use AuthManager on special pages (task T110277)
git #d245bd25 - Add AuthManager (task T91699, task T71589, task T111299)
git #7ba19364 - Remove unnecessary annotation
git #8a3819be - Add Status::getStatusValue()
git #fb7b6376 - Call $job->teardown() even if Job throws an exception.
git #f013c5fe - Add SessionProvider::getRememberUserDuration(), fix some durations
git #a9ede851 - Fix GUI for Special:Tags if a user has deletechangetags permission only
git #46ecc8e2 - Add "mVersion" sanity check to User::loadFromCache()
git #7d9844fa - @since for User::newSystemUser
git #88657870 - Follow-up 6ce974f: also update the hook call in ApiMain
git #2be38b36 - Make "presumed-fresh" edit stash case cover when users make intervening edits (task T134620)
git #7654867b - Sync up with Parsoid parserTests.
git #8e5912aa - OOUIHTMLForm: Don't output an empty hidden LabelWidget if not needed
git #4a67b170 - Batch links updates performed by refreshLinks jobs (task T109943)
git #367526d9 - mediawiki.jqueryMsg: Allow logging errors through mw.track (task T134050)
git #e8e2cc0f - Add LinkCache::getSelectFields() and use it in a few places
git #69257c87 - LinkHolderArray: Title::makeTitle() does not return null
git #b8c2db06 - LinkHolderArray: Use LinkBatch for generating WHERE in query
git #6b5c475d - mediawiki.util: Use RegExp.test() instead of String.search()
git #ef2a84e1 - Remove now-unused LinkCache::$instance
git #911fc2cd - Make User::isBot() also check the "bot" right for sanity
git #e702a700 - Increase LocalFile lock() timeout and improve error message (task T132921)
git #449084ec - Add LinkCache to MediaWikiServices
git #c4e698dc - Follow-up cdc93a62bf: add serialize/unserialize tests for RedisBagOStuff (task T134923)
git #20abb707 - Decouple Xhprof profiling from profiling data processing
git #abc68e63 - Revert "Split editcascadeprotected permission from protect permission"
git #ee4d5c6e - Remove support for $wgWellFormedXml=false
git #6b9619a3 - Split off permission to delete tags from managechangetags permission (task T133811)
git #4d97253b - mediawiki.jqueryMsg: Fix 'asciiAlphabetLiteral' definition
git #df2ef519 - Allow the signature button wikitext to be overridden locally (task T26191)
git #055ec881 - registration: Handle $wgSessionProviders in ExtensionProcessor
git #451fec8d - objectcache: Inject current time into WANObjectCache::wrap()
git #21070456 - Parser tests: Also register namespace 101 to accompany 100
git #f77cbc02 - LinkCache: Use LinkTarget instead of Title
git #147ec4ca - TitleFormatter: Match Title behavior for non-existent namespaces
git #f3d0fa6b - Add tests for Title::getPrefixedText()
git #ec295365 - mediawiki.jqueryMsg: Implement `<nowiki>` support (task T47173)
git #d9a965c6 - Make updateCollation wait for slaves every 500 (instead of 2000) (task T58041)
git #ab623bef - Add LinkTarget::inNamespace() helper function
git #cdc93a62 - RedisBagOStuff: Fix unserialization of negative numbers (task T134923)
git #9c93a53a - Document WAN cache FLD_* constants
git #3b835207 - shared.css: Don't center text in .mw_metadata (file metadata table) (task T135079)
git #8ca977e5 - Better JavaScript handling for return method
git #e66d8905 - Add tests for 'LinkBegin' hook
git #ac5512b4 - Let BagOStuff::merge() callbacks override the TTL
git #f2874e23 - Fix ApiBase::getErrorFromStatus() and ApiMessages
git #7688e781 - Add TitleFormatter::getPrefixedDBkey() and implementation
git #1facfab5 - Add tests for 'LinkEnd' hook functionality
git #f1e8d27a - Add TitleParser and TitleFormatter to MediaWikiServices
git #6ce974f9 - Pass the OutputPage object to the OutputPageCheckLastModified hook
git #f7af8f67 - Add User::isBot() method
git #505cc11a - Update OOjs UI to v0.17.2
git #3e618de3 - Add SessionManager::invalidateSessionsForUser
git #afdcd305 - Add SessionInfo force-use flag
git #6ffabb26 - Convert Special:WhatLinksHere from XML form to OOUI form (task T117754)
git #59806833 - Convert Special:MergeHistory to use OOUI. (task T134675)
git #b41c583e - resourceloader: Remove false return from Context::getUserObj()
git #09205b29 - use slave for row estimate in updateCollation.php (task T58041)
git #01bcb5a9 - Use STRAIGHT_JOIN on updateCollation.php per jcrespo (task T58041)
git #549af8bf - Add WebRequest methods for determining "safe" requests (task T134608)
git #2cda917e - resourceloader: Remove unused Module::setOrigin() method
git #ee7e5636 - Add wfDeprecated calls to WatchedItem
git #17b63173 - mw.widgets.CategoryCapsuleItemWidget: Handle non-English foreign wikis
git #2a86b5a1 - collation: Refactor getFirstLetterData() cache handling
git #b34d4e2c - Warn when a restricted displaytitle is ignored (bug 26546)
git #b85d9f33 - Make GenderCache use MediaWikiServices
git #8ce81d08 - Re add @access protected on Title::__construct
git #96e94d1c - wfTempDir try harder to get a tmp dir on Windows (task T44730)
git #da3464ba - Split editcascadeprotected permission from protect permission (task T101309)
git #939faea3 - Require strip marker names to not have & ' " < or > in them
git #6c3e231f - Update default hash storage settings (task T127445)

Vendor

git #4bd8ba35 - Update OOjs UI to v0.17.2

Extensions

AbuseFilter

git #51b572a2 - Make negative process caching in onGetAutoPromoteGroups() work (task T133728)
git #5f34ea27 - Remove bogus AbuseFilter::contentToString param
git #a44fcd82 - Set doesWrites() for SpecialAbuseFilter

AntiSpoof

git #e8cb1323 - Update for AuthManager (task T110449)
git #8252739f - Add extension.json file, empty php entry point (task T87881)

Babel

git #2cbcc79b - Put BabelBox interface and implementations into a namespace
git #9fc68e09 - build: Bump devDependencies to latest
git #2d3f1881 - Use User::newSystemUser when available
git #6db2b6d9 - Refactor babel boxes into classes with common interface

BetaFeatures

git #3d8fc501 - Fix HTMLFeatureFieldTest test cases (task T135289)

CentralAuth

git #5cc617f0 - Fix central logout (task T135525, task T92357)
git #7935ca7f - Avoid DBPerformance log warnings in onUserLogout() (task T92357)
git #911b1a87 - Use CookieSessionProvider::getLoginCookieExpiration
git #cc8d129e - Convert to extension registration
git #ce3a25be - Avoid using the master DB for non-write POST requests (task T134608)
git #ef713969 - Handle the UserIsBot hook for bot detection
git #b1908c5a - Drop some backwards-compatibility code
git #546c6e19 - Implement invalidateSessionsForUser()
git #04cc78bb - Set force-use flag from CentralAuthTokenSessionProvider

CirrusSearch

git #f7e7f93c - .x document missing exception (bug 2)
git #ed77bbd0 - Move some util methods to Elastica
git #8d17595e - Rename / remove mention of "wikidata" in PageDataBuilder
git #b94fc0c5 - query_and_fetch -> query_then_fetch
git #26da7655 - Simple hack to allow es2.x failures to be logged by master
git #e74184e0 - Fix mistake and documentations in CirrusSearch Hooks handlers
git #6a664900 - RequestContext::getStats was deprecated
git #4bc2b3b9 - Adjust textcat data collection for AB test (task T121542)

Cite

git #24939dd4 - Explicitly insert transclusion as inline

Citoid

git #dc7c2315 - Explicitly insert transclusion as inline
git #461a5ae5 - Always switch to 'auto' panel when converting references

ConfirmEdit

git #3e3b91b5 - Add AuthManager support for ReCaptcha, ReCaptchaNoCaptcha (task T110302)
git #31c59374 - Add AuthManager support to SimpleCaptcha, QuestyCaptcha, FancyCaptcha, MathCaptcha (task T110302)

ContentTranslation

git #05789fe5 - Implement outputdir and compression params for dump-corpora.php (task T133006, task T133007)
git #88e50b9e - MT: Use custom labels instead of provider id

DonationInterface

git #b3ca5be3 - Remove soft transition for old "token" parameter
git #03622d4e - Move legacy PayPal stuff into a subdirectory (task T131811)
git #185ba2b9 - Formatting, comments, robustness
git #05afe3b2 - Give token param a WMF namespace (task T131811)
git #9f587ee6 - Fix AstroPay case
git #36b50c22 - Move chunk of Worldpay logic into a staging class
git #45bd12f0 - Language query params shouldn't be case sensitive (task T135255)
git #325b2b31 - Carte Bleu for Adyen (task T128812)
git #e0e921a7 - Whitespace fixes
git #e4f49e57 - Encode query string values properly (task T134586)
git #f0016688 - Adyen in France
git #3efb77a0 - Inline errors instead of alert()s for API calls (task T134530)
git #6863d3ba - Fix indentation
git #446b1bc9 - Adyen form for Israel (task T128812)
git #38d50c78 - Document $wgDonationInterfaceDebugLog global
git #88aa1049 - Remove unused css resources
git #7799a82a - Remove unused astropay js

Echo

git #adf4f10e - Expand URLs of icon and actions in HTML email formatter (task T135625)
git #1024ee77 - Bring back messages used by old email formatter system (task T135446)
git #a13f1725 - HTML email footer shows raw HTML
git #91dfdfcb - Attempt to fix unsubstituted message in Echo emails (task T135446)
git #ea89b7d4 - Ignore docs folder in all grunt tasks
git #28feb4bf - Link project labels in xwiki bundle to their Special:Notifications page (task T127419)
git #8d351ebe - New error message for failed to fetch notifications (task T129764)
git #d2f899d9 - Handle section-text being null
git #64127cd8 - Avoid exceptions when event_extra can't be unserialized (task T73489)
git #bc641732 - Use JSON instead of PHP-serialized for internal cross-wiki API requests
git #62908b5c - Don't reuse CentralAuth tokens for multiple requests (task T135250)
git #c7bdb879 - Follow-up f5e9d4e: log parsing failures and API errors too
git #0e2f1a9c - Add $wgEchoCrossWikiNotifications flag to disable cross-wiki notifications (task T135266)
git #f5e9d4e3 - Log warning on failure to fetch foreign notifications
git #9f5a7187 - Bump cache version for cache pollution (cross-wiki on non-SUL wikis) (task T135246)
git #52b60075 - Handle empty foreign notification sources (task T135252, task T135250)
git #413206d8 - Pass source url when creating API handler
git #876197b5 - Get rid of addApiHandler factory
git #84b016e6 - Make sure APIHandler has this.api
git #d6c2f1a8 - Protect against some errors that apparently happen in production (task T135196, task T135197)
git #468ead1c - Correctly update locally cached seenTime (task T134854)
git #50611ad6 - Respect editmyprivateinfo for email (task T135152)
git #a78b52e9 - Add tmp emacs file to gitignore
git #6f6e1008 - HTML email formatter using presentation model (task T121067)
git #2d184c08 - Add JSDuck support and fix errors
git #8f5c718a - Add 'mark section as read' to Special:Notifications (task T115528, task T134204)
git #b5bec3ad - Use new OutputPage parameter in OutputPageCheckLastModified hook
git #d2d420a3 - Don't cache pages with outdated global notification counts
git #15a44768 - Add mark-as-read button to notifications in Special:Notifications (task T115528)
git #1a189964 - Reset the TitleParser service without messing up the database
git #1baa72cf - Reset TitleParser service after modifying $wgContLang

Elastica

git #1b076316 - Move iterateOverScroll from Cirrus to Elastica

FlaggedRevs

git #6b8f011a - Avoid master queries in GET in onProtectionForm() (task T92357)
git #f3ac9d06 - Convert the top X reviewers cache to the main stash (task T92357)
git #5f7ea21f - Avoid DB contention in incrementRollbacks()

Flow

git #2c0a3f40 - Don't assume workflows/revisions are inserted in chronological order (task T119509)
git #e2a4253a - More reliable post sorting (task T119509)
git #3df50318 - Fix Flow for AuthManager-changes in ConfirmEdit (task T135477)
git #0a481f47 - MentionInspector: Explicitly insert transclusion as inline
git #054453c7 - Update Parsoid version string (task T135268)
git #7e9a94a3 - Go to first unread post if no post specified
git #3070abfb - Add CONTRIBUTING doc to help new contributors
git #de92659e - Hide editor switcher button on VE when switching is disabled (task T108762)
git #e9857a14 - Add missing dependency on jquery.throttle-debounce (task T134984)
git #5f6d32eb - Disable submit buttons if we know the user can't edit (task T108762, task T127774)
git #bc4d038d - Make FlowReplies slightly work (task T96620, task T132414)
git #db11f3bb - Set doesWrites() for EditAction

Kartographer

git #9df6257d - Add full GeoJSON validation
git #d6f35b19 - Avoid calling Parser::getOutput() twice unnecessarily

LdapAuthentication

git #e054f1ff - Fix LdapAuthenticationPlugin::userExists()
git #9d0516a3 - Refactor code

LiquidThreads

git #a7f7a3ea - Defer DB update in NewUserMessagesView (task T92357)

Math

git #c4636667 - Fix Cucumber scenario that is broken in daily Jenkins jobs (task T94150)
git #a5ddbd03 - Catch exceptions thrown by restbase (task T134652)

MobileApp

git #29cd1db6 - Create mobile.app.preview.android style module
git #c56a36c6 - Add style directives for images in Parsoid HTML (task T127015, task T132364)

MobileFrontend

git #253bbe96 - Use 1 XPath query rather than N+1 queries (task T135923)
git #0e5459de - Avoid fatals in reference edge cases (task T135923)
git #a1187a31 - Special Mobile Cite page and PHPUnit tests (task T125897)
git #db9a1d35 - Regression: Do not show chrome color in stable (task T135158)
git #d12f1f9b - Hygiene: Use a more descriptive variable name
git #a1070e0c - Improve the print styles (task T134534)
git #118d6168 - Update for AuthManager (task T111483)
git #b548cef6 - Search boxes fixes (task T129955)
git #46ac9a4d - Make API mobileview return empty 'protection' result as a JSON-style object (task T69054)
git #e57664de - Remove commonsCategory beta feature
git #82a4a002 - Beta: Enhanced search bar (task T129955)
git #3de4ff3c - Do not reserve space for the secondary button if it's not available
git #c8847b01 - Hygiene: Split the SearchOverlay template into two

MultimediaViewer

git #54aa54c1 - Disable Cucumber feature that is broken in daily Jenkins jobs (task T94150)

NavigationTiming

git #708f512e - Expand coverage of conformance test

OAuth

git #98300695 - Set force-use flag when not using cookies to store the session ID
git #d282500c - Set doesWrites() for SpecialMWOAuth

OpenStackManager

git #ca5602fb - Adjust to changes to LdapAuthentication in preparation for AuthManager

Popups

git #cda1ffe4 - Use mw.eventLog.Schema to log EventLogging events (task T131315)
git #21b856f7 - Use correct selector for div's that hold PNGs when SVGs aren't supported
git #ed3500b1 - Describe init method behaviour via QUnit tests
git #27d811a1 - Rewrite createPopup with template for better readability
git #ab15bf8b - Add tests for createPopup
git #26be90dc - Add client-side validation of PopupsSurveyLink (task T129177)
git #dab4f55e - Annotate survey link with rel=noreferrer (task T129177)
git #0be67538 - Document PopupsSurveyLink with cautionary note (task T129177)
git #f3d23c97 - Allow brackets in createImgThumbnail (task T129177)
git #46f69baf - article: Remove bracketed text from the title before looking to bold it in the extract (task T69224)
git #ed327f8e - Minor refactor

Renameuser

git #08e6e9bc - Load User with READ_LATEST before invalidating sessions (task T135656)
git #48c319b7 - Augment call to $wgAuth->updateExternalDB() with forward-compatible code (task T110290)
git #407cce2d - Call SessionManager::invalidateSessionsForUser() when available

Scribunto

git #1573bee8 - Provide a standard way to get the target of a redirect page (task T68974)

SemanticForms

git #cc8653d6 - "values from property/concept" params only displayed if SMW is used
git #cf6d739c - Added "namespace" param for combobox, tokens inputs
git #0ea76976 - Removed 'remote autocompletion' field param - unnecessary
git #ddd3252e - Removed deprecated input type 'datetime with timezone'
git #da3c07aa - Removed 'remote autocompletion' param for #forminput
git #f05b498e - Removed support for long-deprecated "autocomplete on ..." params
git #ee757508 - Removed support for long-deprecated "no autocomplete" param

SpamBlacklist

git #6ee605a0 - Use User::newSystemUser when available
git #303ba316 - Update for AuthManager (task T110467)

SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi

git #f85be74e - Fix parser tests for core commit ee4d5c6eed (removal $wgWellFormedXML)

TimedMediaHandler

git #18d9e26e - Fix fatal for TimedMediaHandler previews without files. (task T135491)
git #41aceff8 - Add a timedtext param to videoinfo API (task T122736)
git #a1bf4357 - Only hide the native controls panel.
git #e2417309 - Remove fallback content of video/audio tag (task T133671)
git #a8ed45ef - Update ogv.js to 1.1.0 release (task T134104, task T115241)
git #68e2e97b - Move activation of replaybutton into the config
git #319a790e - Add replay button to video.js player
git #1f004ae1 - Add TMH modules to the upload page. (task T51751)

TitleBlacklist

git #17d3a9e3 - Update for AuthManager (task T110469)

Translate

git #3a79ff1d - Use mediawiki.ui.button in tux editor over ext.uls.buttons
git #5e3f294b - Use DeferredUpdates in queueUpdates() (task T92357)
git #1a31d11f - Add log action filter for pagetranslation logs
git #76e1301f - Do not add ext.translate to all pages (task T135284)
git #3593a63b - Do not add ext.translate to translation pages twice
git #864c3033 - Improve exception message on TranslateRenderJob
git #0ce9d38f - On documentation unit deletion, don't attempt to re-render translation page (task T134962)
git #07d31b1c - braceBalanceCheck/XhtmlCheck: do not add warning if same as definition (task T134692, task T53226)
git #6349b8a6 - Do not rely on core preferences (task T102744)
git #cc21a8ef - Move all TTMServer updates to the JobQueue (task T132254)

UniversalLanguageSelector

git #d778cc88 - Add jquery.uls.data as depedendency to ext.uls.init (task T135210)
git #02da4454 - Add config to enable compact language links for anonymous users
git #35e7d72e - Add config to enable compact links for new accounts
git #f1995bc6 - Introduce a preference to disable compact language links (task T133030)
git #a2cfd028 - Add WOFF2 version of fonts (task T128291)
git #594ebe5f - Fixes for 6b8c33e
git #71133ffd - First attempt at font test page generation

UploadWizard

git #9b9a7cea - uw.CopyMetadataWidget: Correct sequential numbering (task T135396)
git #4cbaf5bb - Normalize file extension for uploaded files (task T36703)
git #17b40ce7 - Log errors from mediawiki.jqueryMsg (task T134050)
git #fac5a07c - uw.controller.Details: Fix 'Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property '$element' of undefined' (task T135200)
git #34bc4e0e - Revert "Remove superfluous ExceptionFlow event class"
git #c3b7af32 - uw.controller.Details: Fix 'Uncaught TypeError: this.copyMetadataWidget.remove is not a function'
git #1db4466c - uw.DescriptionsDetailsWidget: Remove any "Remove" buttons when clearing items (task T134180)
git #85211283 - mw.UploadWizardUpload: Remove unused function #acceptDeed

VisualEditor

git #35b98992 - Debug log strange-looking ETags being sent to RB (task T135171)
git #1dc780bc - build: Use grunt-stylelint from npm
git #8d749518 - stylelint: Comment uses of 'unsupported' browser CSS features
git #df49e5de - Remove remaining references to csslint
git #99d33205 - build: Replace csslint with stylelint
git #90fe9c98 - Update VE core submodule to master (12ad256)
git #236e3d12 - [BREAKING CHANGE] Evalute block/inline state when inserting a transclusion node (task T51784)
git #7f0b56ff - Use new action test runner (task T90370)
git #6a98df08 - Update VE core submodule to master (598aa93)
git #349b1f5e - Add WTE welcome dialog (task T133800)
git #1ba035e0 - Fix deactivating VE after user explicitly decideas to discard changes (task T134794)
git #13a7a4c5 - ve.ui.MWParameterPage: Remove non-working 'focus' handler

WikimediaEvents

git #043a3b78 - Add textcat subtest (task T121542)
git #8e061481 - Fix wrong variable used when triggering resends of unload events

WikimediaMaintenance

git #618fc7d6 - Use User::newSystemUser()

WikimediaMessages

git #5c6a4b66 - Add missing translations for upload dialog messages (task T134775)
git #ee5a4544 - Re-add interwiki search result messages
git #dc9c520c - Move Commons-specific localisation messages for upload dialog from core (task T134775)
git #c21e9938 - Remove unused messages about forced password resets

ZeroBanner

git #10f75c4e - Use gd instead of imagemagick for legaly img banners (task T134774)
git #ccc36f61 - Added stil/gd-text lib (task T134774)

Skins