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Mediawiki v1.5.alpha2 Release Notes

    • 📜 (bug 2319) Fix parse hook tag matching
    • (bug 2329) Fix title formatting in several special pages
    • (bug 2223) Add unique index on user_name field to prevent duplicate accounts
    • (bug 1976) fix shared user database with a table prefix set
    • ⚠ (bug 2334) Accept null for attribs in wfElement without PHP warning
    • (bug 2309) Allow templates and template parameters in HTML attribute zone, with proper validation checks. (regression from fix for 2304)
    • Disallow close tags and enforce empty tags for and
    • 🔄 Changed user_groups format quite a bit.
    • (bug 2368) Avoid fatally breaking PHP 4.1.2 in a debug line
    • 🚚 (bug 2367) Insert correct redirect link record on page move
    • (bug 2372) Fix rendering of empty-title inline interwiki links
    • (bug 2384) Fix typo in regex for IP address checking
    • (bug 650) Prominently link MySQL 4.1 help page in installer if a possible version conflict is detected
    • (bug 2394) Undo incompatible breakage to {{msg:}} compatibility includes
    • (bug 1322) Use a shorter cl_sortkey field to avoid breaking on MySQL 4.1 when the default charset is set to utf8
    • (bug 2400) don't send confirmation mail on account creation if $wgEmailAuthentication is false.
    • (bug 2172) Fix problem with nowiki beeing replaced by marker strings when a template with a gallery was used.
    • Guard Special:Userrights against form submission forgery
    • (bug 2408) page_is_new was inverted (whoops!)
    • ➕ Added wfMsgHtml() function for escaping messages and leaving params intact
    • 🛠 Fix ordering of Special:Listusers; fix groups list so it shows all groups when searching for a specific group and can't be split across pages
    • (bug 1702) Display a handy upload link instead of a useless blank link for [[media:]] links to nonexistent files.
    • (bug 873) Fix usage of createaccount permission; replaces $wgWhitelistAccount
    • (bug 1805) Initialise $wgContLang before $wgUser
    • (bug 2277) Added Friulian language file
    • (bug 2457) The "Special page" href now links to the current special page rather than to "".
    • ⚡️ (bug 1120) Updated the Czech translation
    • A new magic word, {{SCRIPTPATH}}, returns $wgScriptPath
    • A new magic word, {{SERVERNAME}}, returns $wgServerName
    • A new magic word, {{NUMBEROFFILES}}, returns the number of rows in the image table
    • Special:Imagelist displays titles with " " instead of "_"
    • Less gratuitous munging of content sample in delete summary
    • badaccess/badaccesstext to supercede sysop*, developer* messages
    • 🔄 Changed $wgGroupPermissions to more cut-n-paste-friendly format
    • 🗄 'developer' group deprecated by default
    • Special:Upload now uses 'upload' permission instead of hardcoding login check
    • ➕ Add 'importupload' permission to disable direct uploads to Special:Import
    • 🌲 (bug 2459) Correct escaping in Special:Log prev/next links
    • (bug 2462 etc) Taking out the experimental dash conversion; it broke too many things for the current parser to handle cleanly
    • (bug 2467) Added a Turkish language file
    • 🛠 Fixed a bug in Special:Contributions that caused the namespace selection to be forgotten between submits
    • Special:Watchlist/edit now has namespace subheadings
    • (bug 1714) the "Save page" button now has right margin to separate it from "Show preview" and "Show changes"
    • 👍 Special:Statistics now supports action=raw, useful for bots designed to harwest e.g. article counts from multiple wikis.
    • 0️⃣ The copyright confirmation box at Special:Upload is now turned off by default and can be turned back on by setting $wgCopyrightAffirmation to a true value.
    • ⏪ Restored prior text for password reminder button and e-mail, replacing the factually inaccurate text that was there.
    • (bug 2178) Fix temp dir check again
    • (bug 2488) Format 'deletedtext' message as wikitext
    • (bug 750) Keep line endings consistent in LocalSettings.php
    • 🖨 (bug 1577) Add 'printable version' tab in MonoBook for people who don't realize you can just hit print to get a nicely formatted printable page.
    • Trim whitespace from option values to weather line-ending corruption problems
    • Fixed a typo in the Romanian language file (NS_MESIA => NS_MEDIA)
    • ⚡️ (bug 2504) Updated the Finnish translation
    • ⚡️ (bug 2506, 2512) Updated the Nynorsk translation
    • ⬆️ (bug 996) Replace $wgWhitelistEdit with 'edit' permission; fixup UPGRADE documentation about edit and read whitelists.
    • ⚡️ (bug 2515) Fix incremental link table update
    • ✂ Removed some wikipedia-specifica from LanguageXx.php's
    • (bug 2496) Allow MediaWiki:edithelppage to point to external page
    • ➕ Added a versionRequired() function to OutputPage, useful for extension writers that want to control what version of MediaWiki their extension can be used with.
    • Serialized user objects now checked for versioning
    • 🛠 Fix for interwiki link regression
    • 🖨 Printable link shorter in monobook
    • ⬆️ Experimental Latin-1-and-replication-friendly upgrader script
    • (bug 2520) Don't show enotif options when disabled