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Mediawiki v1.5.beta1 Release Notes

    • (bug 2531) Changed the interwiki name for sh (Serbocroatian) to Srpskohrvatski/Српскохрватски (was Српскохрватски (Srbskohrvatski))
    • Nonzero return code for command-line scripts on wfDebugDieBacktrace()
    • ⬆️ Conversion fix for empty old table in upgrade1_5.php
    • Try reading revisions from master if no result on slave
    • (bug 2538) Suppress notice on user serialized checks
    • 🛠 Fix paging on Special:Contributions
    • (bug 2541) Fix unprotect tab
    • (bug 1242) category list now show on edit page
    • Skip sidebar entries where link text is '-'
    • Convert non-UTF-8 URL parameters even if referer is local
    • (bug 2460) width & height properly filled when resizing image
    • 🌲 (bug 2273) deletion log comment used user interface language
    • Try reading revision text from master if no result on slave
    • 👉 Use content-language message cache for raw view of message pages
    • (bug 2530) Not displaying talk pages on Special:Watchlist/edit
    • 🛠 Fixed a bug that would occour if $wgCapitalLinks was set to false, a user agent could create a username that began with a lower case letter that was not in the ASCII character set ( now user $wgContLang->ucfirst() instead of PHP ucfirst() )
    • 🚚 Moved the user name / password validity checking from LoginForm::addNewAccountInternal() to two new functions, User::isValidUserName() and User::isValidPassword(), extensions can now do these checks without rewriting code.
    • 🛠 Fix $wgSiteNotice when MediaWiki:Sitenotice is set to default '-'
    • 🛠 Fixed a bug where the watchlist count without talk pages would be off by a factor of two.
    • ⬆️ upgrade1_5.php uses insert ignore, allows to skip image info initialization
    • 🛠 Fix namespaces in category list.
    • ➕ Add rebuildImages.php to update image metadata fields
    • Special:Ancientpages is expensive in new schema for now
    • 🛠 (bug 2568) Fixed a logic error in the Special:Statistics code which caused the displayed percentage of admins to be totally off.
    • (bug 2560) Don't show blank width/height attributes for missing size
    • Don't show bogus messages about watchlist notifications when disabled
    • Don't show old debug messages in watchlist
    • (bug 2576) Fix recording of transclusion links
    • (bug 2577) Allow sysops to enter non-standard block times
    • 🛠 Fixed a bug where Special:Contributions wouldn't remember the 'invert' status between next/previous buttons.
    • 🚚 Move MonoBook printable link from tab to sidebar
    • (bug 2567) Fix HTML escaping on category titles in list
    • ⏪ (bug 2562) Show rollback link for current revisions on diff pages
    • (bug 2583) Add --missinig option on rebuildImages.php to add db entries for uploaded files that don't have them
    • (bug 2572) Fix edit conflict handling
    • ✅ (bug 2595) Show "Earlier" and "Latest" links on history go to the first/last page in the article history pager.
    • Don't show empty-page text in 'Show changes' on new page
    • (bug 2591) Check for end, fix limits on Whatlinkshere
    • (bug 2584) Fix output of subcategory list
    • (bug 2597) Don't crash when undeleting an image description page
    • ⚠ (bug 2564) Don't show "editingold" warning for recent revision
    • Various code cleanup and HTML escaping fixlets
    • ⚡️ Copy IRC-over-UDP update option from REL1_4
    • (bug 2548) Keep summary on 'show changes' of section edit
    • 💅 Move center on toc to title part to avoid breaking .toc style usage
    • HTML sanitizer: correct multiple attributes by keeping last, not first
    • (bug 2614) Fix section edit links on diff-to-current with oldid set Also fix navigation links on current-with-oldid view.
    • (bug 2620) Return to prior behavior for some more things (such as subpage parent links) on current-diff view.
    • (bug 2618) Fix regression from another fix; show initial preview for categories only if the page does not exist.
    • (bug 2625) Keep group & user settings when paging in Listusers
    • (bug 2627) Fix regression: diff radio button initial selection
    • 🔌 Copy fix for old search URLs with Lucene search plugin from REL1_4
    • 🐧 (bug 619) Don't use incompatible diff3 executable on non-Linux systems.
    • (bug 2631) Fix Hebrew namespaces.
    • (bug 2630) Indicate no-longer-valid cached entries in BrokenRedirects list
    • (bug 2644, 2645) "cur" diff links in page history, watchlist and recentchanges should specify current ID explicitly.
    • (bug 2609) Fix text justification preferenced with MonoBook skin.
    • (bug 2594) Display article tab as red for non-existent articles.
    • ⏪ (bug 2656) Fix regression: prevent blocked users from reverting images
    • (bug 2629) Automatically capitalize usernames again instead of rejecting lowercase with a useless error message
    • (bug 2661) Fix link generation in contribs
    • ➕ Add support for &preload=Page_name (load text of an existing page into edit area) and &editintro=Page_name (load text of an existing page instead of MediaWiki:Newpagetext) to &action=edit, if page is new.
    • (bugs 2633, 2672, 2685, 2695) Fix Estonian, Portuguese, Italian, Finnish and Spanish numeric formatting
    • 🛠 Fixed Swedish numeric formatting
    • (bug 2658) Fix signature time, localtime to match timezone offset again
    • Files from shared repositories (e.g. commons) now display with their image description pages when viewed on local wikis.
    • ⏪ Restore compatibility namespace aliases for French Wikipedia
    • 🛠 Fix diff order on Enhanced RC 'changes' link
    • 👍 (bug 2650) Fix national date type display on wikis that don't support dynamic date conversion.
    • ⚡️ FiveUpgrade: large table hacks, install iw_trans update before links
    • (bug 2648) Rename namespaces in Afrikaanse
    • Special:Booksources checks if custom list page exists before using it
    • 🛠 (bug 1170) Fixed linktrail for da: and ru:
    • (bug 2683) Really fix apostrophe escaping for toolbox tips
    • (bug 923) Fix title and subtitle for rclinked special page
    • (bug 2642) watchdetails message in several languages used instead of [ ]
    • (bug 2181) basic CSB language localisation by Tomasz G. Sienicki (thanks for the patch)
    • 🛠 Fix correct use of escaping in edit toolbar bits
    • ✂ Removed language conversion support from Icelandic
    • (bug 2616) Fix proportional image scaling, giving correct height
    • (bug 2640) Include width and height attributes on unscaled images
    • ↪ Workaround for mysterious problem with bogus epoch If-Last-Modified reqs
    • (bug 1109) Suppress compressed output on 304 responses
    • 🔧 (bug 2674) Include some site configuration info in export data: namespaces definitions, case-sensitivity, site name, version.
    • 👉 Use xml:space="preserve" hint on export elements
    • 👉 Make language variant selection work again for zh