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MediaWiki 1.3.11 is a security release.
== Important security updates ==
A security audit found and fixed a number of problems. Users of MediaWiki
1.3.10 and earlier should upgrade to 1.3.11; users of 1.4 beta releases
should upgrade to 1.4rc1.
=== Cross-site scripting vulnerability ===
XSS injection points can be used to hijack session and authentication
cookies as well as more serious attacks.
* Media: links output raw text into an attribute value, potentially
~ abusable for JavaScript injection. This has been corrected.
* Additional checks added to file upload to protect against MSIE and
~ Safari MIME-type autodetection bugs.
As of 1.3.10/1.4beta6, per-user customized CSS and JavaScript is disabled
by default as a general precaution. Sites which want this ability may set
$wgAllowUserCss and $wgAllowUserJs in LocalSettings.php.
=== Cross-site request forgery ===
An attacker could use JavaScript-submitted forms to perform various
restricted actions by tricking an authenticated user into visiting
a malicious web page. A fix for page editing in 1.3.10/1.4beta6 has
been expanded in this release to other forms and functions.
Authors of bot tools may need to update their code to include the
additional fields.
=== Directory traversal ===
An unchecked parameter in image deletion could allow an authenticated
administrator to delete arbitary files in directories writable by the
web server, and confirm existence of files not deletable.
Release notes:
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=307067
Download:
http://prdownloads.sf.net/wikipedia/mediawiki-1.3.11.tar.gz?download
Low-traffic release announcements mailing list:
http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
Wiki admin help mailing list:
http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
Bug report system:
http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/
Play "stump the developers" live on IRC:
#mediawiki on irc.freenode.net
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MediaWiki 1.4beta6 is a security and bug fix release for the 1.4 beta
series.
In previous 1.4beta and 1.3.x releases an attacker could craft a URL
which, when visited by a particular logged-in user, would execute
arbitrary JavaScript code on the user's browser in the wiki's site
context. This attack has been blocked, and as an extra precaution the
user CSS and JavaScript subpage support is now disabled by default.
Sites which want this ability may set $wgAllowUserCss and $wgAllowUserJs
in LocalSettings.php.
Additional protections have been added against off-site form submissions
hijacking user credentials. Authors of bot tools may need to update
their code to include additional fields.
1.3.x users not using the 1.4 beta should upgrade to 1.3.10.
Note that 1.4 beta releases prior to beta 5 include an input validation
error which could lead to execution of arbitrary PHP code on the server.
Users of older betas should upgrade immediately to the current version.
Beta 6 also introduces the use of rel="nofollow" attributes on external
links in wiki pages to reduce the effectiveness of wiki spam. This will
cause participating search engines to ignore external URL links from
wiki pages for purposes of page relevancy ranking.
The current implementation adds this attribute to _all_ external URL
links in wiki text (but not internal [[wiki links]] or interwiki links).
To disable the attribute for _all_ external links, add this line to your
LocalSettings.php:
~ $wgNoFollowLinks = false
For background information on nofollow see:
~ http://www.google.com/googleblog/2005/01/preventing-comment-spam.html
=== Changes since beta 5 ===
* (bug 1335) implement 'tooltip-watch' in Language.php
* Fix linktrail for nn: language
* (bug 1214) Fix prev/next links in Special:Log
* (bug 1354) Fix linktrail for fo: language
* (bug 512) Reload generated CSS on preference change
* (bug 63) Fix displaying as if logged in after logout
* Set default MediaWiki:Sitenotice to '-', avoiding extra database hits
* Skip message cache initialization on raw page view (quick hack)
* Fix notice errors in wfDebugDieBacktrace() in XML callbacks
* Suppress notice error on bogus timestamp input (returns epoch as before)
* Remove unnecessary initialization and double-caching of parser variables
* Call-tree output mode for profiling
* (bug 730) configurable $wgRCMaxAge; don't try to update purged RC entries
* Add $wgNoFollowLinks option to add rel="nofollow" on external links
~ (on by default)
* (bug 1130) Show actual title when moving page instead of encoded one.
* (bug 925) Fix headings containing <math>
* (bug 1131) Fix headings containing interwiki links
* (bug 1380) Update Nynorsk language file
* (bug 1232) Fix sorting of cached Special:Wantedpages in miser mode
* (bug 1217) Image within an image caption broke rendering
* (bug 1384) Make patrol signs have the same width for page moves as for
edits
* (bug 1364) fix "clean up whitespace" in Title:SecureAndSplit
* (bug 1389) i18n for proxyblocker message
* Add fur/Furlan/Friulian to language names list
* Add TitleMoveComplete hook on page renames
* Allow simple comments for each translation rules in MW:Zhconversiontable
* (bug 1402) Make link color of tab subject page link on talk page
indicate whether article exists
* (bug 1368) Fix SQL error on stopword/short word search w/ MySQL 3.x
* Translated Hebrew namespace names
* (bug 1429) Stop double-escaping of block comments; fix formatting
* (bug 829) Fix URL-escaping on block success
* (bug 1228) Fix double-escaping on & sequences in [enclosed] URLs
* (bug 1435) Fixed many CSS errors
* (bug 1457) Fix XHTML validation on category column list
* (bug 1458) Don't save if edit form submission is incomplete
* Logged-in edits and preview of user CSS/JS are now locked to a session
token.
* Per-user CSS and JavaScript subpage customizations now disabled by
default.
~ They can be re-enabled via $wgAllowUserJs and $wgAllowUserCss.
* Removed .ogg from the default uploads whitelist as an extra precaution.
~ If your web server is configured to serve Ogg files with the correct
~ Content-Type header, you can re-add it in LocalSettings.php:
~ $wgFileExtensions[] = 'ogg';
Release notes:
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=302312
Download:
http://prdownloads.sf.net/wikipedia/mediawiki-1.4beta6.tar.gz?download
Low-traffic release announcements mailing list:
http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
Wiki admin help mailing list:
http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
Bug report system:
http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/
Play "stump the developers" live on IRC:
#mediawiki on irc.freenode.net
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MediaWiki 1.3.10 is a security release.
In earlier 1.3.x releases an attacker could craft a URL which, when
visited by a particular logged-in user, would execute arbitrary
JavaScript code on the user's browser in the wiki's site context. This
attack has been blocked, and as an extra precaution the user CSS and
JavaScript subpage support is now disabled by default. Sites which want
this ability may set $wgAllowUserCss and $wgAllowUserJs in
LocalSettings.php.
Additional protections have been added against off-site form submissions
hijacking user credentials. Authors of bot tools may need to update
their code to include additional fields.
All wikis running 1.3.x are strongly urged to upgrade to 1.3.10.
=== Changes from 1.3.9 ===
* Logged-in edits and preview of user CSS/JS are now locked to a
session token.
* Per-user CSS and JavaScript subpage customizations now disabled by
default. They can be re-enabled via $wgAllowUserJs and $wgAllowUserCss.
* Removed .ogg from the default uploads whitelist as an extra
precaution. If your web server is configured to serve Ogg files with the
correct Content-Type header, you can re-add it in LocalSettings.php:
~ $wgFileExtensions[] = 'ogg';
Release notes:
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=302313
Download:
http://prdownloads.sf.net/wikipedia/mediawiki-1.3.10.tar.gz?download
Low-traffic release announcements mailing list:
http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
Wiki admin help mailing list:
http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
Bug report system:
http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/
Play "stump the developers" live on IRC:
#mediawiki on irc.freenode.net
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MediaWiki 1.4beta5 is a security and bug fix release for the 1.4 beta
series. Previous MediaWiki 1.4 beta releases include an input
validation error which could lead to execution of arbitrary PHP code on
the server.
All users of 1.4 beta releases are strongly urged to upgrade to
1.4beta5 immediately. The 1.3.x stable release series is not affected
by this problem.
Beta 5 additionally fixes a number of non-security-related bugs, and
requires one minor database change. If upgrading from a previous beta,
see the file UPGRADE in the release archive for instructions.
Bugs fixed in beta 5:
* (bug 1124) Fix ImageGallery XHTML compliance
* (bug 1186) news: in the middle of a word
* (bug 1283) Use underlining and borders to highlight
additions/deletions
in diff-view
* Use user's local timezone in Special:Log display
* Show filename for images in gallery by default (restore beta 3
behaviour)
* (bug 1201) Double-escaping in brokenlinks, imagelinks, categorylinks,
searchindex
* When using squid reverse proxy, cache the redirect to the Main_Page
* (bug 1302) Fix Norwegian language file
* (bug 1205) Fix broken article saving in PHP 5.1
* (bug 1206) Implement CURRENTWEEK and CURRENTDOW magic keyword (will
give
number of the week and number of the day).
* (bug 1204) Blocks do not expire automatically
* (bug 1184) expiry time of indefinite blocks shown as the current time
* (bug 1317) Fix external links in image captions
* (bug 1084) Fix logo not rendering centrally in IE
* (bug 288) Fix tabs wrapping in IE6
* (bug 119) Fix full-width tabs with RTL text in IE
* (bug 1323) Fix logo rendering off-screen in IE with RTL language
* Show "block" link in Special:Recentchanges for logged in users, too,
if
wgUserSysopBans is true.
* (bug 1326) Use content language for '1movedto2' in edit history
* zh: Fix warning when HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE is not set
* zh: Fix double conversion for zh-sg and zh-hk
* (bug 1132) Fix concatenation of link lists in refreshLinks
* (bug 1101) Fix memory leak in refreshLinks
* (bug 1339) Fix order of @imports in Cologne Blue CSS
* Don't try to create links without namespaces ([[Category:]] link bug)
* Memcached data compression fixes
* Several valid XHTML fixes
* (bug 624) Fix IE freezing rendering whilst waiting for CSS with
MonoBook
* (bug 211) Fix tabbed preferences with XHTML MIME type
* Fix for script execution vulnerability.
Due to a temporary problem with SourceForge's file release system, this
release is currently hosted on Wikimedia's servers instead of the usual
location.
Release notes:
http://zwinger.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/RELEASE-NOTES
Download:
http://zwinger.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/mediawiki-1.4beta5.tar.gz
MD5 checksum: 11342e291b5af4e8d4668ad5c3a6d171
SHA1 checksum: 23178fdba265083186c6475a0c3d0ea4d2e06ae0
Wiki admin help mailing list:
http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
Low-traffic release announcements mailing list:
http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
Bug report system:
http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/
Play "stump the developers" live on IRC:
#mediawiki on irc.freenode.net
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MediaWiki 1.4beta4 is an experimental release, to help flush out
remaining major problems in the code prior to a final public 1.4.0
release. It is not recommended to use this beta on a public site unless
you're familiar with MediaWiki innards and are willing and able to help
diagnose and fix problems that come up.
Users of the earlier beta releases should upgrade to keep up with bug
fixes. Anyone running a version _earlier_ than beta 3 should upgrade
immediately if uploads are enabled due to potential security
vulnerabilities on some Apache configurations.
=== Beta 4 fixes ===
* (bug 1090) Fix sitesupport links in CB/classic skins
* Gracefully ignore non-legal titles in a <gallery>
* Fix message page caching behavior when $wgCapitalLinks is turned off
after installation and the wiki is subsequently upgraded
* Database error messages include the database server name/address
* Paging support for large categories
* Fix image page scaling when thumbnail generation is disabled
* Select the content language in prefs when bogus interface language is
set
* Fix interwiki links in edit comments
* Fix crash on banned user visit
* Avoid PHP warning messages when thumbnail not generated
* (bug 1157) List unblocks correctly in Special:Log
* Fix fatal errors in LanguageLi.php
* Undo overly bright, difficult to read colors in Cologne Blue
* (bug 1162) fix five-tilde date inserter
* Add raw signatures option for those who simply must have cute sigs
* (bug 1164) Let wikitext be used in Loginprompt and Loginend messages
* Add the dreaded <span> to the HTML whitelist
* (bug 1170) Fix Russian linktrail
* (bug 1168) Missing text on the bureaucrat log
* (bug 1180) Fix Makesysop on shared-user-table sites
* (bug 1178) Fix previous diff link when using 'oldid=0'
* (bug 1173) Stop blocked accounts from reverting/deleting images
* Keep generated stylesheets cache-separated for each user
* (bug 1175) Fix "preview on first edit" mode
* Fix revert bug caused by bug 1175 fix
* Fix CSS classes on minor, new, unpatrolled markers in enhanced RC
* Set MySQL 4 boolean search back to 'and' mode by default
* (bug 1193) Fix move-only page protection mode
* Fix zhtable Makefile to include the traditional manual table
* Add memcache timeout for the zh conversion tables
* Allow user customization of the zh conversion tables through
Mediawiki:zhconversiontable
* Add zh-min-man (back) to language names list
* Ported $wgCopyrightIcon setting from REL1_3A
* (bug 1218) Show the original image on image pages if the thumbnail
would be
bigger than the original image
* (bug 1213) i18n of Special:Log labels
* (bug 1013) Fix jbo, minnan in language names list
* Added magic word MAG_NOTITLECONVERT to indicate that the title of the
page
do not need to be converted. Useful in zh:
* (bug 1224) Use proper date messages for date reformatter
* (bug 1241) Don't show 'cont.' for first entry of the category list
* (bug 1240) Special:Preferences was broken in Slovenian locale when
$wgUseDynamicDates is enabled
* Added magic word MAG_NOCONTENTCONVERT to supress the conversion of the
content of an article. Useful in zh:
* write-lock for updating the zh conversion tables in memcache
* recursively parse subpages of MediaWiki:Zhconversiontable
* (bug 1144) Fix export for fy language
* make removal of an entry from zhconversiontable work
* (bug 752) Don't insert newline in link title for url with %0a
* Fix missing search box contents in MonoBook skin
* Add option to forward search directly to an external URL (eg google)
* Correctly highlight the fallback language variant when the selected
variant is disabled. Used in zh: only for now.
Release notes:
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=295298
Download:
http://prdownloads.sf.net/wikipedia/mediawiki-1.4beta4.tar.gz?download
Wiki admin help mailing list:
http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
Low-traffic release announcements mailing list:
http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
Bug report system:
http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/
Play "stump the developers" live on IRC:
#mediawiki on irc.freenode.net
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MediaWiki 1.3.9 is a security and bug fix release.
A flaw in upload handling has been found which may allow upload and
execution of arbitrary scripts with the permissions of the web server.
Only wikis that have enabled uploads and have a vulnerable Apache
configuration will be affected, but to be safe all wikis should
upgrade.
Wikis with uploads available should either disable uploads or upgrade
to 1.3.9 immediately; if other files are customized and require merging
changes, includes/SpecialUpload.php may be replaced individually to add
the fix.
(It is also recommended to configure your web server to disable script
execution in the 'images' subdirectory where uploads are placed, which
prevents most attacks even if the wiki fails.)
Changes from 1.3.8:
* Backported "Templates used in this page"-feature of EditPage
* Allow "MySkin" as a default skin.
* (bug 938) Parse namespaces correctly on self-interwiki links
* (bug 1010) fix broken Commons image link on Classic & Cologne Blue
* (bug 1004) Norsk language names for interwiki links changed,
Nauruan language name changed
* Fix upload extension blacklist to protect against vulnerable
Apache configurations
Release notes:
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=289468
Download:
http://prdownloads.sf.net/wikipedia/mediawiki-1.3.9.tar.gz?download
Wiki admin help mailing list:
http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
Low-traffic release announcements mailing list:
http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
Bug report system:
http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/
Play "stump the developers" live on IRC:
#mediawiki on irc.freenode.net
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MediaWiki 1.4beta3 is an experimental release, to help flush out
remaining major problems in the code prior to a final public 1.4.0
release. It is not recommended to use this beta on a public site unless
you're familiar with MediaWiki innards and are willing and able to help
diagnose and fix problems that come up.
Users of the earlier beta releases should upgrade as soon as possible,
particularly if uploads are enabled. A security vulnerability with
uploads on some Apache configurations has been fixed in this release.
=== Beta 3 fixes ===
* Hide RC patrol markers when patrol is disabled or not allowed to
patrol.
* Fix language selection for upgraded accounts
* (bug 1076) navigation links in QueryPage should be translated by
wgContLang.
* (bug 922) bogus DOS line endings in LanguageEl.php
* Fix index usage in contribs
* Caching and load limiting options for Recentchanges RSS/Atom feed
* (bug 1074) Add stock icons for non-image files in gallery/Newimages
* Add width and height attributes on thumbs in gallery/Newimages
* Enhance upload extension blacklist to protect against vulnerable
Apache configurations
Release notes:
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=289469
Download:
http://prdownloads.sf.net/wikipedia/mediawiki-1.4beta3.tar.gz?download
Wiki admin help mailing list:
http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
Low-traffic release announcements mailing list:
http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
Bug report system:
http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/
Play "stump the developers" live on IRC:
#mediawiki on irc.freenode.net
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MediaWiki 1.4beta2 is an experimental release, to help flush out
remaining major problems in the code prior to a final public 1.4.0
release. It is not recommended to use this beta on a public site unless
you're familiar with MediaWiki innards and are willing and able to help
diagnose and fix problems that come up.
All beta1 users should upgrade as soon as possible.
This release fixes separate input validation issues with image gallery
rendering and PostgreSQL. Other fixes include Recentchanges in PHP5,
whitelist-edit mode, table prefixes, page renaming, and other issues.
Additionally, startup time for cached page views is slightly faster.
Full release notes:
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=288858
Download:
http://prdownloads.sf.net/wikipedia/mediawiki-1.4beta2.tar.gz?download
Wiki admin help mailing list:
http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
Low-traffic release announcements mailing list:
http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
Bug report system:
http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/
Play "stump the developers" live on IRC:
#mediawiki on irc.freenode.net
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MediaWiki 1.4beta1 is an experimental release, to help flush out
remaining major problems in the code prior to a final public 1.4.0
release. It is not recommended to use this beta on a public site unless
you're familiar with MediaWiki innards and are willing and able to help
diagnose and fix problems that come up.
=== New features ===
* 'Recentchanges Patrol' to mark new edits that haven't yet been viewed.
* New, searchable deletion/upload/protection logs
* Image gallery generation (Special:Newimages and <gallery> tag)
* SVG rasterization support (requires external support)
* Users can select from the available localizations to override the
default user interface language.
* Traditional/Simplified Chinese conversion support
=== Installation and compatibility ===
* The default MonoBook theme now works with PHP 5.0
* Installation on systems with PHP's safe mode or other oddities
should work more reliably, as MonoBook no longer needs to
create a compiled template file for the wiki to run.
* A table prefix may be specified, to avoid conflicts with other
web applications forced to share a database.
* More thorough UTF-8 input validation; fixes non-ASCII uploaded
filenames from Safari.
* Command-line database upgrade script.
=== Customizability ===
* Default user options can now be overridden in LocalSettings.
* Skins system more modular: templates and CSS are now in /skins/
New skins can be dropped into this directory and used immediately.
* More extension hooks have been added.
* Authentication plugin hook.
* More internal code documentation, generated with phpdoc:
http://www.mediawiki.org/docs/html/
=== Optimization ===
* For many operations, MediaWiki 1.4 should run faster and use
less memory than MediaWiki 1.3. Page rendering is up to twice
as fast. (Use a PHP accelerator such as Turck MMCache for best
results with any PHP application, though!)
* The parser cache no longer requires memcached, and is enabled
by default. This avoids a lot of re-rendering of pages that
have been shown recently, greatly speeding longer page views.
* Support for compiled PHP modules to speed up page diff and
Unicode validation/normalization. (Requires ability to compile
and load PHP extensions).
=== What isn't ready yet ===
* A new user/groups permissions scheme has been held back to 1.5.
* An experimental SOAP interface will be made available as an extension
* PostgreSQL support is largely working, but search and installer
support are not complete. These are being actively worked on
and should come in later betas.
* E-mail notification of watched page changes and verification of
user-submitted e-mail addresses is not yet included. If updates
are available, this may make it into later betas.
* Log pages are not automatically imported into the new log table
at upgrade time. A script to import old text log entries is
incomplete, but may be available by the time 1.4 finishes.
* UI messages may be broken in Latin-1 mode in this release due to some
minor breakage in the language selection module.
Full release notes:
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=287326
Download:
http://prdownloads.sf.net/wikipedia/mediawiki-1.4beta1.tar.gz?download
Wiki admin help mailing list:
http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
Low-traffic release announcements mailing list:
http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
Bug report system:
http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/
Play "stump the developers" live on IRC:
#mediawiki on irc.freenode.net
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Since discussion & setup help traffic on MediaWiki-l has gotten heavier
than I'd originally expected, I've set up a low traffic
announcements-only list for those who want to be notified of updates
without cluttering their inboxes.
MediaWiki-announce will receive only notifications of new releases and
important security & bug fixes. Those messages will all be on
MediaWiki-l as well, so there's no need to subscribe to both lists.
To subscribe or unsubscribe to MediaWiki-announce:
http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
To subscribe or unsubscribe to MediaWiki-l:
http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
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