The final release candidate for MediaWiki 1.21 (rc5) is available for download. See the end of this email for details. There are a number of bug fixes in this release that were not in rc4. Please test this version and report any problems. Barring any show-stoppers, the final release will be on May 15 will be the same as this with just a change to the version number and updated release notes.
Changes since rc4:
* Changes to JS/JSON value encoding were backed out. * API: Fix parameter validation in setnotificationtimestamp commit 18eb39ecb5b89518c3d4a6cc79834a2c121477ff Author: Brad Jorsch bjorsch@wikimedia.org Date: Fri Mar 15 14:03:19 2013 -0400
* (bug 47271) $wgContentHandlerUseDB should be set to false during the upgrade * (bug 47489) Installer now automatically selects the next-best database type if the PHP mysql extension is not loaded, preventing fatal errors in some cases. * (bug 47202) wikibits: FF2Fixes.css should not be loaded in Firefox 20. * (bug 46590) 'AbortChangePassword' hook added/documented (find bug) * (bug 46848) toggleLinkPremade added linksPassthru * (bug 47950) Fix IndexPager detection of "is first" state * (bug 47304) added safeXmlEncodings to UploadBase for svg uploads * (bug 46608) CoreParserFunctions::anchorencode should return a string
* Full release notes: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.21
********************************************************************** Download: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-core-1.21.0rc5.tar.gz http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-1.21.0rc5.tar.gz
Patch to previous version (1.20.0), without interface text: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-1.21.0rc5.patch.gz Interface text changes: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-i18n-1.21.0rc5.patch....
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Despite the my intention to release 1.21 today, I have to delay it until May 18. Yesterday someone pointed out a blocker to me.
While we have a work-around for this, I don't have time to integrate it right now, so the release needs to be delayed until Saturday.
On 05/13/2013 03:12 PM, Mark A. Hershberger wrote:
The final release candidate for MediaWiki 1.21 (rc5) is available for download. See the end of this email for details. There are a number of bug fixes in this release that were not in rc4. Please test this version and report any problems. Barring any show-stoppers, the final release will be on May 15 will be the same as this with just a change to the version number and updated release notes.
Changes since rc4:
- Changes to JS/JSON value encoding were backed out.
- API: Fix parameter validation in setnotificationtimestamp
commit 18eb39ecb5b89518c3d4a6cc79834a2c121477ff Author: Brad Jorsch bjorsch@wikimedia.org Date: Fri Mar 15 14:03:19 2013 -0400
- (bug 47271) $wgContentHandlerUseDB should be set to false during the
upgrade
- (bug 47489) Installer now automatically selects the next-best database
type if the PHP mysql extension is not loaded, preventing fatal errors in some cases.
(bug 47202) wikibits: FF2Fixes.css should not be loaded in Firefox 20.
(bug 46590) 'AbortChangePassword' hook added/documented (find bug)
(bug 46848) toggleLinkPremade added linksPassthru
(bug 47950) Fix IndexPager detection of "is first" state
(bug 47304) added safeXmlEncodings to UploadBase for svg uploads
(bug 46608) CoreParserFunctions::anchorencode should return a string
Full release notes:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.21
Download: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-core-1.21.0rc5.tar.gz http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-1.21.0rc5.tar.gz
Patch to previous version (1.20.0), without interface text: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-1.21.0rc5.patch.gz Interface text changes: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-i18n-1.21.0rc5.patch....
GPG signatures: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-core-1.21.0rc5.tar.gz... http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-1.21.0rc5.tar.gz.sig http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-1.21.0rc5.patch.gz.si... http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-i18n-1.21.0rc5.patch....
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