I'm happy to announce the availability of the first beta release of the new MediaWiki 1.19 release series.
Please try it out and let us know what you think. Don't run it on any wikis that you really care about, unless you are both very brave and very confident in your MediaWiki administration skills.
MediaWiki 1.19 is a large release that contains many new features and bug fixes. This is a summary of the major changes of interest to users. You can consult the RELEASE-NOTES-1.19 file for the full list of changes in this version.
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MediaWiki 1.19 brings the usual host of various bugfixes and new features.
Comprehensive list of what's new is in the release notes.
* Bumped MySQL version requirement to 5.0.2. * Disable the partial HTML and MathML rendering options for Math, and render as PNG by default. * MathML mode was so incomplete most people thought it simply didn't work. * New skins/common/*.css files usable by skins instead of having to copy piles of generic styles from MonoBook or Vector's css. * The default user signature now contains a talk link in addition to the user link. * Searching blocked usernames in block log is now clearer. * Better timezone recognition in user preferences. * Extensions can now participate in the extraction of titles from URL paths. * The command-line installer supports various RDBMSes better. * The interwiki links table can now be accessed also when the interwiki cache is used (used in the API and the Interwiki extension).
Internationalization - -------------------- * More gender support (for instance in user lists). * Add languages: Canadian English. * Language converter improved, e.g. it now works depending on the page content language. * Time and number-formatting magic words also now depend on the page content language. * Bidirectional support further improved after 1.18.
Release notes - ------------- Full release notes: https://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/tags/REL1_19_0beta1/phase3/RELEA SE-NOTES-1.19 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.19
********************************************************************** Download: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.19/mediawiki-1.19.0beta1.tar.gz
GPG signatures: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.19/mediawiki-1.19.0beta1.tar.gz.si g
Public keys: https://secure.wikimedia.org/keys.html
For committers who have been looking for things to do during the code slush, this is the perfect opportunity to commit code.
If you're not a committer, but are interested in helping out with MediaWiki, this is your chance to get a bit of code committed.
As I write, there are 31 bugs that we want to fix before 1.19.0 is complete. We will probably decide some don't *really* need to be fixed in 1.19.0, but if you care about the problem now is the time to say so.
The following list is likely to change in the next few days, so here is the URL to use for the most up-to-date list: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?resolution=---&target_milesto...
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/29277 -- [Regression] MediaWiki:Filepage.css not loaded on repo itself
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/31755 -- Styling in headers breaks sortable tables
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/32760 -- wfprofilein Errors on upgrading to 1.19
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/32822 -- Upload image, delete and upload it again causes database error with postgresql
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/32827 -- [Regression] Block log for IP ranges not shown on Special:Block
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/33506 -- Installer: database selection JS is flaky on page=DBConnect with Opera
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/33689 -- Upgrade to 1.19 on Postgres fails due to incomplete query when trying to defer foreign key for externallinks
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/33878 -- HTML dump is missing all images due to new FileBackend code
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/34016 -- Special:GlobalUsers subpage parameter mistaken for &username=
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/34238 -- mwstore:// URLs appear in various error messages
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/34372 -- New User hook broken for PG, breaks normal logging
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/34459 -- Using @font-face should work from a file module stylesheet
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/34798 -- Diffs on recent changes feed should have the same formatting of the on wiki diffs
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/34801 -- Function applyDiffStyle uses regexes which do not detect CSS classes appropriately
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/34820 -- jquery.textSelection tests fail randomly on IE (6-10)
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/34832 -- $wgOut->addWikiText() doesn't run language converter
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/34841 -- Edit links seen on previous page versions
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/34853 -- mw.loader.load should (continue to) load other modules even if one of them doesn't make it
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/34885 -- RTL with IE-7 (or IE 8/9 in "compatability mode") does not show any toolbar
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/34887 -- revert link on page move feature produces error message
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/34889 -- [Regression] Normalize user name on Special:Contributions
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/34893 -- Jump-to accesibility links feature broken
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/34901 -- Link styles in Monobook are broken
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/34961 -- Edit summary for moves should not include username
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/34972 -- An error occurred while changing your watchlist settings for [[Special:WhatLinksHere/Example]]
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/34978 -- Mistake in filtered history page diff size
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/34980 -- [Regression] IRC action text should never contain HTML for title
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/34987 -- {{GENDER:|}} does not work for message MediaWiki:Watchlist-details on Special:Watchlist
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/34997 -- Uploading stuck about 1-2 minutes on "Finished!"
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/35019 -- [Regression] Edit summary shouldn't be parsed as wikitext into html in e-mail notifications
Thanks!
Mark.
wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org