[Mediawiki-l] MediaWiki 1.7.0 released

Sat Jul 8 13:12:54 UTC 2006

I have been running MediaWiki v1.4.15, and tried upgrading to v1.7 today...

As I don't have any root access, I relied on the webinstaller. After making 
secure backups of everything, I crossed my fingers, uploaded the files, and 
pushed ready to go. The install script runs fine, but after pressing 
"install", the browser promptly comes up with a new screen and simply hangs 
there, nothing happening, page load done. It is not apparent to me, if an 
error has occured or something, and this is the intended behaviour?

No localsettings.php is created - and it doesn't seem like the installer is 
actually doing any work.
Can someone explain what is going on? - Or please direct me to a page of 
reference? I'm not even sure if this is an error message or if so, what the 
error is precisely.

This is what the screen tells me :

Warning: set_time_limit() [function.set-time-limit]: Cannot set time limit 
in safe mode in 
/customers/crewscut.com/crewscut.com/httpd.www/install-utils.inc on line 21

a.. PHP 5.1.4 installed
a.. Found database drivers for: MySQL
a.. Warning: PHP's safe mode is active. You may have problems caused by 
this, particularly if using image uploads.
a.. PHP server API is cgi-fcgi; using ugly URLs (index.php?title=Page_Title)
a.. Have XML / Latin1-UTF-8 conversion support.
a.. PHP's memory_limit is 16M. If this is too low, installation may fail! 
Attempting to raise limit to 20M... failed.
a.. Have zlib support; enabling output compression.
a.. Neither Turck MMCache nor eAccelerator nor APC are installed, can't use 
object caching functions
a.. GNU diff3 not found.
a.. Found GD graphics library built-in, image thumbnailing will be enabled 
if you enable uploads.
a.. Installation directory: /customers/crewscut.com/crewscut.com/httpd.www
a.. Script URI path:
a.. Environment checked. You can install MediaWiki.
a.. Warning: $wgSecretKey key is insecure, generated with mt_rand(). 
Consider changing it manually.
Generating configuration file...

a.. Database type: MySQL

Best wishes,
Morten :-)

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brion Vibber" <brion at pobox.com>
To: <mediawiki-announce at wikimedia.org>; <mediawiki-l at wikimedia.org>; 
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Sent: Friday, July 07, 2006 10:11 PM
Subject: [Mediawiki-l] MediaWiki 1.7.0 released

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> This is the quarterly release snapshot for Summer 2006. While the code
> has been running on Wikipedia for some time, installation and upgrade
> bits may be less well tested. Bug fix releases may follow in the coming
> days or weeks.
>
>
> MediaWiki is now using a "continuous integration" development model with
> quarterly snapshot releases. The latest development code is always kept
> "ready to run", and in fact runs our own sites on Wikipedia.
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> Release branches will continue to receive security updates for about a 
> year
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> happen
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> Those wishing to use the latest code instead of a branch release can 
> obtain
> it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN
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> This is the first version of MediaWiki to require PHP 5. 5.1.x is 
> recommended;
> 5.0 may work but is not well tested. (PHP 5.0 is no longer maintained; all 
> PHP
> 5.0 users should upgrade to a current 5.1 release to ensure they have all
> security fixes.) PHP 4.x is no longer supported by MediaWiki. If you are 
> unable
> to upgrade PHP, sorry, but you will have to stick with old versions of 
> MediaWiki
> for now.
>
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> Full release notes:
> http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/tags/REL1_7_0/phase3/RELEASE-NOTES
> http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/tags/REL1_7_0/phase3/HISTORY
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> Download:
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