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MediaWiki 1.1

MediaWiki Stable Releases 1.1.x

1.1.0

Released on: 2003-12-08
Download at: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wikipedia/mediawiki-1.1.0.tar.gz?download
Changes: Release Notes (old location)

MediaWiki release notes

Version 1.1.0, 2003-12-08

This is the new production release. Any following 1.1.x releases are expected to contain only bug fixes; developments of new features will go towards a 1.2.0 release. New features in 1.1:

New wiki table syntax: http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_User%27s_Guide:_Using_tables
User-editable interface messages: http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_namespace
XML-wrapped page source export with optional history: http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML_import_and_export (There is not yet an import function!)
"Magic words" Fixes and tweaks:
linkscc table caches link data for rendering; faster rebuildlinks.php
Numerous bugs in Cologne Blue skin fixed
Login gives warning about missing cookies
Block log, protection log added; deletion log now includes undeletions
Deletion & upload logs now escape comment text properly
Problems with <nowiki> segments in section titles etc mitigated
Contributions offset and minor edit bugs fixed
Whatlinkshere now sorted alphabetically
Various exciting new profiling options.
Debug log is off by default.
Various small bugs fixed. Internal changes:
wfQuery has had a second parameter inserted, DB_READ or DB_WRITE. This value is not actually used so far.
Partial code for categories and Smarty template-based skins is in the tree but disabled.
Parts of Article.php have been moved to EditPage.php and ImagePage.php. New translations:
fi - Finnish
ia - Interlingua
no - Norwegian
sk - Slovak
ta - Tamil

Database changes

"linkscc" table added. If upgrading manually (rather than with update.php), run maintenance/archives/patch-linkscc.sql to create the table. Older releases were dated snapshots from the old 'stable' branch:

mediawiki-20031118

Image deletion fixed.
Deletion of image old revisions now restricted to sysops (this is an irreversible action and not well logged)
Fixed maintenance scripts broken by last release's security fix
Many errors in rebuildlinks script fixed.

mediawiki-20031117

SECURITY FIX: stricter checking of include path
Fixed user contributions next/prev bug
Login cookies now have the database name prefixed to allow wikis to coexist in the same domain. This will invalidate any old saved password cookies.
Update cache timestamp when talk pages are created
Saving the login form in Mozilla no longer blanks password in prefs.
Check existence of source page before performing a move.
Detect invalid titles in Special:Allpages
Q-encode headers on outgoing inter-user e-mail
Updates to some translations.
Added table of contents border/bg to Cologne Blue, Nostalgia skins
Protected pages no longer appear unprotected when visited via redirect
Swapped old Wikipedia logo for the MediaWiki sunflower logo
install.php, update.php print warning on old PHP versions, added compatibility functions that might or might not help No database changes since 20031107; upgrading should be clean.

mediawiki-20031107

Fixed various bugs!
Some speed improvements from tweaks to the table indexes
Limited support for memcached (see below)
New translations (see below)
Interwiki link data now kept in database for flexibility
Friendlier read-only source view if asked to edit a page when the db is locked or the page is protected.
Normal IP blocks auto-expire after 24 hours
Optional support for blocking usernames
Uploads disabled by default (see below)

Security note

Uploads are now disabled by default. If you've set up a secure configuration you can reenable uploads by putting: $wgDisableUploads = false; into LocalSettings.php. Earlier versions of MediaWiki included a bug that potentially allows logged- in users to delete arbitrary files in directories writable by the web server user by manually feeding false form data; this is now fixed. As a reminder, disable PHP script execution in the upload directory! You may also wish to serve HTML pages as plaintext to prevent cookie- stealing JavaScript attacks. Example Apache config fragment:

<Directory "/Library/MediaWiki/web/upload">
     # Ignore .htaccess files
     AllowOverride None
     
     # Serve HTML as plaintext
     AddType text/plain .html .htm .shtml
     
     # Don't run arbitrary PHP code.
     php_admin_flag engine off
     
     # If you've other scripting languages, disable them too.
</Directory>

Database updates

If you're using update.php, the necessary database changes should be made automatically. To manually upgrade your database from the 2003-08-29 release, run the following SQL scripts from the maintenance subdirectory: archives/patch-ipblocks.sql archives/patch-interwiki.sql archives/patch-indexes.sql interwiki.sql To copy in the Wikipedia language-prefix interwikis as well, add: wikipedia-interwiki.sql

Translations

New interface localization files are included for:

fy - Frisian
ro - Romanian
sl - Slovene
sq - Albanian
sr - Serbian

Memcached

Memcached is a distributed cache system. See http://www.danga.com/memcached/ MediaWiki can optionally use memcached to store some data between calls to reduce load on the database. Currently this is limited to user and talk page notification data, interwiki prefix/URL matches, and the UTF-8 conversion tables. MediaWiki includes version 1.0.10 of the (GPL'd) PHP memcached client by Ryan Gilfether; if memcached is disabled it acts as a dummy object with minimal overhead. To use memcached you'll need PHP installed with sockets support (this is not in the default configure options). See docs/memcached for some more details. Additionally, you can store login session data in memcached instead of the local filesystem, which can help to enable load-balancing by letting login sessions transparently work on multiple front-end web servers. (The primary other issue is with uploads, which requires some care in handling.) To enable this, set $wgSessionsInMemcached = true; and set $wgCookieDomain appropriately if exposing multiple hostnames. This system is new and may be volatile; login sessions will fail dramatically if memcached is unavailable when this option is turned on.

Online documentation

Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is currently being built up on Meta-Wikipedia, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation License: http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_User%27s_Guide

Mailing list

A MediaWiki-l mailing list has been set up distinct from the Wikipedia wikitech-l list: http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

UseModWiki import script

A stripped-down UseModWiki import script is available in the maintenance subdirectory. It is incomplete and requires a lot of manual clean-up, but does function for the brave and pure of heart.

Test suite removed

The unmaintained Java-based test suite has been removed from the tarball release. If you really want it you can check it out from CVS.

mediawiki-20030829

First release under MediaWiki name.

Release notes/1.1

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