User:Iritscen/WikiFuture: Difference between revisions

From OniGalore
Jump to navigation Jump to search
(processed 1.23 notes)
(updated notes for 1.39, 1.40 and added 1.41)
 
(27 intermediate revisions by the same user not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:
Below are any notable changes that we should look forward to, or watch out for, if upgrading MediaWiki (besides various security fixes). Source: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes
Below are any notable changes that we should look forward to, or watch out for, if upgrading MediaWiki (as well as significant security fixes). [[mw:Release notes|(Source)]]


Oldest version of MediaWiki still supported as of June 2017: 1.27. Source: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Version_lifecycle
Oldest maintained LTS version of MediaWiki: 1.39 (supported through November 2025).<br>
Latest LTS version of MediaWiki: 1.39 (supported through November 2025). [[mw:Version lifecycle|(Source)]]


You can browse each version of the MW code here: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/source/mediawiki/branches/master/
Current version on OniGalore: '''{{CURRENTVERSION}}'''
 
You can browse each version of the MW code [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/source/mediawiki/branches/master/ HERE].


{{TOCnonum}}
{{TOCnonum}}


==1.24==
==1.39==
*First release was in Nov. 2014.
:''I have checked the release notes through 1.39.6.''
*1.24 has several database changes since 1.23, and will not work without schema updates.
*We are currently on the latest version of 1.39.
*Requirements remain the same as for 1.20 except that MediaWiki now requires PHP's iconv extension.
*MediaWiki will no longer run if register_globals or magic quotes are enabled.
*The server's canonical hostname is available as $wgServerName.
*Users in the 'sysop' group have access to Special:MergeHistory by default.
*<nowiki>{{!}}</nowiki> is now a magic word that produces the | character. This removes the need for our [[Template:Pipe|Pipe template]] for purposes such as passing pipes inside of parameters.
*Redirects to sections will now update the URL in browser's address bar using the HTML5 History API. When <nowiki>[[Dog]]</nowiki> redirects to <nowiki>[[Animals#Dog]]</nowiki>, the user will now see "Animals#Dog" in their browser instead of "Dog#Dog".
*Improved Vector skin performance by removing collapsibleNav, which used to collapse some sidebar elements by default. This removes -list id suffixes like p-lang-list: instead of using things like #p-lang-list, you can do #p-lang .body ul.
*BREAKING CHANGE: All four built-in MediaWiki skins (Vector, Monobook, Modern and Cologne Blue) were moved out of MediaWiki core to their own respective repositories. They will be installed with the release tarball, but you must install them separately if installing MediaWiki from source code.
 
==1.25==
*First release was in May 2015.
*1.25 has several database changes since 1.24, and will not work without schema updates.
*MediaWiki now requires PHP 5.3.3, but other requirements have not changed since 1.24.
*Clickable anchors for each section heading in the content are now generated and appear in the gutter on hovering over the heading (huh?).
*Special:WantedPages no longer lists broken redirects (since that has always had its own special page).
*A new message (defaulting to blank), 'editnotice-notext', can be shown to users when they are editing if no edit notices apply to the page being edited.
*You can now make the sitenotice appear to logged-in users only by editing MediaWiki:Anonnotice and replacing its content with "". Setting it to "-" (default) will continue disable it and fallback to MediaWiki:Sitenotice.
*MediaWiki now requires certain external libraries to be installed. In the past these were bundled inside the Git repository of MediaWiki core, but now they need to be installed separately. For users using the tarball, this will be taken care of and no action will be required. Users using Git will either need to use composer to fetch dependencies or use the mediawiki/vendor repository which includes all dependencies for MediaWiki core and ones used in Wikimedia deployment.
*The Special:WhatLinksHere page linked from 'Number of redirects to this page' on action=info about a file page does not list file links anymore (whuh?).
*Search bar is not autofocused unless it is empty so that proper scrolling using arrow keys is possible.
*The global importScriptURI and importStylesheetURI functions, as well as the loadedScripts object, from wikibits.js (deprecated since 1.17) now emit warnings through mw.log.warn when accessed.
 
==1.26==
*First release was in Nov. 2015.
*1.26 has several database changes since 1.25, and will not work without schema updates.
*Requirements remain the same as for 1.25.
*The "Signature" button on the edit toolbar is now hidden by default in non-talk namespaces. A new configuration variable, $wgExtraSignatureNamespaces, controls in which subject (non-talk) namespaces the "Signature" button on the edit toolbar will be displayed.


==1.27==
==1.40==
*First release was in Jun. 2016.
:''I have checked the release notes through 1.40.2.''
*1.27 has several database changes since 1.26, and will not work without schema updates.
*'''Requires PHP 7.4.3+ and the PHP extensions ctype, dom, fileinfo, iconv, intl, json, mbstring, xml.'''
*MediaWiki now requires PHP 5.5.9 and MySQL 5.0.3 instead of 5.0.2.
*Special:Search can now show thumbnails for results for titles outside NS_FILE. This is controlled via the new onSearchResultProvideThumbnail hook.
*Many changes to the authentication process have been made, which may affect our third-party extension ConfirmAccount.
*A new preference ('search-thumbnail-extra-namespaces') to allow users to control whether to show more thumbnails (per $wgThumbnailNamespaces)
*The preferences page now provides a search bar to find preferences, regardless of the tab on which they appear.
*$wgPasswordPolicies – This setting, which controls what makes for a valid password for wiki accounts, has been adjusted to raise the minimal password length from 1 to 8 characters. The initial limit of 1 has been in place since MediaWiki 1.26. If you wish to allow shorter passwords, you can over-ride it in your LocalSettings following the guidance on MediaWiki.org.
*You should configure your webserver to return the http header 'X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff' for the /images directory. This will instruct browsers to not apply content sniffing when accessing the files. MediaWiki before 1.40 shipped with a content sniffer which disallowed potentially dangerous files at upload time, but this protection has now been removed in favor of this 'X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff' header and the installer will return a warning when it is not in place.
*Maintenance scripts should now be executed using maintenance/run.php, e.g. maintenance/run.php update not maintenance/update.php as before.
*Five extensions have now been bundled with MediaWiki:
**The [[mw:Extension:DiscussionTools|DiscussionTools]] extension, which provides a forum-like editing experience for wikitext-based discussion pages. This is the dreaded new "forum-like" experience for talk pages that I don't think any of us will want. It seems like it will be on by default so we'll have to change $wgDiscussionToolsEnable to false. Hopefully it doesn't do anything to mess with talk pages immediately upon install.
**The [[mw:Extension:Echo|Echo]] extension, which provides a system of user notifications.
**The [[mw:Extension:Linter|Linter]] extension, which warns about use of deprecated wikitext.
**The [[mw:Extension:LoginNotify|LoginNotify]] extension, which warns users about failed attempted logins.
**The [[mw:Extension:Thanks|Thanks]] extension, which lets users thank editors for edits.
*The Renameuser extension has been moved to MediaWiki core. It is now possible to rename users without installing an extension. The extension had already been bundled with MediaWiki since 1.18.


==1.28==
==1.41==
:''These changes are listed through 1.28.2.''
*'''Requires PHP 7.4.3+ and the PHP extensions ctype, dom, fileinfo, iconv, intl, json, mbstring, xml.'''
*First release was in Nov. 2016.
*MediaWiki now requires browsers to support ES6 for them to receive JavaScript, up from ES5. In practice, this primarily means that users of Internet Explorer 11 (EOL in 2022) will no longer get JavaScript tools.
*1.28 has several database changes since 1.27, and will not work without schema updates.
*Some interesting new configuration variables:
*Numeric sorting in categories is now supported.
**$wgImplicitRights - A list of implicit rights, in addition to the ones defined by the core. Rights in this list are granted implicitly to all users, but rate limits may apply to them.
**$wgInterwikiLogoOverride - List of interwiki logos overrides.
**$wgSVGNativeRendering - Whether native SVG rendering by the browser agent is allowed
**$wgSVGNativeRenderingSizeLimit - If $wgSVGNativeRendering is set to 'partial', this sets the size limit for an SVG file to be rendered as a PNG instead of directly by the browser.


[[Category:Userspace]]
[[Category:Userspace]]

Latest revision as of 02:43, 7 January 2024

Below are any notable changes that we should look forward to, or watch out for, if upgrading MediaWiki (as well as significant security fixes). (Source)

Oldest maintained LTS version of MediaWiki: 1.39 (supported through November 2025).
Latest LTS version of MediaWiki: 1.39 (supported through November 2025). (Source)

Current version on OniGalore: 1.39.6

You can browse each version of the MW code HERE.

1.39

I have checked the release notes through 1.39.6.
  • We are currently on the latest version of 1.39.

1.40

I have checked the release notes through 1.40.2.
  • Requires PHP 7.4.3+ and the PHP extensions ctype, dom, fileinfo, iconv, intl, json, mbstring, xml.
  • Special:Search can now show thumbnails for results for titles outside NS_FILE. This is controlled via the new onSearchResultProvideThumbnail hook.
  • A new preference ('search-thumbnail-extra-namespaces') to allow users to control whether to show more thumbnails (per $wgThumbnailNamespaces)
  • The preferences page now provides a search bar to find preferences, regardless of the tab on which they appear.
  • $wgPasswordPolicies – This setting, which controls what makes for a valid password for wiki accounts, has been adjusted to raise the minimal password length from 1 to 8 characters. The initial limit of 1 has been in place since MediaWiki 1.26. If you wish to allow shorter passwords, you can over-ride it in your LocalSettings following the guidance on MediaWiki.org.
  • You should configure your webserver to return the http header 'X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff' for the /images directory. This will instruct browsers to not apply content sniffing when accessing the files. MediaWiki before 1.40 shipped with a content sniffer which disallowed potentially dangerous files at upload time, but this protection has now been removed in favor of this 'X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff' header and the installer will return a warning when it is not in place.
  • Maintenance scripts should now be executed using maintenance/run.php, e.g. maintenance/run.php update not maintenance/update.php as before.
  • Five extensions have now been bundled with MediaWiki:
    • The DiscussionTools extension, which provides a forum-like editing experience for wikitext-based discussion pages. This is the dreaded new "forum-like" experience for talk pages that I don't think any of us will want. It seems like it will be on by default so we'll have to change $wgDiscussionToolsEnable to false. Hopefully it doesn't do anything to mess with talk pages immediately upon install.
    • The Echo extension, which provides a system of user notifications.
    • The Linter extension, which warns about use of deprecated wikitext.
    • The LoginNotify extension, which warns users about failed attempted logins.
    • The Thanks extension, which lets users thank editors for edits.
  • The Renameuser extension has been moved to MediaWiki core. It is now possible to rename users without installing an extension. The extension had already been bundled with MediaWiki since 1.18.

1.41

  • Requires PHP 7.4.3+ and the PHP extensions ctype, dom, fileinfo, iconv, intl, json, mbstring, xml.
  • MediaWiki now requires browsers to support ES6 for them to receive JavaScript, up from ES5. In practice, this primarily means that users of Internet Explorer 11 (EOL in 2022) will no longer get JavaScript tools.
  • Some interesting new configuration variables:
    • $wgImplicitRights - A list of implicit rights, in addition to the ones defined by the core. Rights in this list are granted implicitly to all users, but rate limits may apply to them.
    • $wgInterwikiLogoOverride - List of interwiki logos overrides.
    • $wgSVGNativeRendering - Whether native SVG rendering by the browser agent is allowed
    • $wgSVGNativeRenderingSizeLimit - If $wgSVGNativeRendering is set to 'partial', this sets the size limit for an SVG file to be rendered as a PNG instead of directly by the browser.
Retrieved from "https://wiki.oni2.net/w/index.php?title=User:Iritscen/WikiFuture&oldid=42180"