User:Iritscen/WikiFuture

Last updated when our current installation was at version 1.19.2.

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

Future 1.19 versions

No notable feature changes, but security fixes are available up to 1.19.15.

1.20

• 1.20 has several database changes since 1.19, and will not work without schema updates.
• Minimum PHP version is now 5.3.2, minimum SQL version is now MySQL 5.0.2, PostgreSQL 8.3, SQLite 3.3.7.
• Improved diff view (but we have already back-ported this into our Vector.css).
• New special page Special:MostInterwikis.
• Live preview functionality has been improved.
• "Show" options on Special:RecentChanges and Special:RecentChangesLinked are now remembered between successive clicks.
• Sanitizer::fixDeprecatedAttributes should convert "align" attribute to margin or float instead of text-align (for non-table-cells).
• Removed white border around thumbnails in galleries.
• Section edit and TOC hide/show links are excluded from selection and copy/paste on supporting browsers.
• Allow importing pages as subpage.
• Allow PAGESINCATEGORY to distinguish between 'all', 'pages', 'files' and 'subcats'.
• Option on Special:Prefixindex and Special:Allpages to not show redirects.
• The user right 'upload_by_url' is no longer given to sysops by default. This only affects installations which have $wgAllowCopyUploads set to true.

1.21

• 1.21 has several database changes since 1.20, and will not work without schema updates.
• Same requirements as above.
• BREAKING CHANGE: Filenames of maintenance scripts were standardized into lowerCamelCase format, and made more explicit.
• The username field is not pre-filled when creating an account.
• removeUnusedAccounts.php maintenance script now ignores newuser log when determining whether an account is used (there's a removeUnusedAccounts script?!).
• In the sidebar of Vector, CologneBlue, Monobook, and Monobook-based skins, the heading levels have been changed from (variously per skin) <h4>, <h5> or <h6> to only <h3>s, with a <h2> hidden heading above them. If you are styling or scripting the headings in a custom way, this change will require updates to your site's CSS or JS.
• Update filename field on Upload page after having sanitized it.
• Diffs while editing an old revision should again diff against the current revision.
• SpecialDoubleRedirect should support interwiki redirects.
• fixDoubleRedirects.php should support interwiki redirects.
• SpecialBrokenRedirect should not list interwiki redirects.
• Hide rollback link if a user is the only contributor of the page.
• The HTML5 tag has been whitelisted (this is for highlighting text).
• $wgVectorUseSimpleSearch is now enabled by default.

1.22

These changes are listed through 1.22.15.

• 1.22 has several database changes since 1.21, and will not work without schema updates.
• Same requirements as above.
• Code specific to the Math extension was marked as deprecated.
• The collapsibleNav feature from the Vector extension has been moved to the Vector skin in core.
• Methods Title::userCanEditCssSubpage and Title::userCanEditJsSubpage, deprecated since 1.19, have been removed.
• MediaWiki will now flash a confirmation message upon successfully editing a page.
• A new Special:Redirect page was added, providing lookup by revision ID, user ID, or file name. The old Special:Filepath page was reimplemented to redirect through Special:Redirect.
• Event namespace used by jquery.makeCollapsible has been changed from 'mw-collapse' to 'mw-collapsible' for consistency with the module name.
• Converted the table of contents on wiki pages from to
  and adjusted skin CSS accordingly. The CSS was carefully crafted to be backwards-compatible in all reasonable cases (uses of the __TOC__ magic word, the #toc CSS id and the .toc CSS class). However, particularly bad abuse of the id or the class can possibly break.
• Broken files tracking category removed from pages if an image with that name is uploaded.
• portal-url and currentevents-url have been removed from the default Sidebar; helppage now points to a mediawiki.org page which is guaranteed to exist. Any sysop can customize the sidebar by editing MediaWiki:Sidebar.
• The 'edit' right no longer allows for editing a user's own CSS and JS.
• New rights 'editmyusercss', 'editmyuserjs', 'viewmywatchlist', 'editmywatchlist', 'viewmyprivateinfo', 'editmyprivateinfo', and 'editmyoptions' restrict actions that were formerly allowed by default. They have been added to the default for $wgGroupPermissions['*'].
• The 'editprotected' right no longer allows bypassing of all page protection restrictions. Any group using it for this purpose will now need to have all the individual rights listed in $wgRestrictionTypes for the same effect.
• Special:ListFiles can now show old versions of files. Additionally Special:AllMyUploads was introduced so the user can get a list of all things they have ever uploaded, even if it was subsequently overriden.
• Add a mode parameter to <gallery> tag with potential options of "traditional", "nolines", "packed", "packed-overlay", or "packed-hover".
• can now be used inside WikiText.
• Special:PrefixIndex now lets you strip the searched prefix from the displayed titles. Given a list of articles named Bug1, Bug2, you can now transclude the list of bug numbers using: {{Special:PrefixIndex/Bug|stripprefix=1}}. The special page form received a new checkbox matching that option.
• New user rights have been added to increase granularity in rights management for extensions such as OAuth:

• editmyusercss controls whether a user may edit their own CSS subpages.
• editmyuserjs controls whether a user may edit their own JS subpages.
• viewmywatchlist controls whether a user may view their watchlist.
• editmywatchlist controls whether a user may edit their watchlist.
• viewmyprivateinfo controls whether a user may access their private information (e.g. registered email address, real name).
• editmyprivateinfo controls whether a user may change their private information.
• editmyoptions controls whether a user may change their preferences.

• The lists of templates used on the page and hidden categories it is a member of, shown below the edit form, are now collapsible (and collapsed by default).
• {{ROOTPAGENAME}} introduced, contains the name of the topmost page without namespace.
• New versions of login (Special:UserLogin) and create account (Special:UserLogin/signup) forms using the "vform" compact vertical form layout. These forms use new messages that assume a "Help logging in" link, see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Page_customizations; https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Account_creation_user_experience/Strings lists the message key changes.
• EditWarning: A warning is shown when an editor leaves the edit form without saving (enabled by default, users can opt-out via the 'useeditwarning' preference). This feature was moved from the Vector extension, and is now part of core for all skins. Take care when upgrading that you don't use an older version of the Vector extension as this feature may conflict.
• wikibits: Drop support for mwCustomEditButtons. It defaults to an empty array and emits mw.log.warn when accessed.
• Legacy skins Simple, MySkin, Chick, Standard and Nostalgia were all removed.

1.23

These changes are listed through 1.23.10.

• 1.23 has several database changes since 1.22, and will not work without schema updates.
• Same requirements as above.
• Preferences 'watchcreations', 'watchdefault', 'enotifwatchlistpages' ("Add pages I create and files I upload to my watchlist", "Add pages and files I edit to my watchlist", "Email me when a page or file on my watchlist is changed") are now enabled by default. In addition new user accounts' personal and talk pages are now watched by them by default.
• Add expensive parser functions , and (with friends).
• The MediaWiki:Group-user.{css,js} pages can now be used to add custom CSS or JavaScript enabled only for registered users.
• Special:Diff was added, allowing users to create internal links to revision comparison pages using syntax such as Special:Diff/12345, Special:Diff/12345/prev or Special:Diff/12345/98765.
• Slight changes to the typography. The details are listed here, but the gist of it is a classier serif font for headers, slightly larger text, and that text is now dark-dark-gray instead of black.
• Redirect pages, when viewed with redirect=no, no longer hide the remaining page content.
• The global functions addButton and insertTags (for mw.toolbar.addButton and mw.toolbar.insertTags) now emits mw.log.warn when accessed.
• Display MediaWiki:Loginprompt on the login page (as in 1.21).