Followup r87541

Move RELEASE-NOTES to HISTORY

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 Change notes from older releases. For current info see RELEASE-NOTES.
 
+== MediaWiki 1.18 ==
+
+THIS IS NOT A RELEASE YET
+
+MediaWiki 1.18 is an alpha-quality branch and is not recommended for use in 
+production.
+
+=== Configuration changes in 1.18 ===
+* The WantedPages::getSQL hook has been removed and replaced with
+  WantedPages::getQueryInfo. This may break older extensions.
+* $wgUseCombinedLoginLink controls whether to output a combined
+  login / create account link in the personal bar, or to output separate login
+  and create account links.
+* Skin names are no longer created based on a ucfirst version of the key in
+  $wgValidSkinNames but now the value. This means for
+  $wgValidSkinNames["monobook"] = "MonoBook"; the skin loader will no longer try
+  loading SkinMonobook and will instead load SkinMonoBook.
+* $wgMaxUploadSize may now be set to an array to specify the upload size limit
+  per upload type.
+* $wgAPICacheHelp added in 1.16 is now removed. To disable API help caching, set
+  $wgAPICacheHelpTimeout = 0;
+* OutputPage::isUserJsAllowed() no longer returns false when scripts are allowed
+  by the page, but $wgAllowUserJs is set to false.
+* Pure "Skin" class based custom skins are no longer supported, all custom skins
+  should be put together using SkinTemplate and BaseTemplate or QuickTemplate.
+* The transliteration for passwords in case they were migrated from an old
+  Latin-1 install (previous to MediaWiki 1.5) is now only done for wikis with
+  $wgLegacyEncoding set.
+* (bug 27508) Add $wgSVGMetadataCutoff to limit the maximum amount of an SVG we
+  look at when finding metadata to prevent excessive resource usage.
+* $wgSysopUserBans and $wgSysopRangeBans (deprecated in 1.17) are now removed.
+  Use $wgBlockCIDRLimit = array( 'IPv4' => 43, 'IPv6' => 128 ) to achieve the
+  same functionality as $wgSysopRangeBans; you can use the BlockIp hook to
+  replicate $wgSysopUserBans functionality.
+* The options on the block form have been standardised such that checking a box
+  makes the block 'more serious'; so while "check to prevent account creation"
+  and "check to enable autoblock" remain the same, "check to allow user-talk
+  edit" is reversed to "check to *disable* user-talk edit", and "check to block
+  anon-only" becomes "check to block logged-in users too".  The default settings
+  remain the same.
+* Most of the field names on the Special:Block form have been changed, which
+  will probably break screen-scraping bots.
+* (bug 26866) The 'trackback' right is no longer granted to sysops by default.
+  $wgUseTrackbacks is already false by default.
+* (bug 17009) the hiddenStructure CSS class, a highly hackish way of at least
+  *appearing* to hide article elements, has been removed.  Use the
+  ParserFunctions extension to actually remove unwanted elements from the
+  output.
+* (bug 14202) $wgUseTeX has been superseded by the Math extension. To re-enable
+  math conversion after upgrading, obtain the Math extension from SVN or from
+  http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Math and add to LocalSettings.php:
+  require_once "$IP/extensions/Math/Math.php";
+* $wgProfiler is now a configuration array, see StartProfiler.sample for
+  details.
+* $wgProfiling has been removed.
+* The spyc library is now no longer included in phase3.
+* (bug 28343) Unused preferences contextlines/contextchars have been removed
+* $wgSkinExtensionFunctions has been removed. Use $wgExtensionFunctions instead.
+
+=== New features in 1.18 ===
+* (bug 8130) Query pages should limit to content namespaces, not just main
+  namespace.
+* Search suggestions (other than in the Vector skin) will now use the HTML5
+  datalist feature where supported, currently only Firefox 4.
+* Special:Contribs now redirects to Special:Contributions.
+* (bug 6672) Images are now autorotated according to their EXIF orientation.
+  This only affects thumbnails; the source remains unrotated.
+* (bug 25708) Update case mappings and normalization to Unicode 6.0.0
+* New hook ArticlePrepareTextForEdit added, called when preparing text to be
+  saved.
+* New parser option PreSaveTransform added, allows the pre-save transformation
+  to be selectively disabled.
+* Alternative to $wgHooks implemented, using the new Hooks class.
+* Add width parameter to Special:Filepath to allow getting the file path of a
+  thumbnail.
+* (bug 26870) Add size to {{filepath:}}.
+* Upload warnings now show a thumbnail of the uploaded file.
+* Introduced the edittools-upload message, which will be inserted under the
+  upload form instead of edittools if available.
+* (bug 26285) Extensions will be automatically generated on upload if the user
+  specified a filename without extension.
+* (bug 26851) Special:UserRights now allows to prefill the reason field
+* New maintenance script to fix double redirects
+  (maintenance/fixDoubleRedirects.php).
+* (bug 23315) New body classes to allow easier styling of special pages.
+* (bug 27159) Make email confirmation code expiration time configurable.
+* CSS/JS for each user group is imported from MediaWiki:Sysop.js,
+  MediaWiki:Autoconfirmed.css, etc.
+* (bug 24230) Uploads of ZIP types, such as MS Office or OpenOffice can now be
+  safely enabled. A ZIP file reader was added which can scan a ZIP file for
+  potentially dangerous Java applets. This allows applets to be blocked
+  specifically, rather than all ZIP files being blocked.
+* (bug 2429) Allow selection of associated namespace in recent changes.
+* (bug 26217) File size is now checked before uploading in HTML5 browsers.
+* CSS stylesheet MediaWiki:Noscript.css is now loaded for users with JavaScript
+  disabled (enclosed in the head in a <noscript> tag).
+* Added UserGetLanguageObject hook to change the language used in $wgLang.
+* (bug 14645) When $wgMiserMode is on, expensive special pages are styled
+  differently (italicized by default) on Special:SpecialPages.
+* Added $wgAggregateStatsID, which allows UDP stats to be aggregated over
+  several wikis.
+* When $wgAllowMicrodataAttributes is true, all itemtypes are allowed, not just
+  the three that were defined in the original specification.
+* (bug 14706) Added support for the Imagick PHP extension.
+* (bug 18691) Added support for SVG rasterization using the Imagick PHP
+  extension.
+* (bug 2581, bug 6834) Added links to thumbnail in several resolutions to the
+  file description page. The sizes are set by $wgImageLimits.
+* (bug 28031) Add pageCount support to ArchivedFile.
+* (bug 27924) PhpHttpRequest doesn't return response body if HTTP != 200.
+* Added hook BitmapHandlerTransform to allow extension to transform a file
+  without overriding the entire handler.
+* The parser now attempts to output markers for editsection tokens and defer the
+  rendering of them post-cache to reduce parser cache fragmentation and ensure
+  skin customizability of edit section links.
+* (bug 24755) AuthPlugin auto-creation of local accounts can now be aborted by
+  other extensions by handling the 'AbortAutoAccount' hook, similar to the
+  'AbortNewAccount' triggered by explicit account creations. (They are separate
+  to avoid loops and confusion; auth plugins like CentralAuth need to handle
+  AbortNewAccount separately.
+* Special:ListFiles is now transcludable.
+* (bug 13879) Special:Emailuser asks for suitable target user if called without.
+* (bug 16956) IPTC and XMP metadata now extracted from images.
+* (bug 23816) A tracking category is now added for any pages with broken images.
+* (bug 23495) Allow createAndPromote.php to create non-sysop users
+
+=== Bug fixes in 1.18 ===
+* (bug 23119) WikiError class and subclasses are now marked as deprecated.
+* (bug 10871) Javascript and CSS pages in MediaWiki namespace are no longer
+  treated as wikitext on preview.
+* (bug 22753) Output from update.php is more clear when things changed, entries
+  indicating nothing changed are now all prefixed by "...".
+* Page existence is now not revealed (in the colour of the tabs) to users who
+  cannot read the page in question.
+* (bug 19006) {{REVISIONUSER}} no longer acts like {{CURRENTUSER}} in some
+  cases.
+* (bug 16019) $wgArticlePath = "/$1" no longer breaks API edit/watch actions.
+* (bug 18372) File types blacklisted by $wgFileBlacklist will no longer be shown
+  as "Permitted file types" on the upload form.
+* (bug 26379) importImages.php gives more descriptive error message on failure.
+* (bug 26410) + signs are no longer treated as spaces in internal links if
+  link has a % sign in it.
+* (bug 26412) Search results headers no longer show a bogus edit link.
+* (bug 26540) Fixed wrong call to applyPatch in MysqlUpdater.
+* (bug 26574) Added 'upload' to $wgRestrictionTypes, allowing upload protected
+  pages to be queried via the API and Special:ProtectedPages, and allowing
+  disabling upload protection by removing it from $wgRestrictionTypes.
+* If an edit summary exceeds 250 bytes and is truncated, add an ellipse.
+* (bug 26638) Database error pages display correctly in RTL languages.
+* (bug 26187) Confirmrecreate no longer parses the edit summary.
+* (bug 25506) Exception is thrown if OutputPage::parse is called inside a tag
+  hook, which would reset parser state.
+* (bug 26208) Mark directionality of some interlanguage links.
+* (bug 26034) Make the "View / Read" tab in content_navigation style tabs remain
+  selected when the action is "purge".
+* (bug 14267) Support a MediaWiki:Mainpage-nstab override for the subject
+  namespace tab on the mainpage of a wiki.
+* (bug 10158) Do not mention allowing others to contact you when the feature
+  is disabled ($wgEnableUserEmail=false).
+* (bug 26733) Wrap initial table creation in transaction.
+* (bug 26729) Category pages should return 404 if they do not exist and have no
+  members.
+* (bug 2585) Image pages should send 404 if no image, no shared image and no
+  description page.
+* Custom editintro's using the editintro url parameter will no longer show
+  <noinclude> sections on pages they are included on.
+* (bug 26449) Keep underlines from headings outside of tables and thumbs by
+  adding overflow:hidden to h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6 (also fixes editsection bunching).
+* (bug 26708) Remove background-color:white from tables in Monobook and Vector.
+* (bug 28422) Remove color:black from tables in Monobook and Vector. And add it
+  to table.wikitable instead.
+* (bug 26781) {{PAGENAME}} and related parser functions escape their output
+  better.
+* (bug 26716) Provide link to instructions for external editor related
+  preferences and add a comment to the ini control file explaining what is
+  going on.
+* Trying to upload a file with no extension or with a disallowed MIME type now
+  gives the right message instead of complaining about a MIME/extension
+  mismatch.
+* (bug 26809) Uploading files with multiple extensions where one of the
+  extensions is blacklisted now gives the proper extension in the error message.
+* (bug 26961) Hide anon edits in watchlist preference now actually works.
+* (bug 19751) Filesystem is now checked during image undeletion.
+* Send last modified headers for Special:Recentchanges when RC patrol is
+  enabled, but user cannot see rc patrol links.
+* (bug 26548) ForeignAPIRepo (InstantCommons) now works with PDF files
+  and other multi-paged file formats.
+* Files with a mime type that does not match the extension are now properly
+  thumbnailed.
+* (bug 27201) Special:WhatLinksHere output no longer contains duplicate IDs.
+* (bug 15905) Nostalgia skin could become more usable by including a Talk:
+  link at the top of the page.
+* (bug 27560) Search queries no longer fail in Walloon language.
+* (bug 27679) Broken embedded files with special characters are no longer
+  double HTML escaped.
+* (bug 27700) The upload protection can now also be set for files that do not
+  exist.
+* (bug 27763) Article::getParserOutput() no longer throws a fatal given when an
+  incorrect revision ID is passed.
+* Trim the form field for uploading by url to remove extra spaces which could
+  cause confusing error messages.
+* (bug 27854) Http::isValidURI is way too lax.
+* Do not show enotifminoredits preference, if disabled by $wgEnotifMinorEdits.
+* AbortLogin returning "ABORTED" now handled.  Also allows message identifier
+  for "ABORTED" reason to be returned and displayed to user.
+* (bug 28034) uploading file to local wiki when file exists on shared repository
+  (commons) gives spurious info in the warning message.
+* Usernames get lost when selecting different sorts on Special:listfiles.
+* (bug 14005) editing section 0 of an existing but empty page gives no such
+  section error.
+* (bug 26939) Installer does not set $wgMetaNamespace.
+* (bug 28166) UploadBase assumes that 'edit' and 'upload' rights are not per
+  page restrictions.
+* Make truncate function automatically consider length of '...' string,
+  since length can vary by localization.
+* (bug 28242) Make redirects generated by urls containing a local interwiki
+  prefix be a 301 instead of a 302.
+* (bug 15641) blocked administrators are now prevented from deleting or
+  protecting their own talk page; and all blocked users are more
+  comprehensively prevented from performing other actions.
+* (bug 27893) Edit-on-doubleclick now applies only on view and purge actions;
+  no longer triggers unexpectedly on delete, history etc.
+* (bug 28417) Fix PHP notice when importing revision without a listed id.
+* (bug 28430) Make html and TeX output of <math> always be left-to-right.
+* (bug 28306) Fix exposure of suppressed usernames in ForeignDBRepo.
+* (bug 28372) Fix bogus link to suppressed file versions in ForeignDBRepo.
+* (bug 27473) Fix regression: bold, italic no longer interfere with linktrail
+  for ca, kaa.
+* (bug 28444) Fix regression: edit-on-doubleclick retains revision id again.
+* &apos; character entity is now allowed in wikitext.
+* UtfNormal::cleanUp on an invalid utf-8 sequence no longer returns false if
+  intl installed.
+* (bug 28561) The css class small will no longer make nested elements even
+  smaller.
+* (bug 13172) Array type exif data (like GPS) was not being extracted from
+  images.
+* (bug 28532) wfMsgExt() and wfMsgWikiHtml() use $wgOut->parse()
+* (bug 16129) Transcluded special pages expose strip markers when they output
+  parsed messages.
+* (bug 27249) "Installed software" table in Special:Version should always be
+  left-to-right.
+* (bug 28719) Do not call mLinkHolders __destruct explicitly
+* (bug 21196) Article::getContributors() no longer fails on PostgreSQL.
+* (bug 28752) XCache doesn't work in CLI mode.
+* (bug 28076) Thumbnail height limited to 360 pixels on Special:Listfiles
+* (bug 22227) Special:Listfiles no longer throws an error on bogus file entries
+* (bug 19408) user_properties.up_property: 32 bytes is not enough.
+
+=== API changes in 1.18 ===
+* (bug 26339) Throw warning when truncating an overlarge API result.
+* (bug 14869) Add API module for accessing QueryPage-based special pages.
+* (bug 14020) API for Special:Unwatchedpages.
+* (bug 24287) Wrap API Help output at 100 characters.
+* Add a realname uiprop option to query=userinfo so a user's realname can be
+  extracted.
+* Add a &watchuser option to ApiBlock.
+* (bug 26541) Generator-ise ApiQueryRecentChanges.
+* action=parse now correctly returns an error for nonexistent pages.
+* (bug 25767) Add userrights properties to allusers and users query lists.
+* (bug 26558) list=allusers auprop=groups does not list groups a user is
+  automatically a member of.
+* (bug 26559) list=allusers auprop=rights does not match
+  list=users usprop=rights.
+* (bug 26560) On allusers if limit < total number of users, last user gets
+  duplicate.
+* (bug 25135) add "normalized" to action=parse.
+* (bug 26460) Add support for listing category members by category pageid.
+* (bug 26482) add a imimages param to prop=images.
+* (bug 26498) allow LinksUpdate with API.
+* (bug 26485) add a elextlinks param to prop=extlinks.
+* (bug 26483) add a iwtitles param to prop=iwlinks.
+* (bug 26484) add a lltitles param to prop=langlinks.
+* (bug 26480) add a pppageprops param to prop=pageprops.
+* (bug 26650) Remove $wgAPICacheHelp in favour of $wgAPICacheHelpTimeout.
+* (bug 24650) Fix API to work with categorylinks changes.
+* Expose list of skins in meta=siteinfo.
+* (bug 26548) Add iiurlparam param to query=imageinfo and query=stashimageinfo.
+* (bug 27205) aiprop=metadata and aiprop=parsedcomment need help text.
+* Add a amtitle param to meta=allmessages.
+* (bug 25832) query=allimages now outputs ns/title as well.
+* (bug 27199) Thumbnail urls can be fetched for old files as well.
+* (bug 27376) when using ApiBase::PARAM_TYPE => 'integer' without a min or
+  max value, API doesn't validate the input is actually an integer.
+* (bug 27479) API error when using both prop=pageprops and
+  prop=info&inprop=displaytitle.
+* (bug 27554) Update API information text to reflect change in bug 26125.
+* (bug 27611) list=blocks: Use ipb_by_text instead of join with user table.
+* (bug 27616) Add userid of blocked user and blocker to list=blocks.
+* (bug 27688) Simplify queries to list user block information.
+* (bug 27708) list=users does not have a property to return user id.
+* (bug 27715) imageinfo didn't respect revdelete.
+* (bug 27862) Useremail module didn't properly return success on success.
+* (bug 27590) prop=imageinfo now allows querying the media type.
+* (bug 27587) list=filearchive now outputs full title info.
+* (bug 27018) Added action=filerevert to revert files to an old version.
+* (bug 27897) list=allusers and list=users list hidden users.
+* (bug 27717) API's exturlusage module does not respect $wgMiserMode.
+* (bug 27588) list=filearchive&faprop=sha1 returns empty attribute.
+* (bug 28010) Passing a non existant user to list=users gives internal error.
+* (bug 27549) action=query&list=users&usprop=groups doesn't show implicit
+  groups if a user doesn't have explicit groups.
+* (bug 27670) Ordering by timestamp (and usage of start and end) isn't as clear
+  in auto generated document, as it is on mw.org.
+* (bug 27182) API: Add filter by prefix for meta=allmessages.
+* (bug 27183) API: Add filter by customisation state for meta=allmessages.
+* (bug 27340) API: Allow listing of "small" categories.
+* (bug 27342) Add audir param to list=allusers.
+* (bug 27203) add fato param to list=filearchive.
+* (bug 27341) Add drto param to list=deletedrevs.
+* (bug 26630) Add API for Special:ActiveUsers.
+* (bug 27020) API: Allow title prefix search of logevents (only when not in
+  miser mode).
+* (bug 26629) add Special:MIMESearch to API.
+* (bug 27585) add pagecount to list=filearchive.
+* (bug 28104) Namespace for local pages in interwiki backlinks (iwbacklinks)
+  is missing.
+* (bug 27343) Add parseddescription to list=filearchive.
+* (bug 27469) label implicit groups in list=allusers&auprop=groups/
+  list=users&usprop=groups.
+* Addition of APIQuerySiteInfoGeneralInfo hook to add extra information to
+  the general site info results.
+* (bug 16288) API: consider making closure status of wikis more clear
+  with meta=siteinfo.
+* (bug 27589) list=allimages&aiprop=archivename is useless.
+* (bug 27586) Remove duplication of props in ApiQueryStashImageInfo
+  by using ApiQueryImageInfo.
+* (bug 28226) prop=extlinks&eloffset should be an integer.
+* (bug 28070) Fix watchlist RSS for databases that store timestamps in a
+  real timestamp field.
+* API upload errors may now return the parameter that needs to be changed and
+  a sessionkey to fix the error.
+* (bug 28249) allow dupes in meta=allmessages&amargs.
+* (bug 28263) cannot import xml with the API, when have not "import" user
+  right, but "importupload".
+* (bug 28365) Added description for uiprop=preferencestoken in meta=userinfo.
+* (bug 28394) Set forgotten parameters types in ApiUnblock.
+* (bug 28395) Set forgotten parameters types in ApiParse.
+* (bug 28368) add hint for multipart/form-data to API information of
+  action=import&xml=.
+* (bug 28391) action=feedwatchlist&allrev should be a bool.
+* (bug 28364) add registration date to meta=userinfo.
+* (bug 28254) action=paraminfo: Extract type from PARAM_DFLT if
+  PARAM_TYPE is not set.
+* (bug 27712) add parent_id to list=deletedrevs.
+* (bug 28455) Add 'toponly' to recentchanges API module.
+* (bug 26873) API: Add 'toponly' filter in usercontribs module.
+* (bug 28586) YAML: strings that are the same as boolean literals.
+* (bug 28591) Update/replace/supplement spyc (YAML parsing library).
+* YAML API output is now 1.2 compliant, using JSON as the formatter.
+* (bug 28672) give information about misermode on API.
+* (bug 28558) Add iw_api and iw_wikiid to meta=siteinfo&siprop=interwikimap
+* (bug 26882) Allow listing of indefinite protections with the API.
+* (bug 27344) add drprefix param to list=deletedrevs.
+* (bug 28560) list=deletedrevs should die, if combination of param is invalid.
+* (bug 28238) paraminfo: output both limits for multi param
+* (bug 27179) API: List of extension tags through meta=siteinfo
+* Get a list of function hooks through meta=siteinfo
+* Get a list of all subscribed hooks, and those subscribers
+* (bug 28225) Allow hiding of user groups in list=allusers
+* (bug 27185) API: Add Special:ComparePages
+* (bug 28265) allow outputting of comments for action=expandtemplates
+
+=== Languages updated in 1.18 ===
+
+MediaWiki supports over 330 languages. Many localisations are updated
+regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
+changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
+
+* Angika (anp) (new).
+* Brahui (brh) (new).
+* Central Dusun (new).
+* Jamaican Creole English (jam) (new).
+* Khowar (khw) (new).
+* Liv (liv) (new).
+* Tokipona (tp) (removed) 'tokipona' is still  valid.
+* (bug 17160) Gender specific display text for User namespace.
+* Link trail added for sl and sh.
+* (bug 27633) Add characters to linkTrail for Potuguese (pt and pt-br).
+* (bug 27426) Set $namespaceGenderAliases for Arabic (ar).
+* (bug 27385) Set Polish $namespaceGenderAliases.
+* (bug 27681) Set $namespaceGenderAliases for Portuguese (pt and pt-br).
+* (bug 27785) Fallback language for Kabardian (kbd) is English now.
+* (bug 27825) Raw watchlist edit message now uses formatted numbers.
+* (bug 28040) Turkish: properly lower case 'I' to 'ı' (dotless i) and
+  uppercase 'i' to 'İ' (dotted i).
+* Conversion script between Syllabics and Latin for the Inuktitut language.
+* Date formats for Indonesian (id) updated.
+
+
 == MediaWiki 1.17 ==
 
 === PHP 5.2 now required ==
diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES
index 649619b6d196..2f6567afa3c4 100644
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES
@@ -3,397 +3,30 @@
 Security reminder: MediaWiki does not require PHP's register_globals
 setting since version 1.2.0. If you have it on, turn it '''off''' if you can.
 
-== MediaWiki 1.18 ==
+== MediaWiki 1.19 ==
 
 THIS IS NOT A RELEASE YET
 
-MediaWiki 1.18 is an alpha-quality branch and is not recommended for use in 
+MediaWiki 1.19 is an alpha-quality branch and is not recommended for use in 
 production.
 
-=== Configuration changes in 1.18 ===
-* The WantedPages::getSQL hook has been removed and replaced with
-  WantedPages::getQueryInfo. This may break older extensions.
-* $wgUseCombinedLoginLink controls whether to output a combined
-  login / create account link in the personal bar, or to output separate login
-  and create account links.
-* Skin names are no longer created based on a ucfirst version of the key in
-  $wgValidSkinNames but now the value. This means for
-  $wgValidSkinNames["monobook"] = "MonoBook"; the skin loader will no longer try
-  loading SkinMonobook and will instead load SkinMonoBook.
-* $wgMaxUploadSize may now be set to an array to specify the upload size limit
-  per upload type.
-* $wgAPICacheHelp added in 1.16 is now removed. To disable API help caching, set
-  $wgAPICacheHelpTimeout = 0;
-* OutputPage::isUserJsAllowed() no longer returns false when scripts are allowed
-  by the page, but $wgAllowUserJs is set to false.
-* Pure "Skin" class based custom skins are no longer supported, all custom skins
-  should be put together using SkinTemplate and BaseTemplate or QuickTemplate.
-* The transliteration for passwords in case they were migrated from an old
-  Latin-1 install (previous to MediaWiki 1.5) is now only done for wikis with
-  $wgLegacyEncoding set.
-* (bug 27508) Add $wgSVGMetadataCutoff to limit the maximum amount of an SVG we
-  look at when finding metadata to prevent excessive resource usage.
-* $wgSysopUserBans and $wgSysopRangeBans (deprecated in 1.17) are now removed.
-  Use $wgBlockCIDRLimit = array( 'IPv4' => 43, 'IPv6' => 128 ) to achieve the
-  same functionality as $wgSysopRangeBans; you can use the BlockIp hook to
-  replicate $wgSysopUserBans functionality.
-* The options on the block form have been standardised such that checking a box
-  makes the block 'more serious'; so while "check to prevent account creation"
-  and "check to enable autoblock" remain the same, "check to allow user-talk
-  edit" is reversed to "check to *disable* user-talk edit", and "check to block
-  anon-only" becomes "check to block logged-in users too".  The default settings
-  remain the same.
-* Most of the field names on the Special:Block form have been changed, which
-  will probably break screen-scraping bots.
-* (bug 26866) The 'trackback' right is no longer granted to sysops by default.
-  $wgUseTrackbacks is already false by default.
-* (bug 17009) the hiddenStructure CSS class, a highly hackish way of at least
-  *appearing* to hide article elements, has been removed.  Use the
-  ParserFunctions extension to actually remove unwanted elements from the
-  output.
-* (bug 14202) $wgUseTeX has been superseded by the Math extension. To re-enable
-  math conversion after upgrading, obtain the Math extension from SVN or from
-  http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Math and add to LocalSettings.php:
-  require_once "$IP/extensions/Math/Math.php";
-* $wgProfiler is now a configuration array, see StartProfiler.sample for
-  details.
-* $wgProfiling has been removed.
-* The spyc library is now no longer included in phase3.
-* (bug 28343) Unused preferences contextlines/contextchars have been removed
-* $wgSkinExtensionFunctions has been removed. Use $wgExtensionFunctions instead.
-
-=== New features in 1.18 ===
-* (bug 8130) Query pages should limit to content namespaces, not just main
-  namespace.
-* Search suggestions (other than in the Vector skin) will now use the HTML5
-  datalist feature where supported, currently only Firefox 4.
-* Special:Contribs now redirects to Special:Contributions.
-* (bug 6672) Images are now autorotated according to their EXIF orientation.
-  This only affects thumbnails; the source remains unrotated.
-* (bug 25708) Update case mappings and normalization to Unicode 6.0.0
-* New hook ArticlePrepareTextForEdit added, called when preparing text to be
-  saved.
-* New parser option PreSaveTransform added, allows the pre-save transformation
-  to be selectively disabled.
-* Alternative to $wgHooks implemented, using the new Hooks class.
-* Add width parameter to Special:Filepath to allow getting the file path of a
-  thumbnail.
-* (bug 26870) Add size to {{filepath:}}.
-* Upload warnings now show a thumbnail of the uploaded file.
-* Introduced the edittools-upload message, which will be inserted under the
-  upload form instead of edittools if available.
-* (bug 26285) Extensions will be automatically generated on upload if the user
-  specified a filename without extension.
-* (bug 26851) Special:UserRights now allows to prefill the reason field
-* New maintenance script to fix double redirects
-  (maintenance/fixDoubleRedirects.php).
-* (bug 23315) New body classes to allow easier styling of special pages.
-* (bug 27159) Make email confirmation code expiration time configurable.
-* CSS/JS for each user group is imported from MediaWiki:Sysop.js,
-  MediaWiki:Autoconfirmed.css, etc.
-* (bug 24230) Uploads of ZIP types, such as MS Office or OpenOffice can now be
-  safely enabled. A ZIP file reader was added which can scan a ZIP file for
-  potentially dangerous Java applets. This allows applets to be blocked
-  specifically, rather than all ZIP files being blocked.
-* (bug 2429) Allow selection of associated namespace in recent changes.
-* (bug 26217) File size is now checked before uploading in HTML5 browsers.
-* CSS stylesheet MediaWiki:Noscript.css is now loaded for users with JavaScript
-  disabled (enclosed in the head in a <noscript> tag).
-* Added UserGetLanguageObject hook to change the language used in $wgLang.
-* (bug 14645) When $wgMiserMode is on, expensive special pages are styled
-  differently (italicized by default) on Special:SpecialPages.
-* Added $wgAggregateStatsID, which allows UDP stats to be aggregated over
-  several wikis.
-* When $wgAllowMicrodataAttributes is true, all itemtypes are allowed, not just
-  the three that were defined in the original specification.
-* (bug 14706) Added support for the Imagick PHP extension.
-* (bug 18691) Added support for SVG rasterization using the Imagick PHP
-  extension.
-* (bug 2581, bug 6834) Added links to thumbnail in several resolutions to the
-  file description page. The sizes are set by $wgImageLimits.
-* (bug 28031) Add pageCount support to ArchivedFile.
-* (bug 27924) PhpHttpRequest doesn't return response body if HTTP != 200.
-* Added hook BitmapHandlerTransform to allow extension to transform a file
-  without overriding the entire handler.
-* The parser now attempts to output markers for editsection tokens and defer the
-  rendering of them post-cache to reduce parser cache fragmentation and ensure
-  skin customizability of edit section links.
-* (bug 24755) AuthPlugin auto-creation of local accounts can now be aborted by
-  other extensions by handling the 'AbortAutoAccount' hook, similar to the
-  'AbortNewAccount' triggered by explicit account creations. (They are separate
-  to avoid loops and confusion; auth plugins like CentralAuth need to handle
-  AbortNewAccount separately.
-* Special:ListFiles is now transcludable.
-* (bug 13879) Special:Emailuser asks for suitable target user if called without.
-* (bug 16956) IPTC and XMP metadata now extracted from images.
-* (bug 23816) A tracking category is now added for any pages with broken images.
-* (bug 23495) Allow createAndPromote.php to create non-sysop users
-
-=== Bug fixes in 1.18 ===
-* (bug 23119) WikiError class and subclasses are now marked as deprecated.
-* (bug 10871) Javascript and CSS pages in MediaWiki namespace are no longer
-  treated as wikitext on preview.
-* (bug 22753) Output from update.php is more clear when things changed, entries
-  indicating nothing changed are now all prefixed by "...".
-* Page existence is now not revealed (in the colour of the tabs) to users who
-  cannot read the page in question.
-* (bug 19006) {{REVISIONUSER}} no longer acts like {{CURRENTUSER}} in some
-  cases.
-* (bug 16019) $wgArticlePath = "/$1" no longer breaks API edit/watch actions.
-* (bug 18372) File types blacklisted by $wgFileBlacklist will no longer be shown
-  as "Permitted file types" on the upload form.
-* (bug 26379) importImages.php gives more descriptive error message on failure.
-* (bug 26410) + signs are no longer treated as spaces in internal links if
-  link has a % sign in it.
-* (bug 26412) Search results headers no longer show a bogus edit link.
-* (bug 26540) Fixed wrong call to applyPatch in MysqlUpdater.
-* (bug 26574) Added 'upload' to $wgRestrictionTypes, allowing upload protected
-  pages to be queried via the API and Special:ProtectedPages, and allowing
-  disabling upload protection by removing it from $wgRestrictionTypes.
-* If an edit summary exceeds 250 bytes and is truncated, add an ellipse.
-* (bug 26638) Database error pages display correctly in RTL languages.
-* (bug 26187) Confirmrecreate no longer parses the edit summary.
-* (bug 25506) Exception is thrown if OutputPage::parse is called inside a tag
-  hook, which would reset parser state.
-* (bug 26208) Mark directionality of some interlanguage links.
-* (bug 26034) Make the "View / Read" tab in content_navigation style tabs remain
-  selected when the action is "purge".
-* (bug 14267) Support a MediaWiki:Mainpage-nstab override for the subject
-  namespace tab on the mainpage of a wiki.
-* (bug 10158) Do not mention allowing others to contact you when the feature
-  is disabled ($wgEnableUserEmail=false).
-* (bug 26733) Wrap initial table creation in transaction.
-* (bug 26729) Category pages should return 404 if they do not exist and have no
-  members.
-* (bug 2585) Image pages should send 404 if no image, no shared image and no
-  description page.
-* Custom editintro's using the editintro url parameter will no longer show
-  <noinclude> sections on pages they are included on.
-* (bug 26449) Keep underlines from headings outside of tables and thumbs by
-  adding overflow:hidden to h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6 (also fixes editsection bunching).
-* (bug 26708) Remove background-color:white from tables in Monobook and Vector.
-* (bug 28422) Remove color:black from tables in Monobook and Vector. And add it
-  to table.wikitable instead.
-* (bug 26781) {{PAGENAME}} and related parser functions escape their output
-  better.
-* (bug 26716) Provide link to instructions for external editor related
-  preferences and add a comment to the ini control file explaining what is
-  going on.
-* Trying to upload a file with no extension or with a disallowed MIME type now
-  gives the right message instead of complaining about a MIME/extension
-  mismatch.
-* (bug 26809) Uploading files with multiple extensions where one of the
-  extensions is blacklisted now gives the proper extension in the error message.
-* (bug 26961) Hide anon edits in watchlist preference now actually works.
-* (bug 19751) Filesystem is now checked during image undeletion.
-* Send last modified headers for Special:Recentchanges when RC patrol is
-  enabled, but user cannot see rc patrol links.
-* (bug 26548) ForeignAPIRepo (InstantCommons) now works with PDF files
-  and other multi-paged file formats.
-* Files with a mime type that does not match the extension are now properly
-  thumbnailed.
-* (bug 27201) Special:WhatLinksHere output no longer contains duplicate IDs.
-* (bug 15905) Nostalgia skin could become more usable by including a Talk:
-  link at the top of the page.
-* (bug 27560) Search queries no longer fail in Walloon language.
-* (bug 27679) Broken embedded files with special characters are no longer
-  double HTML escaped.
-* (bug 27700) The upload protection can now also be set for files that do not
-  exist.
-* (bug 27763) Article::getParserOutput() no longer throws a fatal given when an
-  incorrect revision ID is passed.
-* Trim the form field for uploading by url to remove extra spaces which could
-  cause confusing error messages.
-* (bug 27854) Http::isValidURI is way too lax.
-* Do not show enotifminoredits preference, if disabled by $wgEnotifMinorEdits.
-* AbortLogin returning "ABORTED" now handled.  Also allows message identifier
-  for "ABORTED" reason to be returned and displayed to user.
-* (bug 28034) uploading file to local wiki when file exists on shared repository
-  (commons) gives spurious info in the warning message.
-* Usernames get lost when selecting different sorts on Special:listfiles.
-* (bug 14005) editing section 0 of an existing but empty page gives no such
-  section error.
-* (bug 26939) Installer does not set $wgMetaNamespace.
-* (bug 28166) UploadBase assumes that 'edit' and 'upload' rights are not per
-  page restrictions.
-* Make truncate function automatically consider length of '...' string,
-  since length can vary by localization.
-* (bug 28242) Make redirects generated by urls containing a local interwiki
-  prefix be a 301 instead of a 302.
-* (bug 15641) blocked administrators are now prevented from deleting or
-  protecting their own talk page; and all blocked users are more
-  comprehensively prevented from performing other actions.
-* (bug 27893) Edit-on-doubleclick now applies only on view and purge actions;
-  no longer triggers unexpectedly on delete, history etc.
-* (bug 28417) Fix PHP notice when importing revision without a listed id.
-* (bug 28430) Make html and TeX output of <math> always be left-to-right.
-* (bug 28306) Fix exposure of suppressed usernames in ForeignDBRepo.
-* (bug 28372) Fix bogus link to suppressed file versions in ForeignDBRepo.
-* (bug 27473) Fix regression: bold, italic no longer interfere with linktrail
-  for ca, kaa.
-* (bug 28444) Fix regression: edit-on-doubleclick retains revision id again.
-* &apos; character entity is now allowed in wikitext.
-* UtfNormal::cleanUp on an invalid utf-8 sequence no longer returns false if
-  intl installed.
-* (bug 28561) The css class small will no longer make nested elements even
-  smaller.
-* (bug 13172) Array type exif data (like GPS) was not being extracted from
-  images.
-* (bug 28532) wfMsgExt() and wfMsgWikiHtml() use $wgOut->parse()
-* (bug 16129) Transcluded special pages expose strip markers when they output
-  parsed messages.
-* (bug 27249) "Installed software" table in Special:Version should always be
-  left-to-right.
-* (bug 28719) Do not call mLinkHolders __destruct explicitly
-* (bug 21196) Article::getContributors() no longer fails on PostgreSQL.
-* (bug 28752) XCache doesn't work in CLI mode.
-* (bug 28076) Thumbnail height limited to 360 pixels on Special:Listfiles
-* (bug 22227) Special:Listfiles no longer throws an error on bogus file entries
-* (bug 19408) user_properties.up_property: 32 bytes is not enough.
-
-=== API changes in 1.18 ===
-* (bug 26339) Throw warning when truncating an overlarge API result.
-* (bug 14869) Add API module for accessing QueryPage-based special pages.
-* (bug 14020) API for Special:Unwatchedpages.
-* (bug 24287) Wrap API Help output at 100 characters.
-* Add a realname uiprop option to query=userinfo so a user's realname can be
-  extracted.
-* Add a &watchuser option to ApiBlock.
-* (bug 26541) Generator-ise ApiQueryRecentChanges.
-* action=parse now correctly returns an error for nonexistent pages.
-* (bug 25767) Add userrights properties to allusers and users query lists.
-* (bug 26558) list=allusers auprop=groups does not list groups a user is
-  automatically a member of.
-* (bug 26559) list=allusers auprop=rights does not match
-  list=users usprop=rights.
-* (bug 26560) On allusers if limit < total number of users, last user gets
-  duplicate.
-* (bug 25135) add "normalized" to action=parse.
-* (bug 26460) Add support for listing category members by category pageid.
-* (bug 26482) add a imimages param to prop=images.
-* (bug 26498) allow LinksUpdate with API.
-* (bug 26485) add a elextlinks param to prop=extlinks.
-* (bug 26483) add a iwtitles param to prop=iwlinks.
-* (bug 26484) add a lltitles param to prop=langlinks.
-* (bug 26480) add a pppageprops param to prop=pageprops.
-* (bug 26650) Remove $wgAPICacheHelp in favour of $wgAPICacheHelpTimeout.
-* (bug 24650) Fix API to work with categorylinks changes.
-* Expose list of skins in meta=siteinfo.
-* (bug 26548) Add iiurlparam param to query=imageinfo and query=stashimageinfo.
-* (bug 27205) aiprop=metadata and aiprop=parsedcomment need help text.
-* Add a amtitle param to meta=allmessages.
-* (bug 25832) query=allimages now outputs ns/title as well.
-* (bug 27199) Thumbnail urls can be fetched for old files as well.
-* (bug 27376) when using ApiBase::PARAM_TYPE => 'integer' without a min or
-  max value, API doesn't validate the input is actually an integer.
-* (bug 27479) API error when using both prop=pageprops and
-  prop=info&inprop=displaytitle.
-* (bug 27554) Update API information text to reflect change in bug 26125.
-* (bug 27611) list=blocks: Use ipb_by_text instead of join with user table.
-* (bug 27616) Add userid of blocked user and blocker to list=blocks.
-* (bug 27688) Simplify queries to list user block information.
-* (bug 27708) list=users does not have a property to return user id.
-* (bug 27715) imageinfo didn't respect revdelete.
-* (bug 27862) Useremail module didn't properly return success on success.
-* (bug 27590) prop=imageinfo now allows querying the media type.
-* (bug 27587) list=filearchive now outputs full title info.
-* (bug 27018) Added action=filerevert to revert files to an old version.
-* (bug 27897) list=allusers and list=users list hidden users.
-* (bug 27717) API's exturlusage module does not respect $wgMiserMode.
-* (bug 27588) list=filearchive&faprop=sha1 returns empty attribute.
-* (bug 28010) Passing a non existant user to list=users gives internal error.
-* (bug 27549) action=query&list=users&usprop=groups doesn't show implicit
-  groups if a user doesn't have explicit groups.
-* (bug 27670) Ordering by timestamp (and usage of start and end) isn't as clear
-  in auto generated document, as it is on mw.org.
-* (bug 27182) API: Add filter by prefix for meta=allmessages.
-* (bug 27183) API: Add filter by customisation state for meta=allmessages.
-* (bug 27340) API: Allow listing of "small" categories.
-* (bug 27342) Add audir param to list=allusers.
-* (bug 27203) add fato param to list=filearchive.
-* (bug 27341) Add drto param to list=deletedrevs.
-* (bug 26630) Add API for Special:ActiveUsers.
-* (bug 27020) API: Allow title prefix search of logevents (only when not in
-  miser mode).
-* (bug 26629) add Special:MIMESearch to API.
-* (bug 27585) add pagecount to list=filearchive.
-* (bug 28104) Namespace for local pages in interwiki backlinks (iwbacklinks)
-  is missing.
-* (bug 27343) Add parseddescription to list=filearchive.
-* (bug 27469) label implicit groups in list=allusers&auprop=groups/
-  list=users&usprop=groups.
-* Addition of APIQuerySiteInfoGeneralInfo hook to add extra information to
-  the general site info results.
-* (bug 16288) API: consider making closure status of wikis more clear
-  with meta=siteinfo.
-* (bug 27589) list=allimages&aiprop=archivename is useless.
-* (bug 27586) Remove duplication of props in ApiQueryStashImageInfo
-  by using ApiQueryImageInfo.
-* (bug 28226) prop=extlinks&eloffset should be an integer.
-* (bug 28070) Fix watchlist RSS for databases that store timestamps in a
-  real timestamp field.
-* API upload errors may now return the parameter that needs to be changed and
-  a sessionkey to fix the error.
-* (bug 28249) allow dupes in meta=allmessages&amargs.
-* (bug 28263) cannot import xml with the API, when have not "import" user
-  right, but "importupload".
-* (bug 28365) Added description for uiprop=preferencestoken in meta=userinfo.
-* (bug 28394) Set forgotten parameters types in ApiUnblock.
-* (bug 28395) Set forgotten parameters types in ApiParse.
-* (bug 28368) add hint for multipart/form-data to API information of
-  action=import&xml=.
-* (bug 28391) action=feedwatchlist&allrev should be a bool.
-* (bug 28364) add registration date to meta=userinfo.
-* (bug 28254) action=paraminfo: Extract type from PARAM_DFLT if
-  PARAM_TYPE is not set.
-* (bug 27712) add parent_id to list=deletedrevs.
-* (bug 28455) Add 'toponly' to recentchanges API module.
-* (bug 26873) API: Add 'toponly' filter in usercontribs module.
-* (bug 28586) YAML: strings that are the same as boolean literals.
-* (bug 28591) Update/replace/supplement spyc (YAML parsing library).
-* YAML API output is now 1.2 compliant, using JSON as the formatter.
-* (bug 28672) give information about misermode on API.
-* (bug 28558) Add iw_api and iw_wikiid to meta=siteinfo&siprop=interwikimap
-* (bug 26882) Allow listing of indefinite protections with the API.
-* (bug 27344) add drprefix param to list=deletedrevs.
-* (bug 28560) list=deletedrevs should die, if combination of param is invalid.
-* (bug 28238) paraminfo: output both limits for multi param
-* (bug 27179) API: List of extension tags through meta=siteinfo
-* Get a list of function hooks through meta=siteinfo
-* Get a list of all subscribed hooks, and those subscribers
-* (bug 28225) Allow hiding of user groups in list=allusers
-* (bug 27185) API: Add Special:ComparePages
-* (bug 28265) allow outputting of comments for action=expandtemplates
-
-=== Languages updated in 1.18 ===
+=== Configuration changes in 1.19 ===
+
+=== New features in 1.19 ===
+
+=== Bug fixes in 1.19 ===
+
+=== API changes in 1.19 ===
+
+=== Languages updated in 1.19 ===
 
 MediaWiki supports over 330 languages. Many localisations are updated
 regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
 changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
 
-* Angika (anp) (new).
-* Brahui (brh) (new).
-* Central Dusun (new).
-* Jamaican Creole English (jam) (new).
-* Khowar (khw) (new).
-* Liv (liv) (new).
-* Tokipona (tp) (removed) 'tokipona' is still  valid.
-* (bug 17160) Gender specific display text for User namespace.
-* Link trail added for sl and sh.
-* (bug 27633) Add characters to linkTrail for Potuguese (pt and pt-br).
-* (bug 27426) Set $namespaceGenderAliases for Arabic (ar).
-* (bug 27385) Set Polish $namespaceGenderAliases.
-* (bug 27681) Set $namespaceGenderAliases for Portuguese (pt and pt-br).
-* (bug 27785) Fallback language for Kabardian (kbd) is English now.
-* (bug 27825) Raw watchlist edit message now uses formatted numbers.
-* (bug 28040) Turkish: properly lower case 'I' to 'ı' (dotless i) and
-  uppercase 'i' to 'İ' (dotted i).
-* Conversion script between Syllabics and Latin for the Inuktitut language.
-* Date formats for Indonesian (id) updated.
-
 == Compatibility ==
 
-MediaWiki 1.18 requires PHP 5.2.3. PHP 4 is no longer supported.
+MediaWiki 1.19 requires PHP 5.2.3. PHP 4 is no longer supported.
 
 MySQL is the recommended DBMS. PostgreSQL or SQLite can also be used, but 
 support for them is somewhat less mature. There is experimental support for IBM