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MediaWiki 1.4beta1 released

From: "Brion Vibber" <brion@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, December 3, 2004 9:40 am
To: mediawiki-announce@wikimedia.org
Cc: "MediaWiki announcements and site admin list" <mediawiki-l@wikimedia.org>
Priority: Normal

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MediaWiki 1.4beta1 is an experimental release, to help flush out remaining major problems in the code prior to a final public 1.4.0 release. It is not recommended to use this beta on a public site unless you're familiar with MediaWiki innards and are willing and able to help diagnose and fix problems that come up.

New features

  • 'Recentchanges Patrol' to mark new edits that haven't yet been viewed.
  • New, searchable deletion/upload/protection logs
  • Image gallery generation (Special:Newimages and <gallery> tag)
  • SVG rasterization support (requires external support)
  • Users can select from the available localizations to override the default user interface language.
  • Traditional/Simplified Chinese conversion support

Installation and compatibility

  • The default MonoBook theme now works with PHP 5.0
  • Installation on systems with PHP's safe mode or other oddities should work more reliably, as MonoBook no longer needs to create a compiled template file for the wiki to run.
  • A table prefix may be specified, to avoid conflicts with other web applications forced to share a database.
  • More thorough UTF-8 input validation; fixes non-ASCII uploaded filenames from Safari.
  • Command-line database upgrade script.

Customizability

  • Default user options can now be overridden in LocalSettings.
  • Skins system more modular: templates and CSS are now in /skins/ New skins can be dropped into this directory and used immediately.
  • More extension hooks have been added.
  • Authentication plugin hook.
  • More internal code documentation, generated with phpdoc: http://www.mediawiki.org/docs/html/

Optimization

  • For many operations, MediaWiki 1.4 should run faster and use less memory than MediaWiki 1.3. Page rendering is up to twice as fast. (Use a PHP accelerator such as Turck MMCache for best results with any PHP application, though!)
  • The parser cache no longer requires memcached, and is enabled by default. This avoids a lot of re-rendering of pages that have been shown recently, greatly speeding longer page views.
  • Support for compiled PHP modules to speed up page diff and Unicode validation/normalization. (Requires ability to compile and load PHP extensions).

What isn't ready yet

  • A new user/groups permissions scheme has been held back to 1.5.
  • An experimental SOAP interface will be made available as an extension
  • PostgreSQL support is largely working, but search and installer support are not complete. These are being actively worked on and should come in later betas.
  • E-mail notification of watched page changes and verification of user-submitted e-mail addresses is not yet included. If updates are available, this may make it into later betas.
  • Log pages are not automatically imported into the new log table at upgrade time. A script to import old text log entries is incomplete, but may be available by the time 1.4 finishes.
  • UI messages may be broken in Latin-1 mode in this release due to some minor breakage in the language selection module.


Full release notes: http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=287326

Download: http://prdownloads.sf.net/wikipedia/mediawiki-1.4beta1.tar.gz?download

Wiki admin help mailing list: http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Low-traffic release announcements mailing list: http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce

Bug report system: http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/

Play "stump the developers" live on IRC: #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net

- -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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W00t, hopefully it won't be long now until the 1.4 public release comes out. I'm obviously not putting the beta up on NSwiki, but it's a good sign. --Goobergunch|? 21:00, 4 Dec 2004 (GMT)

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