I'm happy to announce the availability of the first beta release of the new MediaWiki 1.18 release series.
Please try it out and let us know what you think. Don't run it on any wikis that you really care about, unless you are both very brave and very confident in your MediaWiki administration skills. MediaWiki 1.18 is a large release that contains many new features and bug fixes. This is a summary of the major changes of interest to users. You can consult the RELEASE-NOTES file for the full list of changes in this version. ********************************************************************* What's new? ********************************************************************* MediaWiki 1.18 brings the usual host of various bugfixes and new features. jQuery 1.6.4 is now included as standard, along with numerous more jQuery plugins Breaking changes: * action=watch / action=unwatch now requires a token As of 1.18 extensions are now being bundled with the releaset tarball. MediaWiki 1.18 bundles: * ConfirmEdit * Gadgets * Nuke * ParserFunctions * Renameuser * Vector * WikiEditor $wgEnableDublinCoreRdf and $wgEnableCreativeCommonsRdf no longer work in core, and the functionality has been moved to the relevant extensions. See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DublinCoreRdf and http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CreativeCoreRdf as appropriate Math - ---- $wgUseTeX has been superseded by the Math extension. To re-enable math conversion after upgrading, obtain the Math extension from SVN or from http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Math and add to LocalSettings.php: require_once "$IP/extensions/Math/Math.php"; Language support - ---------------- As with every release, MediaWiki 1.18 brings improved support for languages in MediaWiki, with improved translation and features for the many supported languages. New languages: * Angika (anp) * Brahui (brh) * Central Dusun (dtp) * Jamaican Creole English (jam) * Khowar (khw) * Liv (liv) * Kichwa (qug) API - --- API bug fixes and new features have been added to 1.18, providing more options for input and output. * API modules were added to access QueryPage based special pages, to Compare pages, Revert files, and to be able to access other special pages such as Special:UnwatchedPages, Special:MimeSearch and Special:ActiveUsers * The output of the generated help page has been improved The API contains a breaking changes against previous releases: * action=watch now requires POST and token. Release notes - ------------- Complete release notes are at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.18 ********************************************************************** Download: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.18/mediawiki-1.18.0beta1.tar.gz GPG signatures: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.18/mediawiki-1.18.0beta1.tar.gz.si g Public keys: https://secure.wikimedia.org/keys.html _______________________________________________ MediaWiki announcements mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce