Mailing List Archive

MediaWiki 1.3.1 released
1.3.1 fixes some of the remaining problems in 1.3.0:

* Watchlist parameters now work with register_globals off
* Fixed parsing of ''italics'' and '''bold''' mark-up (again)
* Special:Allpages display is more sensible on smaller wikis
* Fixed XHTML parsing error in classic skins
* Moved pages update watchlist correctly
* Fixed rebuildall.php on case-sensitive Unix filesystems
* Disabled file cache compression by default due to incompatibility
with output buffer compression (ob_gzhandler)
* New magic word PAGENAMEE (URL-escaped version of PAGENAME)
* Installation avoids blank username; better message on missing
XML module
* $wgWhitelistAccount no longer breaks all logins.


Anyone still running the 1.3 beta releases is _strongly_ recommended to
upgrade to the current code due to numerous fixed bugs and a security
vulnerability in the betas with some PHP configurations.

Note that while MediaWiki through 1.1 required register_globals to be
on, 1.2 and 1.3 *do not*. If you have register_globals on, you should
turn it off unless you are absolutely sure you require it for some other
package. See http://php.net/register_globals for general information.


Release notes:
http://sf.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=34373&release_id=260607

Download:
http://prdownloads.sf.net/wikipedia/mediawiki-1.3.1.tar.gz?download

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

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

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

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)