mediawiki (1:1.39.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium
MediaWiki has been updated to the 1.39 upstream release branch, which
brings in two years of upstream changes since 1.39. Release notes
may be found in /usr/share/doc/mediawiki/RELEASE-NOTES-1.39` and
/usr/share/doc/mediawiki/changelog. Please see the "Upgrading" section
of README.debian and /usr/share/doc/mediawiki/UPGRADE for details on
what manual steps need to be taken to upgrade.
Some highlights of new features:
* New bundled extensions:
* AbuseFilters allows administrators set specific actions to be taken
when actions by users, such as edits or file uploads, match certain
criteria.
* Math lets users create mathematical formulae written in a sub-set of
LaTeX and rendered in MathML with a fallback SVG image.
* There is a new bundled skin, Minerva, which provides a much simpler user
interface and is much more aggressive about optimizing for performance so
that it can cater for mobile users.
* The logo of MediaWiki has changed. This means that the "Powered by
MediaWiki" button shown in the skin footer will be different.
* Administrators now have the option to delete/undelete the associated
"Talk" page when they are (un)deleting a given page.
* Added support for 42 new languages.
-- Taavi Väänänen <hi@taavi.wtf> Thu, 01 Dec 2022 11:25:22 +0200
mediawiki (1:1.35.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium
MediaWiki has been updated to the 1.35 upstream release branch, which
brings in two years of upstream changes since 1.31. Release notes
may be found in /usr/share/doc/mediawiki/RELEASE-NOTES-1.31` and
/usr/share/doc/mediawiki/changelog. Please see the "Upgrading" section
of README.debian and /usr/share/doc/mediawiki/UPGRADE for details on
what manual steps need to be taken to upgrade.
The VisualEditor extension, which provides a rich-text editor for wiki
pages is now included and can be enabled by adding:
wfLoadExtension( 'VisualEditor' );
to /etc/mediawiki/LocalSettings.php.
Some highlights of new features:
* New bundled extensions:
* PageImages and TextExtracts provide OpenGraph metadata for when wiki
pages are shared on social media platforms.
* TemplateData allows specifying how templates should be invoked,
making it easier to add/modify them to pages in the VisualEditor.
* Scribunto adds Lua as a scripting language to write templates in.
* SecureLinkFixer automatically rewrites URLs to use HTTPS if the
domain always requires HTTPS via the HSTS preload list.
* Administrators can enact "partical blocks", restricting users from
editing a specific page or namespace.
* User rights to edit sitewide JavaScript/CSS were separated into a
separate "interface-admin" group to improve security.
* Users can now add pages to their watchlist for a limited amount of time.
* Support for new languages: Ambonese Malay (abs),
Shawiya (Latin script) (shy-latn), Batak Mandailing (btm),
Standard Moroccan Tamazight (zgh), Manipuri (mni),
Western Armenian (hyw), Mon (mnw), Eastern Pwo (kjp), Santali (sat),
Saisiyat (xsy).
* Multilingual images and SVGs will now display in the correct language.
-- Kunal Mehta <legoktm@debian.org> Sun, 27 Sep 2020 03:20:12 -0700
mediawiki (1:1.31.1-1) unstable; urgency=medium
MediaWiki has been updated to the 1.31 upstream release branch, which
brings in two years of upstream changes since 1.27. Release notes
may be found in /usr/share/doc/mediawiki/RELEASE-NOTES-1.31` and
/usr/share/doc/mediawiki/changelog. Please see the "Upgrading" section
of README.debian and /usr/share/doc/mediawiki/UPGRADE for details on
what manual steps need to be taken to upgrade.
To continue receiving the default Debian settings, you will need to
update your /etc/mediawiki/LocalSettings.php to include the following
line:
require_once "$IP/includes/PlatformSettings.php";
Any settings between the "Debian specific generated settings" comments
in your LocalSettings.php should be removed, as they are obsoleted by
the new PlatformSettings system.
Some highlights of new features:
* New bundled extensions:
* CodeEditor provides a more friendly editor when editing CSS and
JavaScript on-wiki.
* MultimediaViewer provides a lightbox viewer for images and galleries.
* OATHAuth provides two-factor authentication for wiki accounts.
* Replace Text provides a form to let administrators do string
replacements on the entire wiki, for both page contents and page
titles.
* The newly added Timeless skin provides a fully responsive interface
for MediaWiki, working seamlessly across mobile and desktop devices.
* The CologneBlue and Modern skins are no longer included, and must be
removed from LocalSettings.php or downloaded separately.
* User input is now cleaned up according to the HTML 5 parsing algorithm,
instead of using HTML tidy, which relied on HTML 4 semantics. If you
imported templates from Wikipedia or another wiki, you may need to
re-import or update them.
* Suppott for 7 new languages: nys, sty, gcr, kum, es-formal, hu-formal,
and gor. Mirandese (mwl) now supports gendered user namespaces.
-- Kunal Mehta <legoktm@member.fsf.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2018 18:01:08 +0200
mediawiki (1:1.30.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium
MediaWiki has been updated to the 1.30 upstream release branch, which
brings in about a year and a half of upstream changes. Release notes
may be found in /usr/share/doc/mediawiki/RELEASE-NOTES-1.30 and
/usr/share/doc/mediawiki/changelog. Please see the "Upgrading" section
of README.debian and /usr/share/doc/mediawiki/UPGRADE for details on
what manual steps need to be taken to upgrade.
Some highlights of new features:
* Improved HTML file caching ($wgUseFileCache)
* A "slideshow" mode for file galleries
* Ability to assign user groups for a limited amount of time
* Special:Contributions supports querying IP ranges
* Support for 3 new languages (ban, kbp, & shn), as well as improvements
to language fallbacks for when translations aren't complete.
-- Kunal Mehta <legoktm@member.fsf.org> Thu, 12 Apr 2018 20:20:09 -0700
mediawiki (1:1.27.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium
MediaWiki has been updated to the 1.27 upstream release branch, which
brings in about 4 years of upstream changes. Release notes may be found
in /usr/share/doc/mediawiki/RELEASE-NOTES-1.27 and
/usr/share/doc/mediawiki/changelog. Please see the "Upgrading" section
of README.debian and /usr/share/doc/mediawiki/UPGRADE for details on
what manual steps need to be taken to upgrade.
Some highlights of new features:
* Improvements to the appearance and performance of diffs
* Better defaults for email notifications
* Performance improvements in client-side JavaScript
* Secure storage for passwords
* Improved patrolling and anti-spam features out of the box
* Additional language and internationalization support
* Common extensions are bundled and can be enabled from the installer
Note that the mediawiki-extensions* packages are no longer compatible
with this version of MediaWiki, and are no longer supported.
If you are upgrading from wheezy, you may encounter issues with prior
apache2 configuration preventing the new one from being installed.
Disabling the old one and copying over the new one from
/etc/mediawiki/mediawiki.conf is recommended.
-- Kunal Mehta <legoktm@member.fsf.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2016 12:45:06 -0700
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