MediaWiki 1.28/wmf.2

Deployment of MediaWiki 1.28.0-wmf.2 to Wikimedia sites

The latest version (labeled "1.28.0-wmf.2") of MediaWiki, the software that powers Wikipedia and its sister sites, is being deployed to all Wikimedia sites in stages, starting on Tuesday, 17 May 2016 (see the roadmap).

Core changes

git #1194aa04 - Updated git submodules
git #9ce2428a - Updated git submodules (T108721, T138177, T137761, T138875, T137247, T136408, T134286, T136387, T136408, T134286, T135884, T134286, T132251, T134310, T132640, T132639, T132639, T132639, T134366, T133765, T133971, T133765, T128190, T128190, T111456, T121646)
git #21db1ae1 - Bail out in ApiStashEdit for bots for sanity
git #78846b13 - Revert "Convert Special:WhatLinksHere from XML form to OOUI form" (T135773)
git #1f3bccae - Update VisualEditor for Ie127cfbd515cd217abd272cb7a81566b91e13f4d
git #efdebbf8 - Make LinksUpdate only wait on the DB with the link tables (T135690)
git #c447233f - Increase BotPasswordSessionProvider's default priority
git #31de1983 - Improve edit stash hit rate for logged-out users (T134620)
git #fc1d4d79 - Fix installer issues introduces by MediaWikiServices (T135169)
git #d79cae68 - Don't override all Moment locales to English (T135462)
git #de2563d3 - Fix AuthManager login page breakage
git #dc893a2f - Fix Special:Userlogout for $wgAutoloadAttemptLowercase = false (T135460)
git #837173d4 - Convert CdnCacheUpdate to event per URL (T134535)
git #c57fe1c4 - Refactor upload dialog to make it configurable (T118097, T120998, T121632, T121633, T127895)
git #67881de4 - Avoid unstubbing $wgLang in Title::getLocalURL (T135389)
git #a2536b3f - AuthManager release notes
git #54d58ef5 - API changes for AuthManager (T110276, T110747, T110751, T32788, T67857, T28597, T76103)
git #3617c982 - Use AuthManager on special pages (T110277)
git #d245bd25 - Add AuthManager (T91699, T71589, T111299)
git #7ba19364 - Remove unnecessary annotation
git #8a3819be - Add Status::getStatusValue()
git #fb7b6376 - Call $job->teardown() even if Job throws an exception.
git #f013c5fe - Add SessionProvider::getRememberUserDuration(), fix some durations
git #a9ede851 - Fix GUI for Special:Tags if a user has deletechangetags permission only
git #46ecc8e2 - Add "mVersion" sanity check to User::loadFromCache()
git #7d9844fa - @since for User::newSystemUser
git #88657870 - Follow-up 6ce974f: also update the hook call in ApiMain
git #2be38b36 - Make "presumed-fresh" edit stash case cover when users make intervening edits (T134620)
git #7654867b - Sync up with Parsoid parserTests.
git #8e5912aa - OOUIHTMLForm: Don't output an empty hidden LabelWidget if not needed
git #4a67b170 - Batch links updates performed by refreshLinks jobs (T109943)
git #367526d9 - mediawiki.jqueryMsg: Allow logging errors through mw.track (T134050)
git #e8e2cc0f - Add LinkCache::getSelectFields() and use it in a few places
git #69257c87 - LinkHolderArray: Title::makeTitle() does not return null
git #b8c2db06 - LinkHolderArray: Use LinkBatch for generating WHERE in query
git #6b5c475d - mediawiki.util: Use RegExp.test() instead of String.search()
git #ef2a84e1 - Remove now-unused LinkCache::$instance
git #911fc2cd - Make User::isBot() also check the "bot" right for sanity
git #e702a700 - Increase LocalFile lock() timeout and improve error message (T132921)
git #449084ec - Add LinkCache to MediaWikiServices
git #c4e698dc - Follow-up cdc93a62bf: add serialize/unserialize tests for RedisBagOStuff (T134923)
git #20abb707 - Decouple Xhprof profiling from profiling data processing
git #abc68e63 - Revert "Split editcascadeprotected permission from protect permission"
git #ee4d5c6e - Remove support for $wgWellFormedXml=false
git #6b9619a3 - Split off permission to delete tags from managechangetags permission (T133811)
git #4d97253b - mediawiki.jqueryMsg: Fix 'asciiAlphabetLiteral' definition
git #df2ef519 - Allow the signature button wikitext to be overridden locally (T26191)
git #055ec881 - registration: Handle $wgSessionProviders in ExtensionProcessor
git #451fec8d - objectcache: Inject current time into WANObjectCache::wrap()
git #21070456 - Parser tests: Also register namespace 101 to accompany 100
git #f77cbc02 - LinkCache: Use Link_target instead of Title
git #147ec4ca - TitleFormatter: Match Title behavior for non-existent namespaces
git #f3d0fa6b - Add tests for Title::getPrefixedText()
git #ec295365 - mediawiki.jqueryMsg: Implement `<nowiki>` support (T47173)
git #d9a965c6 - Make updateCollation wait for slaves every 500 (instead of 2000) (T58041)
git #ab623bef - Add Link_target::inNamespace() helper function
git #cdc93a62 - RedisBagOStuff: Fix unserialization of negative numbers (T134923)
git #9c93a53a - Document WAN cache FLD_* constants
git #3b835207 - shared.css: Don't center text in .mw_metadata (file metadata table) (T135079)
git #8ca977e5 - Better JavaScript handling for return method
git #e66d8905 - Add tests for 'LinkBegin' hook
git #ac5512b4 - Let BagOStuff::merge() callbacks override the TTL
git #f2874e23 - Fix ApiBase::getErrorFromStatus() and ApiMessages
git #7688e781 - Add TitleFormatter::getPrefixedDBkey() and implementation
git #1facfab5 - Add tests for 'LinkEnd' hook functionality
git #f1e8d27a - Add TitleParser and TitleFormatter to MediaWikiServices
git #6ce974f9 - Pass the OutputPage object to the OutputPageCheckLastModified hook
git #f7af8f67 - Add User::isBot() method
git #505cc11a - Update OOjs UI to v0.17.2
git #3e618de3 - Add SessionManager::invalidateSessionsForUser
git #afdcd305 - Add SessionInfo force-use flag
git #6ffabb26 - Convert Special:WhatLinksHere from XML form to OOUI form (T117754)
git #59806833 - Convert Special:MergeHistory to use OOUI. (T134675)
git #b41c583e - resourceloader: Remove false return from Context::getUserObj()
git #09205b29 - use slave for row estimate in updateCollation.php (T58041)
git #01bcb5a9 - Use STRAIGHT_JOIN on updateCollation.php per jcrespo (T58041)
git #549af8bf - Add WebRequest methods for determining "safe" requests (T134608)
git #2cda917e - resourceloader: Remove unused Module::setOrigin() method
git #ee7e5636 - Add wfDeprecated calls to WatchedItem
git #17b63173 - mw.widgets.CategoryCapsuleItemWidget: Handle non-English foreign wikis
git #2a86b5a1 - collation: Refactor getFirstLetterData() cache handling
git #b34d4e2c - Warn when a restricted displaytitle is ignored (bug 26546)
git #b85d9f33 - Make GenderCache use MediaWikiServices
git #8ce81d08 - Re add @access protected on Title::__construct
git #96e94d1c - wfTempDir try harder to get a tmp dir on Windows (T44730)
git #da3464ba - Split editcascadeprotected permission from protect permission (T101309)
git #939faea3 - Require strip marker names to not have & ' " < or > in them
git #6c3e231f - Update default hash storage settings (T127445)

Vendor

git #4bd8ba35 - Update OOjs UI to v0.17.2

Extensions

AbuseFilter

git #51b572a2 - Make negative process caching in onGetAutoPromoteGroups() work (T133728)
git #5f34ea27 - Remove bogus AbuseFilter::contentToString param
git #a44fcd82 - Set doesWrites() for SpecialAbuseFilter

AntiSpoof

git #e8cb1323 - Update for AuthManager (T110449)
git #8252739f - Add extension.json file, empty php entry point (T87881)

Babel

git #2cbcc79b - Put BabelBox interface and implementations into a namespace
git #9fc68e09 - build: Bump devDependencies to latest
git #2d3f1881 - Use User::newSystemUser when available
git #6db2b6d9 - Refactor babel boxes into classes with common interface

BetaFeatures

git #3d8fc501 - Fix HTMLFeatureFieldTest test cases (T135289)

CentralAuth

git #5cc617f0 - Fix central logout (T135525, T92357)
git #7935ca7f - Avoid DBPerformance log warnings in onUserLogout() (T92357)
git #911b1a87 - Use CookieSessionProvider::getLoginCookieExpiration
git #cc8d129e - Convert to extension registration
git #ce3a25be - Avoid using the master DB for non-write POST requests (T134608)
git #ef713969 - Handle the UserIsBot hook for bot detection
git #b1908c5a - Drop some backwards-compatibility code
git #546c6e19 - Implement invalidateSessionsForUser()
git #04cc78bb - Set force-use flag from CentralAuthTokenSessionProvider

CirrusSearch

git #f7e7f93c - .x document missing exception (bug 2)
git #ed77bbd0 - Move some util methods to Elastica
git #8d17595e - Rename / remove mention of "wikidata" in PageDataBuilder
git #b94fc0c5 - query_and_fetch -> query_then_fetch
git #26da7655 - Simple hack to allow es2.x failures to be logged by master
git #e74184e0 - Fix mistake and documentations in CirrusSearch Hooks handlers
git #6a664900 - RequestContext::getStats was deprecated
git #4bc2b3b9 - Adjust textcat data collection for AB test (T121542)

Cite

git #24939dd4 - Explicitly insert transclusion as inline

Citoid

git #dc7c2315 - Explicitly insert transclusion as inline
git #461a5ae5 - Always switch to 'auto' panel when converting references

ConfirmEdit

git #3e3b91b5 - Add AuthManager support for ReCaptcha, ReCaptchaNoCaptcha (T110302)
git #31c59374 - Add AuthManager support to SimpleCaptcha, QuestyCaptcha, FancyCaptcha, MathCaptcha (T110302)

ContentTranslation

git #05789fe5 - Implement outputdir and compression params for dump-corpora.php (T133006, T133007)
git #88e50b9e - MT: Use custom labels instead of provider id

DonationInterface

git #b3ca5be3 - Remove soft transition for old "token" parameter
git #03622d4e - Move legacy PayPal stuff into a subdirectory (T131811)
git #185ba2b9 - Formatting, comments, robustness
git #05afe3b2 - Give token param a WMF namespace (T131811)
git #9f587ee6 - Fix AstroPay case
git #36b50c22 - Move chunk of Worldpay logic into a staging class
git #45bd12f0 - Language query params shouldn't be case sensitive (T135255)
git #325b2b31 - Carte Bleu for Adyen (T128812)
git #e0e921a7 - Whitespace fixes
git #e4f49e57 - Encode query string values properly (T134586)
git #f0016688 - Adyen in France
git #3efb77a0 - Inline errors instead of alert()s for API calls (T134530)
git #6863d3ba - Fix indentation
git #446b1bc9 - Adyen form for Israel (T128812)
git #38d50c78 - Document $wgDonationInterfaceDebugLog global
git #88aa1049 - Remove unused css resources
git #7799a82a - Remove unused astropay js

Echo

git #adf4f10e - Expand URLs of icon and actions in HTML email formatter (T135625)
git #1024ee77 - Bring back messages used by old email formatter system (T135446)
git #a13f1725 - HTML email footer shows raw HTML
git #91dfdfcb - Attempt to fix unsubstituted message in Echo emails (T135446)
git #ea89b7d4 - Ignore docs folder in all grunt tasks
git #28feb4bf - Link project labels in xwiki bundle to their Special:Notifications page (T127419)
git #8d351ebe - New error message for failed to fetch notifications (T129764)
git #d2f899d9 - Handle section-text being null
git #64127cd8 - Avoid exceptions when event_extra can't be unserialized (T73489)
git #bc641732 - Use JSON instead of PHP-serialized for internal cross-wiki API requests
git #62908b5c - Don't reuse CentralAuth tokens for multiple requests (T135250)
git #c7bdb879 - Follow-up f5e9d4e: log parsing failures and API errors too
git #0e2f1a9c - Add $wgEchoCrossWikiNotifications flag to disable cross-wiki notifications (T135266)
git #f5e9d4e3 - Log warning on failure to fetch foreign notifications
git #9f5a7187 - Bump cache version for cache pollution (cross-wiki on non-SUL wikis) (T135246)
git #52b60075 - Handle empty foreign notification sources (T135252, T135250)
git #413206d8 - Pass source url when creating API handler
git #876197b5 - Get rid of addApiHandler factory
git #84b016e6 - Make sure APIHandler has this.api
git #d6c2f1a8 - Protect against some errors that apparently happen in production (T135196, T135197)
git #468ead1c - Correctly update locally cached seenTime (T134854)
git #50611ad6 - Respect editmyprivateinfo for email (T135152)
git #a78b52e9 - Add tmp emacs file to gitignore
git #6f6e1008 - HTML email formatter using presentation model (T121067)
git #2d184c08 - Add JSDuck support and fix errors
git #8f5c718a - Add 'mark section as read' to Special:Notifications (T115528, T134204)
git #b5bec3ad - Use new OutputPage parameter in OutputPageCheckLastModified hook
git #d2d420a3 - Don't cache pages with outdated global notification counts
git #15a44768 - Add mark-as-read button to notifications in Special:Notifications (T115528)
git #1a189964 - Reset the TitleParser service without messing up the database
git #1baa72cf - Reset TitleParser service after modifying $wgContLang

Elastica

git #1b076316 - Move iterateOverScroll from Cirrus to Elastica

FlaggedRevs

git #6b8f011a - Avoid master queries in GET in onProtectionForm() (T92357)
git #f3ac9d06 - Convert the top X reviewers cache to the main stash (T92357)
git #5f7ea21f - Avoid DB contention in incrementRollbacks()

Flow

git #2c0a3f40 - Don't assume workflows/revisions are inserted in chronological order (T119509)
git #e2a4253a - More reliable post sorting (T119509)
git #3df50318 - Fix Flow for AuthManager-changes in ConfirmEdit (T135477)
git #0a481f47 - MentionInspector: Explicitly insert transclusion as inline
git #054453c7 - Update Parsoid version string (T135268)
git #7e9a94a3 - Go to first unread post if no post specified
git #3070abfb - Add CONTRIBUTING doc to help new contributors
git #de92659e - Hide editor switcher button on VE when switching is disabled (T108762)
git #e9857a14 - Add missing dependency on jquery.throttle-debounce (T134984)
git #5f6d32eb - Disable submit buttons if we know the user can't edit (T108762, T127774)
git #bc4d038d - Make FlowReplies slightly work (T96620, T132414)
git #db11f3bb - Set doesWrites() for EditAction

Kartographer

git #9df6257d - Add full GeoJSON validation
git #d6f35b19 - Avoid calling Parser::getOutput() twice unnecessarily

LdapAuthentication

git #e054f1ff - Fix LdapAuthenticationPlugin::userExists()
git #9d0516a3 - Refactor code

LiquidThreads

git #a7f7a3ea - Defer DB update in NewUserMessagesView (T92357)

Math

git #c4636667 - Fix Cucumber scenario that is broken in daily Jenkins jobs (T94150)
git #a5ddbd03 - Catch exceptions thrown by restbase (T134652)

MobileApp

git #29cd1db6 - Create mobile.app.preview.android style module
git #c56a36c6 - Add style directives for images in Parsoid HTML (T127015, T132364)

MobileFrontend

git #253bbe96 - Use 1 XPath query rather than N+1 queries (T135923)
git #0e5459de - Avoid fatals in reference edge cases (T135923)
git #a1187a31 - Special Mobile Cite page and PHPUnit tests (T125897)
git #db9a1d35 - Regression: Do not show chrome color in stable (T135158)
git #d12f1f9b - Hygiene: Use a more descriptive variable name
git #a1070e0c - Improve the print styles (T134534)
git #118d6168 - Update for AuthManager (T111483)
git #b548cef6 - Search boxes fixes (T129955)
git #46ac9a4d - Make API mobileview return empty 'protection' result as a JSON-style object (T69054)
git #e57664de - Remove commonsCategory beta feature
git #82a4a002 - Beta: Enhanced search bar (T129955)
git #3de4ff3c - Do not reserve space for the secondary button if it's not available
git #c8847b01 - Hygiene: Split the SearchOverlay template into two

MultimediaViewer

git #54aa54c1 - Disable Cucumber feature that is broken in daily Jenkins jobs (T94150)

NavigationTiming

git #708f512e - Expand coverage of conformance test

OAuth

git #98300695 - Set force-use flag when not using cookies to store the session ID
git #d282500c - Set doesWrites() for SpecialMWOAuth

OpenStackManager

git #ca5602fb - Adjust to changes to LdapAuthentication in preparation for AuthManager

Popups

git #cda1ffe4 - Use mw.eventLog.Schema to log EventLogging events (T131315)
git #21b856f7 - Use correct selector for div's that hold PNGs when SVGs aren't supported
git #ed3500b1 - Describe init method behaviour via QUnit tests
git #27d811a1 - Rewrite createPopup with template for better readability
git #ab15bf8b - Add tests for createPopup
git #26be90dc - Add client-side validation of PopupsSurveyLink (T129177)
git #dab4f55e - Annotate survey link with rel=noreferrer (T129177)
git #0be67538 - Document PopupsSurveyLink with cautionary note (T129177)
git #f3d23c97 - Allow brackets in createImgThumbnail (T129177)
git #46f69baf - article: Remove bracketed text from the title before looking to bold it in the extract (T69224)
git #ed327f8e - Minor refactor

Renameuser

git #08e6e9bc - Load User with READ_LATEST before invalidating sessions (T135656)
git #48c319b7 - Augment call to $wgAuth->updateExternalDB() with forward-compatible code (T110290)
git #407cce2d - Call SessionManager::invalidateSessionsForUser() when available

Scribunto

git #1573bee8 - Provide a standard way to get the _target of a redirect page (T68974)

SemanticForms

git #cc8653d6 - "values from property/concept" params only displayed if SMW is used
git #cf6d739c - Added "namespace" param for combobox, tokens inputs
git #0ea76976 - Removed 'remote autocompletion' field param - unnecessary
git #ddd3252e - Removed deprecated input type 'datetime with timezone'
git #da3c07aa - Removed 'remote autocompletion' param for #forminput
git #f05b498e - Removed support for long-deprecated "autocomplete on ..." params
git #ee757508 - Removed support for long-deprecated "no autocomplete" param

SpamBlacklist

git #6ee605a0 - Use User::newSystemUser when available
git #303ba316 - Update for AuthManager (T110467)

SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi

git #f85be74e - Fix parser tests for core commit ee4d5c6eed (removal $wgWellFormedXML)

TimedMediaHandler

git #18d9e26e - Fix fatal for TimedMediaHandler previews without files. (T135491)
git #41aceff8 - Add a timedtext param to videoinfo API (T122736)
git #a1bf4357 - Only hide the native controls panel.
git #e2417309 - Remove fallback content of video/audio tag (T133671)
git #a8ed45ef - Update ogv.js to 1.1.0 release (T134104, T115241)
git #68e2e97b - Move activation of replaybutton into the config
git #319a790e - Add replay button to video.js player
git #1f004ae1 - Add TMH modules to the upload page. (T51751)

TitleBlacklist

git #17d3a9e3 - Update for AuthManager (T110469)

Translate

git #3a79ff1d - Use mediawiki.ui.button in tux editor over ext.uls.buttons
git #5e3f294b - Use DeferredUpdates in queueUpdates() (T92357)
git #1a31d11f - Add log action filter for pagetranslation logs
git #76e1301f - Do not add ext.translate to all pages (T135284)
git #3593a63b - Do not add ext.translate to translation pages twice
git #864c3033 - Improve exception message on TranslateRenderJob
git #0ce9d38f - On documentation unit deletion, don't attempt to re-render translation page (T134962)
git #07d31b1c - braceBalanceCheck/XhtmlCheck: do not add warning if same as definition (T134692, T53226)
git #6349b8a6 - Do not rely on core preferences (T102744)
git #cc21a8ef - Move all TTMServer updates to the JobQueue (T132254)

UniversalLanguageSelector

git #d778cc88 - Add jquery.uls.data as depedendency to ext.uls.init (T135210)
git #02da4454 - Add config to enable compact language links for anonymous users
git #35e7d72e - Add config to enable compact links for new accounts
git #f1995bc6 - Introduce a preference to disable compact language links (T133030)
git #a2cfd028 - Add WOFF2 version of fonts (T128291)
git #594ebe5f - Fixes for 6b8c33e
git #71133ffd - First attempt at font test page generation

UploadWizard

git #9b9a7cea - uw.CopyMetadataWidget: Correct sequential numbering (T135396)
git #4cbaf5bb - Normalize file extension for uploaded files (T36703)
git #17b40ce7 - Log errors from mediawiki.jqueryMsg (T134050)
git #fac5a07c - uw.controller.Details: Fix 'Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property '$element' of undefined' (T135200)
git #34bc4e0e - Revert "Remove superfluous ExceptionFlow event class"
git #c3b7af32 - uw.controller.Details: Fix 'Uncaught TypeError: this.copyMetadataWidget.remove is not a function'
git #1db4466c - uw.DescriptionsDetailsWidget: Remove any "Remove" buttons when clearing items (T134180)
git #85211283 - mw.UploadWizardUpload: Remove unused function #acceptDeed

VisualEditor

git #35b98992 - Debug log strange-looking ETags being sent to RB (T135171)
git #1dc780bc - build: Use grunt-stylelint from npm
git #8d749518 - stylelint: Comment uses of 'unsupported' browser CSS features
git #df49e5de - Remove remaining references to csslint
git #99d33205 - build: Replace csslint with stylelint
git #90fe9c98 - Update VE core submodule to master (12ad256)
git #236e3d12 - [BREAKING CHANGE] Evalute block/inline state when inserting a transclusion node (T51784)
git #7f0b56ff - Use new action test runner (T90370)
git #6a98df08 - Update VE core submodule to master (598aa93)
git #349b1f5e - Add WTE welcome dialog (T133800)
git #1ba035e0 - Fix deactivating VE after user explicitly decideas to discard changes (T134794)
git #13a7a4c5 - ve.ui.MWParameterPage: Remove non-working 'focus' handler

WikimediaEvents

git #043a3b78 - Add textcat subtest (T121542)
git #8e061481 - Fix wrong variable used when triggering resends of unload events

WikimediaMaintenance

git #618fc7d6 - Use User::newSystemUser()

WikimediaMessages

git #5c6a4b66 - Add missing translations for upload dialog messages (T134775)
git #ee5a4544 - Re-add interwiki search result messages
git #dc9c520c - Move Commons-specific localisation messages for upload dialog from core (T134775)
git #c21e9938 - Remove unused messages about forced password resets

ZeroBanner

git #10f75c4e - Use gd instead of imagemagick for legaly img banners (T134774)
git #ccc36f61 - Added stil/gd-text lib (T134774)