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Sam Reed | 4 Nov 2011 14:27
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MediaWiki 1.18 beta 1

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.

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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
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Sam Reed | 18 Nov 2011 02:21
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MediaWiki Release Candidate 1.18.0rc 1

I'm happy to announce the availability of the first release candidate 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.

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                             What's new?
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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, some extensions are now being bundled with the released tarball.
The following extensions are bundled with MediaWiki as of 1.18. All are
currently in use on Wikimedia sites.

* ConfirmEdit - Various CAPTCHA techniques to try to prevent spambots and
  other automated tools from editing your wiki.
* Gadgets - A system to allow users to enable or disable JavaScript or
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Sam Reed | 29 Nov 2011 00:13
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MediaWiki security release 1.17.1

I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki 1.17.1. Two security
issues were discovered.

Alexandre Emsenhuber discovered an issue where page titles on private
wikis could be exposed bypassing different page ids to index.php. In the
case of the user not having correct permissions, they will now be redirected
to Special:BadTitle.

For more details, see https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32276

The second issue was found by Tim Starling, who discovered that action=ajax
requests were dispatched to the relevant function without any read
permission checks being done. This could have led to data leakage on
private wikis.

For more details, see https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32616

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Download:
http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.17/mediawiki-1.17.1.tar.gz

Patch to previous version (1.17.0), without interface text:
http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.17/mediawiki-1.17.15.patch.gz
Interface text changes:
http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.17/mediawiki-i18n-1.17.1.patch.gz

GPG signatures:
http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.17/mediawiki-1.17.1.tar.gz.sig
http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.17/mediawiki-1.17.1.patch.gz.sig
http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.17/mediawiki-i18n-1.17.1.patch.gz.
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Sam Reed | 29 Nov 2011 00:13
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MediaWiki 1.18.0 released

We are proud to announce the first stable release of the 1.18 series.
 
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                             What's new?
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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, some commonly used extensions are now being included in the
released tarball; this is allow ease
of installation of these extensions in new MediaWiki installs. If you
already use the extension just replace
the files like you have done for MediaWiki iteself. The following extensions
are bundled with MediaWiki as of
1.18. All are currently in use on Wikimedia sites.
 
* ConfirmEdit — Various CAPTCHA techniques to try to prevent spambots and
other automated tools from editing your wiki.
* Gadgets — A system to allow users to enable or disable JavaScript or CSS
tools made available to users site-wide.
* Nuke — A special page allowing administrators to mass-delete content added
by a spammer or vandal.
* ParserFunctions — Additional parser functions (like #if and #switch to
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