1.8.22 - stable release (December 2024) for MediaWiki 1.39-1.43

Changes in Moderation 1.8.22 since Moderation 1.8.9

Features:

• Support MediaWiki 1.43.
• Support temporary accounts.
• Support visual editing mode of MobileFrontend editor.
• If trying to Approve fails due to null edit, the change is now automatically rejected.

Bugfixes:

• "Edit change" now truncates very long edit summaries instead of showing an error.
• "Continue editing" link now points to VisualEditor if the user just used VisualEditor.
• Fixed "moderation-merged" tag being unnecessarily added if the moderator didn't modify the page while using modaction=merge.

Test results

This version is stable and has passed all unit tests (with MediaWiki 1.39, 1.40, 1.41, 1.42, 1.43),
as well as manual tests of MobileFrontend and VisualEditor.

NOTE: Extension:VisualEditor itself is under active development and its internals often undergo breaking changes. If you use VisualEditor with MediaWiki >=1.43, you should use the newest version of Moderation, not this release.

1.8.9 - stable release (August 2024) for MediaWiki 1.39-1.42

Note: this version requires MediaWiki 1.39+. MediaWiki 1.35 is no longer supported.

Changes in Moderation 1.8.9 since Moderation 1.7.9

Features:

• Support MediaWiki 1.42.
• Support Vector 2022 skin.

Bugfixes:

• Very long edit summaries are now truncated instead of showing an error.

Refactoring, performance optimizations:

• Removed legacy code for MediaWiki 1.35-1.38.

Test results

This version is stable and has passed all unit tests (with MediaWiki 1.39, 1.40, 1.41, 1.42),
as well as manual tests of MobileFrontend and VisualEditor.

NOTE: Extension:VisualEditor itself is under active development and its internals often undergo breaking changes. If you use VisualEditor with MediaWiki >=1.42, you should use the newest version of Moderation, not this release.

1.7.9 - stable release (January 2024) for MediaWiki 1.35-1.41

Changes in Moderation 1.7.9 since Moderation 1.6.22

Features:

• Support MediaWiki 1.39-1.41.

Test results

This version is stable and has passed all unit tests (with MediaWiki 1.35, 1.39, 1.40, 1.41),
as well as manual tests of MobileFrontend and VisualEditor.

NOTE: Extension:VisualEditor itself is under active development and its internals often undergo breaking changes. If you use VisualEditor with MediaWiki >=1.41, you should use the newest version of Moderation, not this release.

Compatibility with MediaWiki 1.35 (old LTS)

This version still supports obsolete MediaWiki 1.35. All further versions will require MediaWiki 1.39+.

1.6.22 - stable release (July 2022) for MediaWiki 1.35-1.38

Note: this version requires MediaWiki 1.35+. MediaWiki 1.31 is no longer supported.

Changes in Moderation 1.6.22 since Moderation 1.5.36

Features:

• Support MediaWiki 1.37-1.38.
• Better support of VisualEditor in MediaWiki 1.36-1.37.
• Better support of AbuseFilter and CheckUser in MediaWiki 1.36-1.37
  (tags and XFF of approved edit are preserved).
• Allow AbuseFilter to tag intercepted edits as "place this to Spam folder"
  by adding "moderation-spam" tag to them.

Security updates:

• Restricted imagerotate API (rotate/reupload existing image) to automoderated
  users, because this action can't be intercepted by Moderation.

Refactoring, performance optimizations:

• Removed legacy code for MediaWiki 1.31-1.34.
• Removed legacy code for supporting obsolete (pre-1.35) DB schema.
• Provide type-checking interfaces for hooks that are called by Moderation itself.
• Refactoring of hook classes (strict type checks, dependency injection).
• Refactoring of API and special page classes (dependency injection).
• Refactoring of action classes (dependency injection).

Test results

This version is stable and has passed all unit tests (with MediaWiki 1.38, 1.37, 1.36, 1.35),
as well as manual tests of MobileFrontend and VisualEditor.

NOTE: Extension:VisualEditor itself is under active development and its internals often undergo breaking changes. If you use VisualEditor with MediaWiki >=1.38, you should use the newest version of Moderation, not this release.

1.5.36 - stable release (October 2021) for MediaWiki 1.31-1.36

Changes in Moderation 1.5.36 since Moderation 1.4.20

Features:

• Support MediaWiki 1.36.
• API: Support sectiontitle= parameter of api.php?action=edit.

Bugfixes:

• Move/upload via API won't unnecessarily Unwatch affected pages.
• Fixed rare error during ApproveAll when some of the timestamp changes
  need to be ignored, while others don't need to be ignored.
• Fixed post-approval adjustments to rev_timestamp (restoring time when
  the author did the change) not being applied:
  • to post-Move redirects,
  • when ApproveAll simultaneously approves Edit and Move on same page,
  • when approving a Move that overwrites an existing redirect.
• PostgreSQL: fixed incorrect value returned by NewChange::queue().
• PostgreSQL: order of edits during ApproveAll is now the same as with MySQL.
• PostgreSQL: Special:Moderation no longer shows day/month in today's timestamps.
• Fixed error when returning false from ModerationIntercept hook.

Refactoring, performance optimizations:

• Reduced the number of SQL queries during RejectAll.
• Major refactoring of everything (Consequence classes).
• Major refactoring of everything (replacing static methods with Services).
• Better performance of move/upload via API.
• Reduced the number of SQL queries when upload is intercepted.
• Refactoring of ModerationApproveHook class.
• Removed static variables like NewChange::$LastInsertId.
• Removed unneeded configuration variables like $wgModerationForceAjaxHook.

Compatibility:

• Moderation won't intercept comments of Extension:CommentStreams,
  because CommentStreams incorrectly assumes "edit queued" to be an error.

Warnings fixed:

• Fixed post-approval warning when using Moderation with Extension:Flow.

Troubleshooting tools:

• Added debug log to ModerationApproveHook.

Test results

This version is stable and has passed all unit tests (with MediaWiki 1.36, 1.35, 1.31),
as well as Selenium tests of MobileFrontend (1.36, 1.35, 1.31) and VisualEditor (in 1.31 and 1.35 - completely, in 1.36 - with limitations, see below).

VisualEditor in MediaWiki 1.36

This version of Moderation fully supports VisualEditor in MediaWiki 1.31-1.35.
VisualEditor in MediaWiki 1.36 is partially supported. It's very much usable, but the following limitation exists: when a non-automoderated user saves an edit (which is queued for moderation), and then tries to continue editing the same page in VisualEditor, then VisualEditor (instead of allowing page to be edited in VisualEditor form) will instead redirect the user to a normal edit form. This normal edit form can be used to continue editing the pending revision. The first (initial) edit on the page is not affected: it can be made in VisualEditor.

NOTE: Extension:VisualEditor itself is under active development and its internals often undergo breaking changes. If you use VisualEditor with MediaWiki >=1.36, you should use the newest version of Moderation, not this release.

1.4.20 - stable release (March 2020) for MediaWiki 1.31-1.34

Note: this version requires MediaWiki 1.31+. MediaWiki 1.27 is no longer supported.

Changes in Moderation 1.4.20 since Moderation 1.4.0

Features:

• Support MediaWiki 1.34.
• Support MobileFrontend editor in MW 1.33-1.34.
• Support anonymous uploads (if allowed in $wgGroupPermissions).
• Support PostgreSQL.

Bugfixes:

• Default value of mod_stash_key is now NULL, not empty string.
• mod_minor field is now 0 or 1 (not EDIT_MINOR, which is 4).

Warnings fixed:

• Replaced deprecated ApiBase::dieUsage()
• Replaced deprecated EditPage::$mTitle
• Replaced deprecated Linker::link()
• Replaced deprecated StreamFile::send404Message()
• Replaced deprecated Title::GAID_FOR_UPDATE
• Replaced deprecated UploadBase::stashFile()
• Replaced deprecated $wgContLang, $wgUser, $wgRequest
• Replaced deprecated wfMemcKey()

Refactoring, performance optimizations:

• Removed legacy code for MediaWiki 1.27-1.30.

Test results

This version is stable and has passed all unit tests (with MediaWiki 1.34, 1.33, 1.32, 1.31),
as well as Selenium tests of MobileFrontend and VisualEditor*.

(*) NOTE: Extension:VisualEditor itself is under active development and its internals often undergo breaking changes. If you use VisualEditor with MediaWiki >=1.34, you should use the newest version of Moderation, not this release.

1.4.0 - stable release (September 2019) for MediaWiki 1.27-1.32

Changes in Moderation 1.4.0 since Moderation 1.3.0

Features:

• Support MediaWiki 1.32.
• Support MediaWiki 1.33 (except MobileFrontend editor).
• Support installation without update.php via web updater of MediaWiki.
• When moderator manually resolves an edit conflict, resulting edit
  is now tagged as "merged edit of another user".
• API: implement api.php?modaction=show
• API: implement api.php?action=query&list=querypage&qppage=Moderation
• Extension:Echo won't suppress "New changes are pending" notification.
• (disabled by default) Allow moderator to modify text before approval.

Bugfixes:

• modaction=show now correctly shows non-image uploads (e.g. OGG file).
• Two clicks on "Mark as spammer" link no longer create 2 log entries.
• Log entry of "moderation/approve" now records "revid" for uploads.
• Module "jquery.cookie" is now loaded before "ext.moderation.notify".
• Default value of mod_page2_namespace is now 0, not empty string.
• modaction=approveall now works for User:0 (where "0" is username).
• VisualEditor: fixed bug that prevented preloading of long wikitext.
• AbuseFilter: fixed AbuseFilter not being called for moves in MW 1.33.

UI changes:

• Notifications are no longer sent for edits in Spam folder.
• Diffs on Special:Moderation are now properly colored in MW 1.31+.
• If editor is anonymous, Whois link is now shown to non-checkusers.
• Removed "external link" icon after Whois links on Special:Moderation.
• CSS style of Special:Moderation is no longer lazy-loaded.
• Log messages now use {{gender:}} syntax for non-English translations.
• modaction=merge now warns if the change has already been merged.
• Result of (un)blocking an already (un)blocked user is now "success".

Warnings fixed:

• Replaced deprecated ParserOptions::setEditSection()
• Replaced deprecated FileRepo::streamFile()
• Replaced deprecated OutputPage::addWikiText()

Refactoring, performance optimizations:

• Replaced wfMessage() with $context->msg() whenever possible.
• Made some static methods non-static in NotifyModerator class.

Test results

This version is stable and has passed all unit tests (with MediaWiki 1.33, 1.31, 1.27),
as well as Selenium tests of MobileFrontend* (except in MediaWiki 1.33, see below) and VisualEditor**.

(*) NOTE: JavaScript editor of Extension:MobileFrontend for MediaWiki 1.33 was changed in a manner that made it incompatible with current code of Moderation. This issue doesn't have a quick fix (it would require a major rewrite of tonns of code), especially while maintaining backward compatibility with MediaWiki 1.27, so the fix is not included into this release (Moderation 1.4.0).
If you use MobileFrontend with MediaWiki >=1.33, you should use the newest version of Moderation, not this release.

(**) NOTE: Extension:VisualEditor itself is under active development and its internals often undergo breaking changes. If you use VisualEditor with MediaWiki >=1.33, you should use the newest version of Moderation, not this release.

1.3.0 - stable release (June 2018) for MediaWiki 1.27-1.31

Note: please run update.php (there are changes to DB schema).

Changes in Moderation 1.3.0 since Moderation 1.2.0

Features:

• Support MediaWiki 1.31.
• Page moves are now intercepted by Moderation.
• Special:Log/moderation can now be filtered by subtype.
• Made "Watch this file" checkbox work even if upload was intercepted.

Bugfixes:

• Special:Moderation will no longer have duplicated rows.
• Approve won't restore the timestamp of approved edit if the page already
  has newer revisions (to avoid incorrect order of History).
• Post-queue notification email is now sent in the language of the wiki.
• Links in notification email now use canonical URLs.
• Redlinks are now correctly displayed on Special:Log/moderation.
• mod_new_len is no longer calculated before PreSaveTransform.

UI changes:

• Special:Upload now shows user-friendly "Success! Uploaded!" message
  (not styled as an error) when the upload is queued for moderation.
• Special:Moderation now highlights large changes (>500 bytes).
• modaction=show no longer shows Approve link for null edits.

Warnings fixed:

• Replaced deprecated SpecialPage::getTitle()
• JavaScript: replaced deprecated postWithToken('edit', ...)

Refactoring, performance optimizations:

• Reduced the number of SQL queries during ApproveAll.
• Faster rendering of Merged folder of Special:Moderation.
• Faster rendering of Special:Log/moderation: used LinkBatch.
• Major refactoring of code that queues new edits (ModerationNewChange class).
• Major refactoring of "approve change" logic (subclasses of ModerationEntry).
• Refactoring of SpecialModeration::formatResult (ModerationEntryFormatter).
• Refactoring of diff generation logic (ModerationViewableEntry).
• Removed unneeded checks around doWatchOrUnwatch().
• Removed more legacy code for MediaWiki 1.23-1.26.
• Notification emails are now delayed via DeferredUpdates.

Configuration:

• Added skip-move-moderation right (allows to bypass moderation of page moves).
• Default: sysops and bots can bypass moderation.
• Default: sysops can use Special:Moderation.
• Default: sysops can add/remove "automoderated" group.

Test results

This version is stable and has passed all unit tests (with MediaWiki 1.31, 1.30, 1.29, 1.27),
as well as Selenium tests of MobileFrontend and VisualEditor*.

(*) NOTE: Extension:VisualEditor itself is under active development and its internals often undergo breaking changes. If you use VisualEditor with MediaWiki >=1.31, you should use the newest version of Moderation, not this release.

1.2.0 - stable release (April 2018) for MediaWiki 1.27-1.30

Note: this version requires MediaWiki 1.27+. MediaWiki 1.23 is no longer supported.
Note: please run update.php (there are changes to DB schema).

Changes in Moderation 1.2.0 since Moderation 1.1.0

Features:

• Support MediaWiki 1.30.
• Support uploads via API and MultiUpload-like extensions in MediaWiki 1.28+.
• In-wiki notification "New changes await moderation" is now shown to moderators.
• Allowed to disable/enable Moderation on per-namespace basis via
  $wgModerationIgnoredInNamespaces and $wgModerationOnlyInNamespaces.
• Support third-party Extension:PageForms (editing via Special:FormEdit).
• AbuseFilter: tags set by AbuseFilter are now preserved by Moderation.

UI changes:

• Moderation is now listed under Antispam section of Special:SpecialPages.

Security updates:

• Restricted filerevert API (revert image to older version) to automoderated
  users, because this action can't be intercepted by Moderation.
• Fixed improper escaping of user-provided mod_comment on Special:Moderation.

Bugfixes:

• Fixed situation when JobQueueError (caused by another extension) resulted in
  duplicate rows on Special:Moderation.
• Fixed "404 Not Found" not being sent for missing stash images (MW 1.28+).
• In $wgModerationUseAjax mode, Preview is no longer treated as one-click action.
• Field mod_title now uses underscores (as other MediaWiki tables), not spaces.

Documentation:

• Explained each configuration variable in extension.json.

Refactoring, performance optimizations:

• Removed legacy code for MediaWiki 1.23-1.26.
• Replaced PHP syntax array() with shorter []

Test results

This version is stable and has passed all unit tests (with MediaWiki 1.30, 1.29, 1.28, 1.27),
as well as Selenium tests of MobileFrontend and VisualEditor*.

(*) NOTE: Extension:VisualEditor itself is under active development and its internals often undergo breaking changes. If you use VisualEditor with MediaWiki >=1.30, you should use the newest version of Moderation, not this release.

Compatibility with MediaWiki 1.23 (old LTS)

This version no longer supports obsolete MediaWiki 1.23.
If you are still at MediaWiki 1.23, please use the latest 1.1.0.x release (or the top of REL1_23 branch).

1.1.0.3 - security release for legacy MediaWiki 1.23 (obsolete LTS)

Versions 1.1.0.x are bugfix releases that still support MediaWiki 1.23.

Unlike Moderation 1.2.0, this release has no changes except those needed for security.
If you are at MediaWiki 1.27+, please use Moderation 1.2.0.

Changes in Moderation 1.1.0.3 since Moderation 1.1.0

Security updates:

• Restricted filerevert API (revert image to older version) to automoderated
  users, because this action can't be intercepted by Moderation.
• Fixed improper escaping of user-provided mod_comment on Special:Moderation.