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authorcsteipp <csteipp@wikimedia.org>2015-03-30 13:41:56 -0700
committerChris Steipp <csteipp@wikimedia.org>2015-03-31 21:21:50 +0000
commit5045ffefed8c3be80975f9ca5acb53d5e08cc8fe (patch)
treef6b8107fc646bebcf1efcfec95bcaceb9ae67905
parentced28b90e59b26c1cff08124bd572e0d4a79934e (diff)
Updated release notes and version number for MediaWiki 1.24.21.24.2
Change-Id: I23a46373bf2c9c173fb1807d5ff68ecf5a623de9
-rw-r--r--RELEASE-NOTES-1.2413
-rw-r--r--includes/DefaultSettings.php2
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.24 b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.24
index 500c47ca412c..43ba2876ebae 100644
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.24
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.24
@@ -3,10 +3,21 @@ turn it off. MediaWiki will no longer work with it enabled.
== MediaWiki 1.24.2 ==
-This is a not yet released maintenance release of the MediaWiki 1.24 branch.
+This is a security and maintenance release of the MediaWiki 1.24 branch.
== Changes since 1.24.1 ==
+* (T85848, T71210) SECURITY: Don't parse XMP blocks that contain XML entities,
+ to prevent various DoS attacks.
+* (T85848) SECURITY: Don't allow directly calling Xml::isWellFormed, to reduce
+ likelihood of DoS.
+* (T88310) SECURITY: Always expand xml entities when checking SVG's.
+* (T73394) SECURITY: Escape > in Html::expandAttributes to prevent XSS.
+* (T85855) SECURITY: Don't execute another user's CSS or JS on preview.
+* (T64685) SECURITY: Allow setting maximal password length to prevent DoS when
+ using PBKDF2.
+* (T85349, T85850, T86711) SECURITY: Multiple issues fixed in SVG filtering to
+ prevent XSS and protect viewer's privacy.
* Fix case of SpecialAllPages/SpecialAllMessages in SpecialPageFactory to fix
loading these special pages when $wgAutoloadAttemptLowercase is false.
* (bug T70087) Fix Special:ActiveUsers page for installations using
diff --git a/includes/DefaultSettings.php b/includes/DefaultSettings.php
index 96d0648d47bc..aad42aacf768 100644
--- a/includes/DefaultSettings.php
+++ b/includes/DefaultSettings.php
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ $wgConfigRegistry = array(
* Using single quotes is, therefore, important here.
* @since 1.2
*/
-$wgVersion = '1.24.1';
+$wgVersion = '1.24.2';
/**
* Name of the site. It must be changed in LocalSettings.php