Fix for bug 9413 and the related Malayalam issue reported on wikitech-l.

[lhc/web/wiklou.git] / RELEASE-NOTES

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@@ -68,7 +68,8 @@ it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN
 * $wgUploadMaintenance added to disable file deletions and restorations during
   maintenance
 * $wgCapitalLinkOverrides added to configure per-namespace capitalization
-* (bug 21172) $wgSorbsUrl can now be an array with multiple DNSBL
+* (bug 21172) $wgSorbsUrl can now be an array with multiple DNSBL and renamed
+  to $wgDnsBlacklistUrls (backward compatibility kept)
 * $wgEnableHtmlDiff has been removed
 * (bug 3340) $wgBlockCIDRLimit added (default: 16) to configure the low end of
   CIDR ranges for blocking
@@ -78,7 +79,12 @@ it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN
 * $wgDBAhandler added to choose a DBA handler when using CACHE_DBA
 * $wgPreviewOnOpenNamespaces for extensions that create namespaces that behave
   similarly to the category namespace.
-
+* $wgEnableSorbs renamed to $wgDnsBlacklistUrls ($wgEnableSorbs kept for
+  backward compatibility)
+* $wgUploadNavigationUrl now also affects images inline images that do not 
+  exist. In that case the URL will get (?|&)wpDestFile=<filename> appended to 
+  it as appropriate.
+  
 === New features in 1.16 ===
 
 * Add CSS defintion of the 'wikitable' class to shared.css
@@ -254,7 +260,7 @@ it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN
   contains the number of revisions in the history
 * $wgStylePath and $wgLogo are now set in the default LocalSettings.php file.
 * (bug 20186) Allow filtering history for revision deletion.
-* New hook getOtherBlockLogLink, called in Special:IPBlockList and Special:Block
+* New hook OtherBlockLogLink, called in Special:IPBlockList and Special:Block
   to show links to block logs of other blocking extensions, i.e. GlobalBlocking
 * Added search capabilities to SQLite backend
 * rebuildtextindex.php maintenance script now supports databases other than
@@ -276,6 +282,10 @@ it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN
 * (bug 21826) Subsections of Special:Version now also have anchors
 * (bug 19791) Add URL of file source as comment to thumbs (for ImageMagick)
 * (bug 21946) Sorted wikitables do not properly handle minus signs
+* (bug 18885) Red links for media files do not support shared repositories
+* Added $wgFixArchaicUnicode, which, if enabled, converts some deprecated 
+  Unicode sequences in Arabic and Malayalam text to their Unicode 5.1 
+  equivalents. 
 
 === Bug fixes in 1.16 ===
 
@@ -665,6 +675,14 @@ it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN
 * (bug 21535) RecentChanges RSS feed now always recognises the namespace filter,
   previously it sometimes didn't due to caching.
 * (bug 20388) ProfilerSimpleText no longer outputs comment on action=raw
+* refreshLinks.php now purges orphaned redirect table rows
+* (bug 2971) Swap links of hist & diff location on Special:Contributions for
+  consistency with RC/WL
+* (bug 21986) Special page names were are now capitalized by content language
+* If two log type have the same description, they're now both displayed in the
+  type selector on Special:Log
+* (bug 20115) Special:Userlogin title says "Log in / create account" even if the
+  user can't create an account
 
 == API changes in 1.16 ==
 
@@ -744,6 +762,7 @@ changes to languages because of MediaZilla reports.
 
 * North Frisian (frr) (new)
 * Kirmanjki (kiu) (new)
+* Komi-Permyak (koi) (new)
 * Karachay-Balkar (krc) (new)
 * Hill Mari (mrj) (new)
 * Prussian (prg) (new)