=== Configuration changes in 1.16 ===
* $wgScriptModifiedMsgCheck Checks the mediawiki namespace recent changes to
-ensure a updated urid for script-loader
+ ensure a updated urid for script-loader
* $wgScriptModifiedCheck Checks script file modified time for unique request id)
* $wgEnableAsyncDownload (lets you disable Async download for windows.
-Hopefully we will remove this configuration var soon)
+ Hopefully we will remove this configuration var soon)
* $wgEnableFirefogg enable support for firefogg extension, firefogg supports
in-browser transcoding, chunk uploads and client side hash checking.
* $wgEnableTemporalOggUrls enable oggz_chop support a server side ogg seeking
file repository
* $wgWikiId added to override default output of wfWikiId()
* $wgDBAhandler added to choose a DBA handler when using CACHE_DBA
+* $wgPreviewOnOpenNamespaces for extensions that create namespaces that behave
+ similarly to the category namespace.
=== New features in 1.16 ===
* $wgTexvcBackgroundColor contains background color for texvc call
* (bug 21574) Redirects can now have "303 See Other" HTTP status
* EditPage refactored to allow extensions to derive new edit modes much easier.
+* (bug 21826) Subsections of Special:Version now also have anchors
=== Bug fixes in 1.16 ===
* (bug 21672) Add missing Accept-Language to both Vary and XVO headers
* (bug 21679) "Edit block reasons" link at the bottom of Special:Blockip is now
only displayed to the users that have "editinterface" right
-* (bug 21740) Attempting to protect a page that doesn't exist (salting) returns "unknown error"
+* (bug 21740) Attempting to protect a page that doesn't exist (salting) returns
+ "unknown error"
* (bug 18762) both redirects and links get fixed one after another if
redirects-only switch is not present
* (bug 20159) thumbnails rerendered if older that $wgThumbnailEpoch
* (bug 21559) "logempty" message is now wrapped in a div with class
"mw-warning-logempty" when used in log extract
* (bug 20549) Parser tests were broken on SQLite backend
+* (bug 21776) Interwiki urls like http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/cs: should give
+ a redirect instead of a baderror.
+* (bug 21803) Special:MyContributions now keeps the query string parameters
+* Redirecting special pages now keep query string paramters set to "0" (e.g.
+ for namespace)
+* (bug 20765) Special:ListGroupRights no longer misses addables and removables
+ groups if there are duplicate entries
== API changes in 1.16 ==
* (bug 20967) action=edit allows creation of invalid titles
* (bug 19523) Add inprop=watched to prop=info
* (bug 21589) API: Separate summary and initial page text for uploads
+* (bug 21817) list=usercontribs returns empty result for empty ucuser
=== Languages updated in 1.16 ===