* $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
* $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.
+* If $wgLocaltimezone is null, use the server's timezone as the default for
+ signatures. This was always the behaviour documented in DefaultSettings.php
+ but has not been the actual behaviour for some time: instead, UTC was used
+ by default.
+* Added $wgExtensionAssetsPath, to decouple assets serving from $wgScriptPath.
+ If not specified it will default to $wgScriptPath/extensions
+
=== New features in 1.16 ===
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* $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
* (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 22051) Returing false in SpecialContributionsBeforeMainOutput hook now
+ stops normal output
+* Send new password e-mail in users preference language
=== Bug fixes in 1.16 ===
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
+* (bug 2658) Don't attempt to set the TZ environment variable.
+* (bug 9794) User rights log entries for foreign user now links to the foreign
+ user's page if possible
== API changes in 1.16 ==
* (bug 21441) meta=userinfo&uiprop=options no longer returns default options
for logged-in users under certain circumstances
* (bug 21945) Add chomp control in YAML
+* Expand the thumburl to an absolute url to make it consistent with url and
+ descriptionurl
+* (bug 20233) ApiLogin::execute() doesn't handle LoginForm :: RESET_PASS
=== Languages updated in 1.16 ===
* North Frisian (frr) (new)
* Kirmanjki (kiu) (new)
+* Komi-Permyak (koi) (new)
* Karachay-Balkar (krc) (new)
* Hill Mari (mrj) (new)
* Prussian (prg) (new)