* Added $wgAdvertisedFeedTypes to decide what feed types (RSS, Atom, both, or
neither) MediaWiki advertises. Default is array( 'atom' ), so RSS is no
longer advertised by default (but it still works).
-
+* Added $wgMemCachedTimeout, controls how long to wait for data from the
+ memcached servers.
+* New configuration variables $wgDebugTimestamps and $wgDebugPrintHttpHeaders
+ for controlling debug output.
=== New features in 1.16 ===
* (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
+* Added $wgFixArabicUnicode, to convert deprecated presentation forms in
+ Arabic text to their modern equivalents, and $wgFixMalayalamUnicode, to
+ convert ZWJ-based chillu sequences in 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
-* LanguageConverter now support nested using of manual convert syntax like "-{-{}-}-"
-* (bug 16281) Show copyright system message on special pages
+* LanguageConverter now support nested using of manual convert syntax like
+ "-{-{}-}-"
* Upload license preview now uses the API instead of action=ajax
+* (bug 7346) Add <guid> to RSS to avoid duplicates
+* (bug 19996) Added new hooks for Special:Search, which allow to further
+ restrict/expand it.
+* (bug 21936) When a revision has been patrolled, there's now a link back to the
+ article
+* (bug 22315) SpecialRecentChangesQuery hook now pass $query_options and checks
+ the return value
=== Bug fixes in 1.16 ===
* (bug 9794) User rights log entries for foreign user now links to the foreign
user's page if possible
* (bug 14717) Don't load nonexistent CSS fix files for non-Monobook skins
-* (bug 18765) Increased consistency of bold-italic markup for unbalanced quotes.
- Improved representation of six quotes (may break existing markup).
* (bug 22034) Use wfClientAcceptsGzip() in wfGzipHandler instead of
reimplementing it.
* (bug 19226) First line renders differently on many UI messages.
+* (bug 21303) Comments are no longer stripped from MediaWiki:Common.js and
+ skin-specific JS pages
+* (bug 5061) Use the more precise thumbcaption thumbimage and thumbinner classes
+ for image divs.
+* (bug 22096) IE50Fixes.css and IE55Fixes.css have been dropped from the Monobook
+ and Chick skins
+* Fixed bug involving unclosed "-{" markup in the language converter
+* (bug 21870) No longer include Google logo from an external server on wiki error.
+* (bug 22181) Do not truncate if the ellipsis actually make the string longer
== API changes in 1.16 ==
* 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
+* (bug 22061) API: add prop=headitems to action=parse
+* (bug 22240) API: include time in siteinfo
+* (bug 22241) Quick edit is still using the deprecated watch parameter (API: Setting default for watch/unwatch wrongly set)
+* (bug 22245) blfilterredirect=nonredirects in blredirect mode wrongly filtering
+* (bug 22248) Output extension URLs in meta=siteinfo&siprop=extensions
+* Support key-params arrays in 'descriptionmsg' in meta=siteinfo&siprop=extensions
+* (bug 21922) YAML output should quote asterisk when used as key
=== Languages updated in 1.16 ===