From 9ca71557b0848ced3fe26222938fc19bb6ddb311 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrew Garrett Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 02:16:35 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] * Update rollback RELEASE-NOTES. * Add RELEASE-NOTES from last commit (somehow lost). --- RELEASE-NOTES | 11 +++++++++-- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES index 1ae469bcc5..83275f5195 100644 --- a/RELEASE-NOTES +++ b/RELEASE-NOTES @@ -25,9 +25,14 @@ it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN * MediaWiki now checks if serialized files are out of date. New configuration variable $wgCheckSerialized can be set to false to enable old behavior (i.e. to not check and assume they are always up to date) -* The rollback permission is now assigned by default to all logged-in users. It - can also now be rate-limited using the normal mechanism. +* The rollback permission is now be rate-limited using the normal mechanism. * New configuration variable $wgExtraLanguageNames +* Behaviour of $wgAddGroups and $wgRemoveGroups changed. New behaviour: +* * Granting the userrights privilege allows arbitrary changing of rights. +* * Without the userrights privilege, a user will be able to add and/or + remove the groups specified in $wgAddGroups and $wgRemoveGroups for + any groups they are in. +* New permission userrights-interwiki for changing user rights on foreign wikis. === New features in 1.12 === * (bug 10735) Add a warning for non-descriptive filenames at Special:Upload @@ -100,6 +105,8 @@ it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN filetype-unwanted-type and filetype-banned-type. * Added link to the old title in Special:Movepage * On Special:Movepage, errors are now more noticeable. +* It is now possible to change rights on other local wikis without the MakeSysop + extension === Bug fixes in 1.12 === -- 2.20.1