* Show validity period of the login cookie in Special:UserLogin and
Special:Preferences
* Interlanguage links display the page title in their tooltip.
+* (bug 23621) New Special:ComparePages to compare (diff) two articles.
+* (bug 4597) Provide support in Special:Contributions to show only "current"
+ contributions
+* (bug 17857) {{anchorencode}} acts more like how the parser creates section ids.
=== Bug fixes in 1.17 ===
* (bug 17560) Half-broken deletion moved image files to deletion archive
* (bug 23845) Special:ListFiles now uses correct file names without underscores
* Ask for permanent login in Special:Preferences only if $wgCookieExpiration > 0
* (bug 16356) Repair dumpInterwiki.inc to use proper normalization.
+* (bug 24006) deleteArchivedRevisions.php maintenance script now longer throws
+ a fatal error
+* (bug 23465) Don't ignore the predefined destination filename on
+ Special:Upload after following a red link
+* Correct the escaping of the autosummary URI fragments.
+* (bug 23642) Recognize mime types of MS OpenXML documents.
+* (bug 22784) Normalise underscores and spaces in autocomments.
=== API changes in 1.17 ===
* (bug 22738) Allow filtering by action type on query=logevent.
* (bug 23835) Need "thumbmime" result in "imageinfo" query
* (bug 23851) Repair diff for file redirect pages
* (bug 24009) Include implicit groups in action=query&list=users&usprop=groups
+* (bug 24016) API: Handle parameters specified in simple string syntax
+ ( 'paramname' => 'defaultval' ) correctly when outputting help
=== Languages updated in 1.17 ===