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+== MediaWiki 1.5 beta 4 ==
+
+July 30, 2005
+
+MediaWiki 1.5 beta 4 is a preview release of the new 1.5 release series.
+A number of bugs have been fixed since beta 3; see the full changelist below.
+
+
== MediaWiki 1.5 beta 3 ==
July 7, 2005
* show comment subject in preview when using section=new
* use comment form when creating a new talk page
* (bug 460) Properly handle <center> tags as a block.
-* (bug 2001) Implement client-side sorting of table fields with JavaScript
* Undo inconsistent editing behavior change
* (bug 2835) Back out fix for bug 2802, caused regressions in category sort
-* (bug 2866) Revert experimental, non-cross-platform sortable table hack
* PHP 4.1.2 compatibility fix: define floatval() equivalent if missing
* (bug 2901) Number format for Catalan
* Special:Allpages performance hacks: index memcached caching, removed
* Fix notice on search index update due to non-array
* (bug 2885) Fix fatal errors and notices in PHP 5.1.0beta3
* (bug 2931) Fix additional notices on reference use in PHP 4.4.0
+* (bug 2774) Add three new $wgHooks to LogPage which enable extensions to add
+ their own logtypes, see extensions/Renameuser/SpecialRenameuser.php for an
+ example of this.
+* (bug 740) Messages from extensions now appear in Special:Allmessages
+* (bug 2857) fixed parsing of lists in <pre> sections
+* (bug 796) Trackback support
+* Fix 1.5 regression: weird, backwards diff links on new pages in enhanced RC
+ are now suppressed as before.
+* New skin: Simple
+* "uselang" and "useskin" URL parameters can now be used in the URL when
+ viewing a page, to change the language and skin of a page respectively.
+* Skins can now be previewed in preferences
+* (bug 2943) AuthPlugin::getCanonicalName() name canonicalization hook,
+ patch from robla
+* Wrap revision insert & page update in a transaction, rollback on late
+ edit conflict.
+* (bug 2953) 'other' didn't work in Special:Blockip when localized
+* (bug 2958) Rollback and delete auto-summary should be in the project's
+ content language
+* Removed useless protectreason message
+* Spelling fix: $wgUrlProtcols -> $wgUrlProtocols
+* Switch Moldovan local name to cyrillic
+* Fix typo in undefined array index access prevention
+* (bug 2947) Update namespaces for sr localization
+* (bug 2952) Added Asturian language file with translated namespaces
+* (bug 2676) Apply a protective transformation on editing input/output
+ for browsers that hit the Unicode blacklist. Patch by plugwash.
+* (bug 2999) Fix encoding conversion of pl_title in upgrade1_5.php
+* compressOld.php disabled, as it's known to be broken.
+
+
+=== Changes since 1.5beta4 ===
+
+* Fix Special:Allmessages under PHP 5
+* (bug ????) Special:Watchlist allowed only one type of limit at a time
=== Caveats ===