From: Brion Vibber <brion@users.mediawiki.org>
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 01:38:50 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Move huge set of bits over to HISTORY. Add some legible RELEASE-NOTES
X-Git-Tag: 1.6.0~14
X-Git-Url: http://git.cyclocoop.org/ecrire?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4c781a2cbc31d62e41e05e43b8906e9051c51240;p=lhc%2Fweb%2Fwiklou.git

Move huge set of bits over to HISTORY. Add some legible RELEASE-NOTES
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diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index 6b5a3b6099..0d23ea4b0f 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -5,6 +5,1878 @@ Change notes from older releases. For current info see RELEASE-NOTES.
 Security reminder: MediaWiki does not require PHP's register_globals
 setting since version 1.2.0. If you have it on, turn it *off* if you can.
 
+== Changes since 1.5 ==
+
+* (bug 2885) More PHP 5.1 fixes: skin, search, log, undelete
+
+Code quality:
+* Use strval() to make sure we don't accidentally get null on bad revision
+  text loads or other fields mucking up XML export output
+* Clean up duplicate code for selection of changeslist style
+* Correct blob caching to reduce redundant blob loads on backups
+* (bug 3182) Clear link cache during import to prevent memory leak
+* Fixed possible infinite loop in formatComment
+* Wrap message page insertions in a transaction to speed up installation
+* Avoid notice warning on edit with no User-Agent header
+* (bug 3649) Remove obsolete, broken moveCustomMessages script
+* Avoid numerous redundant latest-revision lookups in history
+* Require PHP 4.3.2 or higher strictly now.
+* Tweak infinite-template-handling loop for PHP 5.1.1 string handling change
+* Remove unused OutputPage::addCookie()
+* Fix for short_open_tag off again; please don't break this, guys
+* (bug 4507) Adjust FULLPAGENAMEE escaping to standard form
+* (bug 5302) Merge the two #p-search .pBody statements in monobook css.
+
+Database:
+* Finally dropped MySQL 3.23.x support
+* Oracle support
+* (bug 3056) MySQL 3 compatibility fix: USE INDEX instead of FORCE INDEX
+* Update all stats fields on recount.sql
+* (bug 3227) Fix SQL injection introduced in experimental code
+* Fix table prefix usage in Block::enumBlocks
+* (bug 3448) Set page_len on undelete
+* (bug 3506) Avoid MySQL error when Listusers returns no results
+* Skip update of disused 'rc_cur_time' field (todo: discard the field)
+* (bug 3735) Fix to run under MySQL 5's strict mode
+* (bug 3786) Experimental support for MySQL 4.1/5.0 utf8 charset mode
+  NOTE: Enabling this may break existing wikis, and still doesn't
+  work for all Unicode characters due to MySQL limitations.
+* MySQL 5.0 strict mode fix for moving unwatched pages
+* Ability to set the table name for external storage servers
+* Update ipblocks table in MySQL 5 table defs
+* Removed FulltextStoplist.php, no longer used (was for MySQL 3.x workaround)
+* Added templatelinks table, to track template inclusions. User-visible effects
+  will be:
+  * (inclusion) tag for inclusions in Special:Whatlinkshere
+  * More accurate list of used templates on the edit page
+  * More reliable cache invalidation when templates outside the template
+    namespace are changed
+* Respect database prefix in dumpHTML.inc
+* Removed read-only check from Database::query()
+* Added externallinks table, to track links to arbitrary URLs
+* Added job table, for deferred processing of jobs. The immediate application is 
+  to complete the link table refresh operation when templates are changed.
+* Don't change the password of the MySQL root user.
+
+Documentation:
+* (bug 3306) Document $wgLocalTZoffset
+
+Hooks:
+(list not complete)
+* Move ArticleSave hook execution into Article insert/update functions,
+  so they get called on non-EditPage actions that use these functions
+  to create or update pages.
+* Added EditFilter hook, and output callback on EditPage::showEditForm()
+  for a place to add in captcha-type extensions in the edit flow
+* (bug 3684) Fix typo in fatal error backtraces in Hooks.php
+* Fix for hook callbacks on objects containing no fields
+* Add a hook for additional user creation throttle / limiter extensions
+* Use $wgOut->parse() in wfGetSiteNotice() instead of creating a new parser
+  instance. This allows use of extension hooks if required.
+* Added AutoAuthenticate hook for external User object suppliers
+* Added 'PageRenderingHash' hook for changing the parser cache hash key
+  from an extension that changes rendering based on nonstandard options.
+* Add 'GetInternalURL' hook to match the GetFullURL and GetLocalURL ones
+* (bug 4456) Add hook for marking article patrolled
+* Add UserRights hook, fires after a user's group memberships are changed
+
+Images:
+* Support SVG rendering with rsvg
+* Cap arbitrary SVG renders to given image size or $wgSVGMaxSize pixels wide
+* (bug 3127) Render large SVGs at image page size correctly
+* Fix scaling of non-integer SVG unit sizes
+* (bug 2800) Don't scale up small images on |thumb| without explicit size
+* Use the real file link instead of the default-size rasterized version for
+  large SVG images on image description page
+* Include the file name/type/size line for non-resized images
+* (bug 3489) PHP 5.1 compat problem with captioned images
+* (bug 3643) Fix image page display of large images with resizing disabled
+* Added a limit to the size of image files which can be thumbnailed
+* (bug 3806) Gracefully fall back to client-side scaling on |thumb| image
+  that passes $wgMaxImageArea
+* (bug 153) Adjust thumbnail size calculations to match consistently;
+  patch by David Benbennick
+* (bug 4162) Add $wgThumbnailEpoch timestamp to force old thumbs to
+  be rerendered on demand, sitewide
+* (bug 1850) Additional fixes so existing local and remote images
+  get a blue link even if there's no local description page
+* Avoid FATAL ERROR when creating thumbnail of non-existing image
+* (bug 4207) Wrong image size when using 100x200px syntax to scale image up
+  patch by David Benbennick
+* Don't delete thumbnails when refreshing exif metadata. This caused thumbs
+  to vanish mysteriously from time to time for files that didn't have metadata.
+* (bug 4426) Add link to user_talk page on image pages
+* Support a custom convert command for thumbnailing. See DefaultSettings.php
+  and the comments for $wgCustomConvertCommand, for more information.
+* UserCan hook now allows advisory return values, rather than mandatory ones.
+
+Installer:
+* (bug 3782) Throw fatal installation warning if mbstring.func_overload on.
+  Why do people invent these crazy options that change language semantics?
+* Fixed installer bugs 921 and 3914 (issues with using root and so forth)
+* (bug 4258) Use ugly urls for ISAPI by default
+  patch by Rob Church
+* Improve installer 
+	* Use a superuser account (such as root), if specifed, to create tables
+	* Don't overwrite conservative permissions on the mySQL user with ALL
+	  permissions, if said user exists
+	* Changes to some of the wording of explanations for fields
+* (bug 1734) granting db permissions failed with db usernames containg '-'
+* Add basic check for session support in PHP and die if not present
+
+Maintenance:
+* Fix problem reported on mailing list where re-initialising stats didn't work (can't insert
+  duplicate rows with the same id field)
+* Added --conf option to command line scripts, allowing the user to specify a 
+  different LocalSettings.php.
+* Maintenance script to delete unused text records
+* Maintenance script to delete non-current revisions
+* Maintenance script to wipe a page and all revisions from the database
+* Maintenance script to reassign edits from one user to another
+* Maintenance script to find and remove links to a given domain (cleanupSpam.php)
+* Fix --report interval option for dumpTextPass
+
+i18n / Languages:
+* Partial support for Basque language (from wikipedia and meta)
+* (bug 3141) Partial support for Breton language (thanks Fulup).
+* Support for venitian language
+* (bug 1334) LanguageGa.php update
+* Finnish date format was hardcoded, now implemented properly
+* (bug 3190) Added some date format choices for language sr
+* (bug 2753) Some namespaces were not translated in LanguageTa.php (Tamil)
+* (bug 3204) Fix typo breaking special pages in fy localization
+* (bug 3177) Estonian date formats not implemented in LanguageEt.php
+* (bug 1020) Changing user interface language does not work immediately
+* (bug 3271) Updated LanguageNn.php for HEAD
+* Experimental feature to allow translation of block expiry times
+  Implementation only for Finnish currently
+* (bug 3304) Language file for Croatian (LanguageHr.php)
+* (bug 2143) Update Vietnamese interface
+* (bug 3063) Remove some hardcodings from Hebrew localisation
+* (bug 3408) Bulgarian formatNum corrected
+* (bug 1512) Disable x-code interp on Esperanto URLs for now, it does more
+  harm than good under current system by breaking incoming URLs with "ux".
+  (Editing is not affected, just URLs.)
+* (bug 1423) LanguageJa.php update
+* Fix language name for dv
+* (bug 3503) Update LanguageSq.php from sq.wikipedia.org messages
+* (bug 3629) Fix date & time format for Frisian
+* (bug 3334) Namespace changes for Polish
+* (bug 3580) Change default Dutch language file to more neutral
+* (bug 3656) LanguageHr.php - added convertPlural
+* (bug 3414) LanguageBe.php - added convertPlural
+* (bug 3163) Full translation of LanguageBr
+* (bug 3617) Update for portuguese language (pt)
+* Namespaces hacks on LanguagePl
+* (bug 3682) LanguageSr.php - added convertPlural
+* (bug 3694) LanguageTr.php update
+* (bug 3711) Removed invisible unicode characters from LanguageHu
+* (bug 2981) Linktrail for Tamil (ta)
+* (bug 3722) Update of Arabic language (ar) Namespace changes
+* Removed hardcoded Norwegian (no) project namespaces
+* (bug 2324) image for redirects should be without text and oriented according to content language
+* (bug 3666) Don't spew PHP warnings in prefs on unrecognized site language
+* (bug 3817) Use localized date formats in preferences; 'no preference' option
+  localizable as 'datedefault' message. Tweaked lots of languages files...
+* (bug 2721) Regression: Use European number separators for vi: wikis
+* (bug 3961) minor languageDe changes
+* (bug 1984) LanguageKo.php (Korean) update
+* (bug 3804) update of LanguageWa.php file
+* (bug 3886) Update for Portuguese language (pt)
+* (bug 4020) Update namespaces for ms
+* (bug 3922) bidi embedding overrides on category links
+* (bug 4061) Update of Slovene namespace names (LanguageSl.php)
+* (bug 4064) LanguageDe comma changes
+* (bug 3922) Further tweaks to bidi overrides in category list for old
+  versions of Safari and Konqueror
+* Fix custom namespaces on wikis set for Portuguese
+* (bug 4153) Fix block length localizations in Greek
+* (bug 3844) ab: av: ba: ce: & kv: now inherit from LanguageRu.php
+             ii: & za: now inherit from LanguageZn_cn.php
+* (bug 4165) Correct validation for user language selection (data taint)
+* (bug 4192) Remove silly 'The Free Encyclopedia' default sitesubtitle
+* Use content-lang for sitenotice
+* (bug 4233) Update LanguageJa.php
+* (bug 4279) Small correction to LanguageDa.php
+* (bug 4108, 4336) Remove trailing whitespace from various messages, which
+  mucks up message updating to create dupe entries
+* (bug 4389) Fix math options on zh-hk and zh-tw (but not localized)
+* (bug 4392) Update of LanguageSr.php
+* (bug 4382) Frisian numeric format
+* (bug 4424) Update for Spanish language (es) 100% messages translated
+* (bug 4425) Typos in Polish translation
+* (bug 4436) Update for Turkish language (tr)
+* (bug 4413) Update of Farsi language file (LanguageFa.php)
+* Update for LanguageSr (Serbian): magic words
+* (bug 137) MediaWiki:Copyrightwarning hardcoding
+* (bug 4457) Update for Portuguese language (pt)
+* convertPlural breakage fixed a little
+* (bug 4144) Support for Sudanese language (Basa Sunda)
+* Big cleanup:
+ - Removed obsolote, badly or untranslated messages
+ - Removed references to wikipedia/wikimedia etc in messages
+ - Other cleanup, like removing html and javascript and extension calls
+ - Removed hardcoded namespaces: Tt, Ms, Ia, Ga, Fo, Bn, Csb, He, Nv, Oc, Tlh
+ - Removed some useless backwards compatibility hacks
+ - Fixed formatnum on many languages
+* wgAmericanDates check produced incorrect results in languages that don't have
+  a such distinction
+* (bug 4548) Update for Portuguese language (pt): time format
+* (bug 4530) Use consistent name for Kurdish
+* Tweak default "upload disabled" text
+* (bug 4504) Use site language for namespace name resolution
+* (bug 4510) Correct Barnes & Noble bookstore URLs
+* (bug 3991) Allow the operation of wikicode on Protect move only text
+* (bug 4267) Switch dv sd ug ks arc languages to RTL
+* Default main page content improved per bug 4690
+* (bug 4615) Update for Portuguese language (pt)
+* Separated MessagesSl.php as the other languages.
+* (bug 4960) Add additional namespaces variants to Yiddish for compatibility
+* (bug 4805) Removed more wikipedia-references from MessagesUk.php
+* (bug 5015) Update magic words translation in LanguageBe.php
+* (bug 4859) Update for Portuguese messages (pt)
+* (bug 4788) One string for MessagesPl
+* Restriction types now use restriction-* messages instead of ui messages
+* (bug 4685) Slovenian LanguageSl.php hardcodes project namespace
+* (bug 5097) Fix Hungarian language (hu): thousands separator
+* (bug 5098) Update for Portuguese messages (pt)
+* (bug 5113) Spelling error in French language file
+* (bug 5105) Magic words for LanguageAr.php
+* (bug 3993) Variants for Serbian language
+* Typo in English messages file
+* (bug 4114) Spacing in watchlist rows (in editing mode)
+* Update default "exporttext" to reflect that Special:Import exists
+* (bug 4960) Add additional namespaces variants to Yi projects: Yiddish Wikinews fix
+* (bug 5357) Add the icon near the user name also in RTL interfaces
+* (bug 5156) Update for Hebrew language (he)
+* (bug 4497,4704,5010) Added some new language codes.
+* (bug 5362) Piedmontese added
+* (bug 5349) Update for Portuguese messages (pt)
+* (bug 3573) Finished full Greek translation: namespaces
+* (bug 5288) Initial localisation for Az
+* (bug 4361) Fix "allmessagesnotsupportedui" so it doesn't refer to nonexisting
+  page
+* Tweak wording of "allmessagesnotsupporteddb"
+
+Parser:
+* (bug 2522) {{CURRENTDAY2}} now shows the current day number with two digits
+* (bug 3210) Fix Media: links with remote image URL path
+* (bug 3405) Don't use raw letters as aliases of MSGNW: and SUBST:
+* (bug 3412) Clean up date format handling so ~~~~-sigs work with default
+  format as designed. Documentation comments updated.
+* Fix Parser::unstrip on PHP 5.1.0RC4
+* (bug 3797) Don't expand variables and sigs in comments
+* Allow parser cache on redirect targets
+* Run wikitext-escaping on plaintext sigs (no wiki markup, just name)
+* Check for unbalanced HTML tags on raw sigs (markup allowed, but show
+  a warning in prefs and use default sig if not balanced)
+* Respect <noinclude> and <includeonly> during {{subst:}} expansion as well as
+  ordinary templates.
+* Support <includeonly> in templates loaded through preload= parameter
+* (bug 3979) Save correct {{REVISIONID}} into parser cache on edit
+* Substitute {{REVISIONID}} correctly in diff display
+* (bug 1850) Allow red-links on image pages linked with [[:image:foo]]
+* Fix XML validity checks in parser tests on PHP 5.1
+* (bug 4377) "[" is not valid in URLs
+* (bug 4453) fix for __TOC__ dollar-number breakage
+* Convert unnecessary URL escape codes in external links to their equivalent
+  character before doing anything with them. This prevents certain kinds of
+  spam filter evasion.
+* (bug 4783) : Fix for "{{ns:0}} does not render"
+* Improved support for interwiki transclusion
+* (bug 1850) Image link to nonexistent file fixed.
+* (bug 5167) Add {{SUBPAGENAME}} and {{SUBPAGENAMEE}} variables
+* (bug 4949) Missing : in "addedwatchtext" for English and Spanish
+
+Upload:
+* (bug 2527) Always set destination filename when new file is selected
+* (bug 3076) Support MacBinary-encoded uploads from IE/Mac
+* (bug 2554) Tell users they are uploading too large file
+* Support for a license selection box on Special:Upload, configurable from MediaWiki:Licenses
+* Add 'reupload' and 'reupload-shared' permission keys to restrict new uploads
+  overwriting existing files; default is the old behavior (allowed).
+
+Security:
+* (bug 3244) Fix remote image loading hack, JavaScript injection on MSIE
+* (bug 3280) Respect 'move' group permission on page moves
+* (bug 2613) Clear saved passwords from the form
+* IP privacy fix for blocklist search on autoblocks
+* Security fix for <math>
+* Security fix for tables
+* Security fix for Special:Upload license selection list
+* Add UploadVerification hook for custom file upload validation/security checks
+* Blacklist additional MSIE CSS safety tricks
+* Fix meta robots tag on Special:Version again to avoid listing vulnerable
+  versions for convenient harvesting by automated worms
+* Sanitizer CSS comment processing order fix
+* Forbid usernames that can be interpreted as titles with namespaces, as that
+  leads to hard-to-manage names.
+* (bug 4071) Generate passwords long enough for $wgMinimalPasswordLength
+* Add createpage and createtalk permission keys, allowing a quick
+  switch to disable page creation for anonymous users.
+* (bug 675) Add page protection level for unregistered/new accounts
+* User::isNewbie now uses the registration date and $wgAutoconfirmAge
+* Add 'deletedhistory' permission key for ability to view deleted history
+  list via Special:Undelete. Default is off, replicating the 1.5 behavior,
+  but it can be turned back on for random users to replicate the previous
+  1.6 dev behavior.
+* Set cookies to secure mode based on use of HTTPS or $wgCookieSecure
+* (bug 4371) Disallow tilde character in signatures
+* Removed broken wgAllowAnonymousMinor and added new group right minoredit
+* Added detection for WMF files (application/x-msmetafile), added this 
+  MIME type to the default blacklist. Prevented inline display of images
+  which are not of known image types. This is in response to
+  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Metafile_vulnerability
+* Blocked users can no longer roll back, change the protection of, or delete/undelete pages
+* Protect against spoofing of X-Forwarded-For header
+* XSS issue : now sanitize search query input (fixed in 1.5rc3)
+* Remove deprecated $wgOnlySysopsCanPatrol references; use User::isAllowed( 'patrol' )
+  per bug 5282. Patch by Alan Harder.
+* Prevent registration/login with the username "MediaWiki default"
+
+Special Pages:
+* Rearranged Special:Movepage form to reduce confusion between destination
+  title and reason input boxes
+* (bug 1956) Hide bot uploads from Special:Newimages
+* (bug 3220) Fix escaping of block URLs in Recentchanges
+* (bug 3284) Ipblocklist paging, substring search
+* Allow filtering of robot edits in Special:Watchlist by stting 
+  $wgFilterRobotsWL = true.
+* Fix interlanguage links on special pages when extra namespaces configured
+* (bug 3475) anon contrib links on Special:Newpages
+* Special:Import/importDump fixes: report XML parse errors, accept <minor/>
+* (bug 2369) Add separate message for input box on Special:Prefixindex
+* (bug 3798) DoubleRedirects no longer has hard coded arrows
+* (bug 3803) Fix links on Special:Wantedcategories with miser mode off
+* Fix Special:BrokenRedirects on MySQL 5.0
+* (bug 3807) Fix 'all' in namespaces drop-down on contribs, rc
+* Fail gracefully on invalid namespace in Special:Newpages
+* (bug 3762) Define missing Special:Import UI messages
+* (bug 3761) Avoid deprecation warnings in Special:Import
+* (bug 2894) Enhanced Recent Changes link fixes
+* (bug 4059) fix 'hide minor edits' on Recentchangeslinked
+* (bug 146) List number of category members in Special:Categories
+  (patch by Joel Nothman)
+* (bug 4090) Fix diff links in Special:Recentchangeslinked
+* (bug 4093) '&bot=1' in Special:Contributions now propagate to other links
+* Fix display of old recentchanges records for page moves
+* (bug 360) Let Whatlinkshere track [[:image:foo]] links
+* (bug 3073) Keep search parameter on paging in Special:Newimages
+* Removed Special:Validate, it's been superseded by the Review extension
+* (bug 4359) red [[user:#id]] links generated in [[special:Log]]
+* (bug 1996) Special page to list redirects
+* (bug 4334) Add "watch" links to Special:Unwatchedpages
+* Generate target user page links in Special:Ipblocklist where appropriate
+  (i.e. not an autoblock)
+* Generate link to talk page of the blocker in Special:Ipblocklist, move
+  contribs. link of the target next to their name
+* (bug 2714) Backlink from special:whatlinkshere was hard set as 'existing'
+* Move parentheses out of <a> link in Special:Contributions
+* (bug 3192): properly check 'limit' parameter on Special:Contributions
+* (bug 3187) watchlist text refer to unexistent "Stop watching" action
+* Add block, block log and general log links to Special:Contributions
+* Add contributions link to block log items
+* Added optional "hide own edits" feature to Special:Recentchanges
+* (bug 5018) Anchors for each message in Special:Allmessages
+* Introduce $wgWantedPagesThreshold per bug 5011; Special:Wantedpages will not
+  list pages with less than this number of links. Defaults to 1.
+* (bug 4319) Don't show a "create account" link on the login form when
+  account creation is disabled.
+* JavaScript filter for Special:Allmessages
+* (bug 3047) Don't mention talk pages on Special:Movepage when there isn't one
+* Show links to user page, talk page and contributions page on Special:Newpages
+* Special:Export can now export a list of all contributors to an article (off by default)
+* (bug 5372) Add number of files to Special:Statistics
+* (bug 2871) Links to talk pages in watchlist editing view
+* (bug 5385) Allow hiding anonymous edits on Special:Recentchanges
+* (bug 2544) Illogical error reporting order in Special:Userlogin
+* (bug 5409) Hide "show/hide patrolled edits" in Special:Recentchanges if patrolling
+  is disabled
+* (bug 5447) Convert first letter of username to uppercase before searching in Special:Listusers
+* (bug 759) Wrap redirects on the watchlist editing page in a span, class "watchlistredir"
+* (bug 1862) Namespace filtering in watchlists
+
+Misc.:
+* PHP 4.1 compatibility fix: don't use new_link parameter to mysql_connect
+  if running prior to 4.2.0 as it causes the call to fail
+* (bug 3117) Fix display of upload size and type with tidy on
+* (bug 2323) Remove "last" tabindex from history page
+* (bug 3116) Division by zero on [[Image:Foo.png|123x123px|]]
+* Fix display of read-only lockfile message
+* Include software-visible client IP address in Special:Version comment
+  as a proxy debugging aid
+* (bug 3170) Page Title failed to obey MediaWiki:Pagetitle.
+  wikititlesuffix was removed
+* Add ability to break off certain debug topics into additional log files;
+  use $wgDebugLogGroups to configure and wfDebugLog() to log.
+* Edit conflict on recreation of deleted page
+* (bug 3216) Don't show empty warning page when no warnings.
+* (bug 3218) Use proper quoting on history Compare Revisions button
+* Fix upgrade from 1.4 due to version number check breakage [for rc future]
+* Fix upgrade from 1.4 with no old revisions
+* Remove "info" editing toolbar that was shown in browsers which do not
+fully support the editing toolbar, but was found to be too confusing.
+* Don't override edit conflict suppression on section edits; section merging
+  should provide the expected transparency here and fits usage patterns better.
+* (bug 3292) Fix move-over-redirect test when current entries are not plaintext
+* (bug 2078) Don't hide watch tab on preview
+* Fix regressions in ChangesList traditional layout
+* Fix edit on double-click for move-protected pages in Classic skin
+* (bug 3485) Fix bogus warning about filename capitalization when off
+* (bug 2570) Add 'watch this page' checkbox on uploads, watch uploads
+  by default when 'watchdefault' option is on
+* Add options to dumpBackup.php for making split/partial dumps by page id
+* Added filter options, compression piping, and multiple output streams for
+  dumpBackup.php
+* (bug 3595) Warn and abort if importDump.php called in read-only mode.
+* (bug 3598) Update message cache on message page deletion, patch by Tietew
+* Added separate noarticletext and newarticletext messages for logged in and anon users.
+* (bug 3332) Installation now uses Monobook, validates, plus usability improvements.
+* (bug 3660) Update diff3 detection to work with Windows/Cygwin
+* (bug 2330) Don't do funny thinks with "links" in MediaWiki:Undeletedtext
+* Two-pass data dump for friendliness to the DB (--stub, then dumpTextPass.php)
+* Data dump 'prefetch' mode to read normalized text from a prior dump
+  (requires PHP 5, XMLReader extension)
+* (bug 2773) Print style sheet no longer overrides RTL text direction
+* (bug 2938) Update MediaWiki:Exporttext to be more general
+* Various fixes
+* Fix wfMsg*() replacements; args containing literal $[2-9] were wiped
+* Added @import for [[MediaWiki:Common.css]] to all skins
+* Edit box now remembers scrollbar position on preview
+* (bug 3816) Throw edit conflict instead of fatal error when a page is
+  moved or deleted during section edit
+* (bug 3771) Handle internal functions in backtrace in wfAbruptExit()
+* (bug 3291) 'last' diff link for last history line when not at end
+* (bug 3667) Add missing global in page move code
+* (bug 2885) Remove unnecessary reference parameter which broke classic skin
+  talk notification on PHP 5.0.5
+* (bug 3852) "Redirected from" link no longer obscured on double-redirects
+* changed directory hierarchy in images/math/. System upgrades from old to
+  new hierarchy on the fly.
+* (bug 3487) Fix category edit preview with preview-on-bottom
+* (bug 918) Search index incorrectly joined words at == headings ==
+* (bug 3877) Render math images into temp directory, then move to hashed
+  subdir so you can render new math images and have them work
+* (bug 2392) Fix Atom items content type, upgrade to Atom 1.0
+* Allow $wgFeedCacheTimeout of 0 to disable feed caching
+* Fix WebRequest::getRequestURL() to strip off the host bits squid prepends
+* Require POST for action=purge, to stop bots from purging the cache
+* Added local message cache feature ($wgLocalMessageCache), to reduce bandwidth
+  requirements to the memcached server.
+* (bug 3562) for go search, try Caps-Variants-Broken-At-Non-Whitespace
+* (bug 2569) Use PATH_SEPARATOR instead of trying to guess based on
+  DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR (was wrong on NetWare)
+* (bug 2740) Accept image deletions on 'enter' submit from MSIE
+* (bug 3939) Don't try to load text for interwiki redirect target
+* (bug 3948) Avoid notice warning in debug statement in bad search
+* Recognize Special:Search consistently so read whitelist works
+* (bug 3999) Change atom 1.0 feed id; had been unnecessarily complex due to
+  unclear language in the spec. Now using the URL, same as the permalink,
+  which someone else will probably whine about because it's not 'perma'
+  enough or something.
+* (bug 4014) Fix include mode for Allpages on small page sets
+* (bug 3996) Fix text for new entries in RC RSS/Atom feed
+* (bug 3065) Update both watched namespaces when renaming pages
+* Changed mail form to have a bigger message entry box (like for editing
+  a page
+* Fix ulimit parameters for wfShellExec when memory_limit is specified in 'm'
+* (bug 2111) Collapsable exif metadata table, clean up display
+* Reduce fractions in display of exif exposure time
+* (bug 4048) Optional footer link to site privacy policy
+* Don't die() when update.php reaches the end of the warning count
+* (bug 1915) Fix edit links when 'direction' used with 'oldid';
+  using revision ID reported via OutputPage; Skin::editUrlOptions()
+* Remove obsolete 'redirect=no' on some edit links
+* Include oldid for the second revision on edit link on diff view
+* (bug 4035) Fix prev/next revision links on edit page
+* (bug 4100, 3049) Add 'edittools' message to hold edit tools, put it
+  on Special:Upload as well as edit, rearrange edit page pieces a bit.
+  Copyright warning now above the buttons to ensure it's visible,
+  template list at the bottom so it can grow.
+* Optional summary parameter to action=rollback, for user javascript
+* (bug 4167) Fix regression caused by patch for bug 153
+* (bug 4169) Use $wgLegalTitleChars in pipe trick conversions
+* (bug 4170) Decode HTML character escapes in sort key
+* (bug 4201) Fix user-talk mode for Enotif, and general code cleanup
+* (bug 4214) Skip redundant action text inserts into the HTML <title>
+* (bug 4212) Skip redundant meta-robots tag for default settings
+* Fix regression: old version missing from edit links in Nostalgia skin
+* (bug 1600) Trigger edit conflict on duplicate section=new submissions
+* (bug 4001) Use local variables properly in wikibits.js akeytt()
+* Fix regression: old version missing from edit links on CSS/JS pages
+* (bug 3211) Include Date, To mail headers when using PEAR::Mail
+* (bug 3407) Fix encoding of subject and from/to headers on notification
+  mails; userMailer() now takes a MailAddress wrapper object instead of
+  a raw string to abstract things a level.
+* Fixed --server override on dumpTextPass.php
+* Added plugin interface for dumpBackup, so additional filters and output
+  sink types can be registered at runtime from an extension
+* (bug 349) Fix for some numeric differences not being highlighted
+  patch by Andrius Ramanauskas
+* (bug 4298) Include rc_id on enhanced RC singleton diff links for patrolling
+* Did some refactoring on ChangesList.php merging dupe code
+* (bug 1586) Fix interwiki generator for wikimedia obscure domains
+* (bug 3493) Mark edits patrolled when they are reverted
+  patch by Leon Planken
+* Removed experimental Amethyst skin from default set
+* Upgrade old skin preferences properly at Special:Preferences
+  (used to spontaneously switch to Classic skin for old numeric pref records)
+* (bug 3424) Update page_touched for category members on category page creation
+* Log views show message when no matches
+* Fix raw sitenotice display on database error
+* Fix autoconfirm check for old accounts
+* (bug 4368) Don't show useless empty preview on new section creation
+* Don't show useless empty preview on new page creation
+* (bug 4411) Fix messages diff link for classic skin
+* (bug 4385) Separate parser cache entries for non-editing users, so section
+  edit links don't vanish / appear unwanted on protected pages
+* (bug 2726, 3397) Fix [[Special:]] and [[:Image]] links in action=render
+* (bug 4419) Remove obsolete magnify.png.old
+* Removed $wgUseCategoryMagic option, categories are now enabled unconditionally
+* (bug 3318) UI workarounds for disabled items in license selector
+  MSIE/Win: items now grayed out, JS will revert to 'non selected' if clicked
+  Safari: JS will revert to 'non selected' if clicked (but not gray)
+  MSIE/Mac: indented items now visible (JS hack)
+* (bug 714) "plainlinks" class issues in IE, Opera
+* (bug 4317) Inconsistent "broken redirects" messages
+* Default interface text for "selflinks" tweaked
+* (bug 3194) default implementation of translateBlockExpiry
+  which uses ipboptions
+* (bug 4446) $wgExportAllowHistory option to explicitly disable history in
+  Special:Export form, 'exportnohistory' message to translate live hack.
+* Maintenance script to delete unused user accounts
+* (bug 912) Search box easier to reach in text browsers (lynx, links)
+* $wgParserCacheExpireTime added
+* Skip loading of RecentChange.php except where needed
+* Enforce $wgSVGMaxSize when rendering, even for SVGs with a very large source 
+  size. This is necessary to limit server memory usage.
+* Cleanup and error checking on Special:Listredirects
+* Clear up some instances of old OutputPage::sysopRequired() function usage
+* Improve "upload disabled" notice
+* Move parts of index.php to include/Wiki.php in an attempt to both cleanup index.php 
+  and create a MediaWiki-class mediaWiki base object
+* (bug 4104) Added OutputPageBeforeHTML hook for tweaking primary wiki output
+  HTML on final output (cached or not)
+* Avoid PHP notice on command-line scripts if empty argument is passed ('')
+* (bug 4571) Partial fix hack for {{fulllurl:}} in action=render
+* (bug 3502) Bowtie symbol for TeX
+* (bug 4000) Support for \textstyle et al. in <math>
+* (bug 1663) support color in TeX formulas
+* (bug 2026) missing glue around \not= (TeX)
+* (bug 4576) Missing '>' broke license selector's first option in IE, Opera
+* Override $wgLocaltimezone in parser tests for us outside Iceland and UK
+* Fix extra whitespace at end of Wiki.php, DESTROYS XML OUTPUT
+* Remove redundant 'echo' statements from MonoBook.php
+* (bug 1103) Fix up redirect handling for images, categories
+  Redirects are now followed from the top-level, outside of the Article
+  content loading and viewing, for clarity and consistency.
+* (bug 4104) 'OutputPageBeforeHTML' hook to postprocess article HTML on
+  page view (comes after parser cache, if used). Patch by ThomasV.
+* Linker::formatComment corrupted the passed title object on PHP 5
+  if the comment included a section link. Use clone() to make a safe copy.
+* Add wfClone() wrapper since we're still using PHP 4 on some servers.
+* Remove obsolete killthread.php
+* Added wfDie() wrapper, and some manual die(-1), to force the return code
+  to the shell to return nonzero when we crap out with an error.
+* Allow input of the stub from a compressed file instead of stdin
+  for dumpTextPass.php; easier to get errors back on the shell
+* Added an attractive space on the namespace selector on contribs
+* Move PHP 5-friendly XHTML doctype hack to Sanitizer, use for sig checks.
+  Fixes use of named entities in sigs on PHP 5
+* (bug 4482) Include move comment on the null edit as well as the redirect
+* (bug 3990) Use existing session name if session.auto_start is on
+  Fixes checks for open sessions, such as the cookie warning on login.
+  Patch by Zbigniew Braniecki.
+* Add cache-safe alternate sitenotice for anonymous users. (MediaWiki:Anonnotice)
+  This is displayed instead of the regular sitenotice, if it exists. If not, the
+  regular sitenotice shows. If that doesn't exist, the value of $wgSiteNotice is used,
+  and if that's null, then nothing is shown.
+* Spit the generated LocalSettings code out during the installer as an aid
+  to debugging issues. (Keep this?)
+* Use __FILE__ to form path in new LocalSettings.php, so it stays accurate
+  when the directory is relocated for typical usage.
+* Auto-update $wgCacheEpoch when LocalSettings.php changes on new installs.
+  For typical usage this will be a light burden and should reduce confusion
+  when the configuration is edited.
+* Fix $wgCacheEpoch's effect on client-side caching.
+* (bug 1122) gray out 'older revision' when viewing first article revision.
+* Clearer message in DefaultSettings.php: edit LocalSettings.php instead
+* MonoBook skin top link id changed from "contentTop" to "top" (shared with
+  name attribute)
+* (bug 3350) Missing label for move talk page checkbox.
+* (bug 2108) Sort entries when using category browser
+* (bug 2393) Fix MIME type for Atom feeds ( application/rss+atom )
+* Add ".deps.php" include-file preloaders for some dynamically-loaded
+  language and skin classes. Should help with the broken base-class
+  problem under PHP 5 with APC as opcode cache. See details:
+  http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2006-January/033660.html
+* Small changes to tabs in Monobook skin c/o Chris Ware
+* (bug 4679) Work around buggy basename() function in PHP5, which breaks
+  uploads of files starting with multibyte characters on Linux.
+  wfBaseName() doesn't suffer this bug, and understands backslash on
+  both Unix and Windows.
+* (bug 3603) headscripts variable not hooked up to MonoBook skin
+* Allow local cdb-based interwiki cache
+* Use the "block", not the "protect" permission, when determining whether to
+  show a "block user" link in the toolbox
+* Fix backup dump text prefetch for XMLReader constant changes in PHP 5.1
+* Suppress useless percentage indicator on output from 7za during dumps
+* (bug 4633) Add (previous 200) (next 200) also above catlinks
+* (bug 4686) Fix regression where ?diff=0&oldid=0 caused fatal error on
+  pages with only one revision. Fixes message diff link on first edit.
+* Fix dependence on hardcoded UNIQ_PREFIX in LanguageConverter.php
+* Do not check lag on external storage servers
+* Do not tidy interface messages (unless full tidy is set)
+* Do not trust equality propagation and give more hints to MySQL
+  optimizer for revision fetches (avoids index scans)
+* Use revision rate for ETA in dump generation; it tends to be more stable
+  than the per-page count for full-history dumps.
+* Include timestamp in wfDebugLog breakouts
+* (bug 4469) Namespace-specific notice to be displayed below site-notice
+  Edit messages like "MediaWiki:Namespacenotice-" plus namespace name
+  which is blank for main namespace, or like e.g. "User_talk"
+* Adjust user login/creation form hooks to work with a captcha plugin
+* (bug 1284) Inline styles for diffs in Recent Changes RSS/Atom feeds
+* (bug 4824) IE7 beta 2 broke compatibility with PNG logo workarounds,
+  and seems to work ok with other bits. No longer including the IE
+  workarounds JavaScript for IE 7 and above.
+* Fix extra namespace for Bulgarian
+* (bug 4303) Add $wgFavicon to change the shorticon icon link from
+  the default /favicon.ico or disable it (if set to false)
+* (bug 3347) strip linebreaks in math error source
+* (bug 4841) Warning for non-logged-in edits
+* (bug 4867) Leave invalid EXIF date fields unformatted instead of
+  showing a bogus current timestamp
+* Reset $wgActionPaths during parser test; corrects some false failures
+  in the automated test report.
+* (bug 4875) Define a div containing the shared image description
+* (bug 4860) Expose Title->userCan() as Hooks
+* (bug 4828) Fix genitive month-name variable for cs, pl, uk
+* (bug 4842) Fix 'show number of watching users' with enhanced RC
+* (bug 4889) Fix image talk namespace for Tamil
+* (bug 4147) Added cleanupWatchlist.php to clear out bogus watchlist entries
+* (partial bug 3456) Disable auto redirect to Main Page after account creation
+* (bug 4824) Separate out IE7 CSS compat hacks, fix for RTL pages
+* Added support for wikidiff2 and similar external diff engines.
+* Allow cookies to be shared between multiple wikis with a shared user database
+* Blocking some Unicode whitespace characters in usernames. Should check
+  if some or all should be blocked from all page titles.
+* Unknown log types no longer throw notices everywhere in RecentChanges
+* (bug 4502, 5017) Don't render potentially hostile deleted page contents
+  on Special:Undelete by default; show source, with an optional preview.
+  The revisions list no longer shows the latest text by default, so it can
+  still be operated if the text is hostile.
+* (bug 5013) Check for existence on "return to" links
+* Removed trailing whitespace on a bunch more messages.
+* Fix missing bad title check in Special:Booksources
+* Remove empty booksources string in fy
+* Avoid corrupting <gallery> inside <!-- comment -->
+* Remove legacy PHPTal code, hasn't been maintained in ages.
+* Tweak Userlogin include order for APC issue
+* Don't try to link to current page on protection tab
+* More exact checking in Title::equals() to fox moves of numerically similar
+  page titles. (Odd hex title bug on 64-bit.)
+* Fix explicit s-maxage=0 on raw pages; should help with proxy issues in
+  generated stylesheets... hopefully...
+* (bug 4685) More fixes for Slovenian project namespace
+* Fixed and enhanced a little the Live Preview, which had been broken for some time
+* Added article size limit, $wgMaxArticleSize
+* (bug 4974) Don't follow redirected talk page on "new messages" link
+* (bug 4970) Make category paging limits configurable
+* (bug 4535) Warn user when editing CSS or JS subpage of a skin that doesn't exist
+* Make Live Preview an user preference, still controllable by the global variable
+* Rename the stub LanguageAls / LanguageGem_alsation to LanguageGsw to follow
+  updated language code assignments
+* (bug 5081) Remove bogus fix for invalid characters in links which simply
+  broke use of legitimate multiple whitespace characters in bracketed link.
+* (bug 4838) Add relative oldids (prev, next, cur) for raw pages
+  Patch by Lupin
+* (bug 5086) Force image resize dimensions on ImageMagick, as for instance
+  "-resize 100x35!"; some thumbs were off due to differences in rounding and
+  would be generated smaller than expected.
+* (bug 5062) Width sometimes one pixel short when using maximum heights
+* Purge thumbnails and metadata cache for action=purge on an image page
+* (bug 4273) Bounce back with a message when attempting to submit a new comment 
+  with an empty main textbox (user probably hit Enter in subject field)
+* (bug 5141) Gracefully handle the new account link when createaccount off
+* (bug 5150 and related) Fix missing ID attribute in HTML namespace selector
+* (bug 5152) Proper HTML escaping on subpage breadcrumbs
+* (bug 4855) Section edit links now have the section name in the title attribute.
+* (bug 2115) Support shift-selecting multiple checkboxes with JavaScript.
+* (bug 5161) Don't try to load template list for nonexistent pages
+* (bug 5228) Workaround for broken LanguageConverter title overrides; avoid
+  unnecessary hidden UI work when watch/unwatch is performed on edit
+* Fixed bogus master fallback in external storage
+* (bug 5246) Add speak:none to "hiddenStructure" class in main.css
+* Further work on rev_deleted; changed to a bitfield with several data-hiding
+  options. Not yet ready for production use; Special:Revisiondelete is
+  incomplete, and the flags are not preserved across page deletion/undeletion.
+  To try it; add the 'deleterevision' permission to a privileged group.
+* (bug 5270) Fix broken linktrail for br, cv, fr, hr, nn, oc, ta, wa
+* Add a clickable contribs link in user tool links (rc, watchlist, diff view)
+  to see how people like it. (There was one in the old hacked-up diff view.)
+* (bug 5236) Load wikibits.js before site-customized javascript
+* (bug 4119) Workaround for <nowiki> following link in Walloon; remove capitals
+  from linktrail, as they're not used anywhere else.
+* (bug 4781) Output links with the percent-encoding they're supplied with;
+  save the normalization for internal link storage. The normalization is a bit
+  buggy and can make incorrect foldings in the query string and such, so isn't
+  reliable beyond the hostname where it's used for the spam bulk checker.
+* Don't URL-decode in the title attribute for URL links; it can produce false
+  results that don't code back to their original values.
+* (bug 4611) Add user preference (default on) to add new pages to creators's watchlist
+* (bug 5286) Fix regression in display of missing/bad revision IDs
+* (bug 4729) Add user preference that marks a user's edits as patrolled if user is able to
+* (bug 4630) Add user preference to prompt users when entering blank edit summaries
+* Added optional suggest feature for the search box. Set wgUseAjax to true to
+  enable it.
+* (bug 5277) Use audio/midi rather that audio/mid
+* (bug 5410) Use namespace name when a custom namespace's nstab-NS message is nonexistent
+* (bug 5432) Fix inconsistencies in cookie names when using table prefixes
+* Additional protections against HTML breakage in table parsing
+* (bug 5355) Include skin name and style JS settings in page source;
+  fixes regression where Opera 6/7 and KHTML CSS fixes weren't applied
+  when wikibits.js was moved up before user JS inclusion.
+* Added $wgColorErrors: if set, database error messages will be highlighted
+  when running command-line scripts in a Unix terminal.
+* (bug 5195) rebuildrecentchanges.php works again; Database::insertSelect now
+  has a parameter for select options.
+* Fix updateSearchIndex.php for new schema
+* Fix bogus "filename too short" error when uploading files with a period in the base
+  name, e.g. "Mr. Zee.png"
+* (bug 2139) Show page title in subtitle when viewing "read only" page
+* (bug 5452) Update language name for Cree
+
+
+
+----
+
+== MediaWiki 1.5.8 ==
+
+March 26, 2006
+
+MediaWiki 1.5.8 is a security and bugfix maintenance release.
+
+A bug in decoding of certain encoded links could allow injection of raw
+HTML into page output; this could potentially lead to XSS attacks.
+
+Some minor UI fixes were also made, see the change log at the bottom of
+this file.
+
+
+== MediaWiki 1.5.7 ==
+
+March 2, 2006
+
+MediaWiki 1.5.7 is a bugfix maintenance release.
+
+Most importantly, a security issue in the installer has been fixed. The bug 
+affects new installations of 1.5.6 only. If the user specified the MySQL root 
+password, to allow the installer to create an unprivileged account, the 
+installer would not only create the new account but also change the root 
+password to be equal to the password of the new account. 
+
+Anyone affected by this bug will need to change the root password back 
+manually. For information about how to change passwords in MySQL please see:
+http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/passwords.html
+
+This version includes fixes for compatibility with Internet Explorer 7
+beta 2, and various other bugs; see the full changelog at the end of
+the release notes.
+
+
+== MediaWiki 1.5.6 ==
+
+January 19, 2006
+
+MediaWiki 1.5.6 is a security and bugfix maintenance release.
+
+A bug in edit comment formatting could send PHP into an infinite loop
+if certain malformed links were included. In most installations, this
+would cause the script to fail after PHP's 30-second failsafe timeout.
+
+Some improvements have been made to the installer which should make
+installation possible on a system with a broken MySQL "root" account.
+
+For several other minor fixes, see the complete changelog at the end
+of this file.
+
+
+== MediaWiki 1.5.5 ==
+
+January 5, 2006
+
+MediaWiki 1.5.5 is a security and bugfix maintenance release.
+
+Detection for uploads of Windows Metafile (.wmf) images has been added
+to help protect against a client-side vulnerability in unpatched Microsoft
+Windows operating systems.
+
+Sites which have enabled uploads and added non-standard file types
+(such as .ogg, .doc, or .pdf) should upgrade to this release to ensure
+that malicious .wmf files can't be uploaded with a fake extension;
+such files could put visitors to the site at risk.
+
+For more details on this, see:
+http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Metafile_vulnerability
+
+Additionally, a maintenance script removeUnusedAccounts.php has been added;
+this replaces an older Perl script which had not been updated for the new
+schema in 1.5.
+
+
+== MediaWiki 1.5.4 ==
+
+December 21, 2005
+
+MediaWiki 1.5.4 is a security and bugfix maintenance release.
+
+A hardcoded internal placeholder string has been replaced with a random
+one. This closes a hole where security checks in inline style attributes
+could be bypassed, injecting JavaScript code that could execute in
+Microsoft Internet Explorer.
+
+Other browsers would not be vulnerable.
+
+Several minor fixes are included in this release, most notably a fix
+to clear the "you have new messages" flag properly for usernames
+containing spaces when e-mail notification is enabled.
+
+See the changelog at the end of the release notes for a full list of
+fixes.
+
+
+== MediaWiki 1.5.3 ==
+
+December 4, 2005
+
+MediaWiki 1.5.3 is a security and bugfix maintenance release.
+
+Validation of the user language option was broken by a code change in
+May 2005, opening the possibility of remote code execution as this
+parameter is used in forming a class name dynamically created with
+eval().
+
+The validation has been corrected in this version. All prior 1.5 release
+and prelease versions are affected; 1.4 and earlier and not affected.
+
+Additionally several bugs have been fixed; see the changelog later in
+this file for a complete list.
+
+
+== MediaWiki 1.5.2 ==
+
+November 2, 2005
+
+MediaWiki 1.5.2 is a bugfix maintenance release.
+
+A change in PHP 4.4.1 and PHP 5.1.0RC broke handling of extension and
+<pre> sections, causing garbage data to be inserted in output and saved
+edits. This version works around the change.
+
+Several other glitches with MySQL 5.0 and PHP 5.0.5 were also fixed;
+see the change log below for a complete list.
+
+
+== MediaWiki 1.5.1 ==
+
+October 26, 2005
+
+MediaWiki 1.5.1 is a bugfix and security maintenance release, and is a
+recommended upgrade for all installations.
+
+This release includes further corrections to the inline CSS style sanitation
+which works around a JavaScript "feature" on Microsoft Internet Explorer.
+Users of Microsoft Internet Explorer for Windows may be vulnerable to
+XSS injections on prior versions; users of standards-compliant browsers
+are not vulnerable.
+
+Major fixes include:
+* Image pages work again with resizing disabled
+* Works in MySQL 5.0 strict mode
+
+There is experimental support in this release for explicitly declaring
+the UTF-8 charset in the database; this has been tested with MySQL 5.0.15
+but should work on 4.1 as well.
+
+IMPORTANT: Changing this setting on an existing wiki may produce interesting
+data corruption, depending on server configuration. Page contents should,
+usually, be unaffected, but page titles and other items may be. Limitations
+in MySQL's Unicode support mean that characters outside the BMP cannot be used
+in page titles or various other fields when using this mode.
+
+Table definitions are in maintenance/mysql5/tables.sql, and the runtime
+option to send 'SET NAMES utf8' is set by $wgDBmysql5 = true.
+
+(MySQL 3.23.x and 4.0.x do not support character set declarations; on these
+versions MediaWiki simply works with UTF-8 data and MySQL is blissfully
+unaware of it.)
+
+
+
+== MediaWiki 1.5.0 final ==
+
+October 5, 2005
+
+MediaWiki 1.5.0 is the new stable release branch of MediaWiki, and is
+recommended for all new installations.
+
+Any wikis running a 1.5 beta or release candidate are strongly recommended
+to upgrade to the final release, which includes a number of bug fixes and
+a security fix for CSS bugs in Microsoft Internet Explorer.
+
+IMPORTANT: Running a 1.3 or 1.4 wiki and don't want to jump to 1.5 yet?
+Be sure to upgrade to 1.3.17 or 1.4.11, also released today. Versions
+prior to 1.3.16 and 1.4.10 have a serious data corruption bug which is
+triggered by a spambot known to operate in the wild.
+
+
+=== What's new in 1.5? ===
+
+Schema:
+  The core table schema has changed significantly. This should make better
+  use of the database's cache and disk I/O, and make significantly speed up
+  rename and delete operations on pages with very long edit histories.
+  
+  Unfortunately this does mean upgrading a wiki of size from 1.4 will require
+  some downtime for the schema restructuring, but future storage backend
+  changes should be able to integrate into the new system more easily.
+
+Permalinks:
+  The current revision of a page now has a permanent 'oldid' number assigned
+  immediately, and the id numbers are now preserved across deletion/undeletion.
+  A permanent reference to the current revision of a page is now just a matter
+  of going to the 'history' tab and copying the first link in the list.
+
+Page move log:
+  Renames of pages are now recorded in Special:Log and the page history.
+  A handy revert link is available from the log for sysops.
+
+Editing diff:
+  Ever lost track of what you'd done so far during an edit? A 'Show diff'
+  button on the edit page now makes it easy to remember.
+
+Uploads:
+  It's now possible to specify the final filename of an upload distinct
+  from the original filename on your disk.
+  
+  An image link for a missing file will now take you straight to the upload page.
+  
+  More metadata is pre-extracted from uploaded images, which will ease pressure
+  on disk or NFS volumes used to store images. EXIF metadata is displayed on
+  the image description page if PHP is configured with the necessary module.
+  
+  If .svg files are added to the upload whitelist, you can choose to render
+  them to rasterized .png images for inline display using one of several
+  external helper programs. See DefaultSettings.php for SVG options.
+
+User accounts:
+  There are some changes to the user permissions system, with assignable
+  groups. Note that this does *not* allow you to make pages which are only
+  accessible to certain groups.
+  
+  For details see: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:User_rights
+
+E-mail:
+  User-to-user e-mail can now be restricted to require a mail-back confirmation
+  first to reduce potential for abuse with false addresses.
+  
+  Updates to user talk pages and watchlist entries can optionally send e-mail
+  notifications.
+
+External hooks:
+  A somewhat experimental interface for hooking in an external editor
+  application is included.
+
+And...
+  A bunch of stuff we forgot to mention.
+
+
+=== What's gone? ===
+
+Latin-1:
+  Wikis must now be encoded in Unicode UTF-8; this has been the default for
+  some time, but some languages could optionally be installed in Latin-1 mode.
+  This is no longer supported.
+  
+  You can check if your current wiki is in Latin-1 mode by using your browser's
+  "view source"; look for a line like this:
+  
+    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
+  
+  If it says charset=utf-8, you're ready. If it says charset=iso8859-1,
+  you may need to convert your data. (English-language wikis avoiding
+  any accented characters may be able to get away without conversion.)
+
+MySQL 3.x:
+  Some optimization hacks for MySQL 3.x have been removed as part of the schema
+  clean-up (specifically, the inverse_timestamp fields).
+  
+  MediaWiki 1.5 may still run on 3.x, but wikis of non-trivial size should
+  very seriously consider upgrading to a more modern release. MySQL 3.x support
+  will probably be entirely dropped in the next major release.
+
+Special:Maintenance
+  These tools were, ironically enough, not really maintained. This special
+  page has been removed; insofar as some of its pieces were useful and haven't
+  already been supplanted by other special pages they should be rewritten in
+  an efficient and safe manner in the future.
+
+
+=== Caveats ===
+
+Upgrade:
+  Wikis in Latin-1 encoding are no longer supported; only Unicode UTF-8.
+  A new option $wgLegacyEncoding is provided to allow on-the-fly recoding of
+  old page text entries, but other metadata fields (titles, comments etc) need
+  to be pre-converted. The standard upgrade process does not yet fully automate
+  this, but you can try the alternate partial-upgrader in upgrade1_5.php.
+  
+  The upgrade from 1.4 to 1.5 schema has not been tested for all cases, so
+  it's possible you may experience problems in some combinations.
+
+Backups:
+  The text entries of deleted pages are no longer removed from the main
+  text table on deletion. If you provide public backup dumps of your databases,
+  you will probably want to use the new XML-format dump generator, available
+  as maintenance/dumpBackup.php.
+  
+  For more information on how we run our own public data dumps at Wikimedia,
+  see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dumps
+
+PostgreSQL:
+  The table definitions for PostgreSQL install are out of date. PostgreSQL
+  support may return in later releases, pending appropriate patches.
+
+MySQL 4.1+:
+  Some users may encounter installation problems with MySQL 4.1 or higher
+  due to strange charset encoding / collation configurations. Try setting
+  to 'latin1' or 'utf8' if you encounter problems.
+
+
+
+== MediaWiki 1.5 release candidate 4 ==
+
+August 29, 2005
+
+MediaWiki 1.5rc4 is a preview release of the new 1.5 release series.
+It fixes compatibility with PHP 5.1, and corrects two cross-site scripting
+security bugs:
+
+* <math> tags were handled incorrectly when TeX rendering support is off,
+  as in the default configuration.
+* Extension or <nowiki> sections in Wiki table syntax could bypass HTML
+  style attribute restrictions for cross-site scripting attacks against
+  Microsoft Internet Explorer
+
+Wikis where the optional math support has been *enabled* are not vulnerable
+to the first, but are vulnerable to the second.
+
+
+
+== MediaWiki 1.5 release candidate 3 ==
+
+August 24, 2005
+
+MediaWiki 1.5rc3 is a preview release of the new 1.5 release series.
+It fixes several major problems in 1.5rc2:
+
+* Fixed a cross-site scripting injection in the search form
+  (broken since 1.5beta1)
+
+* Fixed upgrades from 1.4 database schema
+  (broken since 1.5rc2)
+
+1.3 and 1.4 releases are not vulnerable to the XSS bug, but anyone
+running an earlier 1.5 beta or release candidate should upgrade
+immediately.
+
+
+== MediaWiki 1.5 release candidate 2 ==
+
+August 23, 2005
+
+MediaWiki 1.5rc2 is a preview release of the new 1.5 release series.
+Numerous bug fixes since last beta, plus a security fix; see change
+log below for full details.
+
+A flaw in the interaction between extensions and HTML attribute
+sanitization was discovered which could allow unauthorized use
+of offsite resources in style sheets, and possible exploitation
+of a JavaScript injection feature on Microsoft Internet Explorer.
+
+This version expands the returned text and properly checks it
+before output.
+
+A 1.5rc1 release was mistakenly made from the incorrect source code
+branch; 1.5rc2 is identical to the actual 1.5rc1 in revision control
+except for version number.
+
+
+== 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
+
+MediaWiki 1.5 beta 3 is a preview release of the new 1.5 release
+series, with a security update over beta 2.
+
+Incorrect escaping of a parameter in the page move template could
+be used to inject JavaScript code by getting a victim to visit a
+maliciously constructed URL. Users of vulnerable releases are
+recommended to upgrade to this release.
+
+Vulnerable versions:
+* 1.5 preview series: n <= 1.5beta2 vulnerable, fixed in 1.5beta3
+* 1.4 stable series: 1.4beta6 <= n <= 1.4.5 vulnerable, fixed in 1.4.6
+* 1.3 legacy series: not vulnerable
+
+This release also includes several bug fixes and localization updates.
+See the changelog at the end of this file for a detailed list.
+
+
+
+== MediaWiki 1.5 beta 2 ==
+
+July 5, 2005
+
+MediaWiki 1.5 beta 2 is a preview release of the new 1.5 release series.
+While most exciting new bugs should have been ironed out at this point,
+third-party wiki operators should probably not run this beta release
+on a public site without closely following additional development.
+
+Anyone who _has_ been running beta 1 is very very strongly advised to
+upgrade to beta 2, as it fixes many bugs from the previous beta including
+a couple of HTML and SQL injections.
+
+This release should be followed by one or two release candidates and
+a 1.5.0 final within the next few weeks.
+
+Beta upgraders, note there are some minor database changes. For upgrades
+from 1.4, see the file UPGRADE for details on significant database and
+configuration file changes.
+
+Beta 2 includes a preliminary command-line XML wiki dump importer tool,
+maintenance/importDump.php, paired with maintenance/dumpBackup.php.
+These use the same format as Special:Export and Special:Import, able
+to package a wiki's entire page set independent of the backend database
+and compression format.
+
+
+== MediaWiki 1.5 beta 1 ==
+
+June 26, 2005
+
+MediaWiki 1.5 beta 1 is a preview release, pretty much feature complete,
+of the new 1.5 release series. There are several known and likely a number
+of unknown bugs; it is not recommended to use this release in a production
+environment but would be recommended for testing in mind of an upcoming
+deployment.
+
+A number of significant changes have been made since the alpha releases,
+including database changes and a reworking of the user permissions settings.
+See the file UPGRADE for details of upgrading and changing your prior
+configuration settings for the new system.
+
+
+
+== MediaWiki 1.5 alpha 2 ==
+
+June 3, 2005
+
+MediaWiki 1.5 alpha 2 includes a lot of bug fixes, feature merges,
+and a security update.
+
+Incorrect handling of page template inclusions made it possible to
+inject JavaScript code into HTML attributes, which could lead to
+cross-site scripting attacks on a publicly editable wiki.
+
+Vulnerable releases and fix:
+* 1.5 prerelease: fixed in 1.5alpha2
+* 1.4 stable series: fixed in 1.4.5
+* 1.3 legacy series: fixed in 1.3.13
+* 1.2 series no longer supported; upgrade to 1.4.5 strongly recommended
+
+
+== MediaWiki 1.5 alpha 1 ==
+
+May 3, 2005
+
+This is a testing preview release, being put out mainly to aid testers in
+finding installation bugs and other major problems. It is strongly recommended
+NOT to run a live production web site on this alpha release.
+
+**  WARNING: USE OF THIS ALPHA RELEASE MAY INFEST YOUR HOUSE WITH  **
+**  TERMITES, ROT YOUR TEETH,  GROW HAIR ON YOUR PALMS, AND PASTE  **
+**  INNUENDO  INTO  YOUR  C.V.  RIGHT  BEFORE  A  JOB  INTERVIEW!  **
+**  DON'T SAY WE DIDN'T WARN YOU, MAN. WE TOTALLY DID RIGHT HERE.  **
+
+
+=== Smaller changes since 1.4 ===
+
+Various bugfixes, small features, and a few experimental things:
+
+* 'live preview' reduces preview reload burden on supported browsers
+* support for external editors for files and wiki pages:
+  http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:External_editors
+* Schema reworking: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposed_Database_Schema_Changes/October_2004
+* (bug 15) Allow editors to view diff of their change before actually submitting an edit
+* (bug 190) Hide your own edits on the watchlist
+* (bug 510): Special:Randompage now works for other namespaces than NS_MAIN.
+* (bug 1015) support for the full wikisyntax in <gallery> captions.
+* (bug 1105) A "Destination filename" (save as) added to Special:Upload Upload.
+* (bug 1352) Images on description pages now get thumbnailed regardless of whether the thumbnail is larger than the original.
+* (bug 1662) A new magicword, {{CURRENTMONTHABBREV}} returns the abbreviation of the current month
+* (bug 1668) 'Date format' supported for other languages than English, see:
+  http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2005-March/028364.html
+* (bug 1739) A new magicword, {{REVISIONID}} give you the article or diff database
+  revision id, useful for proper citation.
+* (bug 1998) Updated the Russian translation.
+* (bug 2064) Configurable JavaScript mimetype with $wgJsMimeType
+* (bug 2084) Fixed a regular expression in includes/Title.php that was accepting invalid syntax like #REDIRECT [[foo] in redirects
+* It's now possible to invert the namespace selection at Special:Allpages and Special:Contributions
+* No longer using sorbs.net to check for open proxies by default.
+* What was $wgDisableUploads is now $wgEnableUploads, and should be set to true if one wishes to enable uploads.
+* Supplying a reason for a block is no longer mandatory
+* Language conversion support for category pages
+* $wgStyleSheetDirectory is no longer an alias for $wgStyleDirectory;
+* Special:Movepage can now take paramaters like Special:Movepage/Page_to_move
+  (used to just be able to take paramaters via a GET request like index.php?title=Special:Movepage&target=Page_to_move)
+* (bug 2151) The delete summary now includes editor name, if only one has edited the article.
+* (bug 2105) Fixed from argument to the PHP mail() function. A missing space could prevent sending mail with some versions of sendmail.
+* (bug 2228) Updated the Slovak translation
+* ...and more!
+
+
+=== Changes since 1.5alpha1 ===
+
+* (bug 73) Category sort key is set to file name when adding category to
+  file description from upload page (previously it would be set to
+  "Special:Upload", causing problems with category paging)
+* (bug 419) The contents of the navigation toolbar are now editable through
+  the MediaWiki namespace on the  MediaWiki:navbar page.
+* (bug 498) The Views heading in MonoBook.php is now localizable
+* (bug 898) The wiki can now do advanced sanity check on uploaded files
+  including virus checks using external programs.
+* (bug 1692) Fix margin on unwatch tab
+* (bug 1906) Generalize project namespace for Latin localization, update namespaces
+* (bug 1975) The name for Limburgish (li) changed from "Lèmburgs" to "Limburgs
+* (bug 2019) Wrapped the output of Special:Version in <div dir='ltr'> in order
+  to preserve the correct flow of text on RTL wikis.
+* (bug 2067) Fixed crash on empty quoted HTML attribute
+* (bug 2075) Corrected namespace definitions in Tamil localization
+* (bug 2079) Removed links to Special:Maintenance from movepagetext message
+* (bug 2094) Multiple use of a template produced wrong results in some cases
+* (bug 2095) Triple-closing-bracket thing partly fixed
+* (bug 2110) "noarticletext" should not display on Image page for "sharedupload" media
+* (bug 2150) Fix tab indexes on edit form
+* (bug 2152) Add missing bgcolor to attribute whitelist for <td> and <th>
+* (bug 2176) Section edit 'show changes' button works correctly now
+* (bug 2178) Use temp dir from environment in parser tests
+* (bug 2217) Negative ISO years were incorrectly converted to BC notation
+* (bug 2234) allow special chars in database passwords during install
+* Deprecated the {{msg:template}} syntax for referring to templates, {{msg: is
+  now the wikisyntax representation of wfMsgForContent()
+* Fix for reading incorrectly re-gzipped HistoryBlob entries
+* HistoryBlobStub: the last-used HistoryBlob is kept open to speed up
+  multiple-revision pulls
+* Add $wgLegacySchemaConversion update-time option to reduce amount of
+  copying during the schema upgrade: creates HistoryBlobCurStub reference
+  records in text instead of copying all the cur_text fields. Requires
+  that the cur table be left in place until/unless such fields are migrated
+  into the main text store.
+* Special:Export now includes page, revision, and user id numbers by
+  default (previously this was disabled for no particular reason)
+* dumpBackup.php can dump the full database to Export XML, with current
+  revisions only or complete histories.
+* The group table was renamed to groups because "group" is a reserved word in
+  SQL which caused some inconveniances.
+* New fileicons for c, cpp, deb, dvi, exe, h, html, iso, java, mid, mov, o,
+  ogg, pdf, ps, rm, rpm, tar, tex, ttf and txt files based on the KDE
+  crystalsvg theme.
+* Fixed a bug in Special:Newimages that made it impossible to search for '0'
+* Added language variant support for Icelandic, now supports "Íslenzka"
+* The #p-nav id in MonoBook is now #p-navigation
+* Putting $4 in msg:userstatstext will now give the percentage of
+  admnistrators out of normal users.
+* links and brokenlinks tables merged to pagelinks; this will reduce pain
+  dealing with moves and deletes of widely-linked pages.
+* Add validate table and val_ip column through the updater.
+* Simple rate limiter for edits and page moves; set $wgRateLimits
+  (somewhat experimental; currently needs memcached)
+* (bug 2262) Hide math preferences when TeX is not enabled
+* (bug 2267) Don't generate thumbnail at the same size as the source image.
+* Fix rebuildtextindex.inc for new schema
+* Remove linkscc table code, no longer used.
+* (bug 2271) Use faster text-only link replacement in image alt text
+  instead of rerunning expensive link lookup and HTML generation.
+* Only build the HTML attribute whitelist tree once.
+* Replace wfMungeToUtf8 and do_html_entity_decode with a single function
+  that does both numeric and named chars: Sanitizer::decodeCharReferences
+* Removed some obsolete UTF-8 converter functions
+* Fix function comment in debug dump of SQL statements
+* (bug 2275) Update search index more or less right on page move
+* (bug 2053) Move comment whitespace trimming from edit page to save;
+  leaves the whitespace from the section comment there on preview.
+* (bug 2274) Respect stub threshold in category page list
+* (bug 2173) Fatal error when removing an article with an empty title from the watchlist
+* Removed -f parameter from mail() usage, likely to cause failures and bounces.
+* (bug 2130) Fixed interwiki links with fragments
+* (bug 684) Accept an attribute parameter array on parser hook tags
+* (bug 814) Integrate AuthPlugin changes to support Ryan Lane's external
+  LDAP authentication plugin
+* (bug 2034) Armor HTML attributes against template inclusion and links munging
+
+=== Changes since 1.5alpha2 ===
+
+* (bug 2319) Fix parse hook tag matching
+* (bug 2329) Fix title formatting in several special pages
+* (bug 2223) Add unique index on user_name field to prevent duplicate accounts
+* (bug 1976) fix shared user database with a table prefix set
+* (bug 2334) Accept null for attribs in wfElement without PHP warning
+* (bug 2309) Allow templates and template parameters in HTML attribute zone,
+  with proper validation checks. (regression from fix for 2304)
+* Disallow close tags and enforce empty tags for <hr> and <br>
+* Changed user_groups format quite a bit.
+* (bug 2368) Avoid fatally breaking PHP 4.1.2 in a debug line
+* (bug 2367) Insert correct redirect link record on page move
+* (bug 2372) Fix rendering of empty-title inline interwiki links
+* (bug 2384) Fix typo in regex for IP address checking
+* (bug 650) Prominently link MySQL 4.1 help page in installer if a possible
+  version conflict is detected
+* (bug 2394) Undo incompatible breakage to {{msg:}} compatiblity includes
+* (bug 1322) Use a shorter cl_sortkey field to avoid breaking on MySQL 4.1
+  when the default charset is set to utf8
+* (bug 2400) don't send confirmation mail on account creation if 
+  $wgEmailAuthentication is false.
+* (bug 2172) Fix problem with nowiki beeing replaced by marker strings
+  when a template with a gallery was used.
+* Guard Special:Userrights against form submission forgery
+* (bug 2408) page_is_new was inverted (whoops!)
+* Added wfMsgHtml() function for escaping messages and leaving params intact
+* Fix ordering of Special:Listusers; fix groups list so it shows all groups
+  when searching for a specific group and can't be split across pages
+* (bug 1702) Display a handy upload link instead of a useless blank link
+  for [[media:]] links to nonexistent files.
+* (bug 873) Fix usage of createaccount permission; replaces $wgWhitelistAccount
+* (bug 1805) Initialise $wgContLang before $wgUser
+* (bug 2277) Added Friulian language file
+* (bug 2457) The "Special page" href now links to the current special page
+  rather than to "".
+* (bug 1120) Updated the Czech translation
+* A new magic word, {{SCRIPTPATH}}, returns $wgScriptPath
+* A new magic word, {{SERVERNAME}}, returns $wgServerName
+* A new magic word, {{NUMBEROFFILES}}, returns the number of rows in the image table
+* Special:Imagelist displays titles with " " instead of "_"
+* Less gratuitous munging of content sample in delete summary
+* badaccess/badaccesstext to supercede sysop*, developer* messages
+* Changed $wgGroupPermissions to more cut-n-paste-friendly format
+* 'developer' group deprecated by default
+* Special:Upload now uses 'upload' permission instead of hardcoding login check
+* Add 'importupload' permission to disable direct uploads to Special:Import
+* (bug 2459) Correct escaping in Special:Log prev/next links
+* (bug 2462 etc) Taking out the experimental dash conversion; it broke too many
+  things for the current parser to handle cleanly
+* (bug 2467) Added a Turkish language file
+* Fixed a bug in Special:Contributions that caused the namespace selection to
+  be forgotten between submits
+* Special:Watchlist/edit now has namespace subheadings
+* (bug 1714) the "Save page" button now has right margin to seperate it from
+  "Show preview" and "Show changes"
+* Special:Statistics now supports action=raw, useful for bots designed to
+  harwest e.g. article counts from multiple wikis.
+* The copyright confirmation box at Special:Upload is now turned off by default
+  and can be turned back on by setting $wgCopyrightAffirmation to a true value.
+* Restored prior text for password reminder button and e-mail, replacing
+  the factually inaccurate text that was there.
+* (bug 2178) Fix temp dir check again
+* (bug 2488) Format 'deletedtext' message as wikitext
+* (bug 750) Keep line endings consistent in LocalSettings.php
+* (bug 1577) Add 'printable version' tab in MonoBook for people who don't
+  realize you can just hit print to get a nicely formatted printable page.
+* Trim whitespace from option values to weather line-ending corruption problems
+* Fixed a typo in the Romanian language file (NS_MESIA => NS_MEDIA)
+* (bug 2504) Updated the Finnish translation
+* (bug 2506, 2512) Updated the Nynorsk translation
+* (bug 996) Replace $wgWhitelistEdit with 'edit' permission; fixup UPGRADE
+  documentation about edit and read whitelists.
+* (bug 2515) Fix incremental link table update
+* Removed some wikipedia-specifica from LanguageXx.php's
+* (bug 2496) Allow MediaWiki:edithelppage to point to external page
+* Added a versionRequired() function to OutputPage, useful for extension
+  writers that want to control what version of MediaWiki their extension
+  can be used with.
+* Serialized user objects now checked for versioning
+* Fix for interwiki link regression
+* Printable link shorter in monobook
+* Experimental Latin-1-and-replication-friendly upgrader script
+* (bug 2520) Don't show enotif options when disabled
+
+== Changes since 1.5beta1 ==
+
+* (bug 2531) Changed the interwiki name for sh (Serbocroatian) to
+  Srpskohrvatski/Српскохрватски (was Српскохрватски (Srbskohrvatski))
+* Nonzero return code for command-line scripts on wfDebugDieBacktrace()
+* Conversion fix for empty old table in upgrade1_5.php
+* Try reading revisions from master if no result on slave
+* (bug 2538) Suppress notice on user serialized checks
+* Fix paging on Special:Contributions
+* (bug 2541) Fix unprotect tab
+* (bug 1242) category list now show on edit page
+* Skip sidebar entries where link text is '-'
+* Convert non-UTF-8 URL parameters even if referer is local
+* (bug 2460) <img> width & height properly filled when resizing image
+* (bug 2273) deletion log comment used user interface langage
+* Try reading revision _text_ from master if no result on slave
+* Use content-language message cache for raw view of message pages
+* (bug 2530) Not displaying talk pages on Special:Watchlist/edit
+* Fixed a bug that would occour if $wgCapitalLinks was set to false, a user
+  agent could create a username that began with a lower case letter that was
+  not in the ASCII character set ( now user $wgContLang->ucfirst() instead of
+  PHP ucfirst() )
+* Moved the user name / password validity checking from
+  LoginForm::addNewAccountInternal() to two new functions,
+  User::isValidUserName() and User::isValidPassword(), extensions can now do
+  these checks without rewriting code.
+* Fix $wgSiteNotice when MediaWiki:Sitenotice is set to default '-'
+* Fixed a bug where the watchlist count without talk pages would be off by a
+  factor of two.
+* upgrade1_5.php uses insert ignore, allows to skip image info initialization
+* Fix namespaces in category list.
+* Add rebuildImages.php to update image metadata fields
+* Special:Ancientpages is expensive in new schema for now
+* (bug 2568) Fixed a logic error in the Special:Statistics code which caused
+  the displayed percentage of admins to be totally off.
+* (bug 2560) Don't show blank width/height attributes for missing size
+* Don't show bogus messages about watchlist notifications when disabled
+* Don't show old debug messages in watchlist
+* (bug 2576) Fix recording of transclusion links
+* (bug 2577) Allow sysops to enter non-standard block times
+* Fixed a bug where Special:Contributions wouldn't remember the 'invert'
+  status between next/previous buttons.
+* Move MonoBook printable link from tab to sidebar
+* (bug 2567) Fix HTML escaping on category titles in list
+* (bug 2562) Show rollback link for current revisions on diff pages
+* (bug 2583) Add --missinig option on rebuildImages.php to add db entries
+  for uploaded files that don't have them
+* (bug 2572) Fix edit conflict handling
+* (bug 2595) Show "Earlier" and "Latest" links on history go to the first/last
+  page in the article history pager.
+* Don't show empty-page text in 'Show changes' on new page
+* (bug 2591) Check for end, fix limits on Whatlinkshere
+* (bug 2584) Fix output of subcategory list
+* (bug 2597) Don't crash when undeleting an image description page
+* (bug 2564) Don't show "editingold" warning for recent revision
+* Various code cleanup and HTML escaping fixlets
+* Copy IRC-over-UDP update option from REL1_4
+* (bug 2548) Keep summary on 'show changes' of section edit
+* Move center on toc to title part to avoid breaking .toc style usage
+* HTML sanitizer: correct multiple attributes by keeping last, not first
+* (bug 2614) Fix section edit links on diff-to-current with oldid set
+  Also fix navigation links on current-with-oldid view.
+* (bug 2620) Return to prior behavior for some more things (such as
+  subpage parent links) on current-diff view.
+* (bug 2618) Fix regression from another fix; show initial preview for
+  categories only if the page does not exist.
+* (bug 2625) Keep group & user settings when paging in Listusers
+* (bug 2627) Fix regression: diff radio button initial selection
+* Copy fix for old search URLs with Lucene search plugin from REL1_4
+* (bug 619) Don't use incompatible diff3 executable on non-Linux systems.
+* (bug 2631) Fix Hebrew namespaces.
+* (bug 2630) Indicate no-longer-valid cached entries in BrokenRedirects list
+* (bug 2644, 2645) "cur" diff links in page history, watchlist and
+  recentchanges should specify current ID explicitly.
+* (bug 2609) Fix text justification preferenced with MonoBook skin.
+* (bug 2594) Display article tab as red for non-existent articles.
+* (bug 2656) Fix regression: prevent blocked users from reverting images
+* (bug 2629) Automatically capitalize usernames again instead of
+  rejecting lowercase with a useless error message
+* (bug 2661) Fix link generation in contribs
+* Add support for &preload=Page_name (load text of an existing page into
+edit area) and &editintro=Page_name (load text of an existing page instead
+of MediaWiki:Newpagetext) to &action=edit, if page is new.
+* (bugs 2633, 2672, 2685, 2695) Fix Estonian, Portuguese, Italian, Finnish and
+  Spanish numeric formatting
+* Fixed Swedish numeric formatting
+* (bug 2658) Fix signature time, localtime to match timezone offset again
+* Files from shared repositories (e.g. commons) now display with their
+  image description pages when viewed on local wikis.
+* Restore compatibility namespace aliases for French Wikipedia
+* Fix diff order on Enhanced RC 'changes' link
+* (bug 2650) Fix national date type display on wikis that don't support
+  dynamic date conversion.
+* FiveUpgrade: large table hacks, install iw_trans update before links
+* (bug 2648) Rename namespaces in Afrikaanse
+* Special:Booksources checks if custom list page exists before using it
+* (bug 1170) Fixed linktrail for da: and ru:
+* (bug 2683) Really fix apostrophe escaping for toolbox tips
+* (bug 923) Fix title and subtitle for rclinked special page
+* (bug 2642) watchdetails message in several languages used  <a></a> instead of [ ]
+* (bug 2181) basic CSB language localisation by Tomasz G. Sienicki (thanks for the patch)
+* Fix correct use of escaping in edit toolbar bits
+* Removed language conversion support from Icelandic
+* (bug 2616) Fix proportional image scaling, giving correct height
+* (bug 2640) Include width and height attributes on unscaled images
+* Workaround for mysterious problem with bogus epoch If-Last-Modified reqs
+* (bug 1109) Suppress compressed output on 304 responses
+* (bug 2674) Include some site configuration info in export data:
+  namespaces definitions, case-sensitivity, site name, version.
+* Use xml:space="preserve" hint on export <text> elements
+* Make language variant selection work again for zh
+
+== Changes since 1.5beta2 ==
+
+* Escaped & correctly in Special:Contributions
+* (bug 2534) Hide edit sections with CSS to make right click to edit section work 
+* (bug 2708) Avoid undefined notice on cookieless login attempt
+* (bug 2188) Correct template namespace for Greek localization
+* Fixed number formatting for Dutch
+* (bug 1355) add class noprint to commonPrint.css
+* (bug 2350) Massive update for Limburgish (li) language using Wikipédia
+* Massive update for Arab (ar) language using Wikipédia
+* (bug 1560) Massive update for Kurdish (ku) language using Wikipédia
+* (bug 2709) Some messages were not read from database
+* (bug 2416) Don't allow search engine robots to index or follow nonexisting articles
+* Fix escaping in page move template.
+* (bug 153) Discrepancy between thumbnail size and <img> height attribute
+
+== Changes since 1.5beta3 ==
+
+* Fix talk page move handling
+* (bug 2721) New language file for Vietnamese with the Vietnamese number notation
+* (bug 2749) &nbsp; would appear as a literal in image galleries for Cs, Fr, Fur, Pl and Sv
+* (bug 787) external links being rendered when they only have one slash
+* Fixed a missing typecast in Language::dateFormat() that would cause some
+  interesting errors with signitures.
+* (bug 2764) Number format for Nds
+* (bug 1553) Stop forcing lowercase in Monobook skin for German language.
+* (bug 1064) Implements Special:Unusedcategories
+* (bug 2311) New language file for Macedonian
+* Fix nohistory message on empty page history
+* Fix fatal error in history when validation on
+* Cleaned up email notification message formatting
+* Finally fixed Special:Disambiguations that was broke since SCHEMA_WORK
+* (bug 2761) fix capitalization of "i" in Turkish
+* (bug 2789) memcached image metadata now cleared after deletion
+* Add serialized version number to image metadata cache records
+* (bug 2780) Fix thumbnail generation with GD for new image schema
+* (bug 2791) Slovene numeric format
+* (bug 655) Provide empty search form when searching for nothing
+* Nynorsk numeric format fix
+* (bug 2825) Fix regression in newtalk notifications for anons w/ enotif off
+* (bug 2833) Fix bug in previous fix
+* With $wgCapitalLinks off, accept off-by-first-letter-case in 'go' match
+* Optional parameters for [[Special:Listusers]]
+* (bug 2832) [[Special:Listadmins]] redirects to [[Special:Listusers/sysop]]
+* (bug 785) Parser did not get out of <pre> with list elements
+* Some shared upload fixes
+* (bug 2768) section=new on nonexistent talk page does not add heading
+* support preload= parameter for section=new
+* 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.
+* Undo inconsistent editing behavior change
+* (bug 2835) Back out fix for bug 2802, caused regressions in category sort
+* 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
+  inverse checkbox, use friendlier relative offsets in index build
+* Bring back "Chick" skin for mobile devices. It needs testing.
+* Fix spelling of $wgForwardSearchUrl in DefaultSettings.php
+* Specify USE INDEX on Allpages chunk queries, sometimes gets lost
+  due to bogus optimization
+* (bug 275) Section duplication fix
+* Remove unused use of undefined variable in UserMailer
+* 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 2911) Special:Watchlist allowed only one type of limit at a time
+* (bug 693) Special:Allmessages is excessively wide and redundant
+* (bug 3001) Updated and applied live hack for recentchanges-based watchlist
+* (bug 145) Finish 'exclude redirect' implementation in search form
+* Rearranged Special:Movepage form to reduce confusion between destination
+  title and reason input boxes
+* (bug 2527) Always set destination filename when new file is selected
+* (bug 3056) MySQL 3 compatibility fix: USE INDEX instead of FORCE INDEX
+* PHP 4.1 compatibility fix: don't use new_link parameter to mysql_connect
+  if running prior to 4.2.0 as it causes the call to fail
+* (bug 3117) Fix display of upload size and type with tidy on
+* (bug 1487) invalid html on empty list in banlist
+* (bug 3017) Hotkey conflict for delete and show changes
+* made pixel unit translateable and blocklistline now eats infiniteblock
+  and expiringblock
+* (bug 3092) Wrong numerical separator for big numbers in Serbian.
+* (bug 2855) Credit for a uniq author showed its realname even with
+  $wgAllowRealName=false.
+* New special page: SpecialMostlinked
+* (bug 2393) Fix MIME type for Atom feeds ( application/rss+atom )
+* Fix display of read-only lockfile message
+* Added a new hook, 'AddNewAccount', which is run after account creation
+* Update all stats fields on recount.sql
+* Include software-visible client IP address in Special:Version comment
+  as a proxy debugging aid
+* (bug 3162) Fix 'undefined property page_is_new' error on watchlist
+* (bug 1734) granting db permissions failed with db usernames containg '-'
+* (bug 3170) wikititlesuffix was removed, use pagetitle instead
+* (bug 3187) watchlist text refer to unexistent "Stop watching" action
+* (bug 3190) Added some date format choices for language sr
+* (bug 1334) LanguageGa.php update
+* (bug 1020) Changing user interface language does not work immediately
+* (bug 2753) Some namespaces were not translated in LanguageTa.php (Tamil)
+* (bug 3204) Fix typo breaking special pages in fy localization
+* (bug 3210) Fix Media: links with remote image URL path
+* (bug 3220) Fix escaping of block URLs in Recentchanges
+* (bug 3238): Updated LanguageNn.php for 1_5 branch
+* (bug 3192): properly check 'limit' parameter on Special:Contributions
+* (bug 3244) Fix remote image loading hack, JavaScript injection on MSIE
+* Fix URL sanitization in HTML attributes, which broke in this branch
+* (bug 3475) anon contrib links on Special:Newpages
+
+
+=== Changes since 1.5rc2 ===
+
+* Fix upgrade from 1.4 due to version number check breakage
+* Fix upgrade from 1.4 with no old revisions
+* (bug 2108) Sort entries when using category browser
+* XSS issue : now sanitize search query input
+
+
+=== Changes since 1.5rc3 ===
+
+* (bug 3280) Respect 'move' group permission on page moves
+* (bug 2885) More PHP 5.1 fixes: skin, search, log, undelete
+* Security fix for <math>
+* Security fix for tables
+
+
+=== Changes since 1.5rc4 ===
+
+* (bug 3292) Fix move-over-redirect test when current entries are not plaintext
+* (bug 2078) Don't hide watch tab on preview
+* (bug 3306) Document $wgLocalTZoffset
+* Support SVG rendering with rsvg
+* Cap arbitrary SVG renders to given image size or $wgSVGMaxSize pixels wide
+* (bug 3127) Render large SVGs at image page size correctly
+* (bug 3448) Set page_len on undelete
+* (bug 2800) Don't scale up small iamges on |thumb| without explicit size
+* Use the real file link instead of the default-size rasterized version for
+  large SVG images on image description page
+* Include the file name/type/size line for non-resized images
+* (bug 3412) Clean up date format handling so ~~~~-sigs work with default
+  format as designed. Documentation comments updated.
+* (bug 1423) LanguageJa.php update
+* (bug 3405) Don't use raw letters as aliases of MSGNW: and SUBST:
+* (bug 3485) Fix bogus warning about filename capitalization when off
+* (bug 2792) Update rebuildrecentchanges.inc for new schema
+* Special:Import/importDump fixes: report XML parse errors, accept <minor/>
+* (bug 3489) PHP 5.1 compat problem with captioned images
+* (bug 3350) Missing label for move talk page checkbox.
+* (bug 2570) Add 'watch this page' checkbox on uploads, watch uploads
+  by default when 'watchdefault' option is on
+* (bug 3182) Clear link cache during import to prevent memory leak
+* (bug 3573) Full Greek Translation
+* (bug 3595) Warn and abort if importDump.php called in read-only mode.
+* (bug 3598) Update message cache on message page deletion, patch by Tietew
+* Blacklist additional MSIE CSS safety tricks
+
+
+=== Changes since 1.5.0 ===
+
+* (bug 3629) Fix date & time format for Frisian
+* (bug 3641) Fix handling of unrecognized file uploads with known extensions
+* (bug 3643) Fix image page display of large images with resizing disabled
+* Fix meta robots tag on Special:Version again to avoid listing vulnerable
+  versions for convenient harvesting by automated worms
+* (bug 3684) Fix typo in fatal error backtraces in Hooks.php
+* Backport fix for reference usage notice in Special:Search on PHP 4.4.0
+* Backport database connect error display fix from HEAD
+* (bug 2773) Print style sheet no longer overrides RTL text direction
+* MonoBook skin top link id changed from "contentTop" to "top" (shared with
+  name attribute)
+* Wrap message page insertions in a transaction to speed up installation
+* Fix Special:MovePage invalid HTML attribute for reason textarea
+* Avoid notice warning on edit with no User-Agent header
+* (bug 3734) Swapped out obsolete recount.sql with initStats.php
+* (bug 3735) Fix to run under MySQL 5's strict mode
+* (bug 3786) Experimental support for MySQL 4.1/5.0 utf8 charset mode
+  NOTE: Enabling this may break existing wikis, and still doesn't
+  work for all Unicode characters due to MySQL limitations.
+* Sanitizer CSS comment processing order fix
+
+
+=== Changes since 1.5.1 ===
+
+* Fix Special:BrokenRedirects on MySQL 5.0
+* (bug 3809) Backport fix for detecting diff3 failure
+* MySQL 5.0 strict mode fix for moving unwatched pages
+* (bug 3782) Throw fatal installation warning if mbstring.func_overload on.
+  Why do people invent these crazy options that change language semantics?
+* (bug 3762) Define missing Special:Import UI messages
+* (bug 3771) Handle internal functions in backtrace in wfAbruptExit()
+* (bug 3649) Remove obsolete, broken moveCustomMessages script
+* (bug 3667) Add missing global in page move code
+* (bug 3761) Avoid deprecation warnings in Special:Import
+* (bug 2885) Remove unnecessary reference parameter which broke classic skin
+  talk notification on PHP 5.0.5
+* (bug 3845) Update attribute.php for 1.5 schema
+* Fix Parser::unstrip on PHP 4.4.1 and PHP 5.1.0RC4
+
+
+=== Changes since 1.5.2 ===
+
+* (bug 3612) Remove old broken version of maintenance/compressOld.php
+  The working version is in maintenance/storage/compressOld.php
+* (bug 2740) Accept image deletions on 'enter' submit from MSIE
+* (bug 3933) specify XML namespace for Atom 0.3 feeds
+* (bug 3939) Don't try to load text for interwiki redirect target
+* (bug 3948) Avoid notice warning in debug statement in bad search
+* Recognize Special:Search consistently so read whitelist works
+* (bug 4013) typo in fr
+* (bug 3996) Fix text for new entries in RC RSS/Atom feed
+* (bug 2894) Enhanced Recent Changes link fixes
+* (bug 3065) Update both watched namespaces when renaming pages
+* Move parentheses out of <a> link in Special:Contributions
+* (bug 4071) Generate passwords long enough for $wgMinimalPasswordLength
+* (bug 4035) Fix prev/next revision links on edit page
+* (bug 4165) Correct validation for user language selection (data taint)
+* Clearer message in DefaultSettings.php: edit LocalSettings.php instead
+
+
+=== Changes since 1.5.3 ===
+
+* (bug 3805) Clear 'new messages' flag properly in enotif mode
+  for usernames containing spaces
+* (bug 2714) Backlink from special:whatlinkshere was hard set as 'existing'
+* (bug 4249) Typo in entities2literals.pl
+* (bug 4233) Update for japanese language
+* (bug 4279) Small correction to LanguageDa.php
+* (bug 4267) Switch dv sd ug ks arc languages to RTL
+* (bug 3991) Allow the operation of wikicode on Protect move only text
+* Added AutoAuthenticate hook for external User object suppliers
+* Parser internal placeholder string now fully randomized for safety
+
+=== Changes since 1.5.4 ===
+
+* Maintenance script to delete unused user accounts
+* Added detection for WMF files (application/x-msmetafile), added this 
+  MIME type to the default blacklist. Prevented inline display of images
+  which are not of known image types. This is in response to
+  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Metafile_vulnerability
+
+=== Changes since 1.5.5 ===
+
+* (bug 4258) When installing under IIS, $wgArticlePath = "$wgScript?title=$1" 
+  should be set
+* (bug 4510) Correct Barnes & Noble bookstore URLs
+* (bug 4504) Use site language for namespace name resolution
+* Installer fixes from HEAD backported; now uses a more sensible method of 
+  establishing which mySQL user to use, which clears up bug 921 et al. Minor 
+  changes to installer.
+* Fix problem reported on mailing list where re-initialising stats didn't work 
+  (can't insert duplicate rows with the same id field)
+* (bug 1122) gray out 'older revision' when viewing first article revision.
+* Respect database prefix in dumpHTML.inc
+* Minor improvements to removeUnusedAccounts.php maintenance script
+* Fix for single-digit week numbers from {{CURRENTWEEK}}, broken by PHP 4.4.1
+* Removed read-only check from Database::query()
+* Added --conf option to command line scripts, allowing the user to specify a 
+  different LocalSettings.php.
+
+=== Changes since 1.5.6 ===
+
+* Default main page content improved per bug 4690
+* Fix dependence on hardcoded UNIQ_PREFIX in LanguageConverter.php 
+* Fixed Special:Unlockdb
+* Maintenance script to delete unused text records
+* Maintenance script to delete non-current revisions
+* Maintenance script to wipe a page and all revisions from the database
+* (bug 4768) Wrong Russian translation (typo)
+* Performance bugfix: propagate equality manually for Revision fetches
+* (bug 4773) PHP fatal error when invalid title passed to Special:Export
+* Added missing table defs. for transcache to installer schemas
+* (bug 4824) IE7 beta 2 broke compatibility with PNG logo workarounds,
+  and seems to work ok with other bits. No longer including the IE
+  workarounds JavaScript for IE 7 and above.
+* (bug 2532) Image directory structure migration bug
+* (bug 4881) Correction to the fix for 1487; Ipblocklist showed 'no blocks'
+  message at the end of the list even if there were blocks.
+* (bug 4805) Removed more wikipedia-references from LanguageUk.php
+* Introduce $wgWantedPagesThreshold per bug 5011; Special:Wantedpages will not
+  list pages with less than this number of links. Defaults to 1.
+* Allow customisation of paging limits for items in categories using the
+  $wgCategoryPagingLimit global, per bug 4970.
+* Improve "nogomatch" text to make it more obvious that a page can be created.
+* (bug 5113) Spelling error in French language file
+* Don't change the password of the MySQL root user.
+
+=== Changes since 1.5.7 ===
+
+* (bug 5180) User login page shows inappropriate email blurb
+* Add the "AbortNewAccount" hook on account creation; see hooks.txt for more info.
+* Update default "exporttext" to reflect that Special:Import exists
+* Add links to useful material to the default main page content
+* Fix fragment HTML injection
+
+=== Changes since 1.5.8 ===
+
+* Fixed obvious mistakes in Finnish (fi) translation
+* Fixed obvious mistakes in Kurdish (ku) translation
+* Merge two #p-search .pBody statements i monobook/main.css
+* (bug 5156) Update for Hebrew language (he) translation
+* Add the "UserRights" hook on user group changes; see hooks.txt for more info.
+* Translated "listingcontinuesabbrev" for German
+
+=== Caveats ===
+
+Some output, particularly involving user-supplied inline HTML, may not
+produce 100% valid or well-formed XHTML output. Testers are welcome to
+set $wgMimeType = "application/xhtml+xml"; to test for remaining problem
+cases, but this is not recommended on live sites. (This must be set for
+MathML to display properly in Mozilla.)
+
+----
+
 == MediaWiki 1.4.3 ==
 
 (released 2005-04-28)
diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES
index 8711719211..8bafe9cdaf 100644
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES
@@ -5,17 +5,61 @@ setting since version 1.2.0. If you have it on, turn it *off* if you can.
 
 == MediaWiki 1.6.0 ==
 
-MediaWiki is moving to a quarterly snapshot release cycle; roughly every
-three months, the current 
+MediaWiki is now using a "continuous integration" development model with
+quarterly snapshot releases. The latest development code is always kept
+"ready to run", and in fact runs our own sites on Wikipedia.
 
-Big things to note:
-* MySQL 3.23.x is no longer supported.
-* PHP 4.1/4.2 is no longer supported.
-* Experimental Oracle support
-* SVG support with rsvg
-* Installer now use monobook skin
-* New protection (bug 1735), preferences and userlogin designs
-* Category system is always enabled.
+Release branches will continue to receive security updates for about a year
+from first release, but nonessential bugfixes and feature development happen
+will be made on the development trunk and appear in the next quarterly release.
+
+Those wishing to use the latest code instead of a branch release can obtain
+it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN
+
+
+=== What's new in 1.6 ===
+
+User interface:
+* The account creation form has been separated from the user login form.
+* Page protection/unprotection uses a new, expanded form
+
+Templates:
+* Categories and "what links here" now update as expected when adding or
+  removing links in a template.
+* Template parameters can now have default values, as {{{name|default value}}}
+
+Uploads:
+* Optional support for rasterizing SVG images to PNG for inline dislay
+
+Feeds:
+* Feed generation upgraded to Atom 1.0
+* Diffs in RSS and Atom feeds are now colored for improved readability.
+
+Database:
+* MySQL 3.23.x support dropped; 4.0 or later required
+* Experimental support for Unicode mode of MySQL 4.1/5.0 (moderately tested)
+* Experimental Oracle support (not well tested!)
+
+Anti-spam extension support:
+* Spam blacklist extension now has support for automated cleanup:
+  http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/SpamBlacklist_extension
+* Support for a captcha extension to restrict automated spam edits:
+  http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ConfirmEdit_extension
+
+Numerous bug fixes and other behind-the-scenes changes have been made;
+see the file HISTORY for a complete change list.
+
+
+== Compatibility ==
+
+Older PHP 4.2 and 4.1 releases are no longer supported; PHP 4 users must
+upgrade to 4.3 or later.
+
+MediaWiki 1.6 is the last major version to support PHP 4; future versions
+will require PHP 5.
+
+MySQL 3.23.x is longer supported; some older hosts may need to upgrade.
+At this time we still recommend 4.0, but 4.1/5.0 will work fine in most cases.
 
 
 == Upgrading ==
@@ -35,754 +79,12 @@ the upgrade.
 
 
 If you are upgrading from MediaWiki 1.4.x or earlier, some major database
-changes are made.
+changes are made, and there is a slightly higher chance that things could
+break. Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading!
 
 See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions.
 
 
-== Changes since 1.5 ==
-
-* please fill in for the last couple weeks
-* (bug 2885) More PHP 5.1 fixes: skin, search, log, undelete
-
-Code quality:
-* Use strval() to make sure we don't accidentally get null on bad revision
-  text loads or other fields mucking up XML export output
-* Clean up duplicate code for selection of changeslist style
-* Correct blob caching to reduce redundant blob loads on backups
-* (bug 3182) Clear link cache during import to prevent memory leak
-* Fixed possible infinite loop in formatComment
-* Wrap message page insertions in a transaction to speed up installation
-* Avoid notice warning on edit with no User-Agent header
-* (bug 3649) Remove obsolete, broken moveCustomMessages script
-* Avoid numerous redundant latest-revision lookups in history
-* Require PHP 4.3.2 or higher strictly now.
-* Tweak infinite-template-handling loop for PHP 5.1.1 string handling change
-* Remove unused OutputPage::addCookie()
-* Fix for short_open_tag off again; please don't break this, guys
-* (bug 4507) Adjust FULLPAGENAMEE escaping to standard form
-* (bug 5302) Merge the two #p-search .pBody statements in monobook css.
-
-Database:
-* Finally dropped MySQL 3.23.x support
-* Oracle support
-* (bug 3056) MySQL 3 compatibility fix: USE INDEX instead of FORCE INDEX
-* Update all stats fields on recount.sql
-* (bug 3227) Fix SQL injection introduced in experimental code
-* Fix table prefix usage in Block::enumBlocks
-* (bug 3448) Set page_len on undelete
-* (bug 3506) Avoid MySQL error when Listusers returns no results
-* Skip update of disused 'rc_cur_time' field (todo: discard the field)
-* (bug 3735) Fix to run under MySQL 5's strict mode
-* (bug 3786) Experimental support for MySQL 4.1/5.0 utf8 charset mode
-  NOTE: Enabling this may break existing wikis, and still doesn't
-  work for all Unicode characters due to MySQL limitations.
-* MySQL 5.0 strict mode fix for moving unwatched pages
-* Ability to set the table name for external storage servers
-* Update ipblocks table in MySQL 5 table defs
-* Removed FulltextStoplist.php, no longer used (was for MySQL 3.x workaround)
-* Added templatelinks table, to track template inclusions. User-visible effects
-  will be:
-  * (inclusion) tag for inclusions in Special:Whatlinkshere
-  * More accurate list of used templates on the edit page
-  * More reliable cache invalidation when templates outside the template
-    namespace are changed
-* Respect database prefix in dumpHTML.inc
-* Removed read-only check from Database::query()
-* Added externallinks table, to track links to arbitrary URLs
-* Added job table, for deferred processing of jobs. The immediate application is 
-  to complete the link table refresh operation when templates are changed.
-* Don't change the password of the MySQL root user.
-
-Documentation:
-* (bug 3306) Document $wgLocalTZoffset
-
-Hooks:
-(list not complete)
-* Move ArticleSave hook execution into Article insert/update functions,
-  so they get called on non-EditPage actions that use these functions
-  to create or update pages.
-* Added EditFilter hook, and output callback on EditPage::showEditForm()
-  for a place to add in captcha-type extensions in the edit flow
-* (bug 3684) Fix typo in fatal error backtraces in Hooks.php
-* Fix for hook callbacks on objects containing no fields
-* Add a hook for additional user creation throttle / limiter extensions
-* Use $wgOut->parse() in wfGetSiteNotice() instead of creating a new parser
-  instance. This allows use of extension hooks if required.
-* Added AutoAuthenticate hook for external User object suppliers
-* Added 'PageRenderingHash' hook for changing the parser cache hash key
-  from an extension that changes rendering based on nonstandard options.
-* Add 'GetInternalURL' hook to match the GetFullURL and GetLocalURL ones
-* (bug 4456) Add hook for marking article patrolled
-* Add UserRights hook, fires after a user's group memberships are changed
-
-Images:
-* Support SVG rendering with rsvg
-* Cap arbitrary SVG renders to given image size or $wgSVGMaxSize pixels wide
-* (bug 3127) Render large SVGs at image page size correctly
-* Fix scaling of non-integer SVG unit sizes
-* (bug 2800) Don't scale up small images on |thumb| without explicit size
-* Use the real file link instead of the default-size rasterized version for
-  large SVG images on image description page
-* Include the file name/type/size line for non-resized images
-* (bug 3489) PHP 5.1 compat problem with captioned images
-* (bug 3643) Fix image page display of large images with resizing disabled
-* Added a limit to the size of image files which can be thumbnailed
-* (bug 3806) Gracefully fall back to client-side scaling on |thumb| image
-  that passes $wgMaxImageArea
-* (bug 153) Adjust thumbnail size calculations to match consistently;
-  patch by David Benbennick
-* (bug 4162) Add $wgThumbnailEpoch timestamp to force old thumbs to
-  be rerendered on demand, sitewide
-* (bug 1850) Additional fixes so existing local and remote images
-  get a blue link even if there's no local description page
-* Avoid FATAL ERROR when creating thumbnail of non-existing image
-* (bug 4207) Wrong image size when using 100x200px syntax to scale image up
-  patch by David Benbennick
-* Don't delete thumbnails when refreshing exif metadata. This caused thumbs
-  to vanish mysteriously from time to time for files that didn't have metadata.
-* (bug 4426) Add link to user_talk page on image pages
-* Support a custom convert command for thumbnailing. See DefaultSettings.php
-  and the comments for $wgCustomConvertCommand, for more information.
-* UserCan hook now allows advisory return values, rather than mandatory ones.
-
-Installer:
-* (bug 3782) Throw fatal installation warning if mbstring.func_overload on.
-  Why do people invent these crazy options that change language semantics?
-* Fixed installer bugs 921 and 3914 (issues with using root and so forth)
-* (bug 4258) Use ugly urls for ISAPI by default
-  patch by Rob Church
-* Improve installer 
-	* Use a superuser account (such as root), if specifed, to create tables
-	* Don't overwrite conservative permissions on the mySQL user with ALL
-	  permissions, if said user exists
-	* Changes to some of the wording of explanations for fields
-* (bug 1734) granting db permissions failed with db usernames containg '-'
-* Add basic check for session support in PHP and die if not present
-
-Maintenance:
-* Fix problem reported on mailing list where re-initialising stats didn't work (can't insert
-  duplicate rows with the same id field)
-* Added --conf option to command line scripts, allowing the user to specify a 
-  different LocalSettings.php.
-* Maintenance script to delete unused text records
-* Maintenance script to delete non-current revisions
-* Maintenance script to wipe a page and all revisions from the database
-* Maintenance script to reassign edits from one user to another
-* Maintenance script to find and remove links to a given domain (cleanupSpam.php)
-* Fix --report interval option for dumpTextPass
-
-i18n / Languages:
-* Partial support for Basque language (from wikipedia and meta)
-* (bug 3141) Partial support for Breton language (thanks Fulup).
-* Support for venitian language
-* (bug 1334) LanguageGa.php update
-* Finnish date format was hardcoded, now implemented properly
-* (bug 3190) Added some date format choices for language sr
-* (bug 2753) Some namespaces were not translated in LanguageTa.php (Tamil)
-* (bug 3204) Fix typo breaking special pages in fy localization
-* (bug 3177) Estonian date formats not implemented in LanguageEt.php
-* (bug 1020) Changing user interface language does not work immediately
-* (bug 3271) Updated LanguageNn.php for HEAD
-* Experimental feature to allow translation of block expiry times
-  Implementation only for Finnish currently
-* (bug 3304) Language file for Croatian (LanguageHr.php)
-* (bug 2143) Update Vietnamese interface
-* (bug 3063) Remove some hardcodings from Hebrew localisation
-* (bug 3408) Bulgarian formatNum corrected
-* (bug 1512) Disable x-code interp on Esperanto URLs for now, it does more
-  harm than good under current system by breaking incoming URLs with "ux".
-  (Editing is not affected, just URLs.)
-* (bug 1423) LanguageJa.php update
-* Fix language name for dv
-* (bug 3503) Update LanguageSq.php from sq.wikipedia.org messages
-* (bug 3629) Fix date & time format for Frisian
-* (bug 3334) Namespace changes for Polish
-* (bug 3580) Change default Dutch language file to more neutral
-* (bug 3656) LanguageHr.php - added convertPlural
-* (bug 3414) LanguageBe.php - added convertPlural
-* (bug 3163) Full translation of LanguageBr
-* (bug 3617) Update for portuguese language (pt)
-* Namespaces hacks on LanguagePl
-* (bug 3682) LanguageSr.php - added convertPlural
-* (bug 3694) LanguageTr.php update
-* (bug 3711) Removed invisible unicode characters from LanguageHu
-* (bug 2981) Linktrail for Tamil (ta)
-* (bug 3722) Update of Arabic language (ar) Namespace changes
-* Removed hardcoded Norwegian (no) project namespaces
-* (bug 2324) image for redirects should be without text and oriented according to content language
-* (bug 3666) Don't spew PHP warnings in prefs on unrecognized site language
-* (bug 3817) Use localized date formats in preferences; 'no preference' option
-  localizable as 'datedefault' message. Tweaked lots of languages files...
-* (bug 2721) Regression: Use European number separators for vi: wikis
-* (bug 3961) minor languageDe changes
-* (bug 1984) LanguageKo.php (Korean) update
-* (bug 3804) update of LanguageWa.php file
-* (bug 3886) Update for Portuguese language (pt)
-* (bug 4020) Update namespaces for ms
-* (bug 3922) bidi embedding overrides on category links
-* (bug 4061) Update of Slovene namespace names (LanguageSl.php)
-* (bug 4064) LanguageDe comma changes
-* (bug 3922) Further tweaks to bidi overrides in category list for old
-  versions of Safari and Konqueror
-* Fix custom namespaces on wikis set for Portuguese
-* (bug 4153) Fix block length localizations in Greek
-* (bug 3844) ab: av: ba: ce: & kv: now inherit from LanguageRu.php
-             ii: & za: now inherit from LanguageZn_cn.php
-* (bug 4165) Correct validation for user language selection (data taint)
-* (bug 4192) Remove silly 'The Free Encyclopedia' default sitesubtitle
-* Use content-lang for sitenotice
-* (bug 4233) Update LanguageJa.php
-* (bug 4279) Small correction to LanguageDa.php
-* (bug 4108, 4336) Remove trailing whitespace from various messages, which
-  mucks up message updating to create dupe entries
-* (bug 4389) Fix math options on zh-hk and zh-tw (but not localized)
-* (bug 4392) Update of LanguageSr.php
-* (bug 4382) Frisian numeric format
-* (bug 4424) Update for Spanish language (es) 100% messages translated
-* (bug 4425) Typos in Polish translation
-* (bug 4436) Update for Turkish language (tr)
-* (bug 4413) Update of Farsi language file (LanguageFa.php)
-* Update for LanguageSr (Serbian): magic words
-* (bug 137) MediaWiki:Copyrightwarning hardcoding
-* (bug 4457) Update for Portuguese language (pt)
-* convertPlural breakage fixed a little
-* (bug 4144) Support for Sudanese language (Basa Sunda)
-* Big cleanup:
- - Removed obsolote, badly or untranslated messages
- - Removed references to wikipedia/wikimedia etc in messages
- - Other cleanup, like removing html and javascript and extension calls
- - Removed hardcoded namespaces: Tt, Ms, Ia, Ga, Fo, Bn, Csb, He, Nv, Oc, Tlh
- - Removed some useless backwards compatibility hacks
- - Fixed formatnum on many languages
-* wgAmericanDates check produced incorrect results in languages that don't have
-  a such distinction
-* (bug 4548) Update for Portuguese language (pt): time format
-* (bug 4530) Use consistent name for Kurdish
-* Tweak default "upload disabled" text
-* (bug 4504) Use site language for namespace name resolution
-* (bug 4510) Correct Barnes & Noble bookstore URLs
-* (bug 3991) Allow the operation of wikicode on Protect move only text
-* (bug 4267) Switch dv sd ug ks arc languages to RTL
-* Default main page content improved per bug 4690
-* (bug 4615) Update for Portuguese language (pt)
-* Separated MessagesSl.php as the other languages.
-* (bug 4960) Add additional namespaces variants to Yiddish for compatibility
-* (bug 4805) Removed more wikipedia-references from MessagesUk.php
-* (bug 5015) Update magic words translation in LanguageBe.php
-* (bug 4859) Update for Portuguese messages (pt)
-* (bug 4788) One string for MessagesPl
-* Restriction types now use restriction-* messages instead of ui messages
-* (bug 4685) Slovenian LanguageSl.php hardcodes project namespace
-* (bug 5097) Fix Hungarian language (hu): thousands separator
-* (bug 5098) Update for Portuguese messages (pt)
-* (bug 5113) Spelling error in French language file
-* (bug 5105) Magic words for LanguageAr.php
-* (bug 3993) Variants for Serbian language
-* Typo in English messages file
-* (bug 4114) Spacing in watchlist rows (in editing mode)
-* Update default "exporttext" to reflect that Special:Import exists
-* (bug 4960) Add additional namespaces variants to Yi projects: Yiddish Wikinews fix
-* (bug 5357) Add the icon near the user name also in RTL interfaces
-* (bug 5156) Update for Hebrew language (he)
-* (bug 4497,4704,5010) Added some new language codes.
-* (bug 5362) Piedmontese added
-* (bug 5349) Update for Portuguese messages (pt)
-* (bug 3573) Finished full Greek translation: namespaces
-* (bug 5288) Initial localisation for Az
-* (bug 4361) Fix "allmessagesnotsupportedui" so it doesn't refer to nonexisting
-  page
-* Tweak wording of "allmessagesnotsupporteddb"
-
-Parser:
-* (bug 2522) {{CURRENTDAY2}} now shows the current day number with two digits
-* (bug 3210) Fix Media: links with remote image URL path
-* (bug 3405) Don't use raw letters as aliases of MSGNW: and SUBST:
-* (bug 3412) Clean up date format handling so ~~~~-sigs work with default
-  format as designed. Documentation comments updated.
-* Fix Parser::unstrip on PHP 5.1.0RC4
-* (bug 3797) Don't expand variables and sigs in comments
-* Allow parser cache on redirect targets
-* Run wikitext-escaping on plaintext sigs (no wiki markup, just name)
-* Check for unbalanced HTML tags on raw sigs (markup allowed, but show
-  a warning in prefs and use default sig if not balanced)
-* Respect <noinclude> and <includeonly> during {{subst:}} expansion as well as
-  ordinary templates.
-* Support <includeonly> in templates loaded through preload= parameter
-* (bug 3979) Save correct {{REVISIONID}} into parser cache on edit
-* Substitute {{REVISIONID}} correctly in diff display
-* (bug 1850) Allow red-links on image pages linked with [[:image:foo]]
-* Fix XML validity checks in parser tests on PHP 5.1
-* (bug 4377) "[" is not valid in URLs
-* (bug 4453) fix for __TOC__ dollar-number breakage
-* Convert unnecessary URL escape codes in external links to their equivalent
-  character before doing anything with them. This prevents certain kinds of
-  spam filter evasion.
-* (bug 4783) : Fix for "{{ns:0}} does not render"
-* Improved support for interwiki transclusion
-* (bug 1850) Image link to nonexistent file fixed.
-* (bug 5167) Add {{SUBPAGENAME}} and {{SUBPAGENAMEE}} variables
-* (bug 4949) Missing : in "addedwatchtext" for English and Spanish
-
-Upload:
-* (bug 2527) Always set destination filename when new file is selected
-* (bug 3076) Support MacBinary-encoded uploads from IE/Mac
-* (bug 2554) Tell users they are uploading too large file
-* Support for a license selection box on Special:Upload, configurable from MediaWiki:Licenses
-* Add 'reupload' and 'reupload-shared' permission keys to restrict new uploads
-  overwriting existing files; default is the old behavior (allowed).
-
-Security:
-* (bug 3244) Fix remote image loading hack, JavaScript injection on MSIE
-* (bug 3280) Respect 'move' group permission on page moves
-* (bug 2613) Clear saved passwords from the form
-* IP privacy fix for blocklist search on autoblocks
-* Security fix for <math>
-* Security fix for tables
-* Security fix for Special:Upload license selection list
-* Add UploadVerification hook for custom file upload validation/security checks
-* Blacklist additional MSIE CSS safety tricks
-* Fix meta robots tag on Special:Version again to avoid listing vulnerable
-  versions for convenient harvesting by automated worms
-* Sanitizer CSS comment processing order fix
-* Forbid usernames that can be interpreted as titles with namespaces, as that
-  leads to hard-to-manage names.
-* (bug 4071) Generate passwords long enough for $wgMinimalPasswordLength
-* Add createpage and createtalk permission keys, allowing a quick
-  switch to disable page creation for anonymous users.
-* (bug 675) Add page protection level for unregistered/new accounts
-* User::isNewbie now uses the registration date and $wgAutoconfirmAge
-* Add 'deletedhistory' permission key for ability to view deleted history
-  list via Special:Undelete. Default is off, replicating the 1.5 behavior,
-  but it can be turned back on for random users to replicate the previous
-  1.6 dev behavior.
-* Set cookies to secure mode based on use of HTTPS or $wgCookieSecure
-* (bug 4371) Disallow tilde character in signatures
-* Removed broken wgAllowAnonymousMinor and added new group right minoredit
-* Added detection for WMF files (application/x-msmetafile), added this 
-  MIME type to the default blacklist. Prevented inline display of images
-  which are not of known image types. This is in response to
-  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Metafile_vulnerability
-* Blocked users can no longer roll back, change the protection of, or delete/undelete pages
-* Protect against spoofing of X-Forwarded-For header
-* XSS issue : now sanitize search query input (fixed in 1.5rc3)
-* Remove deprecated $wgOnlySysopsCanPatrol references; use User::isAllowed( 'patrol' )
-  per bug 5282. Patch by Alan Harder.
-* Prevent registration/login with the username "MediaWiki default"
-
-Special Pages:
-* Rearranged Special:Movepage form to reduce confusion between destination
-  title and reason input boxes
-* (bug 1956) Hide bot uploads from Special:Newimages
-* (bug 3220) Fix escaping of block URLs in Recentchanges
-* (bug 3284) Ipblocklist paging, substring search
-* Allow filtering of robot edits in Special:Watchlist by stting 
-  $wgFilterRobotsWL = true.
-* Fix interlanguage links on special pages when extra namespaces configured
-* (bug 3475) anon contrib links on Special:Newpages
-* Special:Import/importDump fixes: report XML parse errors, accept <minor/>
-* (bug 2369) Add separate message for input box on Special:Prefixindex
-* (bug 3798) DoubleRedirects no longer has hard coded arrows
-* (bug 3803) Fix links on Special:Wantedcategories with miser mode off
-* Fix Special:BrokenRedirects on MySQL 5.0
-* (bug 3807) Fix 'all' in namespaces drop-down on contribs, rc
-* Fail gracefully on invalid namespace in Special:Newpages
-* (bug 3762) Define missing Special:Import UI messages
-* (bug 3761) Avoid deprecation warnings in Special:Import
-* (bug 2894) Enhanced Recent Changes link fixes
-* (bug 4059) fix 'hide minor edits' on Recentchangeslinked
-* (bug 146) List number of category members in Special:Categories
-  (patch by Joel Nothman)
-* (bug 4090) Fix diff links in Special:Recentchangeslinked
-* (bug 4093) '&bot=1' in Special:Contributions now propagate to other links
-* Fix display of old recentchanges records for page moves
-* (bug 360) Let Whatlinkshere track [[:image:foo]] links
-* (bug 3073) Keep search parameter on paging in Special:Newimages
-* Removed Special:Validate, it's been superseded by the Review extension
-* (bug 4359) red [[user:#id]] links generated in [[special:Log]]
-* (bug 1996) Special page to list redirects
-* (bug 4334) Add "watch" links to Special:Unwatchedpages
-* Generate target user page links in Special:Ipblocklist where appropriate
-  (i.e. not an autoblock)
-* Generate link to talk page of the blocker in Special:Ipblocklist, move
-  contribs. link of the target next to their name
-* (bug 2714) Backlink from special:whatlinkshere was hard set as 'existing'
-* Move parentheses out of <a> link in Special:Contributions
-* (bug 3192): properly check 'limit' parameter on Special:Contributions
-* (bug 3187) watchlist text refer to unexistent "Stop watching" action
-* Add block, block log and general log links to Special:Contributions
-* Add contributions link to block log items
-* Added optional "hide own edits" feature to Special:Recentchanges
-* (bug 5018) Anchors for each message in Special:Allmessages
-* Introduce $wgWantedPagesThreshold per bug 5011; Special:Wantedpages will not
-  list pages with less than this number of links. Defaults to 1.
-* (bug 4319) Don't show a "create account" link on the login form when
-  account creation is disabled.
-* JavaScript filter for Special:Allmessages
-* (bug 3047) Don't mention talk pages on Special:Movepage when there isn't one
-* Show links to user page, talk page and contributions page on Special:Newpages
-* Special:Export can now export a list of all contributors to an article (off by default)
-* (bug 5372) Add number of files to Special:Statistics
-* (bug 2871) Links to talk pages in watchlist editing view
-* (bug 5385) Allow hiding anonymous edits on Special:Recentchanges
-* (bug 2544) Illogical error reporting order in Special:Userlogin
-* (bug 5409) Hide "show/hide patrolled edits" in Special:Recentchanges if patrolling
-  is disabled
-* (bug 5447) Convert first letter of username to uppercase before searching in Special:Listusers
-* (bug 759) Wrap redirects on the watchlist editing page in a span, class "watchlistredir"
-* (bug 1862) Namespace filtering in watchlists
-
-Misc.:
-* PHP 4.1 compatibility fix: don't use new_link parameter to mysql_connect
-  if running prior to 4.2.0 as it causes the call to fail
-* (bug 3117) Fix display of upload size and type with tidy on
-* (bug 2323) Remove "last" tabindex from history page
-* (bug 3116) Division by zero on [[Image:Foo.png|123x123px|]]
-* Fix display of read-only lockfile message
-* Include software-visible client IP address in Special:Version comment
-  as a proxy debugging aid
-* (bug 3170) Page Title failed to obey MediaWiki:Pagetitle.
-  wikititlesuffix was removed
-* Add ability to break off certain debug topics into additional log files;
-  use $wgDebugLogGroups to configure and wfDebugLog() to log.
-* Edit conflict on recreation of deleted page
-* (bug 3216) Don't show empty warning page when no warnings.
-* (bug 3218) Use proper quoting on history Compare Revisions button
-* Fix upgrade from 1.4 due to version number check breakage [for rc future]
-* Fix upgrade from 1.4 with no old revisions
-* Remove "info" editing toolbar that was shown in browsers which do not
-fully support the editing toolbar, but was found to be too confusing.
-* Don't override edit conflict suppression on section edits; section merging
-  should provide the expected transparency here and fits usage patterns better.
-* (bug 3292) Fix move-over-redirect test when current entries are not plaintext
-* (bug 2078) Don't hide watch tab on preview
-* Fix regressions in ChangesList traditional layout
-* Fix edit on double-click for move-protected pages in Classic skin
-* (bug 3485) Fix bogus warning about filename capitalization when off
-* (bug 2570) Add 'watch this page' checkbox on uploads, watch uploads
-  by default when 'watchdefault' option is on
-* Add options to dumpBackup.php for making split/partial dumps by page id
-* Added filter options, compression piping, and multiple output streams for
-  dumpBackup.php
-* (bug 3595) Warn and abort if importDump.php called in read-only mode.
-* (bug 3598) Update message cache on message page deletion, patch by Tietew
-* Added separate noarticletext and newarticletext messages for logged in and anon users.
-* (bug 3332) Installation now uses Monobook, validates, plus usability improvements.
-* (bug 3660) Update diff3 detection to work with Windows/Cygwin
-* (bug 2330) Don't do funny thinks with "links" in MediaWiki:Undeletedtext
-* Two-pass data dump for friendliness to the DB (--stub, then dumpTextPass.php)
-* Data dump 'prefetch' mode to read normalized text from a prior dump
-  (requires PHP 5, XMLReader extension)
-* (bug 2773) Print style sheet no longer overrides RTL text direction
-* (bug 2938) Update MediaWiki:Exporttext to be more general
-* Various fixes
-* Fix wfMsg*() replacements; args containing literal $[2-9] were wiped
-* Added @import for [[MediaWiki:Common.css]] to all skins
-* Edit box now remembers scrollbar position on preview
-* (bug 3816) Throw edit conflict instead of fatal error when a page is
-  moved or deleted during section edit
-* (bug 3771) Handle internal functions in backtrace in wfAbruptExit()
-* (bug 3291) 'last' diff link for last history line when not at end
-* (bug 3667) Add missing global in page move code
-* (bug 2885) Remove unnecessary reference parameter which broke classic skin
-  talk notification on PHP 5.0.5
-* (bug 3852) "Redirected from" link no longer obscured on double-redirects
-* changed directory hierarchy in images/math/. System upgrades from old to
-  new hierarchy on the fly.
-* (bug 3487) Fix category edit preview with preview-on-bottom
-* (bug 918) Search index incorrectly joined words at == headings ==
-* (bug 3877) Render math images into temp directory, then move to hashed
-  subdir so you can render new math images and have them work
-* (bug 2392) Fix Atom items content type, upgrade to Atom 1.0
-* Allow $wgFeedCacheTimeout of 0 to disable feed caching
-* Fix WebRequest::getRequestURL() to strip off the host bits squid prepends
-* Require POST for action=purge, to stop bots from purging the cache
-* Added local message cache feature ($wgLocalMessageCache), to reduce bandwidth
-  requirements to the memcached server.
-* (bug 3562) for go search, try Caps-Variants-Broken-At-Non-Whitespace
-* (bug 2569) Use PATH_SEPARATOR instead of trying to guess based on
-  DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR (was wrong on NetWare)
-* (bug 2740) Accept image deletions on 'enter' submit from MSIE
-* (bug 3939) Don't try to load text for interwiki redirect target
-* (bug 3948) Avoid notice warning in debug statement in bad search
-* Recognize Special:Search consistently so read whitelist works
-* (bug 3999) Change atom 1.0 feed id; had been unnecessarily complex due to
-  unclear language in the spec. Now using the URL, same as the permalink,
-  which someone else will probably whine about because it's not 'perma'
-  enough or something.
-* (bug 4014) Fix include mode for Allpages on small page sets
-* (bug 3996) Fix text for new entries in RC RSS/Atom feed
-* (bug 3065) Update both watched namespaces when renaming pages
-* Changed mail form to have a bigger message entry box (like for editing
-  a page
-* Fix ulimit parameters for wfShellExec when memory_limit is specified in 'm'
-* (bug 2111) Collapsable exif metadata table, clean up display
-* Reduce fractions in display of exif exposure time
-* (bug 4048) Optional footer link to site privacy policy
-* Don't die() when update.php reaches the end of the warning count
-* (bug 1915) Fix edit links when 'direction' used with 'oldid';
-  using revision ID reported via OutputPage; Skin::editUrlOptions()
-* Remove obsolete 'redirect=no' on some edit links
-* Include oldid for the second revision on edit link on diff view
-* (bug 4035) Fix prev/next revision links on edit page
-* (bug 4100, 3049) Add 'edittools' message to hold edit tools, put it
-  on Special:Upload as well as edit, rearrange edit page pieces a bit.
-  Copyright warning now above the buttons to ensure it's visible,
-  template list at the bottom so it can grow.
-* Optional summary parameter to action=rollback, for user javascript
-* (bug 4167) Fix regression caused by patch for bug 153
-* (bug 4169) Use $wgLegalTitleChars in pipe trick conversions
-* (bug 4170) Decode HTML character escapes in sort key
-* (bug 4201) Fix user-talk mode for Enotif, and general code cleanup
-* (bug 4214) Skip redundant action text inserts into the HTML <title>
-* (bug 4212) Skip redundant meta-robots tag for default settings
-* Fix regression: old version missing from edit links in Nostalgia skin
-* (bug 1600) Trigger edit conflict on duplicate section=new submissions
-* (bug 4001) Use local variables properly in wikibits.js akeytt()
-* Fix regression: old version missing from edit links on CSS/JS pages
-* (bug 3211) Include Date, To mail headers when using PEAR::Mail
-* (bug 3407) Fix encoding of subject and from/to headers on notification
-  mails; userMailer() now takes a MailAddress wrapper object instead of
-  a raw string to abstract things a level.
-* Fixed --server override on dumpTextPass.php
-* Added plugin interface for dumpBackup, so additional filters and output
-  sink types can be registered at runtime from an extension
-* (bug 349) Fix for some numeric differences not being highlighted
-  patch by Andrius Ramanauskas
-* (bug 4298) Include rc_id on enhanced RC singleton diff links for patrolling
-* Did some refactoring on ChangesList.php merging dupe code
-* (bug 1586) Fix interwiki generator for wikimedia obscure domains
-* (bug 3493) Mark edits patrolled when they are reverted
-  patch by Leon Planken
-* Removed experimental Amethyst skin from default set
-* Upgrade old skin preferences properly at Special:Preferences
-  (used to spontaneously switch to Classic skin for old numeric pref records)
-* (bug 3424) Update page_touched for category members on category page creation
-* Log views show message when no matches
-* Fix raw sitenotice display on database error
-* Fix autoconfirm check for old accounts
-* (bug 4368) Don't show useless empty preview on new section creation
-* Don't show useless empty preview on new page creation
-* (bug 4411) Fix messages diff link for classic skin
-* (bug 4385) Separate parser cache entries for non-editing users, so section
-  edit links don't vanish / appear unwanted on protected pages
-* (bug 2726, 3397) Fix [[Special:]] and [[:Image]] links in action=render
-* (bug 4419) Remove obsolete magnify.png.old
-* Removed $wgUseCategoryMagic option, categories are now enabled unconditionally
-* (bug 3318) UI workarounds for disabled items in license selector
-  MSIE/Win: items now grayed out, JS will revert to 'non selected' if clicked
-  Safari: JS will revert to 'non selected' if clicked (but not gray)
-  MSIE/Mac: indented items now visible (JS hack)
-* (bug 714) "plainlinks" class issues in IE, Opera
-* (bug 4317) Inconsistent "broken redirects" messages
-* Default interface text for "selflinks" tweaked
-* (bug 3194) default implementation of translateBlockExpiry
-  which uses ipboptions
-* (bug 4446) $wgExportAllowHistory option to explicitly disable history in
-  Special:Export form, 'exportnohistory' message to translate live hack.
-* Maintenance script to delete unused user accounts
-* (bug 912) Search box easier to reach in text browsers (lynx, links)
-* $wgParserCacheExpireTime added
-* Skip loading of RecentChange.php except where needed
-* Enforce $wgSVGMaxSize when rendering, even for SVGs with a very large source 
-  size. This is necessary to limit server memory usage.
-* Cleanup and error checking on Special:Listredirects
-* Clear up some instances of old OutputPage::sysopRequired() function usage
-* Improve "upload disabled" notice
-* Move parts of index.php to include/Wiki.php in an attempt to both cleanup index.php 
-  and create a MediaWiki-class mediaWiki base object
-* (bug 4104) Added OutputPageBeforeHTML hook for tweaking primary wiki output
-  HTML on final output (cached or not)
-* Avoid PHP notice on command-line scripts if empty argument is passed ('')
-* (bug 4571) Partial fix hack for {{fulllurl:}} in action=render
-* (bug 3502) Bowtie symbol for TeX
-* (bug 4000) Support for \textstyle et al. in <math>
-* (bug 1663) support color in TeX formulas
-* (bug 2026) missing glue around \not= (TeX)
-* (bug 4576) Missing '>' broke license selector's first option in IE, Opera
-* Override $wgLocaltimezone in parser tests for us outside Iceland and UK
-* Fix extra whitespace at end of Wiki.php, DESTROYS XML OUTPUT
-* Remove redundant 'echo' statements from MonoBook.php
-* (bug 1103) Fix up redirect handling for images, categories
-  Redirects are now followed from the top-level, outside of the Article
-  content loading and viewing, for clarity and consistency.
-* (bug 4104) 'OutputPageBeforeHTML' hook to postprocess article HTML on
-  page view (comes after parser cache, if used). Patch by ThomasV.
-* Linker::formatComment corrupted the passed title object on PHP 5
-  if the comment included a section link. Use clone() to make a safe copy.
-* Add wfClone() wrapper since we're still using PHP 4 on some servers.
-* Remove obsolete killthread.php
-* Added wfDie() wrapper, and some manual die(-1), to force the return code
-  to the shell to return nonzero when we crap out with an error.
-* Allow input of the stub from a compressed file instead of stdin
-  for dumpTextPass.php; easier to get errors back on the shell
-* Added an attractive space on the namespace selector on contribs
-* Move PHP 5-friendly XHTML doctype hack to Sanitizer, use for sig checks.
-  Fixes use of named entities in sigs on PHP 5
-* (bug 4482) Include move comment on the null edit as well as the redirect
-* (bug 3990) Use existing session name if session.auto_start is on
-  Fixes checks for open sessions, such as the cookie warning on login.
-  Patch by Zbigniew Braniecki.
-* Add cache-safe alternate sitenotice for anonymous users. (MediaWiki:Anonnotice)
-  This is displayed instead of the regular sitenotice, if it exists. If not, the
-  regular sitenotice shows. If that doesn't exist, the value of $wgSiteNotice is used,
-  and if that's null, then nothing is shown.
-* Spit the generated LocalSettings code out during the installer as an aid
-  to debugging issues. (Keep this?)
-* Use __FILE__ to form path in new LocalSettings.php, so it stays accurate
-  when the directory is relocated for typical usage.
-* Auto-update $wgCacheEpoch when LocalSettings.php changes on new installs.
-  For typical usage this will be a light burden and should reduce confusion
-  when the configuration is edited.
-* Fix $wgCacheEpoch's effect on client-side caching.
-* (bug 1122) gray out 'older revision' when viewing first article revision.
-* Clearer message in DefaultSettings.php: edit LocalSettings.php instead
-* MonoBook skin top link id changed from "contentTop" to "top" (shared with
-  name attribute)
-* (bug 3350) Missing label for move talk page checkbox.
-* (bug 2108) Sort entries when using category browser
-* (bug 2393) Fix MIME type for Atom feeds ( application/rss+atom )
-* Add ".deps.php" include-file preloaders for some dynamically-loaded
-  language and skin classes. Should help with the broken base-class
-  problem under PHP 5 with APC as opcode cache. See details:
-  http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2006-January/033660.html
-* Small changes to tabs in Monobook skin c/o Chris Ware
-* (bug 4679) Work around buggy basename() function in PHP5, which breaks
-  uploads of files starting with multibyte characters on Linux.
-  wfBaseName() doesn't suffer this bug, and understands backslash on
-  both Unix and Windows.
-* (bug 3603) headscripts variable not hooked up to MonoBook skin
-* Allow local cdb-based interwiki cache
-* Use the "block", not the "protect" permission, when determining whether to
-  show a "block user" link in the toolbox
-* Fix backup dump text prefetch for XMLReader constant changes in PHP 5.1
-* Suppress useless percentage indicator on output from 7za during dumps
-* (bug 4633) Add (previous 200) (next 200) also above catlinks
-* (bug 4686) Fix regression where ?diff=0&oldid=0 caused fatal error on
-  pages with only one revision. Fixes message diff link on first edit.
-* Fix dependence on hardcoded UNIQ_PREFIX in LanguageConverter.php
-* Do not check lag on external storage servers
-* Do not tidy interface messages (unless full tidy is set)
-* Do not trust equality propagation and give more hints to MySQL
-  optimizer for revision fetches (avoids index scans)
-* Use revision rate for ETA in dump generation; it tends to be more stable
-  than the per-page count for full-history dumps.
-* Include timestamp in wfDebugLog breakouts
-* (bug 4469) Namespace-specific notice to be displayed below site-notice
-  Edit messages like "MediaWiki:Namespacenotice-" plus namespace name
-  which is blank for main namespace, or like e.g. "User_talk"
-* Adjust user login/creation form hooks to work with a captcha plugin
-* (bug 1284) Inline styles for diffs in Recent Changes RSS/Atom feeds
-* (bug 4824) IE7 beta 2 broke compatibility with PNG logo workarounds,
-  and seems to work ok with other bits. No longer including the IE
-  workarounds JavaScript for IE 7 and above.
-* Fix extra namespace for Bulgarian
-* (bug 4303) Add $wgFavicon to change the shorticon icon link from
-  the default /favicon.ico or disable it (if set to false)
-* (bug 3347) strip linebreaks in math error source
-* (bug 4841) Warning for non-logged-in edits
-* (bug 4867) Leave invalid EXIF date fields unformatted instead of
-  showing a bogus current timestamp
-* Reset $wgActionPaths during parser test; corrects some false failures
-  in the automated test report.
-* (bug 4875) Define a div containing the shared image description
-* (bug 4860) Expose Title->userCan() as Hooks
-* (bug 4828) Fix genitive month-name variable for cs, pl, uk
-* (bug 4842) Fix 'show number of watching users' with enhanced RC
-* (bug 4889) Fix image talk namespace for Tamil
-* (bug 4147) Added cleanupWatchlist.php to clear out bogus watchlist entries
-* (partial bug 3456) Disable auto redirect to Main Page after account creation
-* (bug 4824) Separate out IE7 CSS compat hacks, fix for RTL pages
-* Added support for wikidiff2 and similar external diff engines.
-* Allow cookies to be shared between multiple wikis with a shared user database
-* Blocking some Unicode whitespace characters in usernames. Should check
-  if some or all should be blocked from all page titles.
-* Unknown log types no longer throw notices everywhere in RecentChanges
-* (bug 4502, 5017) Don't render potentially hostile deleted page contents
-  on Special:Undelete by default; show source, with an optional preview.
-  The revisions list no longer shows the latest text by default, so it can
-  still be operated if the text is hostile.
-* (bug 5013) Check for existence on "return to" links
-* Removed trailing whitespace on a bunch more messages.
-* Fix missing bad title check in Special:Booksources
-* Remove empty booksources string in fy
-* Avoid corrupting <gallery> inside <!-- comment -->
-* Remove legacy PHPTal code, hasn't been maintained in ages.
-* Tweak Userlogin include order for APC issue
-* Don't try to link to current page on protection tab
-* More exact checking in Title::equals() to fox moves of numerically similar
-  page titles. (Odd hex title bug on 64-bit.)
-* Fix explicit s-maxage=0 on raw pages; should help with proxy issues in
-  generated stylesheets... hopefully...
-* (bug 4685) More fixes for Slovenian project namespace
-* Fixed and enhanced a little the Live Preview, which had been broken for some time
-* Added article size limit, $wgMaxArticleSize
-* (bug 4974) Don't follow redirected talk page on "new messages" link
-* (bug 4970) Make category paging limits configurable
-* (bug 4535) Warn user when editing CSS or JS subpage of a skin that doesn't exist
-* Make Live Preview an user preference, still controllable by the global variable
-* Rename the stub LanguageAls / LanguageGem_alsation to LanguageGsw to follow
-  updated language code assignments
-* (bug 5081) Remove bogus fix for invalid characters in links which simply
-  broke use of legitimate multiple whitespace characters in bracketed link.
-* (bug 4838) Add relative oldids (prev, next, cur) for raw pages
-  Patch by Lupin
-* (bug 5086) Force image resize dimensions on ImageMagick, as for instance
-  "-resize 100x35!"; some thumbs were off due to differences in rounding and
-  would be generated smaller than expected.
-* (bug 5062) Width sometimes one pixel short when using maximum heights
-* Purge thumbnails and metadata cache for action=purge on an image page
-* (bug 4273) Bounce back with a message when attempting to submit a new comment 
-  with an empty main textbox (user probably hit Enter in subject field)
-* (bug 5141) Gracefully handle the new account link when createaccount off
-* (bug 5150 and related) Fix missing ID attribute in HTML namespace selector
-* (bug 5152) Proper HTML escaping on subpage breadcrumbs
-* (bug 4855) Section edit links now have the section name in the title attribute.
-* (bug 2115) Support shift-selecting multiple checkboxes with JavaScript.
-* (bug 5161) Don't try to load template list for nonexistent pages
-* (bug 5228) Workaround for broken LanguageConverter title overrides; avoid
-  unnecessary hidden UI work when watch/unwatch is performed on edit
-* Fixed bogus master fallback in external storage
-* (bug 5246) Add speak:none to "hiddenStructure" class in main.css
-* Further work on rev_deleted; changed to a bitfield with several data-hiding
-  options. Not yet ready for production use; Special:Revisiondelete is
-  incomplete, and the flags are not preserved across page deletion/undeletion.
-  To try it; add the 'deleterevision' permission to a privileged group.
-* (bug 5270) Fix broken linktrail for br, cv, fr, hr, nn, oc, ta, wa
-* Add a clickable contribs link in user tool links (rc, watchlist, diff view)
-  to see how people like it. (There was one in the old hacked-up diff view.)
-* (bug 5236) Load wikibits.js before site-customized javascript
-* (bug 4119) Workaround for <nowiki> following link in Walloon; remove capitals
-  from linktrail, as they're not used anywhere else.
-* (bug 4781) Output links with the percent-encoding they're supplied with;
-  save the normalization for internal link storage. The normalization is a bit
-  buggy and can make incorrect foldings in the query string and such, so isn't
-  reliable beyond the hostname where it's used for the spam bulk checker.
-* Don't URL-decode in the title attribute for URL links; it can produce false
-  results that don't code back to their original values.
-* (bug 4611) Add user preference (default on) to add new pages to creators's watchlist
-* (bug 5286) Fix regression in display of missing/bad revision IDs
-* (bug 4729) Add user preference that marks a user's edits as patrolled if user is able to
-* (bug 4630) Add user preference to prompt users when entering blank edit summaries
-* Added optional suggest feature for the search box. Set wgUseAjax to true to
-  enable it.
-* (bug 5277) Use audio/midi rather that audio/mid
-* (bug 5410) Use namespace name when a custom namespace's nstab-NS message is nonexistent
-* (bug 5432) Fix inconsistencies in cookie names when using table prefixes
-* Additional protections against HTML breakage in table parsing
-* (bug 5355) Include skin name and style JS settings in page source;
-  fixes regression where Opera 6/7 and KHTML CSS fixes weren't applied
-  when wikibits.js was moved up before user JS inclusion.
-* Added $wgColorErrors: if set, database error messages will be highlighted
-  when running command-line scripts in a Unix terminal.
-* (bug 5195) rebuildrecentchanges.php works again; Database::insertSelect now
-  has a parameter for select options.
-* Fix updateSearchIndex.php for new schema
-* Fix bogus "filename too short" error when uploading files with a period in the base
-  name, e.g. "Mr. Zee.png"
-* (bug 2139) Show page title in subtitle when viewing "read only" page
-* (bug 5452) Update language name for Cree
-
 
 === Caveats ===
 
@@ -802,7 +104,7 @@ Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is currently being
 built up on Meta-Wikipedia, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation
 License:
 
-  http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents
+  http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation
 
 
 === Mailing list ===
@@ -810,10 +112,11 @@ License:
 A MediaWiki-l mailing list has been set up distinct from the Wikipedia
 wikitech-l list:
 
-  http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
+  http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
 
 A low-traffic announcements-only list is also available:
-  http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
+
+  http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
 
 It's highly recommended that you sign up for one of these lists if you're
 going to run a public MediaWiki, so you can be notified of security fixes.