guess I should add a release note for that

diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES
index f1f1435..99d3841 100644 (file)
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES
@@ -233,6 +233,8 @@ it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN
 * (bug 8024) Introduce "send me copies of emails I send to others" preference
 * Added 'EditPage::attemptSave' hook before an article is saved.
 * (bug 8083) Applied patch for sk localisation
+* Add a backslash character to the edit token, to prevent edits via certain
+  broken proxies that mangle such characters in form submissions.
 
 == Languages updated ==