CIDR ranges for blocking
* $wgUseInstantCommons added for quick and easy enabling of Commons as a remote
file repository
-* $wgWikiId added to override default output of wfWikiId()
* $wgDBAhandler added to choose a DBA handler when using CACHE_DBA
* $wgPreviewOnOpenNamespaces for extensions that create namespaces that behave
similarly to the category namespace.
signatures. This was always the behaviour documented in DefaultSettings.php
but has not been the actual behaviour for some time: instead, UTC was used
by default.
-
+* Added $wgExtensionAssetsPath, to decouple assets serving from $wgScriptPath.
+ If not specified it will default to $wgScriptPath/extensions
+* Added $wgCountTotalSearchHits to make search UI display total number of hits
+ with some search engines.
+* Added $wgAdvertisedFeedTypes to decide what feed types (RSS, Atom, both, or
+ neither) MediaWiki advertises. Default is array( 'atom' ), so RSS is no
+ longer advertised by default (but it still works).
+* Added $wgMemCachedTimeout to configure connection timeouts for communicating
+ with a memcached server
+* New configuration variables $wgDebugTimestamps and $wgDebugPrintHttpHeaders
+ for controlling debug output.
=== New features in 1.16 ===
* rebuildtextindex.php maintenance script now supports databases other than
MySQL
* upgrade1_5.php now requires to be run --update option to prevent confusion
-* (bug 17662) Customizable default preload/editintro in add-new-section link
- for Talk page
+* (bug 17662) Customizable default preload/editintro for new sections in the
+ respective addsection-preload and addsection-editintro messages
* Added maintenance script syntaxChecker.php that checks for PHP syntax errors
and common coding mistakes
* Updated Unicode normalization tables
* (bug 19791) Add URL of file source as comment to thumbs (for ImageMagick)
* (bug 21946) Sorted wikitables do not properly handle minus signs
* (bug 18885) Red links for media files do not support shared repositories
-* Added $wgFixArchaicUnicode, which, if enabled, converts some deprecated
- Unicode sequences in Arabic and Malayalam text to their Unicode 5.1
+* Added $wgFixArabicUnicode, to convert deprecated presentation forms in
+ Arabic text to their modern equivalents, and $wgFixMalayalamUnicode, to
+ convert ZWJ-based chillu sequences in Malayalam text to their Unicode 5.1
equivalents.
* (bug 22051) Returing false in SpecialContributionsBeforeMainOutput hook now
stops normal output
+* Send new password e-mail in users preference language
+* LanguageConverter now support nested using of manual convert syntax like
+ "-{-{}-}-"
+* Upload license preview now uses the API instead of action=ajax
+* (bug 7346) Add <guid> to RSS to avoid duplicates
+* (bug 19996) Added new hooks for Special:Search, which allow to further
+ restrict/expand it.
+* (bug 21936) When a revision has been patrolled, there's now a link back to the
+ article
=== Bug fixes in 1.16 ===
* (bug 2658) Don't attempt to set the TZ environment variable.
* (bug 9794) User rights log entries for foreign user now links to the foreign
user's page if possible
+* (bug 14717) Don't load nonexistent CSS fix files for non-Monobook skins
+* (bug 22034) Use wfClientAcceptsGzip() in wfGzipHandler instead of
+ reimplementing it.
+* (bug 19226) First line renders differently on many UI messages.
+* (bug 21303) Comments are no longer stripped from MediaWiki:Common.js and
+ skin-specific JS pages
+* (bug 5061) Use the more precise thumbcaption thumbimage and thumbinner classes
+ for image divs.
+* (bug 22096) IE50Fixes.css and IE55Fixes.css have been dropped from the Monobook
+ and Chick skins
+* Fixed bug involving unclosed "-{" markup in the language converter
+* (bug 21870) No longer include Google logo from an external server on wiki error.
== API changes in 1.16 ==
* Expand the thumburl to an absolute url to make it consistent with url and
descriptionurl
* (bug 20233) ApiLogin::execute() doesn't handle LoginForm :: RESET_PASS
+* (bug 22061) API: add prop=headitems to action=parse
+* (bug 22240) API: include time in siteinfo
+* (bug 22241) Quick edit is still using the deprecated watch parameter (API: Setting default for watch/unwatch wrongly set)
+* (bug 22245) blfilterredirect=nonredirects in blredirect mode wrongly filtering
+* (bug 22248) Output extension URLs in meta=siteinfo&siprop=extensions
+* Support key-params arrays in 'descriptionmsg' in meta=siteinfo&siprop=extensions
=== Languages updated in 1.16 ===
regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
changes to languages because of MediaZilla reports.
+* Capiznon (cps) (new)
* North Frisian (frr) (new)
* Kirmanjki (kiu) (new)
* Komi-Permyak (koi) (new)