extensions has been removed.
* $wgLogAutocreatedAccounts controls whether autocreation of accounts is logged
to new users log.
+* $wgAllowImageTag can be set to true to whitelist the <img> tag in wikitext.
=== New features in 1.17 ===
* (bug 10183) Users can now add personal styles and scripts to all skins via
viewing contributions of a blocked IP address
* (bug 22474) {{urlencode:}} now takes an optional second paramter for type of
escaping.
+* Special:Listfiles now supports a username parameter
+* Special:Random carries over query string parameters
+* (bug 23206) Add Special::Search hook for detecting successful "Go"
+* When visiting a "red link" of a deleted file, a deletion and move log excerpt
+ is provided on the Upload form.
+* (bug 22647) Add category details in search results.
=== Bug fixes in 1.17 ===
* (bug 17560) Half-broken deletion moved image files to deletion archive
* (bug 16817) Group names in user rights log are now singular and in lowercase
* Special:Preferences no longer crashes if the wiki default date formatting
style is not valid for the user's interface language
-* (bug 23167) Check the watch checkbox by default if the watchcreations preference is set
+* (bug 23167) Check the watch checkbox by default if the watchcreations
+ preference is set
+* Maintenance script cleanupTitles is now able to fix titles stored
+in a negative namespace (which is invalid).
+* (bug 19858) Removed obsolete <big> in interface messages.
+* (bug 21456) "Bad title" error when showing non-local interwiki pages no longer
+ displays incorrect tabs
+* (bug 23190) Improved math representation for text browsers.
+* (bug 22015) Improved upload-by-url error handling and error display
+* (bug 17941) $wgMaxUploadSize is now honored by all upload sources
+* (bug 23080) New usernames now limited to 235 bytes so that custom skin files
+ work.
+* (bug 23075) Correct MediaTransformError default width in gallery.
+* (bug 16487) The Anonymous user account used on Postgres is no longer
+ displayed on Special:Listusers.
=== API changes in 1.17 ===
* (bug 22738) Allow filtering by action type on query=logevent
* Latgalian (ltg) (new)
* Rusyn (rue) (new)
+* (bug 23156) Commafy and search normalization updated for Belarusian
+ (Taraškievica)
+
== Compatibility ==
MediaWiki 1.17 requires PHP 5.1 (5.2 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer