* DISPLAYTITLE now accepts a limited amount of wiki markup (the single-quote
items)
* Special:Search now could search terms in all variant-forms. ONLY apply on
- wikis with LanguageConverter
+ wikis enabled LanguageConverter.
* Add autopromote condition APCOND_BLOCKED to autopromote blocked users to various
user groups.
* Add $wgRevokePermissions as a means of restricting a group's rights. The
excerpt from the block log.
* (bug 19646) New hook: ImgAuthBeforeStream for tests and functionality before
file is streamed to user, but only when using img_auth
-* Note on non-existing user and user talk pages if user does not exist and show
- renameuser log if the user has been renamed
+* Note on non-existing user and user talk pages if user does not exist
+* New hook ShowMissingArticle so extensions can modify the output for
+ non-existent pages.
+* Added $wgUseAJAXCategories allow enabling AJAX based categories system.
+ This works on all namespaces. Enabled namespaces can be reduces using
+ $wgAJAXCategoriesNamespaces.
+* Admins could disable some variants using $wgDisabledVariants now. ONLY apply on
+ wikis enabled LanguageConverter.
+* A new permission, 'root', is created. Analogous to root users on Unix systems,
+ the root permission effectively grants all other permissions on a wiki. Useful
+ for debugging and administration.
=== Bug fixes in 1.16 ===
* (bug 11143) Links containing invalid UTF-8 percent-code sequences are now
cleanly disabled instead of breaking parsing entirely on PHP 5.2.
* (bug 20296) Fixed an PHP warning in Language::getMagic() in PHP 5.3
-* When creating accounts, don't prefill name from current username (which
- presumably is already taken)
* (bug 20358) Unprotect tab was missing accesskey; now same as protect tab.
* (bug 20317) Cleaned up default main page link accesskey settings
* (bug 20362) Special:Statistics now produces valid HTML when view counters are
* (bug 482) Don't include TOC in the printable version if it has been hidden
* Adjust the time according to the user configuration on Special:Revisiondelete
* (bug 20624) Installation no longer allows "qqq" as the chosen language
-* (bug 20634) The installer-created database user will now have CREATE TABLE
- and ALTER TABLE rights so that upgrades will go more smoothly.
+* (bug 20634) The installer-created database user will now have all rights on
+ the database so that upgrades will go more smoothly.
* (bug 18180) Special:Export ignores limit, dir, offset parameters
+* User::getBlockedStatus() works for all kinds of user objects and doesn't
+ assume the user object is equal to the current-user object ($wgUser)
+* (bug 20517) Cancel link from edit page now returns to the old version when
+ editing an old version
== API changes in 1.16 ==
Access-Control-Allow-Origin HTTP header
* (bug 19999) Made metadata and properties of search results optional. Added
srprop and srinfo.
+* (bug 20700) Add amprop=default to meta=allmessages to list default value for
+ customized messages
+* Don't parse magic words in meta=allmessages, output messages unparsed
=== Languages updated in 1.16 ===