of the strict() authentication behavior.
* (bug 7872) Deleted revisions can now be viewed as diffs showing changes
against the previous revision, whether currently deleted or live.
-* Added accesskey and tooltip for the "Go" button, and tooltip for the "Search"
- button.
+* Added tooltips for the "Go" and "Search" buttons
* (bug 11649) Show input form when Special:Whatlinkshere has no parameters
+* isValidEmailAddr hook added to User method of that name, to allow, e.g., re-
+ stricting e-mail addresses to a specific domain
+* Removed "Clear" link in watchlist editor tools, as people were afraid to
+ click it. Existing clear links will fall back to the raw editor, which is
+ very easy to clear your watchlist with.
+* (bug 1405) Add wgUseNPPatrol option to control patroling for new articles
+ on Special:Newpages
+* LogLine hook added to allow formatting custom entries in Special:Log.
+* Support for Iranian calendar
+* (bug 1401) Allow hiding logged-in users, bots and patrolled pages on Special:Newpages
+* ChangesListInsertArticleLink hook added for adding extra article info to RC.
+* MediaWikiPerformAction hook added for diverting control after the main
+ globals have been set up but before any actions have been taken.
+* BeforeWatchlist hook added for filtering or replacing watchlist.
+* SkinTemplateTabAction hook added for altering the properties of tab links.
+* OutputPage::getRedirect public method added.
+* (bug 11848) Allow URL parameters 'editintro' and 'preload' in Special:Mypage
+ and Special:Mytalk
+* Add ot=raw to Special:Allmessages
+* Support for Hebrew calendar
+* Support for Hebrew numerals in dates and times
+* (bug 11315) Signatures can be configured in [[MediaWiki:Signature]] and
+ [[MediaWiki:Signature-anon]]
+* Signatures for anonymous users link to Special:Contributions page rather than user page
+* Added --override switch for disabled pages in updateSpecialPages.php
=== Bug fixes in 1.12 ===
* (bug 11343) If the database is read-only, ensure that undelete fails.
* (bug 11690) Show revert link for page moves in Special:Log to allowed users
only
+* Initial-lowercase prefix checks in namespaceDupes.php now actually work.
+* Fix regression in LinkBatch.php breaking PHP 5.0
+* (bug 11452) wfMsgExt uses sometimes wrong language object for parsing magic
+ words when called with options ''parsemag'' or ''content''.
+* (bug 11727) Support plural in 'historysize' message
+* (bug 11744) Incorrect return value from Title::getParentCategories()
+* (bug 11762) Fix native language name of Akan (ak)
+* (bug 11722) Fix inconsistent case in unprotect tabs
+* (bug 11795) Be more paranoid about confirming accept-encoding header is present
+* (bug 11809) Use formatNum() for more numbers
+* (bug 11818) Fix native language name of Inuktitut (iu)
+* Remove all commas when parsing float numbers in sorted tables
+* Limit text field of deletion, protection and user rights changes reasons to
+ 255 characters (already restricted in the database)
+* In the deletion default reasons, calculate how much text to get from the
+ article text, rather than getting 150 characters (which may be too much)
+* Add two messages for Special:Blockme which were used but undefined
+* (bug 11921) Support plural in message number_of_watching_users_pageview
+* If an IP address is blocked as part of a rangeblock, attempting to unblock
+ the single IP should not unblock the entire range.
+* (bug 6695) Fix native language name of Southern Sotho (Sesotho) (st)
+* Make action=render follow redirects by default
+* If restricted read access was enabled, whitelist didn't work with special
+ pages which had spaces in theirs names
+* If restricted read access was enabled, requests for non-existing special pages
+ threw an exception
+* Feeds for recent changes now provide correct URLs for the change, not just
+ the page
=== API changes in 1.12 ===
* Add rctype parameter to list=recentchanges that filters by type
* Add apprtype and apprlevel parameters to filter list=allpages by protection types and levels
* Add apdir parameter to enable listing all pages from Z to A
+* (bug 11721) Use a different title for results than for the help page.
+* (bug 11562) Added a user_registration parameter/field to the list=allusers query.
+* (bug 11588) Preserve document structure for empty dataset in backlinks query.
+* Outputting list of all user preferences rather than having to request them by name
+* Add raw formatting support. Now several actions like expandtemplates support raw output with format=raw
=== Languages updated in 1.12 ===
+* Afrikaans (af)
+* Akan (ak) (new)
* Amharic (am) (new)
+* Aragonese (an)
+* Old English (ang) (new)
* Arabic (ar)
+* Aramaic (arc)
* Mapudungun (arn) (new)
+* Assamese (as)
* Asturian (ast)
+* Aymara (ay)
* Samogitian (bat-smg)
+* Boarisch (bar)
* Bikol Central (bcl)
* Belarusian Taraskievica orthography (be-tarask)
* Bulgarian (bg)
* Bislama (bi) (new)
+* Bamanankan (bm)
* Bengali (bn)
* Bishnupriya Manipuri (bpy)
* Breton (br)
+* Buginese (bug) (new)
* Catalan (ca)
+* Zamboangueño (cbk-zam) (new)
+* Chechen (ce)
+* Cebuano (ceb) (new)
* Czech (cs)
* Cassubian (csb)
+* Old Church Slavonic (cu)
* Welsh (cy)
* Danish (da)
* German (de)
* Lower Sorbian (dsb) (new)
+* Divehi (dv)
* Ewe (ee) (new)
* Greek (el)
+* English (en)
* Spanish (es)
* Extremaduran (ext)
* Finnish (fi)
* Persian (fa)
+* Fulah (ff)
* Võro (fiu-vro)
* Faroese (fo)
* French (fr)
* Irish (ga)
* Gön-gnŷ (gan) (new)
* Galician (gl)
+* Gilaki (glk) (new)
* Ancient Greek (grc) (new)
+* Swiss German (gsw)
* Hakka (hak)
* Hebrew (he)
* Croatian (hr)
* Upper Sorbian (hsb)
+* Hungarian (hu)
* Armenian (hy)
+* Interlingua (ia)
* Indonesian (id)
* Ingush (inh) (new)
* Icelandic (is)
* Italian (it)
* Japanese (ja)
+* Georgian (ka)
+* Kara-Kalpak (kaa)
+* Kabyle (kab)
* Kazakh (kk)
+* Kannada (kn)
* Korean (ko)
+* Kölsch (ksh)
+* Kurdish (Latin) (ku-latn)
+* Cornish (kw) (new)
* Latin (la)
+* Luxembourgish (lb) (new)
+* Lak (lbe) (new)
* Limbugian (li)
+* Lozi (loz) (new)
+* Lingala (ln)
* Lithuanian (lt)
+* Malayalam (ml)
+* Macedonian (mk)
* Malay (ms)
+* Erzya (myv) (new)
* Nahuatl (nah)
* Min-nan (nan)
* Low Saxon (nds)
* Dutch Low Saxon (nds-nl)
+* Newari (new) (new)
* Dutch (nl)
* Norwegian (no)
+* Occitan (oc)
+* Deitsch (pdc) (new)
+* Polish (pl)
+* Piemontèis (pms)
+* Pontic (pnt) (new)
+* Pashto (ps)
* Portugese (pt)
+* Quechua (qu)
+* Rhaeto-Romance (rm) (new)
* Romanian (ro)
* Russian (ru)
* Sakha (sah)
+* Sardinian (sc)
* Sicilian (scn)
+* Sindhi (sd)
* Sassarese (sdc) (new)
* Seri (sei) (new)
* Tachelhit (shi)
* Slovak (sk)
* Serbian (Cyrillic) (sr-ec)
+* Swati (ss) (new)
+* Saterland Frisian (stq) (new)
* Sundanese (su)
* Swedish (sv)
* Tamil (ta)
+* Teluga (te)
* Tetun (tet) (new)
+* Tajik (tg)
* Tagalog (tl) (new)
+* Turkish (tr)
+* Tuvinian (tyv)
+* Uyghur (ug)
+* Venitian (vec)
+* Vietnamese (vi)
* West Flemish (vls)
+* Volapük (vo)
* Walloon (wa)
+* Wolof (wo)
+* Wu (wuu) (new)
* Yiddish (yi)
* Cantonese (yue)
* Zhuang (za)