it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN
=== Configuration changes in 1.16 ===
-
* (bug 18222) $wgMinimalPasswordLength default is now 1
* $wgSessionHandler can be used to configure session.save_handler
* $wgLocalFileRepo/$wgForeignFileRepos now have a 'fileMode' parameter to
similarly to the category namespace.
* $wgEnableSorbs renamed to $wgDnsBlacklistUrls ($wgEnableSorbs kept for
backward compatibility)
-* $wgUploadNavigationUrl now also affects images inline images that do not
- exist. In that case the URL will get (?|&)wpDestFile=<filename> appended to
+* $wgUploadNavigationUrl now also affects images inline images that do not
+ exist. In that case the URL will get (?|&)wpDestFile=<filename> appended to
it as appropriate.
* If $wgLocaltimezone is null, use the server's timezone as the default for
signatures. This was always the behaviour documented in DefaultSettings.php
- but has not been the actual behaviour for some time: instead, UTC was used
+ 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
=== New features in 1.16 ===
equivalents.
* (bug 22051) Returing false in SpecialContributionsBeforeMainOutput hook now
stops normal output
+* Send new password e-mail in users preference language
=== Bug fixes in 1.16 ===
only displayed to the users that have "editinterface" right
* (bug 21740) Attempting to protect a page that doesn't exist (salting) returns
"unknown error"
-* (bug 18762) both redirects and links get fixed one after another if
+* (bug 18762) both redirects and links get fixed one after another if
redirects-only switch is not present
* (bug 20159) thumbnails rerendered if older that $wgThumbnailEpoch
-* Fixed a bug which in some situations causes the job queue to grow forever,
+* Fixed a bug which in some situations causes the job queue to grow forever,
due to an infinite loop of job requeues.
* (bug 21523) File that can have multiple pages (djvu, pdf, ...) no longer have
the page selector when they have only one page
* (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 22034) Use wfClientAcceptsGzip() in wfGzipHandler instead of
- reimplementing it.
== API changes in 1.16 ==
* (bug 21441) meta=userinfo&uiprop=options no longer returns default options
for logged-in users under certain circumstances
* (bug 21945) Add chomp control in YAML
-* Expand the thumburl to an absolute url to make it consistent with url and
- descriptionurl
+* 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
=== Languages updated in 1.16 ===