server side.
* Removed $wgUpdates for database updates; extension should use
DatabaseUpdater::addExtensionUpdate().
+* Removed $wgServerName. It doesn't need to be set anymore and is no longer
+ available as input for other configuration items, either.
=== New features in 1.17 ===
* (bug 10183) Users can now add personal styles and scripts to all skins via
* (bug 21052) Fix link color for stubs in NewPages
* (bug 24714) Usage of {{#dateformat: }} in wikis without $wgUseDynamicDates no
longer pollutes the parser cache.
-* (bug 17031) Correct which characters the parser allows in tag attributes.
+* (bug 17031) Correct which characters the parser allows in tag attributes (a
+ letter, colon or underscore followed by 0 or more letters, numbers, colons,
+ underscores, hyphens, and/or periods).
* Save 200 useless queries on each category page view
* Shell commands will now work on Linux in filesystems mounted noexec
* (bug 24804) Corrected commafying in Polish and Ukrainian
* sinumberingroup correctly gives size of 'user' group, and omits size of
implicit groups rather than showing 0.
* (bug 25248) API: paraminfo errors with certain modules
+* (bug 25303) Fix API parameter integer validation to actually enforce validation
+ on the input values in addition to giving a warning. Also add flag to enforce (die)
+ if integer out of range (breaking change!)
=== Languages updated in 1.17 ===