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@@ -18,6 +18,10 @@ will be made on the development trunk and appear in the next quarterly release.
 Those wishing to use the latest code instead of a branch release can obtain
 it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN
 
+=== PHP 5.2 now required ==
+In 1.18, the lowest supported version of MediaWiki is now 5.2.x. Please upgrade
+PHP if you have not done so prior to upgrading MediaWiki.
+
 === Configuration changes in 1.18 ===
 * The WantedPages::getSQL hook has been removed and replaced with
   WantedPages::getQueryInfo . This may break older extensions.
@@ -42,6 +46,9 @@ it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN
   by the page, but $wgAllowUserJs is set to false.
 * Pure "Skin" class based custom skins are no longer supported, all custom skins
   should be put together using SkinTemplate and BaseTemplate or QuickTemplate.
+* The transliteration for passwords in case they were migrated from an old Latin-1
+  install (previous to MediaWiki 1.5) is now only done for wikis with
+  $wgLegacyEncoding set.
 
 === New features in 1.18 ===
 * Added a special page, disabled by default, that allows users with the
@@ -72,12 +79,16 @@ it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN
   (maintenance/fixDoubleRedirects.php)
 * (bug 23315) New body classes to allow easier styling of special pages
 * (bug 27159) Make email confirmation code expiration time configurable
-* CSS/JS for each user group is imported from MediaWiki:Sysop.js, 
+* CSS/JS for each user group is imported from MediaWiki:Sysop.js,
   MediaWiki:Autoconfirmed.css, etc.
 * (bug 24230) Uploads of ZIP types, such as MS Office or OpenOffice can now be
   safely enabled. A ZIP file reader was added which can scan a ZIP file for
   potentially dangerous Java applets. This allows applets to be blocked
   specifically, rather than all ZIP files being blocked.
+* (bug 2429) Allow selection of associated namespace in recent changes
+* (bug 26217) File size is now checked before uploading in HTML5 browsers
+* CSS stylesheet MediaWiki:Noscript.css is now loaded for users with JavaScript
+  disabled (enclosed in the head in a <noscript> tag)
 
 === Bug fixes in 1.18 ===
 * (bug 23119) WikiError class and subclasses are now marked as deprecated
@@ -137,11 +148,19 @@ it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN
 * (bug 26548) ForeignAPIRepo (InstantCommons) now works with PDF files
   and other multi-paged file formats.
 * Files with a mime type that does not match the extension are now properly
-  thumbnailed 
+  thumbnailed
 * (bug 27201) Special:WhatLinksHere output no longer contains duplicate IDs
 * (bug 15905) Nostalgia skin could become more usable by including a Talk:
   link at the top of the page
 * (bug 27560) Search queries no longer fail in walloon language
+* (bug 27679) Broken embedded files with special characters are no longer
+  double HTML escaped
+* (bug 27700) The upload protection can now also be set for files that do not
+  exist.
+* (bug 27763) Article::getParserOutput() no longer throws a fatal given when an
+  incorrect revision ID is passed.
+* Trim the form field for uploading by url to remove extra spaces which could
+  cause confusing error messages.
 
 === API changes in 1.18 ===
 * (bug 26339) Throw warning when truncating an overlarge API result
@@ -184,6 +203,12 @@ it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN
 * (bug 27611) list=blocks: Use ipb_by_text instead of join with user table
 * (bug 27616) Add userid of blocked user and blocker to list=blocks
 * (bug 27688) Simplify queries to list user block information
+* (bug 27708) list=users does not have a property to return user id
+* (bug 27715) imageinfo didn't respect revdelete
+* (bug 27862) Useremail module didn't properly return success on success.
+* (bug 27590) prop=imageinfo now allows querying the media type
+* (bug 27587) list=filearchive now outputs full title info
+(bug 27018) Added action=filerevert to revert files to an old version
 
 === Languages updated in 1.18 ===
 
@@ -191,12 +216,16 @@ MediaWiki supports over 330 languages. Many localisations are updated
 regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
 changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
 
+* Liv (liv) (new)
+
 * (bug 17160) Gender specific display text for User namespace
 * Link trail added for sl and sh
 * (bug 27633) Add characters to linkTrail for Potuguese (pt and pt-br)
 * (bug 27426) Set $namespaceGenderAliases for Arabic (ar)
 * (bug 27385) Set Polish $namespaceGenderAliases
 * (bug 27681) Set $namespaceGenderAliases for Portuguese (pt and pt-br)
+* (bug 27785) Fallback language for Kabardian (kbd) is English now.
+* (bug 27825) Raw watchlist edit message now uses formatted numbers.
 
 == Compatibility ==