== Changes since 1.8 ==
+* (bug 8200) Make category lists sorted by name when using Postgres.
+* (bug 7841) Support 'IGNORE' inserts for Postgres, fixes watchlist
+ adding problem.
* (bug 6835) Removing the includes/Parser.php::getTemplateArgs() function,
because it seems to be unused.
* (bug 7139) Increasing the visual width of the edit summary field on larger
if they have selected that option in preferences.
* (bug 5936) Show an 'm' to the left of the edit summary on diff pages for minor edits.
* (bug 7820) Improve error reporting for uploads via URL.
-* (bug 5149) When autoblocks are enabled, retroactively apply an autoblock to the most
+* (bug 5149) When autoblocks are enabled, retroactively apply an autoblock to the most
recently used IP of a user when they are blocked.
* Add an index on (rc_user_text,rc_timestamp) on the recentchanges table. This will
make CheckUser.php and the new retroactive autoblock functionality faster.
warning and a request to upgrade.
* (bug 6440) Updated indexes to improve backlinking queries (links, templates, images)
* Switched 'anon-only' block mode to default for IP blocks
-* (bug 3687) Add distinct heading for media files in category display.
+* (bug 3687, 7892) Add distinct heading for media files in category display,
+ with count.
* (bug 1578) Add different icons for external links to audio, video, or PDF in
Monobook.
* Made autoblocks block account creation if the user block has that option enabled.
big!
* (bug 7554) The correct MIME type for SVG images is now displayed on the
image page (image/svg+xml, not image/svg).
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+* (bug 7883) Added autoblock whitelisting feature, using which specific ranges
+ can be protected from autoblocking. These ranges are specified, in list format,
+ in the autoblock_whitelist system message.
+* Added placeholders for text injection by hooks to EditPage.php
+* (bug 8009) Automatic edit summary for redirects is not filled for edits in existing pages
+* Installer support for experimental MySQL 4.1/5.0 binary-safe schema
+* Use INSERT IGNORE for db-based BagOStuff add/insert, for more memcache-like
+ behavior when keys already exist on add (instead of dying with an error...)
+* Add a hook 'UploadForm:initial' before the upload form is generated, and two
+ member variable for text injection into the form, which can be filled by the hooks.
+* (bug 6295) Add a "revision patching" functionality, where an edit can be undone
+ (with a functionality similar to diff rev1 rev2 | patch -R rev3 -o rev3).
+ This is triggered by including &undo=revid in an edit URL. A link to a URL
+ that will undo a given edit is shown on NEW NON-CURRENT revision headers on diff pages.
+* Fix display of link in "already rolled back" message for image/category pages
+* (bug 6016) Left-aligned images should stack vertically, like right-aligned
+ images, not horizontally.
+* Patch from LeonWP: added UploadForm:BeforeProcessing hook in SpecialUpload.php
+* Add AuthPluginSetup hook to override $wgAuth after configuration
+* Fix regression in authentication hook auto-creation on login
+* (bug 8110) Allow spaces in ISBNs
+* (bug 8024) Introduce "send me copies of emails I send to others" preference
+* Added 'EditPage::attemptSave' hook before an article is saved.
+* (bug 8083) Applied patch for sk localisation
+* Add a backslash character to the edit token, to prevent edits via certain
+ broken proxies that mangle such characters in form submissions
+* (bug 7461) Allow overwriting pages using importTextFile.php
+* (bug 7946) importTextFile.php doesn't perform pre-save transform
+* (bug 8117) {{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}} showed weird default if $wgLocalTZoffset set;
+ now uses current time for previews and if timestamp can't be loaded from DB
+* {{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}} now uses site local timezone instead of user timezone
+ to ensure consistent behavior
+* {{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}} and friends should now work on non-MySQL backends
+* (bug 7671) Observe canonical media namespace prefix in Linker::formatComment
+* Added js variable wgCurRevisionId to the output
+* (bug 8141) Cleanup of Parser::doTableStuff, patch by AzaTht
+* (bug 8042) Make miser mode caching limits settable via $wgQueryCacheLimit
+ instead of hardcoding to 1000
+* Enable QueryPage classes to override list formatting
+* (bug 5485) Show number of intervening revisions in diff view
+* (bug 8100) Fix XHTML validity in Taiwanese localization
+* Added redirect to section feature. Use it wisely.
+* Added a configuration variable allowing the "break out of framesets" feature
+ to be switched on and off ($wgBreakFrames). Off by default.
+* Allow Xml::check() $attribs parameter to override 'value' attribute
+* DB schema change: added two columns (rc_old_len and rc_new_len) to the recentchanges table to store
+ the text lengths before and after the edit
+* (bug 1085) Made Special:Recentchanges show the character difference between the changed revisions
+* Removed a redundant <strong> tag from diff pages that was causing display issues for some users
+* (bug 8203) The keyboard shortcut for "log out" was removed, because users were pressing it
+ when they intended to press the shortcut for "preview".
+* (bug 8148) Handle non-removable output buffers gracefully when cleaning
+ buffers for HTTP 304 responses, StreamFile, and Special:Export.
+ Duplicated code merged into wfResetOutputBuffers() and wfClearOutputBuffers()
+* Special:AllPages : 'next page' link now point to the first title of the next
+ chunk instead of pointing to the last title of current chunk.
+* (bug 4673) Special:AllPages : add a 'previous' link (new message 'prevpage')
== Languages updated ==
* Bishnupriya Manipuri (bpy)
+* Cantonese (zh-yue)
+* Finnish (fi)
+* Frisian (fy)
* German (de)
* Hebrew (he)
* Indonesian (id)
* Italian (it)
+* Japanese (ja)
* Kazakh (kk)
* Latin (la)
+* Limburgish (li)
+* Lingala (ln)
* Lithuanian (lt)
* Norwegian (no)
* Occitan (oc)
* Portuguese (pt)
* Russian (ru)
* Slovak (sk)
+* Swedish (sv)
+* Taiwanese/Holo: (bug 8217) changed language code to nan (from zh-min-nan)
+ due to http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/codes.asp?order=639_3&letter=n
* Upper Sorbian (hsb)
+* Vietnamese (vi)
== Compatibility ==