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* (bug 22315) SpecialRecentChangesQuery hook now pass $query_options and checks
the return value
+* Separate unit test suites under t/ and tests/ were merged and moved to
+ maintenance/tests/.
=== Bug fixes in 1.16 ===
* Fixed bug involving unclosed "-{" markup in the language converter
* (bug 21870) No longer include Google logo from an external server on wiki error.
* (bug 22181) Do not truncate if the ellipsis actually make the string longer
+* (bug 16039) Text disappearing after a bad image
+* (bug 18784) Internal links like [[File:Foo|caption]] should read 'caption',
+ not 'File:Foo' when Foo is not an image
+* (bug 21518) Special:UserRights no longer displays the user name box for users
+ that can only change their rights
+* (bug 21593) Special:UserRights now lists automatic groups membership
== API changes in 1.16 ==
* (bug 21922) YAML output should quote asterisk when used as key
* (bug 22297) safesubst: to allow substitution without breaking transclusion
* (bug 18758) API read of watchlist's wl_notificationtimestamp
+* (bug 20809) Expose EditFormPreloadText via the API
+* (bug 18427) Comment (edit summary) parser option for API
=== Languages updated in 1.16 ===
== Compatibility ==
-MediaWiki 1.16 requires PHP 5 (5.2 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer supported.
-
-PHP 5.0.x fails on 64-bit systems due to serious bugs with array processing:
-http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=34879
-Upgrade affected systems to PHP 5.1 or higher.
+MediaWiki 1.16 requires PHP 5.1 (5.2 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer supported.
MySQL 3.23.x is no longer supported; some older hosts may need to upgrade.
At this time we still recommend 4.0, but 4.1/5.0 will work fine in most cases.