* (bug 5344) Fix regression that broke slashes in extension tag parameters
* Improve Special:Log performance on big log sets
* (bug 5507) Changed mediawiki:logouttext from plain to wikitext
-* (bug 4760) Prevent creation of entries in protection log when protection levels haven't changed
+* (bug 4760) Prevent creation of entries in protection log when protection
+ levels haven't changed
* (bug 861) Show page protection/unprotection events in histories
* (bug 5499) Don't clear the tag strip state when asked not to clear state.
Fixes regression with use of <ref> in a template breaking <nowiki> etc.
* Display the anon talk page info message on anon talk pages again
(moved outside the parser cache)
* Optional {{DISPLAYTITLE|title with markup}} magic word
- Deactivated by default, set "$wgAllowDisplayTitle = true" in LocalSettings.php to activate
+ Deactivated by default, set "$wgAllowDisplayTitle = true" in LocalSettings.php
+ to activate
* Cleaned SpecialContributions a bit
* Added a table to track interlanguage links
-* (bug 5544) Fix redirect arrow in Special:Listredirects for right-to-left languages
-* Replace "doubleredirectsarrow" with a content language check that picks the appropriate arrow
-* (bug 5537) Add stub language file for Samogitian (bat-smg); inherits Lithuanian (lt)
+* (bug 5544) Fix redirect arrow in Special:Listredirects for right-to-left
+ languages
+* Replace "doubleredirectsarrow" with a content language check that picks the
+ appropriate arrow
+* (bug 5537) Add stub language file for Samogitian (bat-smg); inherits
+ Lithuanian (lt)
* Don't force edit summaries when a user is editing their own user/talk page
* (bug 5510) Warning produced when using {{SUBPAGENAME}} in some namespaces
* (bug 385) Installer support for PostgreSQL, fixes for PG compatibility
All extensions using it have been corrected.
* Propagate ISBN number for Booksources in LanguageNo.php
* (bug 5548) Improvements to Indonesian localisation [patch: Ivan Lanin]
-* Add TALKSPACE, SUBJECTSPACE, TALKPAGENAME, SUBJECTPAGENAME (and encoded forms for all)
- magic words
+* Add TALKSPACE, SUBJECTSPACE, TALKPAGENAME, SUBJECTPAGENAME (and encoded forms
+ for all) magic words
* (bug 5403) Fix Special:Newpages RSS/Atom feeds
* Reject malformed addresses in X-Forwarded-For entries
* (bug 3359) Add hooks on completion of file upload
* (bug 5559) Improve detection of ImageMagick [patch: Greg Turnquist]
* (bug 5475) New pages feeds ignore "limit" argument
-* (bug 5184) CSS misapplied to elements in Special:Allmessages due to conflicting
- anchor identifiers
+* (bug 5184) CSS misapplied to elements in Special:Allmessages due to
+ conflicting anchor identifiers
* (bug 5519) Allow sidebar cache to be disabled; disable it by default.
* Maintenance script to import the contents of a text file into a wiki page
* Add $wgReservedUsernames configuration directive to block account creation/use
* (bug 5659) Change grammar hacks for Bosnian Wikimedia namespaces.
This sort of special casing should be removed and fixed properly.
* Remove useless whitespace from Special:Brokenredirects header
-* Treat "allmessagesnotsupporteddb" as wikitext when echoing; change default text
-* (bug 5497) regeression in HTML normalization in 1.6 (unclosed <li>,<dd>,<dt>)
+* Treat "allmessagesnotsupporteddb" as wikitext when echoing; change default
+ text
+* (bug 5497) Regression in HTML normalization in 1.6 (unclosed <li>,<dd>,<dt>)
* (bug 5709) Allow customisation of separator for categories
* (bug 5684) Introduce Special:Randomredirect
* (bug 5611) Add a name attribute to the text box containing source text in
("editinginterface")
* (bug 4834) Fix XHTML output when using $wgMaxTocLevel
* Pass login link to "whitelistedittext" containing 'returnto' parameter
-* (bug 5728): mVersion missing from User::__sleep() leading to constant cache miss
+* (bug 5728): mVersion missing from User::__sleep() leading to constant cache
+ miss
* Updated maintenance/transstat.php so it can show duplicate messages
-* Improvements to update scripts; print out the version, check for superuser credentials
- before attempting a connection, and produce a friendlier error if the connection fails
-* (bug 5005): Fix XHTML <gallery> output.
+* Improvements to update scripts; print out the version, check for superuser
+ credentials before attempting a connection, and produce a friendlier error if
+ the connection fails
+* (bug 5005) Fix XHTML <gallery> output.
* (bug 5315) "Expires: -1" HTTP header made strictly valid (using 1970 date).
-* (bug 4825): note in DefaultSettings.php about 'profiling' table creation
+* (bug 4825) note in DefaultSettings.php about 'profiling' table creation
* Remove unneeded extra whitespace at top of Special:Categories
-* (bug 5679): format number on timeanddate() calls for fa: hi: bn:.
+* (bug 5679) time units are now using local numerals
* (bug 5751) Updates to Portuguese localisation files
* (bug 5741) Introduce {{NUMBEROFUSERS}} magic word
* (bug 93) <nowiki> tags and tildes in templates
* (bug 5761) Project talk namespace broken in Xal, Os, Udm and Cv
* Rewrite reassignEdits script to be more efficient; support optional updates to
recent changes table; add reporting and silent modes
+* Cleaned up formatNum usage in langfiles
+* (bug 5716) Warn when a user tries to upload a file which was previously
+ deleted
+* (bug 5565) Add a class attribute to the table on Special:Allpages
+* "lang=xx" option for parser test cases to set content language
+* (bug 5764) Friulian translation updated
+* (bug 5757) Fix premature cutoff in LanguageConverter with extra end markers
+* (bug 5516) Show appropriate "return to" link on blocked page
+* (bug 5377) Do not auto-login when creating an account as another user
+* (bug 5284) Special redirect pages should remember parameters
+* Suppress 7za output on dumpBackup
+* (bug 5338) Reject extra initial colons in title
+* (bug 5487) Escape self-closed HTML pair tags
+* Add "raw suffix" magic word for some magic words, e.g. {{NUMBEROFUSERS|R}}
+ will produce a count minus formatting
+* Fix Parser::cleanSig() to use Parser::startExternalParse() and choose an
+ appropriate output format given the scope of the clean
+* (bug 5593) Change "bureaucrat log" to "rights log"
+* Show a boilerplate "(none)" in place of a blank within the log action text for
+ user rights
+* (bug 137) Commented out translations for copyrightwarning which mention GNU FDL
+* (bug 5723) Don't count pages linked to from the MediaWiki namespace as "wanted"
+* (bug 5696) Add a third parameter, $3, to "rcnote", passing the current time
+ formatted according to the current user's settings
+* (bug 5780) Thousands and decimal separators for Norwegian
+* Updated initStats maintenance script
+* (bug 5767) Fix date formats in Vietnamese locale
+* (bug 361) URL in URL, they were almost fixed. Now they are.
+* (bug 4876) Add __NEWSECTIONLINK__ magic word to force the "new section" link/tab to
+ show up on specific pages on demand
+* Bidi-aid on list pages
+* (bug 5782) Allow entries in the bad image list to use canonical namespace names
+* (bug 5789) Treat "loginreqpagetext" as wikitext
+* Sanitizer: now handles nested <li> in <ul> or <ol>
+* (bug 5796) We require MySQL >=4.0.14
+* Add 'EmailConfirmed' hook
+* New findhooks.php script to find undocumented hooks.
+* Silently ignore errors on profiling table update.
+* (bug 5801) Correct handling of underscores in Special:Listusers
+* Clean up Special:Listusers; add an "(all)" label to the group selection box
+* (bug 5812) Use appropriate link colour in Special:Mostlinked
+* (bug 5802) {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} variable broken in Vietnamese locale
+* (bug 5817) Appropriate handling for Special:Recentchangeslinked where the target
+ page doesn't exist
+* Special:Randompage now additionally accepts English namespace name as parameter
+* (bug 2981) Really fixed linktrail for Tamil (ta)
+* Disallow substituting Special pages when included into a page
+* (bug 5587) Clean up the languages from references to the Groups special page
+* Added new group-X and group-X-member messages
+* Rewritten removeUnusedAccounts to be more efficient, print names of inactive
+ accounts
+* Redirect Special:Userlist to Special:Listusers
+* Introduce $wgAllowTitlesInSVG, which allows the <title> attribute in uploaded files
+ bearing the image/svg MIME type. Disabled by default due to the vast majority of
+ web servers being hideously misconfigured. See DefaultSettings.php for more details.
+* Changed default LocalSettings.php to append the previous include path when setting it
+* (bug 5837) Use "members" for the value descriptor in Special:Categories,
+ Special:Wantedcategories and Special:Mostlinkedcategories.
+* (bug 3309) Allow comments when undeleting pages
+* Clean up Special:Undelete a bit
+* (bug 5805) messages nbytes, ncategories can now use {{plural:}}
+* Clean up Special:Imagelist a bit
+* (bug 5838) Namespace names for Nds-NL
+* (bug 5749) Added Tyvan language files
+* (bug 5791) Fix SQL syntax in Special:BrokenRedirects, was causing incorrect data to show
+* (bug 5839) Prevent access to Special:Confirmemail for logged-out users
+* (bug 5853) Update for Portuguese messages (pt)
+* (bug 5851) Use Cyrillic for Kirghiz language name
+* (bug 5841) Allow the 'EditFilter' hook to return a non-fatal error message
+* (bug 5846) Link to individual group description pages in Special:Listusers
+* (bug 5857) Update for German localisation (de)
+* (bug 5858) Update for Russian language (ru)
+* (bug 5860) Update for Indonesian language (id)
+* (bug 1120) Update for Czech language (Cs)
+* Added many missing formatNum calls
+* Added grammar function to Belarusian (be)
+* (bug 5819) Add 'PersonalUrls' hook
+* (bug 5862) Update of Belarusian language (be)
+* (bug 5886) Update for Portuguese messages (pt)
+* (bug 5586) <gallery> treated text as links
+* (bug 5878) Update for Indonesian language (id)
+* (bug 5697) Update for Malay language (ms)
+* (bug 5890) Update for German language (de)
+* (bug 5889) Name for Sindhi language should appear as سنڌي
+* --force-normal parameter on dump scripts to force check for ICU extension
+* (bug 5895) Update for Dutch language (nl)
+* (bug 5891) Linktrail for Polish language (pl)
+* User::isBureaucrat , User::isDeveloper , User::isSysop deprecated in
+ v1.6 now die with a backtrace. They will be removed in v1.8
+* dumpTextPass now skips goes to database for entries that were blank in the
+ previous dump, as this may indicate a broken dump.
+* dumpTextPass progress includes percentage of items prefetched
+* dumpTextPass can now use 7zip files for prefetch
+* (bug 5915) Update to Indonesian localisation (id)
+* (bug 5913) Update for German localisation (de)
+* (bug 5905) Plural support for Bosnian localisation (bs)
+* Groups which won't hit the rate limiter now configurable with
+ $wgRateLimitsExcludedGroups
+* (bug 5806) {{plural:}} support instead of "twin" MediaWiki messages
+* (bug 5931) Update for Polish language (pl)
+* Ignore the user and user talk namespaces on Special:Wantedpages
+* Introduce NUMBEROFPAGES magic word
+* (bug 5833) Introduce CURRENTVERSION magic word
== Compatibility ==
MediaWiki 1.6 is the last major version to support PHP 4; future versions
will require PHP 5.
-MySQL 3.23.x is longer supported; some older hosts may need to upgrade.
+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.