(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,
- MediaWiki:Autoconfirmed.css, etc.
+* CSS/JS for each user group is imported from MediaWiki:Group-sysop.js,
+ MediaWiki:Group-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
left-to-right.
* (bug 28719) Do not call mLinkHolders __destruct explicitly
* (bug 21196) Article::getContributors() no longer fails on PostgreSQL.
-* (bug 28752) XCache doesn't work in CLI mode.
* (bug 28076) Thumbnail height limited to 360 pixels on Special:Listfiles
* (bug 22227) Special:Listfiles no longer throws an error on bogus file entries
* (bug 19408) user_properties.up_property: 32 bytes is not enough.
+* (bug 25262) Fix for minification of hardcoded data: URIs in CSS
+* (bug 29263) Add LTR class to the shared CSS to be used for left-to-right text
+ such as SQL queries shown in dberrortext and similar messages in RTL
+ environments
=== API changes in 1.18 ===
* (bug 26339) Throw warning when truncating an overlarge API result.
* (bug 27549) action=query&list=users&usprop=groups doesn't show implicit
groups if a user doesn't have explicit groups.
* (bug 27670) Ordering by timestamp (and usage of start and end) isn't as clear
- in auto generated document, as it is on mw.org.
+ in auto generated document, as it is on mediawiki.org.
* (bug 27182) API: Add filter by prefix for meta=allmessages.
* (bug 27183) API: Add filter by customisation state for meta=allmessages.
* (bug 27340) API: Allow listing of "small" categories.
MySQL is the recommended DBMS. PostgreSQL or SQLite can also be used, but
support for them is somewhat less mature. There is experimental support for IBM
-DB2, Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server.
+DB2 and Microsoft SQL Server.
The supported versions are:
* MySQL 4.0 or later
* PostgreSQL 8.3 or later
* SQLite 3
+* Oracle 9.0.1 or later
== Upgrading ==