=== Configuration changes in 1.17 ===
* DatabaseFunctions.php that was needed for compatibility with pre-1.3
extensions has been removed.
+* $wgLogAutocreatedAccounts controls whether autocreation of accounts is logged
+ to new users log.
=== New features in 1.17 ===
* (bug 10183) Users can now add personal styles and scripts to all skins via
exceeding $wgMaxImageArea can still be embedded at original size
* (bug 23078) "All public logs" option on Special:Log is now always the first
item
-* Special:ChangePassword no longer loads user javascript
* (bug 16817) Group names in user rights log are now singular and in lowercase
+* Special:Preferences no longer crashes if the wiki default date formatting
+ style is not valid for the user's interface language
+* (bug 23167) Check the watch checkbox by default if the watchcreations
+ preference is set
+* Maintenance script cleanupTitles is now able to fix titles stored
+in a negative namespace (which is invalid).
+* (bug 19858) Removed obsolete <big> in interface messages.
=== API changes in 1.17 ===
* (bug 22738) Allow filtering by action type on query=logevent
* Latgalian (ltg) (new)
* Rusyn (rue) (new)
+* (bug 23156) Commafy and search normalization updated for Belarusian
+ (Taraškievica)
+
== Compatibility ==
MediaWiki 1.17 requires PHP 5.1 (5.2 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer